Re: Reformat PDF for online info./don't replace WinHelp!

["Mark X. Dempsey" <mxd2 -at- OSI -dot- COM>]

Why to avoid Bristol Hyper-Help:

1. It crashes when it encounters *.xwd (UNIX *.bmp's) files. Since one
of Bristol's selling points is that it takes FrameMaker files, and *.xwd
is Frame's native UNIX screenshot format....(You may not want graphics
in your help system, then, no problem.)

2. It supports an older hlp format, not the one I tried using ForeHelp
3.0

3. It costs a bomb ($20K! I'm told)

4. Webworks makes a perfectly acceptable cross-platform/cross-browser
HTML-based help system from Frame files (see
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1059/helpfrm.html). Webworks
translates all graphics to gifs & jpgs without a peep, so if you ever
want them, you can have them.

5. Bristol still hasn't responded to my request for a refund because of
#1.

Mike Hiatt wrote:
>
> Mark Dempsey wrote:
>
> >WinHelp, HTML help are *not cross-platform, either. It's probably better
> >to use them for PC-only apps, but I'd say avoid, e.g., Bristol Hyper
> >Help that promises UNIX-based winhelp.
> >
> >>
> Why would you avoid , e.g., Bristol Hyper Help? Is it because the conversion
> didn't work or because there were troubles integrating it with the
> application. I never got the integrating with the application stage, but I
> did convert a help file created in Windows 95 using ForeHelp. Once I made
> sure there were no DOS path names involved HyperHelp compiled the help file
> just fine and it worked just like the Windows version.
>
> Michel G. Hiatt
> Manager, Technical Publications
> VocalData, Inc.
> mhiatt -at- vocaldata -dot- com
>
>
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