Nope, that didn't make it into the docs for the release of 8 ops:

I'll find out about the feature and add some docs.

Matt

If you don't already have access to the bug database, don't worry about it. Just post a description of the problem here. Thanks!

Hi guys,

Can you please tell me which versions of Houdini you're talking about? And any more information about the problems you see with the help, if possible?

If you have access to the Houdini bugbase filing a bug would be even better, but even if you just list it here I'll see what I can figure out.

Cheers,

Matt

In H7 the priority was a new back-end and interface for the online help (in the embedded browser) and generating PDFs unfortunately fell into the “we can't do everything right now” pile (low-level: because we generate the docs from XML instead of FrameMaker, we need to set up XSL-FO to get PDFs where we used to get them “for free”). Hopefully searchable help made up for it somewhat.

In the next version, the docs focus is on creating basic content to get people up to speed quickly. Once again, PDFs are lower on the priority list. But I'm still hoping to do the back-end work necessary to generate PDFs (since it's the same work I need to do to get a certain cool WYSIWYG XML editor working). Once that's done, it would be fairly trivial to generate PDFs for the H7 docs as well.

Rob can deal with the question of missing training materials better than I (when he gets back from vacation . I can't really speak with any authority on that, sorry.