Make a decompiled CHM into a Robohelp 8 Project

[Dan_Amato]

Hello everyone,

I apologize for the novice level of my question, I've only started using Robohelp a few days ago.  My company wants me to update our software's help file (it was originally created in RH6, I believe).  Unfortunately the last person to work on it no longer works for us, and he apparently has all copies of the project files used to compile it originally.

I found how to decompile the CHM into its component files but when I decompiled it I didn't get a XPJ project file.  I'm unsure how to make this project "whole" again, is there any way to re-integrate this into a project (hopefully retaining the TOC, Indexes, images, links, etc.) or do I have to create a new project and import each file individually?

I searched these forums and Peter Grainge's site for a while but couldn't find an answer, I apologize if this has already come up and I missed it.  Any help or guidance you folks can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Dan Amato

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Did you catch the Reverse Engineering page on Peter's site?

Click here to view the gnireenignE esreveR topic on Peter's site

Cheers... Rick

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[Dan_Amato]

Aha!  I read it too quickly and completely missed the line about the hhp builder.  That was the missing piece, thanks a ton for the point in the right direction...and thanks for the great resource, Peter!