CHM Help
Thanks for the feedback Linda. Actually, I found an answer on The Helpware Group's website, http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm. This is what they say: Why does my CHM window show the title "HTML Help " instead of my title? HTML Help is not a Unicode application, and there is a risk of showing garbage characters if the primary language ID of the CHM does not match the primary language ID of the systems LCID (for example a KOR help title displayed on a Japanese OS). The caveat here is when the help title is compiled as English. English help titles can display their titlebar string on all operating systems since all of the code pages support English. Unfortunately the check is too strict. Only the Primary Language ID should be checked, however HH also checks the Secondary Language ID causing say Portuguese (Brazil) help to display HTML Help on a Portuguese (Portugal) PC. In the case of English help, in the past all help had to be set to English (US). This bug was fixed in HH 1.31? and now English (Australian) help for example will display correctly on all systems. -Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lin...@techcomplus.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 2:41 AM To: Ben Warburton; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: CHM Help Ben, I've seen this, too. My understanding is that when you open the chm file on a French version of Windows, the title will appear correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Windows in other languages, so I've never been able to test it myself. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates Manager, STC Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ben Warburton Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:46 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: CHM Help Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: BWt at wilcom.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: CHM Help
Thanks for the feedback Linda. Actually, I found an answer on The Helpware Group's website, http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm. This is what they say: Why does my CHM window show the title "HTML Help " instead of my title? HTML Help is not a Unicode application, and there is a risk of showing garbage characters if the primary language ID of the CHM does not match the primary language ID of the systems LCID (for example a KOR help title displayed on a Japanese OS). The caveat here is when the help title is compiled as English. English help titles can display their titlebar string on all operating systems since all of the code pages support English. Unfortunately the check is too strict. Only the Primary Language ID should be checked, however HH also checks the Secondary Language ID causing say Portuguese (Brazil) help to display HTML Help on a Portuguese (Portugal) PC. In the case of English help, in the past all help had to be set to English (US). This bug was fixed in HH 1.31? and now English (Australian) help for example will display correctly on all systems. -Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 2:41 AM To: Ben Warburton; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: CHM Help Ben, I've seen this, too. My understanding is that when you open the chm file on a French version of Windows, the title will appear correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Windows in other languages, so I've never been able to test it myself. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates Manager, STC Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Warburton Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:46 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: CHM Help Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus .com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
CHM Help
Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: BWt at wilcom.com.au
CHM Help
Ben, I've seen this, too. My understanding is that when you open the chm file on a French version of Windows, the title will appear correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Windows in other languages, so I've never been able to test it myself. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates Manager, STC Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ben Warburton Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:46 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: CHM Help Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: BWt at wilcom.com.au ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: CHM Help
Ben, I've seen this, too. My understanding is that when you open the chm file on a French version of Windows, the title will appear correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Windows in other languages, so I've never been able to test it myself. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates Manager, STC Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Warburton Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:46 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: CHM Help Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
CHM Help
Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Just a word of caution about the WebWorks Import Utility: While I agree that it is generally a very nice tool, it does not handle tables well at all. So, if you have tables, pay special attention to how they get imported into Frame. However, Rick Quatro (on this list) has an excellent Table Cleaner plug-in for Frame that will save you lots of time cleaning up and formatting tables. I've been looking for a long time for a tool that will convert from HTML (in various flavors) to Frame. The WW Import Utility is the only one I've found. If there are others, I would like to know about them as well. Chuck Beck -Original Message- Subject: RE: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2 Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics came in and links were good, but links had to be redone after setting up the individual chapter files. Disclaimer: I'm a WWP reseller. There may be other decompilers, but I suspect they won't put the content directly into an FM doc. Please contact me offlist if you want more information.
RE: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Just a word of caution about the WebWorks Import Utility: While I agree that it is generally a very nice tool, it does not handle tables well at all. So, if you have tables, pay special attention to how they get imported into Frame. However, Rick Quatro (on this list) has an excellent Table Cleaner plug-in for Frame that will save you lots of time cleaning up and formatting tables. I've been looking for a long time for a tool that will convert from HTML (in various flavors) to Frame. The WW Import Utility is the only one I've found. If there are others, I would like to know about them as well. Chuck Beck -Original Message- Subject: RE: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2 Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics came in and links were good, but links had to be redone after setting up the individual chapter files. Disclaimer: I'm a WWP reseller. There may be other decompilers, but I suspect they won't put the content directly into an FM doc. Please contact me offlist if you want more information. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics came in and links were good, but links had to be redone after setting up the individual chapter files. Disclaimer: I'm a WWP reseller. There may be other decompilers, but I suspect they won't put the content directly into an FM doc. Please contact me offlist if you want more information. ~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions lindag at techcomplus.com http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Jon Harvey Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:40 AM To: framers at FrameUsers.com Subject: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2 Hi all, A predecessor created a chm file from a FrameMaker document via WebWorks Publisher. Due to powers beyond my control, we no longer have the source files and I have been given the task to put the chm file back into FrameMaker. I've been through the WWP online help to no avail. Is there a way to go from a CHM file to FM? FM 7.2, WWP 9.0 Thanks.Jon ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Hi all, A predecessor created a chm file from a FrameMaker document via WebWorks Publisher. Due to powers beyond my control, we no longer have the source files and I have been given the task to put the chm file back into FrameMaker. I've been through the WWP online help to no avail. Is there a way to go from a CHM file to FM? FM 7.2, WWP 9.0 Thanks.Jon
RE: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics came in and links were good, but links had to be redone after setting up the individual chapter files. Disclaimer: I'm a WWP reseller. There may be other decompilers, but I suspect they won't put the content directly into an FM doc. Please contact me offlist if you want more information. ~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Harvey Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:40 AM To: framers@FrameUsers.com Subject: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2 Hi all, A predecessor created a chm file from a FrameMaker document via WebWorks Publisher. Due to powers beyond my control, we no longer have the source files and I have been given the task to put the chm file back into FrameMaker. I've been through the WWP online help to no avail. Is there a way to go from a CHM file to FM? FM 7.2, WWP 9.0 Thanks.Jon ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2
Hi all, A predecessor created a chm file from a FrameMaker document via WebWorks Publisher. Due to powers beyond my control, we no longer have the source files and I have been given the task to put the chm file back into FrameMaker. I've been through the WWP online help to no avail. Is there a way to go from a CHM file to FM? FM 7.2, WWP 9.0 Thanks.Jon ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
