Recomend a software or method for making a help file

Do you have software or a good method for creating HELP files?

Hey aml1138,
Although National Instruments doesn't make any software that compiles Windows Help files (.chm or .hhp), there are a variety of help building programs available that are free as well as not. As far as free programs go, I have worked with Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop with success:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&Displa...
However, if you're willing to shell out a few bucks for a program with a few more developers behind it and thus an increased ease of use, I have used FAR which was amazingly easy to use: http://www.helpware.net/FAR/
I hope this helps!
Lars L
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

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Package failed: An error occurred while running scripts from the package
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me ~>% cd
/Users/me/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/
me ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate>% ls
Cache.db
me ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate>% rm Cache.db
Rerunning, gives the same error message.
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I can not seem to locate the Software Update log file to look for errors.
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I've tried installing it both from my own account and as root.

FYI
/private/var/log/install.log shows no errors from latest update and /Library/Logs/Software Update.log does not exist.

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I'm using RH8 for HTML. A year ago, I took our 75 Winhelp projects and converted them to 75 HTML projects in order to be compatible with Windows 7. in Winhelp, the user selects Help and gets a central TOC from which to select the help for the individual project they want. Now that we want to install the HTML, we need something similar. we are not set up to have context sensitive help (it's not a browser interface). How do I create a TOC as a separate HTML project from which all of the other projects can be called?

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I am in the process of embedding 3 mp3's into a PDF to submit as a portfolio. The PDF also has text, and two scores included, and with the 3 embedded mp3's it can't be more than 10mb.
So my question is: When bouncing a project out of Logic, what is the best method for getting the smallest file size, but retaining the best audio quality? And once it's out of Logic and it is an mp3 or other type of audio file, is there a best format for compressing it further, and still maintaining the relative quality?
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MUYconfundido wrote:
I am in the process of embedding 3 mp3's into a PDF to submit as a portfolio. The PDF also has text, and two scores included, and with the 3 embedded mp3's it can't be more than 10mb.
So my question is: When bouncing a project out of Logic, what is the best method for getting the smallest file size, but retaining the best audio quality?
The highest bitrate that falls within your limits. You'll have to calculate how big your MP3's can be, then choose the bitrate that keeps the size within your limit. The formula is simple: bitrate is the number of kilobits per second, so a 46 second stereo file at 96 kbps would be 96 x 46 = 4416 kbits / 8* = 552 kBytes or 0.552 MB. (*8 bits = 1 Byte)
So if you know the length of your tracks you can calculate what bitrate you need to keep it within 10 MB total.
I consider 128 kbps the lowest bearable bitrate for popsongs and other modern drumkit based music. Deterioration of sound quality is often directly related to the quality of the initial mix and the type of instruments used in it. Piano(-like) tones tend to sound watery pretty quickly at lower bitrates, as do crash and ride cymbals. But don't take my word for it, try it out.
And once it's out of Logic and it is an mp3 or other type of audio file, is there a best format for compressing it further, and still maintaining the relative quality?
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I bounced out the three projects into wav's. Now I am using Switch for Mac to compress them down to smaller Mp3's.
That is silly, you could have done that in Logic, which has one of the best MP3 encoders built in. And how good encoders are will especially come out at bitrates around or below 128, which you might be looking at.
I basically need them to be about 3 mb each.
So, one more scrap of info we need here: how long are those three pieces, exactly? I'll calculate the bitrate for you - but please bounce 'm directly out of Logic as MP3's. They will very probably sound better than your WAV-conversions made with Switch.
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Two of the recordings sound OK at that size, but they are just MIDI(one project is piano and string quartet, the other is just piano- all software instruments. The recording that combines MIDI and Audio and has more tracks (three audio tracks and 10 Midi/software instrument tracks)and sounds completely horrible if I get it under 5 mb as an mp3. The problem is that I need all three to equal around 9mb, but still sound good enough to submit as a portfolio for consideration into a Master's program.
Length of the piece? And does the .Wav bounce you have sound OK?

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hth
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