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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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WebWorks TopicAlias Marker Changes

One of the nice things about single sourcing with WebWorks and FrameMaker is that you can embed context information in your FrameMaker source files using custom markers, which WebWorks processes when creating context-sensitive help formats such as Microsoft HTML Help. However, if you’re considering upgrading from an earlier version of WebWorks Publisher to the latest [...]

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