Tool for OS/2 Screen Captures and Help - Summary

[Mike Norton <MNorton -at- DOCUCORP -dot- COM>]

     A couple of days ago I posted a question asking what tools you guys
     use to capture OS/2 screens and to convert WinHelp files into OS/2
     Help files. Here is a summary of the answers I received.

     1.  Capturing OS/2 screens:

     PMJPEG is a full-featured screen capture utility, except it cannot
     capture pulldown menus.

        http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/pmjpeg.htm

     PMCAP is a simple screen capture program that has a delayed shutter
     feature that allows you to capture pulldown menus.

        http://www.to2.org/files/swdisks.html

     PM Camera is a widely distributed shareware program.

        http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/ct/share/

     2.  Converting Window Help files (or RTF files) to OS/2 Help files
     (or IPF files):

     IBM's Hyperwise
     A markup language editor, mostly WYSIWYG, and able to convert the work
     files to HTML, IPF, or SGML. It includes IPF for Windows, which you
     can distribute as a reader. A new version came out a couple of months
     ago.

     RTF2IPF
     Developed by Randolph Back of Back Software & Consulting, Inc, this
     tool is intended to allow generation of OS/2 .INF and .HLP files with
     no hand editing from any Winhelp authoring tool. For more information
     (and the beta test version) see http://www.backswc.com/rtf2ipf.htm.

     WH2IPF
     Was included in HLPDK/PA or HyperText Suite, this utility converted
     HPJ and RTF files into IPF files. According to Hyperact, they no
     longer sell this utility nor do they plan to upgrade it.
     (We have this utility, but I cannot recommend it. We have invented
     numerous workarounds to overcome its shortcomings.)

     Thanks to all who responded,

     Michael Norton

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