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Using Help
Viewing Help Files on a separate Computer
Viewing Help Files on a separate Computer
You may want to view the help pages without having them appear on top of the instrument’s screen.
Two separate Help files are available for each instrument Mode (or Measurement Application). The two
files contain all the same help pages in different formats:
1. HTML Help (CHM) format.
These files are installed on the instrument’s hard disk. To copy these files to another computer, see
“Copying the HTML Help (CHM) Files” on page 118 below.
2. Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
These files are called "Users & Programmers References". They are included on the Documentation
CD supplied with the instrument, or may be downloaded from the Agilent web site.
For details of how to navigate PDF files, see “Navigating Acrobat (PDF) Files” on page 119.
You can copy any of the CHM or PDF files to another computer, then open and view the help pages in
the file on that computer.
Your choice of which file to copy and view may depend on what you want to do with the file (for
example, whether you want to print it and read the paper copy, or view it on the computer).
The table below compares the relative advantages of the two formats:
Format Type HTML Help Format (CHM Files) Acrobat Format (PDF Files)
File Extension CHM PDF
Software Required
to view file
Microsoft Windows operating system
only, with Microsoft Internet Explorer
installed.
Free Adobe Reader software can be
downloaded for many operating systems,
including: Microsoft Windows, Macintosh,
Linux, Solaris.
Full Text Search? Yes Yes
Printable? Yes, but with limited control. Yes. Full print control. See “Printing
Acrobat Files” on page 120.
Printable Table of
Contents?
No Yes
Navigable without a
Mouse and
Keyboard?
Yes, but with some loss of functionality. No
Has Page Numbers? No Yes
Context-Sensitive
Display?
Yes, when viewed using the X-Series
Analyzer application window.
No
Indexed? Yes No
Active Hyperlinks? Yes Yes