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This may seem like an odd request, but I'd like to know a way to convert a .chm file to .hlp. Is that at all possible? If so, is there any method I can follow or software I can use to achieve that?
I'm not sure if there are automatic converters for this.
There are CHM decompiler tools, should not be hard to find. This will give you a bunch of HTML files and perhaps some topic/index files. Even the official Microsoft HTML help workshop can help you with this.
To create a .hlp you need to (manually?) convert the HTML files to .rtf if you want to use the official Microsoft compiler. You can probably find it in older SDKs or here or there.
You have to ask yourself, is there any point in doing this? The .hlp format is no longer supported and Windows has not included a viewer for a long time.
If the help file belongs to an application instead of a generic manual or book then there are other things you need to deal with, a different API in the application and you need to port over all topics so they retain their correct id etc. If the HTML included Javascript then you might have a hard time porting those features.
If you are looking for a generic tool, Halibut can generate HLP, CHM and PDF from the same source files. Requires its own input format though.
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I am looking for a open source tool that can be used to generate ER diagram. Currently, this is done using SchemaSpy. Maven scripts are invoked during jenkins build to generate these data model diagrams. I have tried POCs using SchemaCrawler as well. However, the results are not much satisfactory. Would appreciate if I can get pointers to alternative tools that can be used along with the same setup (maven and jenkins).
If you would like to find out good alternatives to SchemaSpy try to use and test this tools:
SchemaCrawler
Red-Gate SQL Doc (not FOSS)
Dataedo (not FOSS)
SchemaSpy 6.0
Each of them has different advantages and disadvantages SchemaCawler is also open source java based and free. SchemaSpy 6.0 this is new version of SchemaSpy that has better look and feel plus fix some major issue.
Dataedo is very interesting tool that has also possibility to generate documentation to pdf, html. With Dataedo you can write comments of tables and columns and after apply them on your database. As I remember on supplier page you can find also free version.
The last solution that I want to recommend is Red-Gate SQL Doc. This is also generate nice looking documentation and has many options. But as usually this solution is not free you need pay to use it.
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Is there a docset for Boost? I'ld like to add it to Dash for offline documentation search, and can't find one anywhere. All attempts of my own to build it have failed, rather spectacularly.
Not that I've found; they don't even offer a complete set of offline docs, let alone a Dash docset. (Alas, the PDFs that Marchall Clow mentions are only a small subset.)
I've been toying with the idea of creating one, but like you I gave up in frustration. If you want to collaborate, drop me a line!
As I understand it, you'd need to:
Create an offline mirror of the entire set of Boost docs. This is easy enough, something like the following should work:
wget --mirror -p --no-parent --convert-links -P ./boost_docs \
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/libraries.htm
Index the docs. (This is the hard part.) Scrape the HTML and try and pull out interesting semantic elements: classes, functions, types and so on, and create an index.
Many of the components of Boost seem to use a consistent documentation format, but what complicates things is that many other components have their own, idiosyncratic approach, and their HTML markup is not all semantic. (boost::filesystem's docs appear to have been created using Microsoft Frontpage. I wish I was joking.)
I noticed today that Dash has updated with a Boost Docset, based on Doxygen. Not sure how they got it, but it seems to have everything in there.
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I need to generate gift vouchers from PHP code and was looking at PDF libraries to accomplish this. Stumbled upon LiveDocx http://www.livedocx.com/ which looks like an excellent service and then found http://www.phplivedocx.org/ which looks like the natural choice for PHP. Problem is I'm using Zend Framework 1.6 still. Is there a way to get phplivedocx to work with Zend 1.6 or is there another template based php generation library that I can use?
Any other suggestions on accomplishing my original goal of generating vouchers is welcome although I must say that I've gone the programmatic approach before using TCPDF. It works well but is just too much work to get nice pdf design.
I ended up generating an HTML file and converting it with the wkhtmltopdf (Webkit HTML to Pdf) tool: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
If using a WYSIWYG editor to generate the HTML then I guess one is almost at the kind of functionality that livedocx brings i.e. to allow templates to be created with an editor.
The zend framework is loosely coupled. You should try downloaded the latest copy and placing the Zend_Service_LiveDocX folder in your Zend library in the Zend_Services folder and if you have autoloading enabled, your application should be able to find it and use it... it's worth a try and certainly a better idea than sourcing another third party application. I too have used all the various pdf libraries out there for php and you know what, I hated every one of them.
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After seeing a friend using RapidWeaver and producing wonderful results in a few clicks, I was astonished and started searching if a tool like that exists for Windows. Unfortunately, so far my search yielded no result, so I'm writing here the criteria I'm using hoping that anybody will come up with a relevant suggestion:
WYSIWYG HTML editor
Must work (well!) on Windows (Vista/7)
Must not be web based (I don't care about webapps allowing me to create sites off of crappy templates)
Template-based (and possibly with many templates available)
Pretty flexible (nothing like Dreamweaver, but I wouldn't like being stuck with just entering text into some prebuilt templates)
Intuitive (and possibly good looking) UI
Producing standards-compliant markup (office-like HTML is not an option)
Here is what I don't care about:
Price/License (if it's commercial it's probably even better for my purpose, as if the tool is good I will want fast, quality support)
Good code editing features (when I'll get my hands dirty with the markup I want things to be looking already pretty good so I'll just have to improve certain areas based on my requirements...)
Server-side scripting (I'm handling that otherwise, for this tool I just care about the design part)
Here's a list of commonly recommended tools I consider unfit for my needs:
NVU
KompoZer
Microsoft Expression Web
Microsoft Visual Web Designer
Adobe Dreamweaver (good, but too good for my needs. At this stage, I'd prefer something quicker, even if it means having lower quality html)
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Probably too late, and not sure if this helps you anyway:
http://www.artisteer.com
http://www.xara.com/eu/products/webdesigner/
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I am looking for a web based text editor that supports collaboration with 2 or more people.
I am hoping to work on a fairly 'small' project with a couple other people from afar and would really like for us to be able to work on the same file at the same time and see the changes each other make in 'real time'.
Language built on is not much of an issue, would prefer to have syntax highlighting, but not really required.
EtherPad is ideal for realtime collaborative editing, much better than google docs if you're ok with strictly plain text.
Try it out here: http://etherpad.org/
I just tried out CollabEdit for comparison and it seems it really can't handle two people typing at the same time.
See also these similar questions:
How do you collaborate with other coders in real time?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/148538/what-is-a-great-tool-for-remote-pair
What Features Should Tomorrow's Wiki Include?
google docs would be a save bet. it allows for simultanous editing.
Try out Bespin the new one from Mozilla! It is supposed to have collaboration tools built in, Though I'm not sure if all the features are available yet.
CollabEdit
I saw this linked in another question and it seems to fit the bill 100%, web-based and syntax highlighting.
Have you looked at Google Apps? Myself and two others were using the spreadsheet for planning on a project. You can see the other people moving around their curors and entering text. It's very very cool.
Look at DocSynch
I saw demo of the plugin for eclipse, i dont' remember it's name... maybe this one
Also this wiki page has a list of the collaborative editors.
I hear Mozilla's new "cloud" text editor, Bespin, looks interesting.