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FAR On-line Help (web help created using FAR)

Release Notes

System Requirements:

• FAR version 4.x requires Windows 95/98/ME/NT4SP6/2K/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7.
• FAR version 5.x requires Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7.

Upgrade Information:

• Upgrading FAR HTML.

FAR HTML is Windows Vista & Windows 7 compatible.

This download is not trial software. It is the full working version. See About FAR Download below before downloading.

Release Date:  V5.1.0.731 6:00pm, 17-Jul-2010 (EST Australia)

Release Date: V4.3.0.681, 1:00pm, 27-Apr-2008 (EST Australia)

Please contact us if you find bugs or have suggestions for future FAR HTML releases.

The FAR download is a full working version.  FAR will operate for 2 months so you can try out all of its features, then you will get a nag screen asking you to register.  Please try out FAR and if you like it you can register for a small fee.

Requirements for Help Authoring

HTML Help 1.x

If you are using FAR to create HTML Help (.CHM help files) then you will need to download and install the free MS HTML Help Workshop (htmlhelp.exe). Workshop contains the help compiler engine which FAR and all 3rd party authoring tools use to generate .CHM help files.

• MS HTML Help 1.x Home Page
• MS HTML Help 1.x Download Page

Note: Workshop download includes a copy of the HTML Help V1.3x runtime installer (hhupd.exe), but does not install it. If you are running Win9x or WinNT4 then you will need to install the runtime files. If you think you need to update your HTML Help runtime files please see the MS HTML Help 1.x Download Page.

MS Help 2.x

FAR HTML supports MS Help 2.x, the help system for Visual Studio 7.0/7.1/8/9 (2002/2003/2005/2008).
For information on how to download the MS Help 2 Workshop (VS SDK) see the H2 Info Page.

Under Windows Vista we recommend you run FAR.exe "Run as Administrator" when performing MS Help 2 collection registration.

MS Help Viewer 1.x

FAR HTML 5 supports MS Help Viewer 1.x, the help system for Visual Studio 10 (2010).
mshcMigrate application is a free tool for FAR HTML 5 uses.

SpiderSoft.com WebZip Users

FAR provides the WebZip program with free ZIP and some basic HTML Help services. These 2 features never expire. FAR's other advanced web tools and HTML Help authoring features are shareware and will expire 2 months after installation unless you purchase a FAR license.

About FAR HTML 5

• Support for Visual Studio 2010 - MS Help Viewer 1.0. | Introduction to MS Help Viewer 1.0
• Your FAR HTML 5 license covers the mshcMigrate application.
• Now with full Unicode support, Windows 7 support, + many other new features.

FAR HTML 5 can run on Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7 which support Unicode.
This means that even on an English PC you could for instance...

1. Enter Japanese characters as if you were on a Japanese PC.

2. Search files for Japanese text.

3. Open and save files with Japanese file names and directory names.

4. Author Japanese help projects.. including MS Help 2.x, MS Help  3.x and Web Help (FAR Uncompressed Help).

All this on a non-Japanese PC.

Note: MS HTML Help 1.x is in fact ANSI technology and must still be authored on the correct language PC (a limitation of MS HTML Help not FAR).

Running FAR 4 & FAR 5 on the same PC

FAR HTML 4 reads/writes files in ANSI encoding, while FAR v5 uses Unicode encoding. See a problem here? So once FAR HTML 5 saves .FAR, .FarRun, FAR_Settings.ini etc files, FAR HTML 4 probably wont be able to read them any more (unless you convert them back to ANSI). FAR HTML 5 on the other hand can read any type of file encoding.

If you run FAR HTML 4 & 5 together on the same PC...

• Make sure FAR 4 & 5 save settings to different locations (see Options > Preferences > Settings ).

• Workaround: FAR 4 can open FAR 5 files if you convert them back to ANSI format (use FAR or NotePad SaveAs).

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• Support for FAR HTML German Users
  Ulrich Kulle's (Help-Info.de) kindly provides support form our German users.

• "Eduscape uses FAR in the final step to create our software.  FAR is fantastic and simple to use.  It changes html pages into to chm files.  Eduscape’s product is mathematical e-books.   FAR is a great tool for doing this and the price is right" - Ralph Thomas.
  www.emathlearning.com (or www.eduscape2000.com)

  From Helpware: Interesting and unique application of FAR Uncompressed help. They add JavaScript Navigation and Search to the product, then wrap it all into a single CHM file. Their product also uses our embedded Agent text-to-speech reader.
   

