Re: OFF TOPICS: Printing windows help file

["E J Inggs" Inggsej@xxxxxxxx]

I had a Win 3.1 utility that printed windows help files to an ASCII file but it got nuked when our Computer Services installed my new PC few months ago.

Like Jordan I had it bookmarked somewhere but couldn't find it when the query got posted

The other day I was looking for something else and came across a reference to SMARTDOC which rang a
bell despite my old-timers loss of short-term memory and it turned out to be the missing utility in
Win95 format.

You can download it FREE from: http://www.smartcode.com/smartdoc/

Hopefully it is what you are looking for. There are various utilities that allow you to edit, compile and print help files such as HELP & MANUAL at http://www.ec-software.com but it carries a $200 price tag.

Regards
Jon Inggs

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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:17:44 -0800
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Subject: Re: OFF TOPICS: Printing windows help file
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ca wrote:

> I' m looking for a software (better if shareware)
> for managing & printing windows help files.
>
> Thanks for the help !

I know I had bookmarked something like this, shareware or a
commercial program with a demo version. It was supposed to offer
great versatility in controlling *any* printing from WIN, such as
demarcating just a selected portion of webpage(s) for sending to
the printer. It could shrink the printed section to a desired
size, or give you multiple small (but still identifiable) page
images on a single page. It handled HTML and most likely the WIN
Help files. (I rarely run Windows, but this sounded very
useful.) Now, in attempting to track down that bookmark, I find
the two most promising candidates are returning 404 "site not
found on this server" errors. That is a great annoyance of our
internet age: we have this previously unparalleled resource, but
companies routinely go out of business on us, or move with no
forwarding URL, or get acquired by faceless uncaring
conglomerates who promptly discontinue the products they have
just bought up. What can you do ?

Anyway, I will keep on looking, and let you know if something
turns up.


Jordan