Hi Frank I had pretty much the same requirement. Write the help document in XML and create fully functional JavaHelp, PDF or HTML from there. At first it seemed like there is no out of the box solution for that one. But I finally found something called the 'Docbook Publishing System' (DobuDish, formerly known as Dopus). DobuDish is a set of jar xslt and ant files, everything is in the right place and just works. It was hard to find and I don't know how well maintained the project is. But I did the trick for me...
http://cms.agynamix.de/agynamix-dopus.html http://helpdesk.agynamix.de/index.php?pg=forums.topics&id=1 http://cms.agynamix.de/downloads/doc_download-8.html So I started with DobuDish running standalone, and then moved it piece by piece into our ant build chain. So by now the JavaHelp and PDF files get create automatically with every full build :-) I have yet to find a good WYSIWIG editor for docbook files. The best I found so far is XMLmind which is good, but not perfect... Hope that helps! Adrian On 4 Jun., 11:44, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
