On 23 Sep 1996 08:57:58 U
bverlind@access.be wrote

>Subject: porting Winhelp to pdf
>
>Recently I did an extensive WIndows help file for training purposes, including
>hypertext links, graphics, secondary windows and popups.

>A customer also wants to port it to other platforms for its personnel who don't
>have access to Windows, but are working on Unix platforms.
>One possible solution is to convert the contents of the file to .pdf files that
>may be read through Unix Adobe Acrobat readers. Obviously, the customer (and I)
>would be pleased if the conversion could take place with as little as possible
>effort and work.

>- - Has anyone had any experience in porting the Robohelp/Word source files to
>a pdf file and retain all of the interactivity? How much time this need? Can
>the conversion to some extent be done automatically?

I haven't done this directly; however, Blue Sky Software (RoboHelp) has two
products that may help: Help Decompiler (turns your HLP file into a Word
document; however, all the links are removed - this is for people who don't have
the source files.

The other product is Help2HTML, the new version of which reported supports
conversion of SHED graphics into image maps. This might be a way, if either 1)
the client would be happy with an HTML solution or 2) there is some tool that
will take HTML and turn it into PDF.

Hope this helps.

-Gary Swartzleonard
-Pixel Translations
-A Division of Cornerstone Imaging Inc.
-San Jose, CA