You can use a large number of different graphics formats directly in Help & Manual. If the format of a graphic you use in your project is not supported in your publishing format Help & Manual converts the file automatically when you publish your project. For example, the obsolete Winhelp format only supports BMP, so if you use other types of graphics files they will be converted to BMP when you publish your project.
 Key Information
For most purposes BMP is the best format. Help & Manual automatically converts and compresses images when you publish and BMP is the best source format for this.
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All the following graphics formats listed below be inserted in your projects directly with the Insert Image tool. Native HTML graphics formats (PNG, GIF, JPG) are published unchanged when you compile to HTML-based output formats. Other formats are converted to one of these formats on the basis of your HTML Export Options conversion settings in your project configuration settings.
| • | Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) |
| • | Portable Network Graphics (PNG) |
| • | Paint Shop Pro images (PSP, single-layer only) |
| • | Kodak PhotoCD images (PCD) |
| • | Windows Metafiles (WMF, EMF) |
| • | Impict graphics (IPP, the special format of Help & Manual's Impict graphics editor) |
| • | Segmented Hyper Graphics (SHG, MRB the Winhelp hotspot graphics format, now obsolete.) |
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The obsolete.shg format for Winhelp graphics should no longer be used, support for it is only included for backward compatibility. You no longer need to use SHG graphics to add hotspots in your images because you can add hotspots to all graphics formats directly in the Help & Manual editor.
However, if you have old .shg files with hotspots you can use them in your projects directly, provided the hotspots link to valid topic IDs in your project.
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Hotspots in .ipp graphics created with Help & Manual 3 cannot be imported to new projects on their own because they are linked to specific projects. The hotspots will only be imported if the .ipp images are imported together with the .hm3 project for which they were created.
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