Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hello Jan,
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, 10:11, Jan Holst Jensen wrote:
Hi list.
I have developed a Calc extension which I am about to release. The
documentation for the extension is provided as PDF which Writer produces
easily and with a nice result.
However, in case the end-user doesn't have a PDF reader I would like to
provide the documentation as a Windows Help file too.
and what if the user does not have a PDF reader NOR a CHM reader (on a Linux
installation you won't find one by default)?
Didn't you try OOo Help? this will be cross-platform and of course integrated
into OOo.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions/Help_Content
Yep, but that doesn't help the Excel users (I did not mention that the
extension is also available as an MS Excel add-in) ;-). A PDF reader is
installed on all the Linux desktops I have seen but not on all Windows
desktops which makes a WinHelp file a good fallback strategy for those.
I have tried
saving my document as HTML and also exporting it as XHTML with terrible
.CHM files as a result (using the Microsoft Help compilers to produce
HtmlHelp .CHM format). Saving as .RTF and using MS's WinHelp compiler
also produces a next-to-unreadable result.
What do you guys do if you need to produce Windows Help files ?
isn't this a question for a CHM-help mailing list? All Writer does is HTML
export (you already tried Writer > HTML > CHM compiler, so I can't think of
another way).
Guess so. Just thought that someone here would have hit the same problem.
Does a
PDF-to-Help-file converter exist (as a last resort) ?
I've seen html to chm, chm to html, chm to pdf, but pdf to chm not. You should
Google "PDF to CHM" and see if there is something useful.
Tried that before I posted - no real luck.
Cheers
-- Jan
