Tinderbox Documentation And Other Resources

The primary form of official documentation for Tinderbox is the Tinderbox Manual (the app's macOS HTML Help). This also includes the Release Notes (pre-v6 these were a separate TBX file). The Manual is accessed from the Help menu.

Eastgate offers user-to-user help via the Tinderbox forum (https://forum.eastgate.com). This resource, 'aTbRef' also available online at https://www.acrobatfaq.com/atbref10/index.html, although it should be noted it is not an official Eastgate resource.

Other Eastgate resources:

• Tinderbox website (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/)
• Tinderbox user-to-user forum (https://forum.eastgate.com/). NOTE: this is not Tinderbox's official tech support (see below), which should be a first port of call for urgent technical issues.
• Tinderbox's official tech support (info@eastgate.com). This is generally a faster way of accessing technical helps then using the forum.
• Old forum, lo longer online: was http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/forum/.
• Tinderbox Cookbook, for action/export code (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/cookbook/).
• Tinderbox wiki, no longer online: was at: https://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?TinderboxWiki.
• The Tinderbox Way: a book by Mark Bernstein (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TinderboxWay.html). Several editions:
  • Ed.1 c.2006 (see) alongside Tinderbox v.3.x (prior to publication there is mention as far back as Sep 2004)
  • Ed.2 May 2012 (see), for Tinderbox v5.11.0.
  • Ed.3 27 Oct 2017 (see) b289 for Tinderbox v7.3.0.
• The Tinderbox File Exchange (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Exchange.html)
• Tinderbox tech support email (tinderbox@eastgate.com).
• Tinderbox Tutorial Series. A CD or downloadable DNG:
  • Volume 1.
  • Volume 2.

Third-party resources:

• aTbRef: this site (https://www.acrobatfaq.com/atbref). Several discrete versions are still online, baselined on earlier Tinderbox versions: see here.

If it is necessary to obtain downloads of Tinderbox versions other than the current one, e.g. because the user has not extended their licence, then use https://www.eastgate.com/download/ and select the DMG file for the appropriate version.

Tinderbox Tutorials: aTbRef's author has a Tinderbox tutorial web page linking to a number of tutorials.

Further Resources

• The Tinderbox Manual
• Release Notes
• Shoantel's Tinderbox Tutorials
• Some Tinderbox pre-history
• Books
• Academic Papers

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See also—notes linking to here:

• A Tinderbox Reference File
• Reporting Problems
• About aTbRef
• Edits needed for new baseline release