Included Documentation
Poser includes the following documentation:
- Poser Online Documentation: Online documentation for both the Poser Reference Manual and the PoserPython Methods Manual can be found at http://www.posersoftware.com/documentation/12/index.htm.
The Online Documentation can be translated to your language of choice through the use of Google Translate. If you use the Chrome browser you can download the Google Translate for Chrome extension here:
If you do not use Chrome, you may find similar translation extensions for your browser of choice.
Using the Online Help
Poser's online help is clean, intuitive, and easy to use. The online help initially opens to the Online Cover Page. The Table of Contents appears in the left pane.
Poser's Online Documentation includes the following controls:
Poser Online Documentation controls
- Table of Contents: Click this icon to display the Table of Contents in the left pane. You can expand or collapse the folders and topics to select the topic you want to read. Click the topic to display it in the topic window (6).
- Index: Click this icon to display the Index in the left pane. For further information, see Index View.
- Search: Click this icon to display the Search and Search Results in the left pane. For further information, see Searching the Help below.
- Left Pane: The left pane displays the Table of Contents, Index, or Search Results depending on the view selected with icons described previously.
- Breadcrumbs: Click any level in the breadcrumb trail to move through the topic hierarchy.
- Topic Window: The topic you select displays in the topic window.
- Search entry: You can enter a search term in this window to display search results in the left pane. You can also enter search terms when the Search results are displayed in the left tab. For more information see Searching the Help below.
- Remove Highlight: When you select a page from the search window, your search term(s) will be displayed on the topic page highlighted in yellow. Click the Remove Highlight button to turn the highlighting off.
- Print: Prints the page that is currently displayed in the topic window, to your selected print destination. Printers available on your computer will be listed in here. If you have a "Save as PDF" printer option you can also use that to save the current page to a PDF file.
Select a printer on your system to print a topic
- Back button: Click the Back button to navigate to the previous topic in the manual. This button will not appear when you are on the first page of the manual.
- Next button: Click the Next button to navigate to the next topic in the manual. This button will not appear when you are on the last page of the manual.
Index View
When you select the Index View (see #2 in Using the Online Help) a complete A to Z list of index topics is displayed in the left pane. Click a topic to select the topic you want to view, as shown on the left in the following figure. When topics appear on more than one page, the related topics will be displayed below the selected index entry.
You can filter the index to display index entries that contain a particular word or phrase. For example, entering the word alias will display index entries that have the letters alias, in whole or in part. as shown on the right in the following figure.
Full index (left) and filtered index (right)
Searching the Help
You can enter a search term in any left pane view by entering your search term in the Search field at the top of the Online Help window (see #7 in Using the Online Help, above).
You can also enter a search term when the left pane displays the Search pane (#3 in Using the Online Help, above). The Search results will list up to 50 entries.
- Enter a single word to display topics that contain that word. Note that similar results will also appear in the results list. For example if you enter the word parameters, the search results will also list topics that contain the word parameter.
- Enter two or more words to display topics that contain any or all of the words listed. For example, if you enter the words parameters palette, the search results will list topics that contain either the word parameters (and its variations) or palette (and its variations).
- To search for a specific phrase, enter the search term in quotes. Entering "parameters palette" (with the quotes) will display pages that contain that specific phrase.
Select one of the search results in the left tab to display the topic. The words entered in the search term will be highlighted in yellow when the topic is displayed. You can turn highlighting off with the Remove Highlight control (see #8 in Using the Online Help, above).
Search results and selected topic.