A bug with Help

Pinetree · 01-14-2017, 06:31 PM,

Whenever I open the help files in-game, they open with Acrobat Reader even if it's not my default PDF reader. If you don't have Acrobat Reader installed, they won't open at all. (in-game only, they work fine when opening them in Windows)

**Warhorse** · 01-15-2017, 05:29 AM,

Not a bug, that's how they open, AFAIK?!

Pinetree · 01-15-2017, 08:45 AM,

(01-15-2017, 05:29 AM)Warhorse Wrote: Not a bug, that's how they open, AFAIK?!

There's lots of PDF readers out there now. Adobe Acrobat is a bloated buggy mess these days so I've gotten rid of it. Most programs now will open with the pdf reader that is set to default.

**Warhorse** · 01-15-2017, 09:41 AM,

Try Sumatra, it is better, and less of a hog!

**Warhorse** · 01-15-2017, 09:56 AM,

I see what you're getting at, it won't use your default viewer, I missed that, sorry man!

**Ricky B** · 01-15-2017, 10:14 AM,

So not a bug, but not so good of a design/implementation. Although I am not sure what may have been done to trigger it to only use Reader from inside the game when the change in help files was made from the Windows Help files to pdfs.

Pinetree · 01-15-2017, 01:14 PM,

(01-15-2017, 09:56 AM)Warhorse Wrote: I see what you're getting at, it won't use your default viewer, I missed that, sorry man!

No worries. :)

(01-15-2017, 10:14 AM)Ricky B Wrote: So not a bug, but not so good of a design/implementation. Although I am not sure what may have been done to trigger it to only use Reader from inside the game when the change in help files was made from the Windows Help files to pdfs.

Man, I miss those old CHM files. From a user point of view they were great.