Sandcastle - .HHP Import

[Guest]

I have been trialing RoboHelp for 25 days now and it has been working great. Everything so far has been working better that I expected. Only just recently I decided to try out Sandcastle. Sandcastle looks at the XML Comments of a project and generates a .hhp file (HTML Help Project)

Since a .hhp would generate a .chm (Compressed HTMLHelp Metafile) this would require a full download of the .chm file everytime it is updated. I would really like to change this into a WebHelp format so that I may publish the help online. The issue comes at the import into RoboHelp.

The HTML page displays correctly when used in the .chm as well as a stand alone page, but when i import this page into RoboHelp the display, controls, everythign is affected drastically. Here is a picture comparing the two files visually.

http://www.masteromok.com/omok-stuff/_TEMP_/robohelp/display.jpg

I wish to know if it is possible to import the .hhp without lossing the usability and feel of the help file. Is this just an issue because it is a trial version over the full version. I am looking to purchase this software, and if i could get this to work correctly that would make the process even speedier.

Here are sample files if you wish to test on your own.
( http://www.masteromok.com/omok-stuff/_TEMP_/robohelp/ )

http://www.masteromok.com/omok-stuff/_TEMP_/robohelp/test.hhp (html pages, icon, etc in root folder)

http://www.masteromok.com/omok-stuff/_TEMP_/robohelp/test.hhc (ToC)

http://www.masteromok.com/omok-stuff/_TEMP_/robohelp/test.chm (Show what it looks like compiled)

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the forum.

An HHP file can also be used to open a RoboHelp project so that you can generate whatever you want. Point RH at the HHP and generate webhelp.

If that has some issues, try another approach. Generate a CHM and reverse engineer that following the instructions on my site. That will give you an HHP but may different to the one created by Sandcastle.

[Guest]

That works alot better, it at least looks simular to the chm version now. Only problem is that it adds random junk characters around the page "ï, », ¿, Â, etc." There are a few style issues with font sizes but thats easy fix. Any idea on why these characters show up only in the WebHelp version? (I used RoboHelp to generate the chm version and it came out correctly)

[Peter Grainge]

Something to do with language settings but I pass on where. Sorry.

[Guest]

Wow, it works perfect now 😃

Thank you very much!