Tag Archives: CHM

Spaces in HTML Help Project Paths

Like so many other applications, Microsoft’s HTML Help Workshop often chokes on project files whose paths contain spaces. If you double-click a HTML Help Project File (HHP) in a location whose path contains spaces, the HTML Help Workshop throws an error when you click the Compile button and refuses to compile the CHM file. Cannot [...]

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CHM Viewers for Mac OS

A quick search for Mac CHM viewers yields a handful of open source & shareware apps which provide Mac users access to Windows help files in the Compiled HTML Help (CHM) format. A few older shareware apps such as Chimp and CHM Viewer are only available in PowerPC versions and apparently no longer actively developed. [...]

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Error opening CHMs on a network

One issue that is frequently encountered in online Help development is a Microsoft security “fix” that prevents display of content in CHM files opened from a network. Typically, the CHM file itself is opened and the table of contents is visible, but the content pane on the right remains empty. On corporate networks, users can [...]

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