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Previous Releases - HELP System
Previous Releases - HELP Installation and Setup
[up to Software Release 09/2015]
The installation of the help system is normally done by the software installation program, but here the
complete online help installation is described if any problem occurred:
1. The HELP window is included in the TRACE32 executable (t32*.exe).
2. TRACE32 help loads the file help.t32, which has to be in the system path, e.g. C:\T32\
Only this file enables all help functions in TRACE32, like context-sensitive help and full-text
search.
3. Acrobat Reader should be installed on the computer, and to use the TRACE32 plug-in, the
version has to be 4.0 or higher.
4. Acrobat loads the TRACE32 plug-in (trace32.api) which has to be in the “plug_ins” directory. If
the plug-in is loaded correctly, you can find the menu entry About TRACE32 in the Help menu.
5. The PDF help files are in the TRACE32 system path in the subfolder “pdf”, e.g. “C:\T32\pdf”. This
path can be changed in the config file.
6. On Unix you have to do manually:
The environment variable “ACROBAT_PATH” has to be set to the path where acroread is installed,
Use the setenv command or add it to your .profile - file.
Copy the TRACE32 plug-in to the Acrobat plug_ins folder
Previous Releases - Configuring an Alternate PDF Viewer
[only Software Releases 09/2014, 02/2015, and 09/2015]
By default, the help system of TRACE32 uses Adobe Reader as PDF viewer. But, as of the release in
November 2014, the help system of TRACE32 supports any PDF viewer that can handle file names and
named destinations.
Please consult the help of the PDF viewer you want to use about how to pass file name and named
destination as command line arguments to that PDF viewer; for some examples, see below.
The following step-by-step procedure assumes that you have installed TRACE32 in the default system
directory c:\t32 on Windows, or $HOME/t32 on Linux.
>setenv ACROBAT_PATH=/opt/Acrobat5
>cp cdrom/bin/suns/trace32.api
/opt/Acrobat5/Reader/sparcsol/plug_ins/