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Question

Create CHM files on OS X (Lion)

Aug 24, 2011 4:54AM PDT

Hello!
Does anybody knows if there's an app to create .chm files in Mac OS? There are several apps to read them, but I can't find any that can create or edit such files. If somebody knows an app or a way to do that, I'll appreciate the answer.

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Long way, and an idea.
Aug 24, 2011 5:07AM PDT

While one might use Virtual Box to run any old Windows in a Virtual Box to do this I read how 7Zip can extract content from chm files. I leave it to you to peek at http://sourceforge.net/projects/keka/ which is a 7Zip port to Apple which you could try extracting content from chm's then replace one with your own.

No. I left the testing to you.
Bob

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Writing Microsoft Help?
Aug 28, 2011 1:12PM PDT
which is what it seems you want to do. A search on Macupdate.com will also help locate other programs that can produce .CHM files.

Simple Help Editor will do this
http://www.pandaware.com/simple/windows-help-viewer.html

I believe that there are a couple of other help editors on the Mac that will do this as well.
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HelpBlocks
Sep 19, 2011 10:35PM PDT

We have used HelpBlocks in our office for years. This is a cross-platform CHM editor.
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