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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
