Everything chm displays blank page

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void
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Everything chm displays blank page

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Please try the following:
  • Right click your Everything.chm and click Properties.
  • Check Unblock.
  • Click OK.
horst.epp
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Re: Everything chm displays blank page

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No problem with blocking but the help is displayed in a much to small font.
So its not High DPI aware.
NotNull
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Re: Everything chm displays blank page

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horst.epp wrote:No problem with blocking but the help is displayed in a much to small font.
So its not High DPI aware.
As it's basically a "bunch of web-pages" (CHM = Compiled HTML), you can use <Ctrl +> and <Ctrl -> to zoom in/out. Or Use <Ctrl> plus the mouse scrollwheel.

The underlying issue is in the CHM itself. It uses px (pixels;absolute size) instead of pt (point;relative size) in the CSS stylesheets (I just decompiled the CHM to see what's going on)
Like: font-size:13px; instead of font-size: 13pt;


CHM is more or less abandoned by Microsoft, in favor of a new (much worse) help system. Part of the reason was that because it was HTML, it could contain (silently executed) active code like JavaScript. That's why it gets blocked.
If you would put the unblocked CHM somewhere on your network, it *still* would show you a blank page if the zone in which it is placed (trusted site, Intranet, etc) isn't allowed explicitely or this specific file isn't allowed explicitely.
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Re: Everything chm displays blank page

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horst.epp
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Re: Everything chm displays blank page

Post by horst.epp »

void wrote:Updated to 10pt, thanks.

http://www.voidtools.com/Everything.chm.zip
Thanks, its easy readable now.
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