Export Facilities

TexNotes Pro provides some very powerful and easy to employ Export facilities. These are normally used to move Notes (or the contents of Notes) to other applications, or for use in other types of document formats.

Export Content in the File menu is normally chosen after you have selected (highlighted) a Note to export in Navigator Outline. Use [Ctrl+click] to select multiple Notes.

A dialog box is the displayed which allows you to control the export process.

 This allows you to navigate to a folder where the exported files are to be placed. It is not possible for TexNotes Pro to create a new folder, so make sure you have one ready before starting the export process.

If you check Create a file for each content, all the items selected in Outline are exported as separate files. Each file is named according to its Outline name.

If you check Place content in one file, just one Export file is created. You can type a name in the Filename box, or use the  button to select a previously-used file.

Each item in the file can be separated by any one of the following:

Check Show Title if you want the item's Outline to be used as the title (first line) of the new exported document.

Use TNP format if you plan to move your exported Note to another TexNotes Pro document.

RTF format is normally used to export to Microsoft Office programs like Word. It also works for many other word processors, and is always worth trying if none of the other formats do what you want.

Plain TXT format is the simplest. Almost all applications that accept text can use this, but little-or-no formatting information is preserved.

Unicode TXT format is best if you need to handle special fonts like Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. Encoding availability depends on which language system files are installed in Windows

Simple HTML is normally adequate if you simply want to load the exported item into a browser. Only the most basic formatting information is preserved.

Accurate HTML is simply wonderful! It's definitely the format to pick if you want to use the exported file on a web site, for example. You can also normally immediately load it into a full-blown HTML editor, like FrontPage or DreamWeaver, without difficulty or further intervention.
The CSS stylesheet is embedded into the exported file, and cannot be accessed. This causes no practical difficulty, however. Both FrontPage and DreamWeaver, for example, can automatically create a new CSS from the loaded file.

The final part of the dialog box allows to choose Which Items To Export, and to select some Export Options.

If you check Only selected, just those items that you have explicitly chosen are exported. Remember that you can use [Ctrl+click] to select multiple Notes.

If you have selected a Note, All in Same Level means that all Notes contained in the current Notebook are exported. If you have a Notebook selected, all Notebooks are exported.

All Content exports the entire document (except for the Outline).

Overwrite existing files means that all files in the export folder that have the same name as the new files, are overwritten. If you uncheck this option, TexNotes Pro automatically appends to the filename(s) to avoid this.

If you check Convert images in Notes to JPG, all images that you've inserted into your TexNotes Pro file are automatically converted to JPEG format when exported.

The export options discussed above all ignore the Outline. You can use Export Outline Tree from the File menu if you do wish to export this. The complete Outline is always exported. It is not possible to select particular items, although of course it's easy to subsequently edit the exported file.

A standard Windows save file dialog box is displayed when you select this menu item. Use this box to navigate to the appropriate folder, and type in a suitable name.

The following save file formats are available:

Use Text format to export in plain text. Formatting information is not preserved, but items are indented to show the hierarchy.

HTML is normally adequate if you simply want to load the exported item into a browser. Only the most basic formatting information is preserved. All the icons you may have used to mark Outline items are also exported, normally as separate *.PNG files. Hyperlinks in the exported file are not clickable.

HTML with Frame Set is probably the best format to pick if you want to use the exported file on a web site, for example. You can also normally immediately load it into a full-blown HTML editor, like FrontPage or DreamWeaver, without difficulty or further intervention. As well as exporting all the icons you may have used, normally as separate *.PNG files, two HTML files are created. Click the smallest (without "outline" in the filename) to see the Outline displayed in tri-pane style in your default browser. Hyperlinks in the exported file are not clickable.

MS Help Workshop TOC is only useful if you are creating online Help systems. Indeed, this facility is included so that you can use TexNotes Pro to make Help (for example, the TexNotes Pro Help). In order to open the *.hhc file, you normally need to have MS HTML Help Workshop installed (or one of the many commercial clones now available). You can discover most of the information you need to make Help, and freely download MS HTML Help Workshop, from here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

Everything else you need to know (and a vast array of files to download), will probably be here:

http://www.helpmaster.com/index.htm

You can insert a Table of Contents anywhere in your document before you export it.