how to export Netlibrary .html books to .chm?

kylin
07/25/2006 11:59 am
I used oee 4.3 downloaded a html book. The map of the project contains css, include, js, multimedia, nlreader and reader folder. I noticed the html and jpg/gif files related to the book are included in the nlreader folder. I want to know how to export these file to one chm or exe file. I tried to export the project, but failed. How should I process? I'm not familiar with oee well. Thanks for your attention!
kylin
07/25/2006 12:03 pm
> I used oee 4.3 downloaded a html book. The map of the project contains css, include, js, multimedia, nlreader and reader folder. I noticed the html and jpg/gif files related to the book are included in the nlreader folder. I want to know how to export these file to one chm or exe file. I tried to export the project, but failed. How should I process? I'm not familiar with oee well. Thanks for your attention!


"I failed" here means there is only the address of the project in the chm file. Something like http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_{:1..622}.html"
kylin
07/25/2006 12:22 pm

>
> "I failed" here means there is only the address of the project in the chm file. Something like http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_{:1..622}.html"


I'm sorry. The address in the chm is actually the name of the project. If you click it, it can turn to the first page of the html file. But there is no other pages.
Oleg Chernavin
07/25/2006 12:29 pm
Can you make the first URL of the Project the following to fix this:

http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_1.html

Best regards,
Oleg Chernavin
MP Staff

kylin
07/25/2006 12:39 pm
> Can you make the first URL of the Project the following to fix this:
>
> http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_1.html
>
> Best regards,
> Oleg Chernavin
> MP Staff
>
>

Thanks for your reply! I'm sorry for not grasping you. Could you give more explaination for me?
Oleg Chernavin
07/25/2006 03:45 pm
OK. Select the Project you are about to export, click the Properties button on toolbar and in the URLs field of the Project, change the URL to:

http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_1.html

Click the OK button and export the Project.

Oleg.
kylin
07/26/2006 01:22 am
> OK. Select the Project you are about to export, click the Properties button on toolbar and in the URLs field of the Project, change the URL to:
>
> http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlReader.dll?BookID=1650&FileName=Page_1.html
>
> Click the OK button and export the Project.
>
> Oleg.


Oleg, thx for your heartly reply. But the result is the same as before. The title of the project with a link to the first page (page 1) in the chm file. I just can go through the page 1. There are no other pages. According to the size of the chm file and the proceding of exporting, it seems it really export all the pages to the chm file. But how could I read it? Is there any other possibility?
Oleg Chernavin
07/27/2006 06:50 am
OK. I added the way to export to HTML Help with Contents, which should solve your problem.

Please download the updated oe.exe file here:

http://www.metaproducts.com/download/betas/OEP2449.zip

Oleg.
kylin
07/27/2006 12:22 pm
> OK. I added the way to export to HTML Help with Contents, which should solve your problem.
>
> Please download the updated oe.exe file here:
>
> http://www.metaproducts.com/download/betas/OEP2449.zip
>
> Oleg.

Thx. I downloaded the zip file. Then extracted it and replaced the original one. When run exporting, it more quickly finished this time. It seems not work well. Also I get a *.chm file. As before, there is only the name of project with a link. But the link is wrong. It cann't go to any page correctly. Just a error page.
kylin
07/27/2006 12:30 pm
> > OK. I added the way to export to HTML Help with Contents, which should solve your problem.
> >
> > Please download the updated oe.exe file here:
> >
> > http://www.metaproducts.com/download/betas/OEP2449.zip
> >
> > Oleg.
>

Is there any other way to export html files to a well-organized file? You know, there are many html files in one book. Is there any convenient way when I want to read the book? The way I got is to export all the files to a chm file. I don't know whether the chm exporting in OEE could help me that.
Oleg Chernavin
07/27/2006 12:33 pm
Please select "HTML Help with Contents" in the Export dialog - it is the last item in the list. HTML Help (CHM) is the previous way - I kept it for compatibility.

Oleg.
kylin
07/27/2006 03:12 pm
> Please select "HTML Help with Contents" in the Export dialog - it is the last item in the list. HTML Help (CHM) is the previous way - I kept it for compatibility.
>
> Oleg.


Oh. Thx. I tried it. But It cann't export full of the file, just 11k. In the chm file generated, a column added at the left, but there is only the name of project. And it's link cann't work as I said in the last answer. It's a error page.
kylin
07/27/2006 03:24 pm

>
> Oh. Thx. I tried it. But It cann't export full of the file, just 11k. In the chm file generated, a column added at the left, but there is only the name of project. And it's link cann't work as I said in the last answer. It's a error page.

