Don Foster Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Hi, I'm trying to access Vectorworks Help under the help menu. Clicking on it brings up the browser, but does not load help page. Can you help? Thanks Don Foster, Hearth Design Mac OS X 10.6.5 MacBook Pro, 244 Ghz Intel Core Duo VectorWorks 12.5.2 Browser - Firefox 3.6.13 Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 If you set Safari to be your default browser you will be able to view the VW 12.5 help files. VW12.5 help doesn't seem to be speaking to Firefox 4.0 either (perhaps a plugin or addon is needed) Quote Link to comment
Don Foster Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 Well that seems pretty lame. Is there a URL you can paste into the browser that will get you there? Thanks for your help Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 It's not that it can't get there it's that once it does Firefox can't open it. A lame fox I guess. Quote Link to comment
Don Foster Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 Thanks. Do you happen to know the URL and perhaps I could access through Safari without making it my default? Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 url=file:///Applications/Vectorworks 12.5/VWHelp/index.html Quote Link to comment
Don Foster Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 Well, shoot. Safari was prompt in advising me that there "is no file at address: file:///Applications/Vectorworks 12.5/VWHelp/index.html" It was prompt several times. Any other possibilities? And again thanks. Quote Link to comment
Don Foster Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 Don't know why the repetition in above post. Should be: file:///Applications/Vectorworks 12.5/VWHelp/index.html Quote Link to comment
gScott Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 bcd get the "IE TAB 2" add-on for firefox and then set the add-on to always render /Vectorworks 12.5/VWHelp/ files in IE mode, painful, but it works. either firefox is not capable of rendering html properly or the help files have not been properly checked for html compliance Quote Link to comment
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