What is the best tool for generating CHM files for applications and property
page help support?
Depends on how complicated a CHM project you want to create and how much
you’re willing to spend (and how much frustration you’re willing to put
up with).
I do perfectly fine with Microsoft’s help compiler, and it’s free… but
your mileage may vary.
Del Fredricks wrote:
What is the best tool for generating CHM files for applications and property
page help support?
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…/ray..
That would work if we only wanted CHM files, but we need to also provide
legacy HLP support for NT as well (which if I understand correctly does not
HTML help and we have customers still using NT and not wishing to upgrade).
Thus, we are looking to evaluate which tool will provide the best cross
platform compilation of help files.
“Ray Trent” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
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> Depends on how complicated a CHM project you want to create and how much
> you’re willing to spend (and how much frustration you’re willing to put
> up with).
>
> I do perfectly fine with Microsoft’s help compiler, and it’s free… but
> your mileage may vary.
>
> Del Fredricks wrote:
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> > What is the best tool for generating CHM files for applications and
property
> > page help support?
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> …/ray..
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Well, anyone using NT4 that also hasn’t upgraded their Internet Explorer
to 4.0+ (which is where CHM support is added) to fix all the security
holes has so many other problems that I’m not sure the loss of your help
file is going to hurt them that much more incrementally…
But… point taken… While it’s technically possible to use the MS
tools to maintain both HLP and CHM files, it’s probably not worth the
pain. I’ve heard good things about Robohelp to solve this problem, but
I’ve only barely used it myself…
Del Fredricks wrote:
That would work if we only wanted CHM files, but we need to also provide
legacy HLP support for NT as well (which if I understand correctly does not
HTML help and we have customers still using NT and not wishing to upgrade).
Thus, we are looking to evaluate which tool will provide the best cross
platform compilation of help files.“Ray Trent” wrote in message
> news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
>>Depends on how complicated a CHM project you want to create and how much
>>you’re willing to spend (and how much frustration you’re willing to put
>>up with).
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>>I do perfectly fine with Microsoft’s help compiler, and it’s free… but
>>your mileage may vary.
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>>Del Fredricks wrote:
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>>>What is the best tool for generating CHM files for applications and
>
> property
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>>>page help support?
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>>…/ray..
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:03, Ray Trent wrote:
Well, anyone using NT4 that also hasn’t upgraded their Internet Explorer
to 4.0+ (which is where CHM support is added) to fix all the security
holes has so many other problems that I’m not sure the loss of your help
file is going to hurt them that much more incrementally…But… point taken… While it’s technically possible to use the MS
tools to maintain both HLP and CHM files, it’s probably not worth the
pain. I’ve heard good things about Robohelp to solve this problem, but
I’ve only barely used it myself…
We use Robohelp and like it.
-sd