Submitted by KeithB on 2019/04/27 21:38

Generate the CHM manual in 3 minutes

( 2019-10-06 updated to add renaming of folder, and different perl screen capture)

 

 This is both a memory-jogger for me and to show this is actually a simple process.

 Prerequisites:

dump2chm.pl script https://github.com/jibsen/dump2chm

Perl installed (I use Strawberry Perl)

HTML Help Workshop installed.

  1)     In chrome, pull up this the printer-friendly version of the manual with this link, and let it load completely:

https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/?q=book/export/html/2043

 2)     Save the file (Ctrl-S in Chrome), and change the filename to InfoQube.htm. Also rename the folder InfoQube User Manual_files to InfoQube_files

 

3)     Open a command line and run the following:

 

 4)     Open index.hhc in your text editor:

 5)  Make changes as highlighted, then save

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<
HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>
<
OBJECT type="text/site properties">
<
param name="FrameName" value="right">
</
OBJECT>
<UL>
<
LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap"><param name="Name" value="InfoQube User Manual"><param name="Local" value="index.html"><param name="ImageNumber" value="11"></OBJECT>

6)  Run HTML Help Workshop, and load index.hhp

 

 

7)  Then file>compile from the menu and click Compile:

 

 

 That's all there is to it!