I'm sorry for maybe I made a mistake. I just replaced the oe.exe, but I used the files I downloaded before. It seems I need download them with the new one. But unfortunatly, I can't download the files now.I don't know why. Wu~~~~. I'll try it later.

Anyway, thanks for your help!
kylin
07/28/2006 01:29 am
I can't download any more.

It seems like having downloaded something from the loaded % at the bottom of the download progress bar. But there is nothing in the nreader folder. Oleg, could you help me try to download a html book from netlibrary? Is it netlibrary prohibit it. I can look through the book online with oee.
Oleg Chernavin
07/28/2006 01:38 am
Can you please reboot the computer and try again? Sometimes network system in Windows might be overloaded and it is necessary to restart it.

Oleg.
kylin
07/28/2006 01:41 am
> Can you please reboot the computer and try again? Sometimes network system in Windows might be overloaded and it is necessary to restart it.
>
> Oleg.

I tried, but it's the same.
kylin
07/28/2006 05:01 am
It seems there is something wrong with this procedure on computer. Maybe the oe.exe replaced maybe others. I tried uninstalling the oe and reinstalling, and the problem remained. How should I do now?

I tried to install oe on another computer, there is no problem to download.
Oleg Chernavin
07/28/2006 05:59 am
You can try to check the NTLM box in the Options dialog - Proxy section. It may help.

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 12:33 am
> You can try to check the NTLM box in the Options dialog - Proxy section. It may help.
>
> Oleg.

Oh, sir. I selected it, the problem still existed. The page download were "document not found". Oops! I don't know what had happened. The oee on the other computer is normal. Is it possible for I used your oe.exe file? But I cleaned the register file and reinstalled it. It can't work yet. Oleg, is there any other ways I can try? Thx.
Oleg Chernavin
07/29/2006 03:10 am
Maybe you have an antivirus or a personal firewall that blocks Offline Explorer?

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 07:08 am
> Maybe you have an antivirus or a personal firewall that blocks Offline Explorer?
>
> Oleg.

Really? But the antivirus software is the same as before.
Oleg Chernavin
07/29/2006 07:32 am
Can you enable the log (press Ctrl+W and then make the Start Loggin button down), also enable all filters and make the download - what do you see in the log?

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 07:49 am
The log messages are as below. It seems the html files have been downloaded. But the page showed "document not found". Please help me check.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Offline Explorer Enterprise 4.3.2418
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:07 Connecting to host www.netlibrary.com...
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:07 Host www.netlibrary.com connected. Waiting for http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:07 GET /nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html HTTP/1.0
Accept: *.*, */*
Accept-Language: zh-cn
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Maxthon)
Host: www.netlibrary.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=05rsue55u1wr0gjd0o4gxv2n; nlSessionID={CF82EDBB-BE05-472A-A483-049C6C74FE1A}; ASP.NET_SessionVerified=true; lt=Persona; ClientVerifier=Verified; ASPSESSIONIDQSBQRTSQ=KBMHNHJBCIADLJNEACHLDCKM; nlOnlineReader=AdobeToolbarNextChallenge1696=0
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Transferring data from http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 HTTP/1.1 200 OK nlReader
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:40:04 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
P3P: CP='NOI NID CUR ADMa TAIa PSDi OUR NOR STA'
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 6061
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 0% of 6061 bytes of http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 22% of 6061 bytes of http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 45% of 6061 bytes of http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 90% of 6061 bytes of http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 100% of 6061 bytes of http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Download complete.
QUEUE 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Parsing (0) http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_1.html
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Delay 10 seconds before http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=1696&filename=page_2.html.
QUEUE 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Parsing end.
QUEUE 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:08 Parsing files added.
HTTP0 2006-7-29 IAIc 07:40:18 Connecting to host www.netlibrary.com...
.....................................
Oleg Chernavin
07/29/2006 08:02 am
This looks correct and I loaded the same and it showed well. Please look in the Project Map - do you have the downloaded files there? What if you browse them from the Map?

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 09:46 am
> This looks correct and I loaded the same and it showed well. Please look in the Project Map - do you have the downloaded files there? What if you browse them from the Map?
>
> Oleg.


I think I found the problem. It's the OE.exe you made later. An hour ago, the original oe began to work well. As I used the newer oe.exe, it became bad as we discussed above.
Oleg Chernavin
07/29/2006 10:55 am
This is sad. What is the version number of the oe.exe that works well now?

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 11:17 am
> This is sad. What is the version number of the oe.exe that works well now?
>
> Oleg.

