Are there Short-cuts?
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:13 pm
Here is my situation.
1. When I download a completed NetHelp file set to the hosting web site, there are approximately 3000 files. The uploading takes a while, as you can imagine.
2. When I generate new NetHelp output, Doc-to-Help takes about 20 to 30 minutes to finish the process. I have big source files and a lot of images, so even with a very fast PC and solid state disk drive, it takes a long time.
3. Many of the changes that I make to my docs are small corrections and wording changes that occur only one one page.
So you see the problem.
If I find a small error on a page and change a few words, then I have to (a) recompile the D2H project, which takes half an hour, and (b) download the 3000 files which also takes a while. And although I don't pay for file transfers, it's obviously extremely wasteful to transfer 3000 files to get the one or two or five that I actually need. The process took one minute to change the source file, and 40 or 50 minutes to correct the files that the user sees.
So my question for the forum is:
Is there any way to shortcut either of those processes?
(I know that I can edit the HTML output file directly, and transfer just that one replacement file. But that takes more personal time and effort that the other method.)
Thanks in advance for any helpful answers.
1. When I download a completed NetHelp file set to the hosting web site, there are approximately 3000 files. The uploading takes a while, as you can imagine.
2. When I generate new NetHelp output, Doc-to-Help takes about 20 to 30 minutes to finish the process. I have big source files and a lot of images, so even with a very fast PC and solid state disk drive, it takes a long time.
3. Many of the changes that I make to my docs are small corrections and wording changes that occur only one one page.
So you see the problem.
If I find a small error on a page and change a few words, then I have to (a) recompile the D2H project, which takes half an hour, and (b) download the 3000 files which also takes a while. And although I don't pay for file transfers, it's obviously extremely wasteful to transfer 3000 files to get the one or two or five that I actually need. The process took one minute to change the source file, and 40 or 50 minutes to correct the files that the user sees.
So my question for the forum is:
Is there any way to shortcut either of those processes?
(I know that I can edit the HTML output file directly, and transfer just that one replacement file. But that takes more personal time and effort that the other method.)
Thanks in advance for any helpful answers.