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<h1>Help-to-Source</h1>
<p><img src="../Help2src.gif" alt="image\Help2src.gif" width="46px" height="49px" border="0" class="img_whs1">With Help-To-Source, you can convert any Help file (.HLP)
into its RTF and HPJ source files. The resulting source files include
all topics, jumps, popups, graphics, hypertext links, and other characteristics
originally contained in the Help file. Help-to-Source also recreates all
the Help fileÆs font types, sizes, and colors, character formatting, tables,
graphics, and shed graphics. The resulting source files can be edited
and recompiled to create a new Help system.</p>
<h4><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some benefits of this tool include:</span></h4>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 8pt;"
class=kadov-p-CBULLETS><p class=BULLETS>Help-to-Source is useful
whenever the Help source files are not available. <br>
This may occur should you inherit an older Help project without all
of the necessary source files, or should you lose the original source
files. You can use the RTF and HPJ files created by Help-to-Source for
a new Help system.</p></li>
<li style="font-size: 8pt;"
class=kadov-p-CBULLETS><p class=BULLETS>Graphics are not left out
of the equation.<br>
You can extract graphics (such as screen shots) from an HLP file instead
of having to recreate them. </p></li>
<li style="font-size: 8pt;"
class=kadov-p-CBULLETS><p class=BULLETS>You can use Help-to-Source
to generate printed documentation.<br>
Using Help-to-Source and RoboHelp, you can convert an existing Help
system (with only the HLP file) into printed documentation. You use Help-to-Source
to generate the appropriate RTF files. Then, use RoboHelpÆs Export feature
to convert RTF source files to printed documentation</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Users of Help-to-Source should be careful that their use is in accordance
with copyright law and the license terms of other software packages.</p>