This is okay. Offline Explorer Enterprise 4.3.2418.
Oleg Chernavin
07/29/2006 11:44 am
I see now. I sent you the Pro version, instead of Enterprise. This is why it didn't see the downloaded files, because of the different Map file format.

Oleg.
kylin
07/29/2006 10:18 pm
> I see now. I sent you the Pro version, instead of Enterprise. This is why it didn't see the downloaded files, because of the different Map file format.
>
> Oleg.

Oh, could you please help me sent a enterprise one?
ncbi
07/31/2006 04:36 am
> > I see now. I sent you the Pro version, instead of Enterprise. This is why it didn't see the downloaded files, because of the different Map file format.
> >
> > Oleg.
>
> Oh, could you please help me sent a enterprise one?

Oh, man ! There's millions of ways to convert html 's to pdf.
Why do you want .chm ?
OEE cannot do everything !

Oleg Chernavin
08/01/2006 03:38 pm
I am sorry - I am out of town now and I should be back on 9th.

Oleg.
kylin
08/16/2006 02:59 am
> > > I see now. I sent you the Pro version, instead of Enterprise. This is why it didn't see the downloaded files, because of the different Map file format.
> > >
> > > Oleg.
> >
> > Oh, could you please help me sent a enterprise one?
>
> Oh, man ! There's millions of ways to convert html 's to pdf.
> Why do you want .chm ?
> OEE cannot do everything !
>
>

Thanks for your advice. Yeah, pdf is a better format. But do you have a good way to transform hundreds of pages with lots of jpg/gif pictures to pdf file one time?
kylin
08/16/2006 03:01 am
> I am sorry - I am out of town now and I should be back on 9th.
>
> Oleg.

anyway,thx a million.

Actually, I have left for several days and just come back.
Oleg Chernavin
08/16/2006 03:24 am
We plan to release the new version this week.

Oleg.
kylin
08/16/2006 03:49 am
> We plan to release the new version this week.
>
> Oleg.

Good news! Hope it can resolve my need.
kylin
08/23/2006 01:21 pm
Oleg, I tried OEE 4.4, and download a html book, and the "html help with contents" item, then exported.
from the size of the chm file and the proceding of exporting, all the files has been exported into the output file. but the links of the contents are not correct, so it cann't be displayed. I think if there is problem with the "creating contents file" in exporting. Do you think so? How could I do?

Another thing, how to download all the pages of a html book? There is no problem for the text part. But the contents part alwasy lost some pages. That is to say, oee can't download all the contents pages. I used the URLs like this "http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=8359&filename=page_{:1..292}.html". The number 1 to 292 is the text page. there are cover page and contents page. Their page number are different, like i, ii,...etc.

Thanks.
Oleg Chernavin
08/25/2006 03:28 am
Sorry, I am out of town now and I cannot check the first issue. Regarding the second one, Offline Explorer supports roman numbers in macros, like: {:roman:XIX..XXX}

Would that help?

Oleg.
Omar
08/28/2006 12:47 pm
Dear Kylin, I?ve tried downloading ebooks from NetLibrary without success, I think because the javascripts. Can you explain me how to do it?
Did you try to create a pdf from Adobe Acrobat 7 instead to export the project? (File...Create PDF...From Web Page... ) using as source URL the index.html downloaded project?

Thanks Kylin,

Omar

> Oleg, I tried OEE 4.4, and download a html book, and the "html help with contents" item, then exported.
> from the size of the chm file and the proceding of exporting, all the files has been exported into the output file. but the links of the contents are not correct, so it cann't be displayed. I think if there is problem with the "creating contents file" in exporting. Do you think so? How could I do?
>
> Another thing, how to download all the pages of a html book? There is no problem for the text part. But the contents part alwasy lost some pages. That is to say, oee can't download all the contents pages. I used the URLs like this "http://www.netlibrary.com/nlreader/nlreader.dll?bookid=8359&filename=page_{:1..292}.html". The number 1 to 292 is the text page. there are cover page and contents page. Their page number are different, like i, ii,...etc.
>
> Thanks.
kylin
08/28/2006 12:53 pm
> Sorry, I am out of town now and I cannot check the first issue. Regarding the second one, Offline Explorer supports roman numbers in macros, like: {:roman:XIX..XXX}
>
> Would that help?
>
> Oleg.

