Shake Online (PDF) Documentation

The Shake online documentation is in Adobe® Portable Document Format. To view the documentation, please use the following guidelines.

Macintosh OS X Systems

On a Macintosh OS X system, the Shake PDF documentation opens in Preview by default, or in your specified PDF reader (for example, Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®).

To view the documentation, choose Help and select the Reference Guide or Tutorials.

Linux and IRIX Systems

To view the Shake online documentation on a Linux or IRIX system, you need to configure your PDF browser path in the Shake application.

Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader needs to be installed on your system.

To configure the PDF browser path:

• Click the Globals tab.
• Expand the guiSettings parameter (click the + [plus] sign).
• Click the folder icon next to pdfBrowserPath.
• In the Choose Application window, browse to your Adobe Acrobat Reader application.

To view the documentation, choose Help and select the Reference Guide or Tutorials.

To save your PDF browser settings in Shake:

• Choose File > Save Interface Settings.
• In the "Save preferences to" window, save your settings to a defaultui.h file.