Importing CHM files

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February 24, 2008
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I inherited a user manual, originally in the form of a monolithic MS Word document from which PDFs could be created in any number of ways - and an outsourced RH *.chm help file.

We have moved to the Tech Comm Suite (patched.to latest level).

I have successfully converted the manual to a FM book, the PDF's are fine and I can even generate an RH file - of sorts.

To get the RH formating to be as before I tried to open/import/... the old CHM file - without success, despite the existence of instructions how to do it in the RH Help - do a search on "Decompile". The so-called HTML studio doesn't exist in the TCS version of RH.

(There are third party decompilers, but they are less than satisfactory since there is no obvious way to use their output with RH.)

What now?

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Correct answer Peter Grainge

BTW. HTML Studio is still there. Go to View | Pods and select Toolbox.

Peter Grainge

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Thanks. Using Keyworks is covered in the topic on reverse engineering.

You might find it useful to turn off the online help and use the local version. It works better.

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Captiv8r

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Hi all

As my friend and colleague Peter stated, the offline help works better. So why my post? It's to advise that you may need to close and restart RoboHelp in order to see a change in the help you get from RoboHelp. At least, on my PC I have to. Maybe others will be different. But I thought I'd mention it in case you decide to try it and didn't see anything change.

Cheers... Rick

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Daniel_F2Author

Inspiring

Thanks.

1. I found the HTML Studio. Adobe needs to update the RH 7 help file.
2. RH version - TCS standard offering, 7.01

By the way, I did a bit more poking around this morning and came up with this: http://www.keyworks.net/. It supplies a decompiler including an hhp file that worked for me.

Cheers,

DAF

Peter Grainge

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BTW. HTML Studio is still there. Go to View | Pods and select Toolbox.

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Peter Grainge

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Welcome to the forum.

There's a topic on my site about reverse engineering a CHM.

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