Q100466: Accessing Nuke, Nuke Studio and Hiero documentation offline

Tom

Updated: July 23, 2026 18:28

Created: January 16, 2019 13:03

SUMMARY

This article will explain how you can view the documentation for Nuke, Nuke Studio and Hiero offline.

MORE INFORMATION

Due to the differences between Nuke/Nuke Studio and Hiero, the documentation for each is split into two separate areas when installed with the Nuke release. This can lead to confusion when trying to find the offline documentation for the individual applications. Select a header below to list the locations for each operating system:

PDF User Guides:

PDF versions of both the Nuke/Nuke Studio and Hiero User Guides can be accessed using the respective links below:

• Nuke User Guide PDFs
• Hiero User Guide PDFs

Loading offline product documentation:

To use the offline documentation from within the application, you need to go to Edit > Preferences... > Behaviors > Documentation and change the documentation source dropdown from to local, as shown here:

When you click the question mark (?) icon in the Properties panel of any node, you will be directed to the relevant offline page of the documentation.

FURTHER READING

There is a feature request to allow users to customize the question mark knob on custom nodes so that third party plugins can have links to their own help documentation. The reference number for this feature request is the following:

ID 310332 - Let users customize the '?' question mark knob website link for custom nodes

You can reference these numbers in the Release Notes of upcoming Nuke versions once it has been addressed.