Well, after wrestling awhile with the best way to get a printed user manual I've stumbled (inadvertently) across what is probably the best thing going around. The product converts HTML, chm, and other formats to pfd. It is trialware (about $30) but my tests looked pretty good. I've pasted the lockergnome description and link below...


[2.5M] Win9x/2k/XP FREE

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/software.php

{Create indexed files} Turn a Web site with lots of articles and content into an indexed PDF book. I found an online book in HTML and added each page into HTMLDOC, adjusted the options, and the output was a PDF file with a table of contents page as well as an index on the left side of Acrobat. The results won't have a Web site's design with colors and all. The output file can be HTML, PS (postscript), or PDF and the options change based on the selections. You can view the HTML and the PDF versions of the output. Not perfect, but a handy program. [Meryl]


...the only thing I did ahead of creating the PDFs is changed the page header and footer for Internet Explorer so the printouts wouldn't have all that path-related clutter showing up on each page.

Actually I took out all of the header and used the following as the footer...

&w&bPage &p of &P

...this gives you just the page title and the "Page x of x" info.

Also I changed the IE default font from Times New Roman to Verdana to avoid the huge clunky-looking printouts you normally get printing help.

ALSO: I would not recommend trying to process the entire chm as one pdf., it will in all likelihood lock up your system. Instead save each major section (I think there's about eight) as their own file. Of course you can get as specific with this as much as help printing will allow.