[oXygen-user] oXygen-user Digest, Vol 71, Issue 5

[Jean Kaplansky]

Speaking of help...  I downloaded and installed 10.3 on my WinXP Pro machine
the other day and discovered that the formatting in the online help files
has gone, well, wild...  Really big fonts of random sizes everywhere.
Unfortunately, even though I'm one to boost fonts, these fonts are way too
big to do any onscreen reading.

Is this a glitch or a known problem?

Thanks in advance,
Jean Kaplansky

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> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:23:41 +0300
> From: Jan Nylund <>
> Subject: [oXygen-user] Problem with Oxygen creating html help
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> Hello!
>
> A college is having some issues in creating chm files from oxygen with
> using the DITA Scenarios. He's running oXygen 10.3 on Windows Vista
> Ultimate.
>
>
> When creating a scenario and converting, it fails on not finding the
> hhc.exe file in "C:\Program Files\Help Workshop\hhc.exe". This is
> completely correct, as hhc is located in "C:\Program Files\HTML Help
> Workshop\hhc.exe".
>
> The wrong path is automatically included by oXygen when running a dita
> transformation if the transtype is set to htmlhelp. The end of the
> call to dita-ot contains "-DHTMLHelpCompiler=C:\Program Files\Help
> Workshop\hhc.exe". DITA-OT throws an error message that it's not
> possible to reassign an already set property. hhc.dir is correctly set
> but HTMLHelpCompiler is overridden by the parameter from oxygen.
>
> I can't find the reason for this parameter being added, so it would be
> nice if you can tell me where to start looking.
>
> Br,
> Jan
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> Jan Nylund
> Senior System Designer
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> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:22:16 +0300
> From: Sorin Ristache <>
> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Problem with Oxygen creating html help
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> Hello,
>
> Oxygen sets the value of the parameter -DHTMLHelpCompiler to the result
> of the concatenation of the Windows registry value "Path" from the
> registry key
>
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App
> Paths\\hhw.exe"
>
> If this "Path" value is not set in the registry Oxygen assumes that the
> HTML Help Workshop is not installed on the computer and displays the
> following transformation warning:
>
>
> HTML Help Workshop not detected. You must install it to be able to
> create CHM files.
>
>
> I think in your case the registry value contains the path "C:\Program
> Files\Help Workshop" and it was set by a previous installation of the
> HTML Help Workshop and now there is a newer version installed in
> "C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop" but the registry value remained
> the old one. Please set the correct path to hhc.exe manually in the
> above Windows registry key. For the next version of Oxygen we will check
> what should be the path set in registry by the latest version of the
> Microsoft Help system.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sorin
>
>
> Jan Nylund wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > A college is having some issues in creating chm files from oxygen with
> > using the DITA Scenarios. He's running oXygen 10.3 on Windows Vista
> > Ultimate.
> >
> >
> > When creating a scenario and converting, it fails on not finding the
> > hhc.exe file in "C:\Program Files\Help Workshop\hhc.exe". This is
> > completely correct, as hhc is located in "C:\Program Files\HTML Help
> > Workshop\hhc.exe".
> >
> > The wrong path is automatically included by oXygen when running a dita
> > transformation if the transtype is set to htmlhelp. The end of the call
> > to dita-ot contains "-DHTMLHelpCompiler=C:\Program Files\Help
> > Workshop\hhc.exe". DITA-OT throws an error message that it's not
> > possible to reassign an already set property. hhc.dir is correctly set
> > but HTMLHelpCompiler is overridden by the parameter from oxygen.
> >
> > I can't find the reason for this parameter being added, so it would be
> > nice if you can tell me where to start looking.
> >
> > Br,
> > Jan
>
>
>
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