Well for the moment, I have discarded the idea of migrating
to Sandcastle - now I'm looking at going the other way. Sandcastle
can output a CHM and I know I can import CHM
topics through the HTML Help Studio (X5 utility), but what I
would like to do is extract and imbed the
whole thing in my HTML project so that the external CHM
becomes just another "book" in my TOC with the same chapters and
sub-topics as the original CHM.
As I understand the methods on your page, they create new RH
projects. That would leave me with two RH projects, the Base and
the CHM-Decompile. I've seen some things about merging projects
(but have never done it), would that be the next step here in order
the make the CHM-Decompile look like a seamless part of the Base
project?
Thx again,
Keith
PS - Thanks also for your previous thoughts on migrating to
Sandcastle - they had an impact.
The most straightforward solution would be to configure your
Base .chm file so that the Sandcastle-generated .chm merges
seamlessly into it at run time. That's to say, in the table of
contents (TOC) for the Base .chm file, you'd add a link to the TOC
in the Sandcastle .chm file. And you'd also need to modify the
project settings for the Base .chm file so that the index and
full-text search information for the Sandcastle .chm file are
merged into it.
Although neither is RoboHelp-specific, the following articles
give a good overview of the procedures involved:
1] Import the topics now that you can get at them. You cannot
import a TOC or Index but if you examine those files in Notepad,
you could probably get the content merged via the backdoor.
2] Used merged help but note my method is about merged
webhelp, not merged CHM help.
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