I had to do something like that on a relatively small scale with HelpGui, which seems to be awfully close to the JavaHelp screenshots I was able to find. Anyway, what I did was author everything in ODF using OpenOffice.org. From there, I could export into PDF's as well as HTML (HelpGuid is HTML driven). Of course, at its core ODF is a collection of XML files, so, when it comes to doing more sophisticated formatting or creating your own tables of contents, you can do a lot of these things programmatically. I'm sure you could also find XML-to- PDF generators besides OO.o if need be, but I believe it shouldn't be too bad to invoke OO.o PDF export programmatically as well.
On Jun 4, 5:44 am, Frank Mathy <[email protected]> wrote: > We want to upgrade the help system of our Java Swing application from > a simple HTML based help to Javahelp. For that we're looking for a way > how to create both Javahelp files and a PDF manual out of one document > source. > > There are masses of tools available for creating help systems and I'm > a bit lost. We used Robohelp a while ago for a Windows based help > system, but I didn't like that too much. Ideally I'd like to author in > HTML or XML. Anyone can recommend tools or an approach which work > smoothly? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
