I am assigning new .CHM files to existing merged projects. You may recognize this dialog:
When I go to assign a (in my case) an existing merged project a new .CHM file, I am presented with this dialog. However, I do not want the .CHM file to be copied in, I want it to reference a .CHM file. This is because I am working on a help project that compiles many other help projects that get changed separately from time to time. This leaves the compilation project out of date if the .CHM files are simply copied in; they're just older copies.
Is there a way to have a merged project point to a .CHM file rather than copy it in so that it reflects outside changes made to the .CHM file?
Thanks!
Someone was very helpful on Adobe forums and posted a video about my question. The short answer is that, as far as I can tell, RH cannot "reference" a file. If you want child projects .CHM files to appear in a master project, you must either copy the files manually, or output from the child project build separately to each directory you would like to have an updated .CHM in.
Here's the vid:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q774WbvYd-c&feature=youtu.be][1]
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I'm working on a script that should be able to add additional information to a .chm file.
After decompiling it with hh.exe -decompile outputFolder fileName.chm command, I get the html files, and other 2 files with .hhc and .hhk extension.
After editing the html files, I'd like to recompile the files into a single .chm file. I read that that I also need a .hhp file in order to do that, but that's not generated in the decompilation process.
How can I solve this?
This is a problem of Compiled Help Modules (CHM). And yes - you need a *.hhp for compiling again by HTMLHelp Workshop or e.g. FAR HTML.
You know, you can use 7Zip or just open a command prompt window on a Windows PC and type the following:
hh.exe -decompile <target_directory> <path>\<filename>.chm
The only decompiler with any additional features is KeyTools as this can try to rebuild the project (.hhp) file. You'll need this file if you want to recompile the help project.
One thing to note is that the decompile/recompile process isn't a "round-trip" process. Certain features that the help author added to the original help file can't be recovered when you decompile it, so these may no longer work properly after you've recompiled.
This is especially true in the area of context-sensitive help, which may be broken in the new version of the file.
It can be useful, to include the .hhp file itself - after regenerating is done - into the section [FILES] of the project file (.HHP). Thus, this is included in the Compiled Help Module (CHM) when compiling. The appropriate *.HHP file then is decompiled in addition to the other files for future use.
I first met html-minifier today after running a small site I've created using Hugo through Google PageSpeed.
First thing I noticed is that although it does have recursion capabilities it stops working on unsupported files like images (my speakers started beeping and I freaked a little)
I've found this stack showing an apparently undocumented command-line option --file-ext
That worked perfectly but in the output directory, I noticed that the folders with the unmatching contents were gone.
From the directory root, I saw it was Hugo's folders for CSS, JS, images and Github Pages' CNAME file. Not only I can't tell for sure there's not even one piece of static file in any of the folders Hugo generated (you may know that Hugo is sometimes unpredictable) but also I would like to keep language specific XML Sitemaps I've created for some specific folders.
Long story short, is there a way to copy-over unmatching files "as is", keeping input directory ready for a commit/push?
After analyzing the whole directory structure I could be sure that within all the directory structure Hugo creates there are nothing more than HTML and XML files so then the Ockham's Razor took place.
Since both my Hugo's source code and output contents are in totally different directories, it was a simple matter of pointing the output directory to the same path of the input directory.
All HTML files are minified, overwriting those Hugo generated.
I have a directory containing multiple html files. Need to create chm file using all the html files of the directory.
I am trying to create chm file using chmprocessor.
(downloaded from- http://sourceforge.net/projects/chmprocessor/files/)
I have referred http://chmprocessor.sourceforge.net/ and tried following:
I selected html file using "Add file" under Source Files tab. And selected the directory using "Add directory" under additional files tab. But it didn't worked.
Could any one please suggest the steps to create chm file using the directory containing html files?
I have also tried using HTML Help Workshop, but this tool does not provide the capability to directly create chm file by selecting the directory containing html files.
This is really annoying - after installing chmProcessor I have given the tool a longer try and the chmProcessor for (good structered) Word files (*.doc) is really working good.
But testing for HTML with the one selected HTML at 'Source files' makes me crazy as a former Microsoft Help MVP. Only linked files are included in the CHM I added with "Add Directory".
I put a 'Change Request' for more documentation about 'Source files' to SourceForge where you may download my test sample and some snaps of things I tried:
http://sourceforge.net/p/chmprocessor/bugs/29/
HTMLHelp Workshop has a learn curve and creating Table of Contents (TOC) needs a fairly long time.
So, one more thought: You may have your HTML files in a web structure with sub-directories. A tool I have experience with is FAR HTML. Using the Help Wizard makes a CHM in some minutes. These is shown in a Video I uploaded for you. Give it a try - it's free with full working functions for some weeks.
http://www.help-info.de/files_share/VideoCreateChmHelpFilesWithFAR-HTML.mp4
I have an A.chm file for my windows application which runs as expected.
When I decompile it using HTML workshop I get set of html files, .hhc file, .hhk file. When I compile another file B.chm from these extracted files without changing any of the files.((I want to add more html contents to this file but looks like I am losing some information after decompiling)) The output file I get is 72K where as the original file was 75K. B.chm's contents look all file when viewed in the chm viewer but the behavior is lost when when used with the application.
After reading around I found that if .hhp can be extracted from a .chm file then it can be re-constructed as it is without losing any mapping or aliases. Is that true?
How can I extract .hhp file from a .chm file?
Thanks,
Sam
No, Yes , and no.
The original hhp can't be guaranteed extracted
however since chm is an archive type, the project could have added all project files to the archive. I assume you already would have found them if that were the case.
If the decompile process does its administration, it can regenerate the .hhp to a certain degree.
Comments and #define names will probably be lost though, maybe more, but that should not result in problems when recompiling.
But of course it could be that the decompiler is limited. You could try some other (search for something from "keytools").
If not, then take "chmlib" and start drilling down into the format.
I have a set of files used to make up a .CHM help file using Help Workshop. I've added a new topic in a separate file in the html sub-directory with a link in one of the other files. Help Workshop makes a .CHM file including the new file BUT the file is NOT listed under [FILES] under the project tab nor is it listed in the CONTENTS section when I run the .CHM file.
When I click on the ADD/REMOVE TOPIC FILES button under the project tab, my new .HTM file is not among those listed.
How do I get Help Workshop to list the new files?
I figured out what my problem was; it was one of expectations. I found I had to press the add file in the project tab, then press the add button before I could see the file. Seems pretty weird to me. Guess there's a distinction made between file already in the project and those not in. The initial add file dialog only includes those already in the project.