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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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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.
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
.CHM is HtmlHelp in compiled form
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
Do you mean decompile?
no i need someone to convert from WinHelp (.HPJ, .RTF, etc) to HtmlHelp
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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
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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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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Christian, are you out there? Ohhhh Christian.....won't you come out and play... :)
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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:
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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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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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.
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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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
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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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.
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