# Blender Manuals in CHM Format **URL:** \ **Category:** Basics & Interface\ **Created:** [October 26, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154 "2005-10-26T10:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/1 "2005-10-26T10:41:20Z")
Hi all. I just finished compiling the current version of the Blender User Guide in CHM (aka Microsoft HTMLhelp) format, even spent the time to make a nice table of contents to navigate with. The final filesize is 37.8mb. Can anyone recommend a free webhost with this much space where I could stick it for interested parties to download? I don’t have the bandwidth to do it myself, being a humble ADSL user. For those who wonder why I’d go to the trouble: 1. The HTML version is 40.5mb. I know this isn’t some drastic space-savings, but it IS slightly smaller. 2. One large file doesn’t eat as much HD space as 990+ small files. 3. It’s nice to have it conveniently packaged. 🙂 Assuming I can find somewhere to host, I’ll have the Reference Guide done in a couple hours or so. Anyhow, if anybody has a pointer to a host, or would like to host it themselves, I eagerly await a response. ---
**Author:** ![alabandit](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@alabandit](https://blenderartists.org/u/alabandit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/2 "2005-10-26T11:37:45Z")
I can’t tell you where to host it but thanks for the work. For myself i think its a briliant idea, and will save some head akes - thanks man ---
**Author:** ![ReeVee](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ReeVee](https://blenderartists.org/u/ReeVee)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/3 "2005-10-26T17:50:34Z")
If you have not, Ziping or taring it would bring down the file size for upload/downlaod. ---
**Author:** ![theApe](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@theApe](https://blenderartists.org/u/theApe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/4 "2005-10-26T18:01:06Z")
I’ve used this one a couple of times (60mb allowed): [http://www.savefile.com/](http://www.savefile.com/) At least it’s something until someone offers to host it for you, as I’m sure someone will 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spin](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/spin/32/1164_2.png) [@Spin](https://blenderartists.org/u/Spin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/5 "2005-10-26T18:47:59Z")
For now, try Bit Torrent. I’ll DL it and seed it for a while. By then you may find a server. Maybe I’ll find a server too. ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/6 "2005-10-26T20:56:50Z")
Bellorum: Thanks, I got an account on there, just waiting for them to free up some disk space. ---
**Author:** ![phlip](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/phlip/32/99_2.png) [@phlip](https://blenderartists.org/u/phlip)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/7 "2005-10-26T21:55:40Z")
> [@ReeVee](#): > > If you have not, Ziping or taring it would bring down the file size for upload/downlaod. Strictly speaking, tar-ing it won’t shrink the file, tar just collects several files into one monolithic file without compressing it. gzip or bzip2 each can only compress one file, but if you use it on a tarball then you’re essentially compressing all the files in that tarball together. Hence .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. I’d go into the advantages and disadvantages of this vs the more common compress-each-file-separately-and-collect method in .zip and .rar, but this is offtopic enough already… ---
**Author:** ![theApe](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@theApe](https://blenderartists.org/u/theApe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/8 "2005-10-27T02:19:25Z")
> [@realistik](#): > > Bellorum: Thanks, I got an account on there, just waiting for them to free up some disk space. Aargh! They haven’t fixed that yet? 😕 Now I remember why I haven’t used that site for awhile ☹ Not the best solution, but rapidshare allows for files up to 50mb: [http://rapidshare.de/](http://rapidshare.de/) ---
**Author:** ![codebox](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/codebox/32/1309_2.png) [@codebox](https://blenderartists.org/u/codebox)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/9 "2005-10-27T03:03:18Z")
why dont you contact the [blender.org](http://blender.org) admins so they could upload the CHM format manual along with the ones already there in the documentation downloads…? ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/10 "2005-10-27T06:40:54Z")
Until I hear something back from the Blender folk, I finally got the User Guide uploaded to savefile. [http://savefile.com/files/1055702](http://savefile.com/files/1055702) ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/11 "2005-10-27T09:05:58Z")
Finished up the RefGuide. It can be had from: [http://savefile.com/files/8447474](http://savefile.com/files/8447474) ---
**Author:** ![Spin](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/spin/32/1164_2.png) [@Spin](https://blenderartists.org/u/Spin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/12 "2005-10-27T11:22:43Z")
I tried the documentation and I keep getting errors, like this one… ![http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/Blender/forum/CHM_error.jpg](http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/Blender/forum/CHM_error.jpg) “J:…” ??? Hmm, looks like you need to use a global array of some sort to direct the files to the same folder that the CHM is on. ---
**Author:** ![Fligh](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/fligh/32/409_2.png) [@Fligh](https://blenderartists.org/u/Fligh)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/13 "2005-10-27T11:41:25Z")
Oh yeah… Spins Apartment and Girls Gone Wild! How you going to live that one down? %\< ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/14 "2005-10-27T13:14:24Z")
How utterly screwed up… Well I’ll see if I can figure out why it decided to go that route and fix it up. Sorry for the trouble. :: BTW I’ve deleted the broken files off savefile to avoid more people having to hassle with them. :: ---
**Author:** ![alabandit](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@alabandit](https://blenderartists.org/u/alabandit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/15 "2005-10-28T00:21:11Z")
down loaded you file at about 15:00 GMT and it worked great for me. i 'm using XP computers behind a fire wall. the first time i got an error but i think it was my servers fault, so i just retried and it worked - tnx ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/16 "2005-10-29T16:03:19Z")
Okay, I’ve recompiled both the manuals but haven’t yet figured out why the Table of Contents stuff won’t work right. These will be pretty much like just browsing them on the web, but I **did** compile both with full-text search information. User Guide: [http://www.savefile.com/files/4467133](http://www.savefile.com/files/4467133) Reference Guide: [http://www.savefile.com/files/4655157](http://www.savefile.com/files/4655157) I had these done early yesterday morning, it’s taken all this time to get them uploaded to savefile. Both these worked fine for me on other machines, so they should work fine for everybody. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![dukytyme](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a698b9/32.png) [@dukytyme](https://blenderartists.org/u/dukytyme)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/17 "2005-11-19T18:26:52Z")
I have the Aug 7, 2005 html manual and I was wondering if your CHM app has some of the new features of 2.40 alpha 1 or 2 in it? I’m sure it will be great to dump my manual and grab this one if it has atleast SOME newer features in it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nokturnal](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Nokturnal](https://blenderartists.org/u/Nokturnal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/18 "2005-11-20T02:09:05Z")
Thanks man!! I currently have a manual updated on July- 8-04 , is this a more current version ? :Z ---
**Author:** ![realistik](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/realistik/32/2547_2.png) [@realistik](https://blenderartists.org/u/realistik)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-manuals-in-chm-format/346154/19 "2005-11-20T04:40:57Z")
dukytyme, Nokturnal: No, these are just compiled versions of the current manuals off the FTP server. Apparently these are likely to become extinct since they’re switching to the wiki for everything. In the meantime though, I’ve been using these quite a lot. Hope they’re useful to others as well.