https://github.com/jibsen/dump2chm

Convert dumped InfoQube online user manual to CHM compilable state
https://github.com/jibsen/dump2chm

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Convert dumped InfoQube online user manual to CHM compilable state

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jibsen/dump2chm
• Owner: jibsen
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-05-25T11:31:42.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-05-25T11:33:01.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-03T12:21:04.915Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 102 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        

InfoQube User Manual to CHM Conversion

======================================

[InfoQube][] is an information management system for Windows. The online

[user manual][IQmanual] is a community project.

Back in 2010, a number of users were working on creating an offline version.

As part of that effort, I wrote a Perl script that could be used to help

convert a saved version of the manual, so it could be compiled into

[HTML Help][CHM] (CHM) format.

A big thanks to the great people on the InfoQube community website who helped

make this possible (Pierre, KeithB, Armando, and others).

[InfoQube]: http://www.infoqube.biz/

[IQmanual]: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/48

[CHM]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

Detailed Instructions

---------------------

Make sure you have [Perl][] and the [HTML Help Workshop][hhw] installed.

 

Create a folder, and put the `dump2chm.pl` Perl script into it.

 

Open the printer friendly version of the top level page of the IQ User manual

in Internet Explorer or Chrome:

http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=book/export/html/2043

Wait until the entire page has loaded with all graphics.

In IE, choose File->Save As... and select "Webpage, complete", and "Unicode

(UTF-8)", and save to the folder you put the script in. In Chrome, choose

"Save page as...".

 

Open a command prompt, and run the script with the name of the saved HTML page

as argument:

`dump2chm InfoQube.htm`

This splits the saved HTML file into one file for each node of the manual,

and generates the project files required to compile the CHM.

 

Open `index.hhc` in your favorite text editor, and move the line near the top

that links to `node2043.html` down one line, and change `node2043.html` to

`index.html`, and `value="1"` to `value="11"`. In the current version, this

means changing:

```.html







```


into:

```.html









```


Now run the HTML Help compiler on the project file:

`hhc index.hhp`

And you should have a shiny new `InfoQube.chm`.

[Perl]: http://www.perl.org/

[hhw]: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14188

License

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This projected is licensed under the terms of the [MIT license](LICENSE).

Please note that this covers only the script, the contents of the generated

files are licensed under their original license.