Setting Font and Color for the Help Viewer

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You can customize the font and color properties that are used to display the pages in the help viewer. Font properties include the font family, style, variant, weight, and size. Color properties include the color of text, the background color of text, and the color of borders.

To set the fonts and colors for displaying help pages:

1. Close the IDE.
    
   
2. Copy the install-directory/Sun/Creator2/rave2.0/modules/docs/rave-help.jar file into a different that is not within the IDE installation directory.
    
   
3. Extract the contents of the file.
    
   
4. Edit the rave.css file and add it to the rave-help.jar file. Make sure that there is only one version of the rave.css file in the rave-help.jar file.
    
   
5. Copy the rave-help.jar file to the install-directory/Sun/Creator2/rave2.0/modules/docs directory.
    
   
6. Start the IDE and then open the help viewer by selecting Help > Help Contents. The help viewer has the new style changes.
    
   

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