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How to import CHM/Help2 stuff into Doc2Help project?

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EvilShrike Posted: Tue, Mar 31 2009 6:45 PM

 Hello.

I have got a help project in some other verdor's format. I can create chm & help2 from it. How can I import content into my Doc2Help project?

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Hello,

 

With reference to your query, I would request you to kindly provide me the following information:

 

  1. Are you looking forward to convert the entire project to Doc-To-Help or you just wanted to import some of content of the CHM file to Doc-To-Help project?
  2. Do you have the entire project with you or the just the CHM file created with some other tool?
  3. Also, I would like to know that whether the CHM and Help 2.0 is the same project you want to import to Doc-To-Help or two different projects?

 

I hope to hear from you real soon.

 

Have a nice day.

 

Best Regards,

Andrew Miller.

<EvilShrike> wrote in message news:216058@10.0.1.98...

 Hello.

I have got a help project in some other verdor's format. I can create chm & help2 from it. How can I import content into my Doc2Help project?



http://helpcentral.componentone.com/cs/forums/p/78722/216058.aspx#216058

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Here's detail.

My project consists of two parts: conceptual doc and reference documentation. The tool I'm using support temporary disabling any project's part (i.e any topic) for help generation. So, I can create a CHM which needed to be imported into Doc-To-Help project entirely.

Chm and Help2 are just two kinds of different outputs of the project.


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Hello,

 

Thank you very much for providing the valuable information.

 

With reference to the provided information, I would like to inform you that using the Modular Hub System you may link or merge the generated CHM files into a Modular Help project called hub project.

 

Please know that a Modular Help system allows the user to have a collection of several different Help files which appears to the end user as a single Help system.

 

But please make sure that the tool which you are using to generate the CHM file is also generating the .HHC file as well. The reason being is that to import an existing CHM file into an existing Doc-To-Help project, Doc-To-Help requires the corresponding contents (.HHC) file.

 

To know more about Modular Help System, please refer the link mentioned below:

 

http://helpcentral.componentone.com/nethelp/d2h/WordDocuments/creatingamodularhelpsystem.htm

 

Incase the tool which you are using is not generating the contents file (.HHC) file then I would suggest you to kindly decompile the CHM file to HTML Help project using any third party tool. Then you may convert the decompile HTML Help project to Doc-To-Help with the help of Doc-To-Help convert utility. Once the project is successfully converted then you may add your existing source document to the Doc-To-Help project and can modify it as per the requirements. To know more about the Doc-To-Help conversion utility please refer the following link:

 

http://helpcentral.componentone.com/nethelp/d2h/WordDocuments/convertinghtmlhelpnotes.htm

 

I hope this would be helpful.

 

Warm Regards,

Andrew Miller.

<EvilShrike> wrote in message news:216070@10.0.1.98...

Here's detail.

My project consists of two parts: conceptual doc and reference documentation. The tool I'm using support temporary disabling any project's part (i.e any topic) for help generation. So, I can create a CHM which needed to be imported into Doc-To-Help project entirely.

Chm and Help2 are just two kinds of different outputs of the project.




http://helpcentral.componentone.com/cs/forums/p/78722/216070.aspx#216070

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Andrew, thanks for detailed answer!

I've found chm convert tool. It produces nice new Doc-To-Help project. Great.

Now I have two Doc-To-Help projects: one after converting CHM-project (yes, my tool creates .hhp/.hhc files) and another - my main project with word files. Sure I can add word files into the first one and create TOC again. But it'd be cool to import a doc2help project into another one as a subtree of topics.

 

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