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  • C Chris Losinger

    anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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    Sebastien Lachance
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    eheh, wait and see. ;P

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    • C Chris Losinger

      anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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      Jim Crafton
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      Christian, are you out there? Ohhhh Christian.....won't you come out and play... :)

      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Techno Silliness

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      • C Chris Losinger

        anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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        Joe Woodbury
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        I'll do it for $999

        Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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        • C Chris Losinger

          anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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          Joe Woodbury
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          I'm actually a little confused; .CHM is HtmlHelp in compiled form. Do you mean decompile? Or is there another format of which I'm not aware.

          Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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          • C Chris Losinger

            anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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            toxcct
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            translate from what to what ?


            You don't know where to start ? ask a good friend

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              translate from what to what ?


              You don't know where to start ? ask a good friend

              [VisualCalc 3.0][Flags Beginner's Guide]

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              Chris Losinger
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              WinHelp to HtmlHelp

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                I'm actually a little confused; .CHM is HtmlHelp in compiled form. Do you mean decompile? Or is there another format of which I'm not aware.

                Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                Chris Losinger
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                Joe Woodbury wrote:

                .CHM is HtmlHelp in compiled form

                fixed

                Joe Woodbury wrote:

                Do you mean decompile?

                no i need someone to convert from WinHelp (.HPJ, .RTF, etc) to HtmlHelp

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                • C Chris Losinger

                  anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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                  Chris Losinger wrote:

                  i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp

                  Have you tried some of the other converters out ther? http://www.easyhelpweb.com/rtf-hlp-htmlhelp-chm.htm[^] or http://www.help-info.de/en/Help_Info_WinHelp/hw_converting.htm[^] Wasn't there an application from MSDN Mag some time ago that did the same? :~ Use the HTML workshop X| to convert it Converting Existing Help Projects[^]


                  I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                  • C Chris Losinger

                    anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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                    You just have to look out for #1, don't take the cheapest bid because it's someone doing development on a shared computer in a coffee shop 2hrs a day. Go with a respected outfit, and you will be OK.

                    -- amclint

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                    • J Jim Crafton

                      Christian, are you out there? Ohhhh Christian.....won't you come out and play... :)

                      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Techno Silliness

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                      Jim Crafton wrote:

                      SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned

                      I have this shirt from thinkgeek.com, people never get it but they always ask ;)

                      -- amclint

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                      • S S Douglas

                        Chris Losinger wrote:

                        i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp

                        Have you tried some of the other converters out ther? http://www.easyhelpweb.com/rtf-hlp-htmlhelp-chm.htm[^] or http://www.help-info.de/en/Help_Info_WinHelp/hw_converting.htm[^] Wasn't there an application from MSDN Mag some time ago that did the same? :~ Use the HTML workshop X| to convert it Converting Existing Help Projects[^]


                        I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                        Chris Losinger
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                        S Douglas wrote:

                        Have you tried some of the other converters out ther?

                        i tried some about a year ago (same project - keeps getting put off). i never found one that would do more than 50% of the job (lost links, broken formatting, etc). if i have to go through and double-check and fix everything the converter did, i might as well do it by hand and get it right the first time... or pay someone to do it.

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                        • C Chris Losinger

                          anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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                          Bassam Abdul Baki
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                          Helpmaker[^] is free. Try using CHM instead of HLP in a VC6.0 application. Wasn't easy at all. X|


                          "Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weasling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel." - Homer Simpson Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                          • C Chris Losinger

                            S Douglas wrote:

                            Have you tried some of the other converters out ther?

                            i tried some about a year ago (same project - keeps getting put off). i never found one that would do more than 50% of the job (lost links, broken formatting, etc). if i have to go through and double-check and fix everything the converter did, i might as well do it by hand and get it right the first time... or pay someone to do it.

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                            S Douglas
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                            Ah, that's good to know. The one and only time I had to convert a winhelp system to HTML help the winhelp solution was pretty small and easily converted. I would rather work with HTML help anyway...


                            I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                            • C Chris Losinger

                              anyone have an opinion about RentACoder or any of the other contracting sites ? i need someone to translate a help file from a .CHM WinHelp project to HtmlHelp and don't have the energy to do it myself, and don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp. (fnckyouVista) -- modified at 11:52 Tuesday 7th November, 2006

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                              Raj Lal
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                              Chris Losinger wrote:

                              don't want to spend $1000 for RoboHelp

                              why don't you use HTML help workshop it comes free here[^]

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                              • A amclint

                                You just have to look out for #1, don't take the cheapest bid because it's someone doing development on a shared computer in a coffee shop 2hrs a day. Go with a respected outfit, and you will be OK.

                                -- amclint

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                                Steve S
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                                But what is a respected outfit? Personally, I think RAC is a waste of bandwith for VC++ (or indeed, non-Web-centric) oriented developers. I mainly do 'conventional' contracting (ie turning up and sitting at a desk for x hours/week at y/hour (and if y is sufficiently large, and x is sufficiently practical, it's not that bad), but I'd also like to be able to find ad-hoc one-off jobs. Never found anything remotely suitable on RAC, and ISTR that some other denizen of these parts got ripped off doing work through them.

                                Steve S Developer for hire

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