Download GNUCASH Documentation from the website

[Dave H]

Don't forget that the Tutorial & Concepts Guide (Ctrl+H) and Gnucash Help
Manual (F1) are also available from within the Gnucash application via the
Menus.  Presumably they are up to date.

Cheers Dave H.

On 21 April 2015 at 04:39, Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> please use the gnucash-user mailing list in the future:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>
> Am 20.04.2015 um 17:17 schrieb Richard:
> > Frank:
> > Just downloaded the GNUCASH program and wanted to also download the
> > documentation so I could look it over and become familiar with the
> > features I plan to use. However, although it is listed under
> > "Downloads", when I click on the "documentation" under downloads, I
> > don't get a download, but rather the online documentation.
> > Am I overlooking something or what?
> > Appreciate any help you can provide.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Richard Hays
>
> Right, at http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml you can view the
> documentation in html or pdf form,
> while the  epub mobi format are usually offered for download.
>
> So the Section headers on the page are indeed misleading.
>
> It depends on the configuration of your browser, how to handle which
> MIME type. If your browser knows the format - like html - or has an plug
> in like adobe reader for pdf, it will try to open it. Else it will ask
> you - with the default "downlad"/save - how to handle it.
>
> To download a pdf document you can right-click on the link and select
> "Save target as ..."
>
> You could download the respective html tree of your language with a
> program like wget from http://code.gnucash.org/docs/ for the master
> branch or for 2.6 from http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/
>
> But then still remains the question, how can you use it from the help
> button in the Gnucash menu and some of its dialogs. This depends on your
> operating system.
>
> Regards
> Frank
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