Yeah, that's okay now. Thanks
kylin
08/28/2006 01:01 pm
> Dear Kylin, I?ve tried downloading ebooks from NetLibrary without success, I think because the javascripts. Can you explain me how to do it?
> Did you try to create a pdf from Adobe Acrobat 7 instead to export the project? (File...Create PDF...From Web Page... ) using as source URL the index.html downloaded project?
>
> Thanks Kylin,
>
> Omar
>

Just used the macro like Oleg gave above in the URL address. When you input {:}, it will give you hints. Or you can check help file. I don't change any other configurations.
Thanks. I don't try adobe. Maybe it can work, but there is some trouble when set the size of a page. You know, the sizes of html files are different.
Oleg Chernavin
09/02/2006 08:31 am
I tried to reproduce the problem with the wrong link in HTML Help Contents, but I cannot download a test Project - I have no username/password.

Oleg.
Omar
09/03/2006 12:02 am
Here you are Oleg

http://www.netlibrary.com.ucfproxy.fcla.edu/AccessProduct.aspx?ProductId=8359


https://login.ucfproxy.fcla.edu/login
22103150930515

Thanks, Omar

> I tried to reproduce the problem with the wrong link in HTML Help Contents, but I cannot download a test Project - I have no username/password.
>
> Oleg.
kylin
09/03/2006 10:57 am
thanks!

how about yours now?
Oleg Chernavin
09/04/2006 08:30 am
I fixed the HTML Help with contents issue - it is because of too complex filenames. Now it will always have Joliet-compatible filenames. Please select this as well before export.

Oleg.
kylin
09/04/2006 09:29 am
> I fixed the HTML Help with contents issue - it is because of too complex filenames. Now it will always have Joliet-compatible filenames. Please select this as well before export.
>
> Oleg.

Great! Thanks for your kindly help.

There is a question more. How to get these files arranged according to the order of page number? You know there are some pages at the wrong order. Another little question, the number of some pages was added "5f" before the true number. Like this: www.netlibrary.......filenamepage_5f250.html. but the true number is 250.

kylin
Oleg Chernavin
09/04/2006 09:38 am
Well, so far there is no way. I will think about this.

Oleg.
kylin
09/04/2006 09:49 am
> Well, so far there is no way. I will think about this.
>
> Oleg.

Okay, anyway, oee is now doing great jobs!
Oleg Chernavin
09/04/2006 10:30 am
Thank you!

Oleg.
kylin
10/15/2006 05:45 am
> Thank you!
>
> Oleg.


Hi Oleg, thanks for your tool.

I wonder if there is possible to improve the two flaws when exporting html with image file to chm file in the next version:

One is ordering the many files by page number.

The other one is the image files can not be fixed in the chm file, that is the image files lost. I don't know if I mis-operated something.

With best,

Kylin
Oleg Chernavin
10/16/2006 05:40 am
I am afraid, this is too hard to do. What about exporting to EXE file - it would be browseable the same way as you view it in the Internal browser of Offline Explorer?

Oleg.
kylin
10/16/2006 06:07 am
> I am afraid, this is too hard to do. What about exporting to EXE file - it would be browseable the same way as you view it in the Internal browser of Offline Explorer?
>
> Oleg.

Oh. The exe can't work. The result is as I said above. It seems that all the files have been exported into exe file, observing the size of exe file. But the content is as below:

Exported Projects:

Speech and reading

Speech and reading is the name of a project with a link. But there is a wrong page link when I click it. So I can not read anything. Could you help me fix the bug?

How about the image file in chm? It seems chm with contents don't include the image files. Is there any thing I can try?

Thx!

Kylin
Oleg Chernavin
10/16/2006 10:03 am
OK. Can you please help me to reproduce this? If the downloaded Project is not huge, can you please backup it (Tools menu) and send it to me to support@metaproducts.com ? But if it is less than 5 MBs.

Oleg.
kylin
10/16/2006 10:48 am
> OK. Can you please help me to reproduce this? If the downloaded Project is not huge, can you please backup it (Tools menu) and send it to me to support@metaproducts.com ? But if it is less than 5 MBs.
>
> Oleg.

Okay, thanks. The oe file has been sent to your mailbox. Looking forward to your good news.

Kylin
Oleg Chernavin
10/17/2006 04:40 am
Thank you! What is the size of the file?

Oleg.
kylin
10/17/2006 09:56 am
> Thank you! What is the size of the file?
>
> Oleg.

the email size is 2.3m. And the title of it is "my saved project".

Kylin
Oleg Chernavin
10/18/2006 06:20 am
Our support haven't found this E-mail yet. Can I write you directly to the E-mail address you left in this forum?

Oleg.
kylin
10/18/2006 07:00 am
> Our support haven't found this E-mail yet. Can I write you directly to the E-mail address you left in this forum?
>
> Oleg.

Of course. I have resent it again by this address. Thanks