Built-In WYSIWYG HTML Editor

HyperMaker includes its own WYSIWYG HTML editor, mainly for your convenience when editing HTML documents.

To edit an HTML files, open your Publication, select the file in the Files Tab, right-click, and select the Edit with Buil-In HTML Editor contextual menu command.

The main editor features include:

• Text formatting Users can set character formatting, including font style, face, size, and color. Paragraphs can be justified and indented.
• Editing The editor supports multi-level undo and redo commands. Users can use standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. Elements can be moved or resized by dragging. The editor supports a number of keyboard accelerators.
• Drag-and-drop capability Users can drag any object, text, or element anywhere on the page.
• Search The component can display a Find dialog box to allow users to search for text.
• Hyperlinking Users can define links and bookmarks in the text.
• Images Users can insert images into the document.
• Table support Users can insert tables and can add and delete columns, rows, and cells.
• File management Users can open existing HTML files from disk or from the Web, save them to disk, and print them. The document being edited can also be loaded from and saved to memory, allowing you to create custom client-server applications.
• CSS support The component fully supports cascading style sheets (CSS), although it doesn't allow applying CSS to the text.
• Displaying glyphs for non-visual elements Certain types of invisible elements, such as HTML comments or scripts, can optionally be shown as glyphs to mark their location in the document.

Special Features

To insert Flash, Acrobat, Video or Sound files, use the appropriate Insert submenu to insert and OBJECT tag:

• Insert > Flash Movie...
• Insert > Acrobat Document...
• Insert Video File...
• Insert > Sound File...

For Video and Flash objects width and height always should be expressed in pixels. Percent is not allowed.

• Example of Video file insertion.
• Example of a Flash Movie insertion.
• Example of a Sound File insertion.
• Example of an Acrobat PDF file insertion.

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To insert MouseOver images, after inserting a .gif Picture with the Insert > Picture menu, select Yes when asked if you want to add the Active attribute.

Limitations

• Although supported, Styles cannot be applied to paragraphs or text. Therefore CSS creation and edition should be done, if needed using your preferred HTML Editor.
• The actual version doesn't show nor edits directly the HTML source code.