Troop 53
Leadership Smart Books

Download Page

We are offering the Troop 53 Leadership Smart Books for download in 3 different forms:

1. smrtbook.exe (4.18 MB) — This is an installation file that installs the books on your hard drive just like installing a program. Shortcuts to the books are placed on your Start Menu to make navigation extremely easy. Highly recommended for all versions of Windows except Windows 95. For some reason the files will install but won't uninstall in Win95. If you use Win95 download the smrtbook.zip file below.
2. smrtbook.zip (3.22 MB) — for other operating systems or for very experienced Windows users.
3. sbsource.zip (380 kb) — All of the source files used to build your own set of books. These will need editing to customize them to your own Troop. We suggest downloading and reviewing smrtbook.exe or smrtbook.zip prior to trying to build your own books. In addition, the readme.txt file enclosed in the sbsource.zip file has more information on building your own books.

All of these files are being offered for free and as such we offer no support whatsoever and/or make no guarantees as to their fitness for your unit.

The following software may also be needed depending on the file you download (specific software requirements are listed in each file's readme):

• Adobe Acrobat Reader at least version 3, for viewing/printing PDF files (needed for all files)
• A text/html editor such as Edxor or EditPad Lite (needed for sbsource.zip)
• HTMLDoc to convert HTML to PDF (needed for sbsource.zip)

HTMLDoc update:
Beginning with version 1.8.24, all future compiled versions of HTMLDoc are now commercial. The website above has these versions, the cheapest of which is ~$50.00 [USD]. The "source code" for HTMLDoc is now open-source and may be obtained from htmldoc.org. Beware, you will need to compile the code, build a GUI to work with your operating system, and more. All way beyond this geek wannabe. But if you fancy yourself an über-geek, go for it.

After a lot of searching, I found that you can still get the free Windows version of HTMLDoc 1.8.23 from a direct ftp to the developer's site. Warning: this is a direct download — it's not a web page.

htmldoc-1.8.23-winfree.exe — 2.5 MB

Gary Harris from Australia has compiled 1.8.24 for Windows and is making it available at http://users.tpg.com.au/naffall/htmldoc.html. Be sure to read his notes about installing it. Thanks Gary!

If you are running Mac or Linux, you're out of luck here. But I did find numerous builds for Linux during my search. Just Google for "HTMLDoc 1.8.23"; maybe tag "Linux" (or your version of it — Red Hat, DeLi, Knopix, etc.) on the end of the search term.