Accessing The Gambit Manuals

ACCESSING THE GAMBIT MANUALS
4. ACCESSING THE GAMBIT MANUALS

As described in Section 5.5, the GAMBIT online help system provides access
to the GAMBIT manual set through HTML files, which can be viewed with
your standard web browser (for example, Netscape Communicator). For
printing, Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of the manuals are also provided. This
chapter describes how to access the GAMBIT manuals outside of GAMBIT
(that is, not through the GAMBIT online help utility). See Section 5.5 for
information about accessing the manuals through the online help.
You can access the manuals directly from the CD or, if the files have been
installed in your Fluent Inc. installation area, you can also access them there.
See the separate installation instructions for your platform type for information
about installing the files from the documentation CD.
The comments in this chapter about accessing files from the installation area
assume that all files on the documentation CD have been installed. If the files
you are looking for are not in the installation area, you will need to install them
or access them directly from the CD.
Section 4.1 of this chapter describes how to access the HTML versions of the
manuals (without running GAMBIT), and Section 4.2 describes how to access
the PDF files for printing. See Section 5.5 for information about accessing the
manuals through the GAMBIT online help.
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4.1 Viewing the HTML Files

To view the HTML versions of the manuals, you will need a web browser.
4.1.1 How to Access the HTML Files in the Installation Area
If the files on the documentation CD have been installed, you can view the
HTML versions of the manuals by pointing your browser to
path/Fluent.Inc/gambit2.x/help/index.htm
where Fluent.Inc is the directory in which GAMBIT has been installed.

You must replace path by the path to the directory where the Fluent.Inc
directory is located, and x by the appropriate number for your GAMBIT
release (for example, 2.20 for GAMBIT 2.20).
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your browser, select
the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose File button to browse
through your directories to find the file.
This will bring up the GAMBIT documentation home page (Figure 4-1),
from which you can select the HTML version of the particular GAMBIT
manual you want to view.
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Figure 4-1: The GAMBIT documentation home page

See Section 5.5 for information about accessing the GAMBIT HTML files
through the GAMBIT Help menu.
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4.1.2 How to Access the HTML Files on the CD

The procedure for accessing the HTML files directly on the CD differs slightly
for UNIX and Windows systems:
For UNIX systems, you can access the files by inserting the documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive and pointing your browser to
the following file:
/cdrom/gambit2.x/help/index.htm
where cdrom is the name of your CD-ROM drive, and x is the number
appropriate to the GAMBIT 2 releasefor example, 2.20 for
GAMBIT 2.20.
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your
browser, select the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose
File button to browse through your directories to find the file.
For Windows systems, you can access the files by inserting the
documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive and pointing your
browser to the following file:
cdrom:\Gambit2.x\Help\Index.htm
where cdrom is the name of your CD-ROM drive (for example, E),
and x is the number appropriate to the GAMBIT 2 releasefor
example, 20 for GAMBIT 2.20.
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your
browser, select the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose
File button to select the CD-ROM drive and choose the appropriate
file.
This will bring up the GAMBIT documentation home page (Figure
4-1), from which you can select the HTML version of the particular
GAMBIT manual you want to view.
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4.1.3 Navigating the Manuals

When you are viewing a manual in your browser, a set of navigation buttons
will appear at the upper right and lower right corners of the HTML page, as
shown in Figure 4-2.
Figure 4-2: Navigation buttons

The navigation buttons are as follows:
Next will take you to the next page in the manual. Note that this is not
the same function as the Forward button of your browser.
Previous will take you to the page just before the current one in the
manual. Note that this is not the same function as the Back button of
your browser.
Index will take you to the index for the manual set.
Contents will take you to the table of contents for the manual.
Return to Home will take you to the GAMBIT documentation home

