All pages in a single file
PaperKiller manages even large page sets as a single file: this is an important concept to understand, as many Internet-like editors work with pages instead. This feature makes your job simpler and faster: it means that you don’t need to continuously load and save pages (so creating large manuals/hypertext is simpler), and that you act on a whole document even for searches and revisions.
To achieve these benefits, PaperKiller saves files in a native format. The file extension is .aeh (“File >Save”, “File >Save as...”, “File >Open”, “File >New”): it’s only one file per document, so using this format you skip hundreds of HTML, GIF,...
When you need to publish your work, PaperKiller can create on-the-fly all most popular formats.
Here are the main formats supported:
Internet Web pages consist of HTML files and GIF, JPG images. PaperKiller can generate Html on the fly (”File >Export pages...” or “File >Save as...”).
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project1.aeh
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index.htm
pag1.htm
pag2.htm
image1.gif
image2.gif
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PaperKiller can also
import multiple Html files to a single
.aeh format. You can select a group of files, or even start from a file and let PaperKiller
automatically follow the links in order to import all linked pages and images. Note you may experiment some format losses that you may have to correct in the editor.
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index.htm
pag1.htm
pag2.htm
image1.gif
image2.gif
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project1.aeh
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To perform the import, use "File >Import pages...", and choose "Html" as format, in the combo on top.
PaperKiller is not an HTML editor: the HTML is intended as a printing language. If you want to fine tune the HTML (instead the actual content) you might have to get another editor.
The MS Win Help compiler needs a RTF source, properly formatted. With PaperKiller you can generate it with a click (”File >Export pages”).
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project1.aeh
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project1.rtf
image1.bmp
image2.bmp
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If you own the RTF source of a WinHelp, you can import the hypertext in PaperKiller. PK can join more RTF files in one .aeh.
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docum1.rtf
docum2.rtf
image1.bmp
image2.bmp
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project1.aeh
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To perform the import, use "File >Import pages...", and choose "RTF WinHelp" as format, in the combo on top. This is useful for example to import RoboHelp-generated files, thus taking advantage of the PaperKiller environment.
This is the new format for the MSWindows Help system.
