Need help with installation

Kent Burel — Wed, 27 May 2020 20:59:33 -0000

I have downloaded and installed both chmprocessor and Microsoft HTML Help Workshop. I can't get it to work. I can't get it to convert my .docx file directly to a .chm. If I save my docx file to .html then chmprocessor will create a .chm file but the graphics are missing. When I ask chmprocessor to create a project file then I get a message that says"

The project C:\Users\Kent\Documents\Elections\Development\L&AChecklist Instructions-project\help.hhp cannot be opened. Do you have installed the Microsoft Help Workshop ?

The answer is yes. I do have it installed.

What are the necessary steps to convert a docx file with graphics to a chm file with graphice?

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

E. Smith — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:13:26 -0000

Tommy, can you hear me?

how can i know the id of the topic ?

E. Smith — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:06:16 -0000

Joe, I have a discussion thread that might interest you as it deals with making headings easier to link to by not auto-incrementing their names unnecessarily: https://sourceforge.net/p/chmprocessor/discussion/699221/thread/955adc38/

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

E. Smith — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:01:36 -0000

Is anybody out there?

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

E. Smith — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:26:33 -0000

In the Help project created by chmProcessor, every HTML file name has a unique integer suffix. I get that this is an easy way to avoid file name collisions. But this also makes it difficult to link to specific HTML files so that an application of mine can jump to a specific "chapter" (or whatever it is — represented by one HTML file in the Help project) of the ultimate CHM file.

Is this file name numbering done by chmProcessor, or is it something in a Microsoft function which it out of our control?

CHM file line spacing -- overlapping lines in CHM

E. Smith — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:29:43 -0000

Solved. Lines containing superscripted symbols were lower than the lines would usually be. Fixed by removing ^and tags from HTML help project's embeddedstyles.css file. Could surely have solved it by removing superscript from the input doc file too.

CHM file line spacing -- overlapping lines in CHM

E. Smith — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:48:16 -0000

I run chmProcessor to create CHM files from Word doc files. I wish to control the line spacing in the CHM because I have lines overlapping each other in some of my paragraph styles. This overlap is not present in the original doc files -- only in the CHM files.

Does anyone know how I can control this?

Help creating an HTML Footer File

E. Smith — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:13:52 -0000

Ah, I re-posted this today as I failed to find this thread. Is it still not possible to do this with CHMProcessor? Current version is 1.7.3. If not currently possible, is there any hope of this being possible in the future?

Thank you!

How to create navigation buttons as CHM file's HTML footer?

E. Smith — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:11:29 -0000

Could someone point me to how to create an HTML file to use as the "HTML Footer File" for Compiled Help (CHM)? I want to have Next, Previous and Up buttons (with images for each button) on each page of a CHM that I'm creating with CHMProcessor 1.7.3.

Thank you very much!

Question about jumping to specific page in '.chm' help

Chad Christensen — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:24:03 -0000

Hi,

I'm a Software Engineer for a company that writes their help documentation in Word with all kinds of graphics and such. I found and downloaded the 'ChmProcessor' tool and ran it. It seems totally awesome, but I'm unsure about something. Prior to this project, we used a very old tool called 'Doc-To-Help' that ran on an XP machine. As part of its '.chm' file generation, it put numerous references (internal links I think) near the top of the '.chm' file with a '.htm' extension. In other words, if there was a section in the file called 'Inventory Inquiry', it would have a link near the top of the '.chm' file that said 'InventoryInquiry.htm'. It would strip out the space between the two words. On most screens in our application, there's a 'Help' button that just shows the help for that page. The 'ChmProcessor' tool didn't put all those links near the top of the '.chm' file. Is there any way to do that so it can go right to the correct help page?

Thank you,

Chad

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Need help with installation

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

how can i know the id of the topic ?

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

Don't auto-increment HTML file names (e.g. "1 Intro.htm", "2 install.htm") in Help project unless there's an actual file name collision.

CHM file line spacing -- overlapping lines in CHM

CHM file line spacing -- overlapping lines in CHM

Help creating an HTML Footer File

How to create navigation buttons as CHM file's HTML footer?

Question about jumping to specific page in '.chm' help