recreating help pages from a .chm file

[Dee_10]

Hello,
I have a situation where numerous help pages have been removed from a project. I think this happened when we had some problems witha network drive & checking files from this location into a source control tool. It has gone unnoticed until now. The .chm file is intact & I'm wondering if there is a way of recreating my project from the .chm file?

any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Maxine

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Maxine. You can decompile a CHM using the HTML Help Studio tool in RH. However this does not recreate the project files (e.g. TOC, .XPJ, etc.). You would have to create a new project, import in the necessary files and rebuild any build tags, TOC, etc.). It would be much quicker and easier to try and find the source for the CHM before going down this route.

[Dee_10]

Hi Colum,
thankyou for your reply. Its just missing htm files that I need to recreate - seems the files u mention r all still intact, so this might work for me. Anyway, I'll give it a go!
thanks again!

Maxine

[Peter Grainge]

There's a topic on my site about reverse engineering from a CHM to get a full RH project again.

[ozurovich]

Can you point me to your site?    I need to reverse engineer a CHM.

Thanks

[Peter Grainge]

Sorry, it's in my signature but that got missed from the post above.

http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/reverse_engineering/reverse_engineering.htm

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