You are viewing the help file for a Screenbook visual tutorial. The Screenbook format consists of pages of screenshots with short text descriptions. The standard Screenbook format also includes a table of contents, a thumbnail navigation page, and other features.

Screenbook tutorials are grouped into Screenbook Bookshelves: collections of Screenbooks with common navigation features and full text search.

View the Table of Contents for this Screenbook Bookshelf

Screenbooks can be navigated with the keyboard:

• tab key: move from pane to pane (e.g. from a tutorial page to the bookshelf menu), move through items in bookshelf menu
• space bar, page down: move to the next page
• back space, page up: move back one page
• home and end keys: jump to first or last page
• arrow keys: select a navbar item

In page view, a Screenbook tutorial has a set of menu items at the top of the page:

• search: quick full text search of all of the tutorials in this "bookshelf". A bookshelf is a set of screenbooks.
• page: hide left menu
• bookshelf: table of contents for the bookshelf (in a frame)
• titles: menu of page titles for the screenbook
• all: all pages of the current tutorial combined on to one page
• thumbnails: thumbnail images with page titles
• bookmark: allows you to create a bookmark to the page even if it is within a frame.

The Screenbook format uses full-screen screenshots. Full-screen shots are easier to understand than partial screenshots. The standard Screenbook format displays these screenshot images at a size of 640 x 480 pixels.

The screenshot image may however, be of a screen of any size. If the original screen capture was of a 1024 x 768 screen, needless to say, the image must be resized in order to fit the image in the 640 x 480 pixel space. In all browsers but Internet Explorer, this will cause the image to be somewhat less clear, since a shrunken image is being displayed. However, when viewing a Screenbook with these browsers, you can click on the image to popup a full-sized image of the screen.

When viewing a page with a screenshot in Internet Explorer, the Screenbook format displays the screenshot differently than in other browsers. Rather than showing an image which has been resized and having a link to the full-sized image, the Screenbook page shows the full-sized image in the smaller space using a special component built in to Internet Explorer. This component does not simply shrink the picture, but actually redraws the lines in the picture so that text and other lines still appear clearly. In Internet Explorer you can also set the default screenshot size that will show in the page. The screenshot can be shrunken or enlarged with virtually no loss in clarity.

Screenbooks are created with a program called Screenbook Maker. Screenbook Maker automates the process of creating screenshots, associating text to the screenshots, creating books of linked web pages and building Knowledge Management features such as indexes, tables of contents, and full text search.

Visit Screenbooks.net to:

• Download a free version of Screenbook Maker
• See more Screenbook Tutorial Bookshelves
• Get news and provide feedback for and about Screenbooks