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Pat Harvey
21st August 2006, 19:40
I'm evaluating using Qt Assistant for our online help, but I haven't found any tools for creating the .dcf file that fills in the contents and index tabs. Am I missing something?

jacek
21st August 2006, 20:01
Any text or XML editor will do. .dcf/.adp files are very simple.

Pat Harvey
21st August 2006, 21:37
Simple, yes, but they can also be very long. What's needed is a tool that goes into the source files of the authoring tool (preferably FrameMaker), gets the contents and index information, and generates the .dcf file automatically. We've got about three dozen help systems with thousands of pages that are being changed daily. Creating the .dcf files manually everytime we do a build is out of the question.

jacek
21st August 2006, 21:46
If FrameMaker can export this information as XML you could write a simple XSLT transformation.