Segmented Hypergraphics

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== Specifications ==
 
== Specifications ==
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpdeco/ helpdeco] → helpfile.txt has information based on reverse-engineering.
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpdeco/ helpdeco] → helpfile.txt has information based on reverse-engineering.
** [http://www.oocities.org/mwinterhoff/helpfile.htm SHG and MRB File Format]
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** [http://www.oocities.org/mwinterhoff/helpfile.htm Windows Help File Format / Annotation File Format / SHG and MRB File Format]
 
* [ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/SHED.ZIP SHED.ZIP] - "a rather questionable specification"
 
* [ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/SHED.ZIP SHED.ZIP] - "a rather questionable specification"
 
* [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Undocumented-Formats-Working-Inside/dp/0879304375/ Windows Undocumented File Formats] - 1997 book by Pete Davis, Mike Wallace
 
* [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Undocumented-Formats-Working-Inside/dp/0879304375/ Windows Undocumented File Formats] - 1997 book by Pete Davis, Mike Wallace
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== Software ==
 
== Software ==
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpdeco/ helpdeco] → splitmrb ''[Ed. note: The splitmrb (v1.5) utility is in disrepair, and is unlikely to work correctly if built with a modern compiler.]''
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpdeco/ helpdeco] → splitmrb ''[Ed. note: The splitmrb (v1.5) utility is in disrepair, and is unlikely to work correctly if built with a modern compiler.]''
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== Sample files ==
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* Some examples found on the web: [http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/137/13715.html], [http://www.lugaru.com/ftp/misc/manrtf9.zip], [http://axp1.nbpfaus.net/freeware/4/wxwindows/utils/tex2rtf/docs/], [http://web.mit.edu/Ghudson/dev/99/third/openafs/src/WINNT/win9xpanel/Help/]
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==

Revision as of 00:21, 13 January 2015

File Format
Name Segmented Hypergraphics
Ontology
Extension(s) .shg, .mrb

Segmented Hypergraphics (SHG), and its alter-ego Multiple Resolution Bitmap (MRB), are graphics formats used almost exclusively in the development of HLP (WinHelp) files. An SHG/MRB file contains one or more images in a BMP-like format, or WMF format. It also contains information about regions of the images that should be treated as hyperlinks.

Loosely speaking, SHG files are supposed to contain a single image, while MRB files contain more than one image. In practice, neither the file extension nor the file signature can be relied upon to be consistent with the image count, so the definition of SHG vs. MRB may be a matter of opinion.

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SHG/MRB files begin with 6c 50 or 6c 70.

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Software

  • helpdeco → splitmrb [Ed. note: The splitmrb (v1.5) utility is in disrepair, and is unlikely to work correctly if built with a modern compiler.]

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