• "The interface improvements within v4.0 are awesome. This is without doubt the most powerful, yet simple to use HTMLHelp creation tool we've ever used. We created our first test CHM with dynamic linking within 10 minutes of installation. All our product documentation will now be created with FARHTML going forward" - Ryan Healey,
  www.instantasp.com 
  
   
• "I'M LOVING FAR! As a freelance tech writer, I work on a lot of online help projects, and FAR is "by far" the best HAT utility I've ever found. The Help generators are fast, don't mess up my HTML code (unlike other HAT's), and afford me a lot of control over how the finished Help files will work and look. FAR is a great addition to my professional "toolbox" and I look forward to using it for future projects." - Tanja Rosteck,
  Words4Nerds
  
  
• "FAR RULES! FAR saved many days (probably weeks) of hard grunt work. FAR's ability to compile and then edit TOC and INDEX files, as well as its abilities to "Find and Replace" text on mass, as I see it, are unrivalled! In addition, FAR's developers have been extremely helpful whenever I had questions regarding the program." - Ian Patton,
  HyperScribe Inc.
  
  
• "FAR (Find And Replace) is an excellent tool for globally finding and replacing data within web pages. " - Rhonda Bracey,
  CyberText 
  
  
• "Your FAR is a great source for me. I do all my projects with FAR. I also use it for automatically generating the file list." - Josef Becker,
  HelpMaster.com
  
  
• "I suddenly had to convert my CHM Help system back to a regular HTML help-type file system. Using your utility it took all of about 2 minutes to correctly remove all HTML Help code. I'd estimated about 5 hours for doing the job manually!!" - David Altmann, Future Strategy
  
  
• HTMLHelp enthaelt einen Fehler, der die Konvertierung von Umlauten betrifft. Enthaelt die HTML-Source Umlaute in Ueberschriften oder Suchbegriffen, dann werden diese spaeter in der CHM-Datei im Inhalts-Tab und im Index-Tab falsch dargestellt. Wird die CHM-Datei aus FAR heraus kompiliert, tritt dieses Problem nicht auf. Dank an MVP Robert Chandler   fuer dieses feine Werkzeug.  - Josef Becker, HelpMaster.com
  

• Creating Hebrew help files proved the most difficult. Much to our frustration, the results we obtained from flagships of the trade we tried left a lot to be desired: parts of the original Hebrew text would transform into unintelligible non-language symbols, punctuation marks would wander to awkward positions and Hebrew/English combination sentences would get out of syntactical sync in most unpredictable ways. Hardly a product to be proud of.

  Until FAR. We can now create the basic pages/help topics in Word (which gives us the RTL editing support we need), let FAR create the HHP file, set the chm file's language properties to specification, and create the TOC and index within FAR, linked to the nth bookmark in a single page if so we wish. To further edit a page/topic we switch to the associated editor of choice, toggle back to refresh, and compile.

  Et le VOILA: a final Hebrew chm file with character set intact, punctuation where it belongs and Hebrew and English each in their right direction and appropriate location throughout the help file. The TOC works and appears right to left as should be, the index works, Search locates whichever strings we require and all the links function as first designed.
  Will take you a long way, FAR …..

  Ruth Levin
  Technical Communicator
  Roshtov Software Ind.
   

The FAR download is a full working version. Try it out and if you want to continue to use it you should purchase a copy using this page. 

Each FAR HTML user must own a license to use FAR beyond the trial period. A license cannot be shared between users. A license can be shared between 2 PCs only if both PCs are used by a single user (E.G. A user has a work & home PC).

Once we receive payment we will send you the FAR registration codes (3 strings) by email which you enter under the FAR help menu. This will disable the nag screens and the about box will declare that you are a registered and legal FAR user.

Please Read This Carefully:

The copy of FAR you downloaded (page top) is a full working version. You get a total of 8 weeks to evaluate FAR. After that unregistered copies of FAR will show a nag screen with a time delay. Please use this time to properly evaluate FAR before paying for a registration Key. If you need more evaluation time then roll back the time on your PC's clock. 

There are no refunds. It is simply not cost effective to refund this small amount of money.

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