Difference between revisions of "Kiwix 0.9 User Guide"

:The search engine is located on the right side of the toolbar. If you can select the search box and type a word inside that, it means your search engine is ready to use. Otherwise, Kiwix will ask you if you want to index the ZIM file or not. You'll need to confirm this process in order to use [[Features#Search_engine|full-text search engine feature]] or cancel it and use the program without this feature. This step is very time-consuming process and depending on your ZIM file size and also the speed of your computer, might last several hours or even several days for big packages like English Wikipedia. Note that there is a 20 to 100 percents difference in size between the indexed and non-indexed ZIM files and if you want to index a ZIM file, your computer will have to create the index files which their size is equal to the same difference of the indexed and non-indexed ZIM files, so be careful to do this process without turning your system down or closing the application. You can also see how many percents of the indexing process has been proceed or remained in the progressive green bar on right side of Status bar (in bottom of the program), so your status bar should be active and do this appear that from '''Display''' menu if you can't see it now. Note that you won't need to do this long process if you download the Pre-Indexed ZIM file.

:If you don't want to use the full-text search ability, you can just type a word in the search box and see a list of the page titles stated with that words. The popup-list has the ability of Autocomplete and predicts the word being typed and suggests you the nearest page titles and you can choose the one you want subsequently.