ober Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 So until my company puts our help information online (a few months), one facet of our product has an offline set of HTML files (starting with an index file and then a few levels of folders and other html files) that I'd like to package and send to our customers. I tried PDFing it, but it doesn't look great (doesn't carry over some of the styling). I tried putting it in a CHM format, but that removes all the styling. My last option is to either just zip up the whole thing and send it that way unless someone else here has a better idea. So... thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Ben, if you want to use pdf, check out the firefox extension PDFit. Pretty cool little extension. Unless of course that is the method you already tried, but I've used it for screenshots and it creates the jpgs perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I seem to remember that CHM has support for CSS... Even JavaScript... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Ben, if you want to use pdf, check out the firefox extension PDFit. Pretty cool little extension. Unless of course that is the method you already tried, but I've used it for screenshots and it creates the jpgs perfect. No, I created it using Adobe. Looking at that though, it looks like it doesn't traverse through the whole site, just the page you are on? I seem to remember that CHM has support for CSS... Even JavaScript... Maybe you can direct me to a better tool to build the CHM file then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I used to use the tool that Microsoft distributes. Can't recall a name... <goes to Wikipedia> I think it's this package http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670169(VS.85).aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Ben, if you want to use pdf, check out the firefox extension PDFit. Pretty cool little extension. Unless of course that is the method you already tried, but I've used it for screenshots and it creates the jpgs perfect. No, I created it using Adobe. Looking at that though, it looks like it doesn't traverse through the whole site, just the page you are on? I seem to remember that CHM has support for CSS... Even JavaScript... Maybe you can direct me to a better tool to build the CHM file then? I think you are correct, but how many pages do you have to create? You could create the pages individually and then combine them with acrobat. That could be time consuming though if there are many pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 @Mchl: I guess there is more to it then pointing an index or folder at this thing and generating the CHM, eh? It might be too much work to redo everything using this tool. @ Jeff, there are over 200 pages at this point and many of them span more than one "PDF page". That would kind of suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I was using it to translate chm's from one language to another. Never tried to create a CHM from scratch... As far as I remember it wasn't all that bad. Had some quirks (it's made in Redmont, duh), but once I undestood those, I could work pretty fast. Can't recall if I could add multiple source files at once... I think I could... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 I basically want something that will work like Adobe to just take the index file and recursively go down the tree and wrap it up into a nice little package with search and index functions. I'm guessing it doesn't exist without more work than that. Oh well, this will all be online in a better format soon anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 How are you distributing this? If it's on a CD, DVD or flash memory, you could use something like server2go which can launch your index page when the media is inserted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 Nope... my company has a hosted software product that has collaboration tools (workgroups, contacts, calendars, file manager, etc) so I'm just going to post it in a global workgroup that the people that need the information can get to. The thing that sucks is that we have a "website" portion to the collaboration tools, but it is broken and it's low on the priority list of things that will be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I think your best bet is to use a site-ripping software to download the site and archive it up and send it out that way. Given that you tried the pdf etc, that would be the next "best" thing. But you cannot do a search on this, like you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 Well I'm not really downloading it from anywhere. I have a bunch of HTML files on a network drive. All I need to do is put them in a zip file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Not sure if you can do an html to flash deal. Then store it all in a flash, but I think it would still have the same issues, unless you created an index file... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 Screw flash... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Screw flash... lol, figured I would mention it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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