page (Figure 4-1).
Note that these buttons will not necessarily appear on all pages, and in some
cases, they will appear, but be inactive; in such cases, they will be grayed
out, as the Previous button is in Figure 4-2.
4.1.4 Finding Information in the Manuals
Three tools are available to help you find the information you are looking for
in a manual.
Index
The index gives an alphabetical list of keywords, each linked to relevant
sections of the manual. You can access the index by clicking the Index button
that appears at the top and bottom of the page.
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Table of Contents
The table of contents gives a list of the titles of the chapters, sections, and subsections of the manual in the order in which they appear. Each title is linked to
the corresponding chapter or section. You can access the table of contents by
clicking the Contents button that appears at the top and bottom of each page.
Browser Search
You can use the search capability provided by your browser to find words or
expressions on a single page. For example, you can use the Edit/Find in Page
menu item in Netscape Communicator to search for the word connectivity
on a page of the manual.
4.1.5 Printing Portions of a Manual
Although you can print pages of a manual from your browser, a much higherquality printout can be obtained by using the PDF files provided on your
documentation CD. See Section 4.2 for details.
4.1.6 Modifying the Appearance of the Manuals
There are a few things that you might want to change about the way your
browser displays the manuals in order to increase their usefulness.
Font Size
The absolute size of the text that you will see when viewing your GAMBIT
documentation is dependent on a number of factors, including the resolution of
your monitor screen. You can adjust the text size by changing the default font
size in the preferences menu of your browser. In Netscape Communicator, for
example, select the Edit/Preferences menu item and then choose the
Appearance category, where you will find the Fonts controls. Try several sizes
to see the effect on the appearance of the manuals, and choose the one that is
best for you.
Page Width
While reading a manual, you may find a figure that is wider than your
browsers window. As a result, some of the figure will be hidden from view.
To see the entire figure, you can use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of
your browsers window, or increase your browsers window size.
You might also want to adjust the window size to increase or decrease the
page width to a comfortable reading width.
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Viewing and Printing PDF Files
4.2 Viewing and Printing PDF Files

Adobe Acrobat PDF files are provided on the GAMBIT documentation CD
for printing all or part of the manuals.
4.2.1 About the PDF Files
The PDF files are appropriate for viewing and printing with Adobe Acrobat
Reader, which is available for most UNIX and Windows systems. These files
are distinguished by a .pdf suffix in their file names.
Note that you can select the paper size to which you are printing in Adobe
Acrobat Reader by selecting the File/Print Setup menu item and choosing the
desired Paper size. If the page is too large to fit on your paper size, you can
reduce it by selecting the File/Print menu item and enabling the Shrink to Fit
option.
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it (at no cost)
from www.adobe.com.
4.2.2 How to Access the PDF Files in the Installation Area
If the PDF files on the documentation CD have been installed, you can access
them by pointing your browser to
path/Fluent.Inc/gambit2.x/help/index.htm
where Fluent.Inc is the directory in which GAMBIT has been installed.

You must replace path by the path to the directory where Fluent.Inc is
located, and x by the appropriate number for your GAMBIT release (for
example, 2.20 for GAMBIT 2.20).
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your browser, select
the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose File button to browse
through your directories to find the file.
This will bring up the GAMBIT documentation home page (Figure 4-1),
from which you can select the PDF file(s) for the particular GAMBIT manual
you want. For large manuals, PDF files are provided for the individual
chapters, rather than for the entire manual.
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4.2.3 How to Access the PDF Files on the CD

The procedure for accessing the PDF files directly on the CD differs slightly
for UNIX and Windows systems:
For UNIX systems, you can access the files by inserting the documentation
CD into your CD-ROM drive and pointing your browser to the following
file:
/cdrom/gambit2.x/help/index.htm
where cdrom is the name of your CD-ROM drive, and x is the number
appropriate to the GAMBIT 2 releasefor example, 2.20 for GAMBIT
2.20.
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your browser,
select the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose File button to
browse through your directories to find the file.
For Windows systems, you can access the files by inserting the documentation CD into your CD-ROM drive and pointing your browser to the
following file:
cdrom:\Gambit2.x\Help\Index.htm
where cdrom is the name of your CD-ROM drive (for example, E), and x
is the number appropriate to the GAMBIT 2 releasefor example, 2.20
for GAMBIT 2.20.
If, for example, you are using Netscape Communicator as your browser,
select the File/Open Page menu item and click the Choose File button to
select the CD-ROM drive and choose the appropriate file.
This will bring up GAMBIT documentation home page (Figure 4-1), from
which you can select the PDF file(s) for the particular GAMBIT manual you
want. For large manuals, PDF files are provided for the individual chapters,
rather than for the entire manual.
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