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

> 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).

> 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.


Regards
-- 
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina

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