What program can be used to view/convert *.chm (win help) files?

ishti_du · 10-29-2005, 01:16 PM

dear nIMBVS and others,
Thanks for your ideas. I was, too looking for such a solution. I just follewed the steps and get all done. But how do I use extract_chmLib to extract my .chm file. I might sound stupid to you, but I am a new user in Linux and in need of your help.
Thank you.

ishti_du · 10-29-2005, 01:50 PM

Dear all,
SORRY for frequent replies. Just found the way to use it!!
./extract_chmLib <chm file> <outdir>
-The result BINGO!!-DONE.

Thanks.

IntrepidKABISA · 09-22-2006, 10:13 AM

Hi fellas,

I have been having this issue for a week and when I (finally) logged on here... voila! Answers galore.

Muchos gratias comrades.

My gnochm and my xchm are working pretty well.

Regards to ya'll

IntrepidKABISA · 09-22-2006, 10:15 AM

Hi fellas,

I downloaded the .tar files and managed to install all the required libraries, etc.

But I ran into the same problem with 'libchm.so.O'...

I have been having this issue for a week and when I (finally) logged on here... voila! Answers galore.

Muchos gratias comrades.

My gnochm and my xchm are working pretty well.

Regards to ya'll

craigevil · 09-22-2006, 10:43 AM

KchmViewer is a chm (MS HTML help file format) viewer, written in C++.
Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget
library, and does not depend on KDE or Gnome. However, it may be compiled
with full KDE support, including KDE widgets and KIO/KHTML.

The main advantage of KchmViewer is non-English language support. Unlike
others, KchmViewer in most cases correctly detects help file encoding,
correctly shows tables of context of Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese
help files, and correctly searches in non-English help files (search for
MBCS languages - ja/ko/ch is still in progress).

Completely safe and harmless. Does not support JavaScript in any way,
optionally warns you before opening an external web page, or switching to
another help file. Shows an appropriate image for every TOC entry.

KchmViewer Has complete chm index support, including multiple index entries,
cross-links and parent/child entries in index as well as Persistent bookmarks
support. Correctly detects and shows encoding of any valid chm file.

tmrgoliath · 10-02-2006, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nIMBVS

Here is the recipe I use to extract the files from .chm help files:

- download
- extract:

Code:

tar zxf chmlib-0.35

- configure:

Code:

./configure

- make:

Code:

make

- make install (or checkinstall for those of you who want to be able to uninstall easy):

Code:

make install

or

Code:

checkinstall

- compile example programs (this is the scope of all this... in the example programs there is one which extracts the files from .chm):

Code:

make examples

After you make examples in the directory of chmlib will be the executable extract_chmLib . This is the thing you need. It extracts the html and images from .chm and makes a browsable site out of the .chm which you will be able to see with any browser.

That's it. This is what I use and I'm very happy with it. No stupid bloated X programs for which you need 1000 libraries to make them work. Easy and simple.

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i have a problem when i install kchm or kchmviewer and other packet tar.please help me resolve:
quote:
root@user-Ubuntu:/home/user/Desktop/kchmviewer-2.6# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
next i type
root@user-Ubuntu:/home/user/Desktop/kchmviewer-2.6# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@user-Ubuntu:/home/user/Desktop/kchmviewer-2.6# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
i don't know how to
thanks

univac1100 · 08-31-2007, 02:24 AM

Thanks, That help.

skaval24 · 01-17-2008, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y0jiMb0

Hi
another way to do it: open Konqueror, right click on the file; select "preview with KChmPart".
It works in my case...

Regards

Hi great to discover that chm files can be viewed. Wanted to find out if anyone has come across this particular one:

(xchm:3201): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -4 and height 17

Thanks in advance

converter · 07-19-2011, 04:01 AM

I have a smart idea. you can convert chm to other format that linux read

dugan · 07-19-2011, 08:53 AM

That's not a smart idea and you are not a smart poster. Many Linux programs can read CHM files. Some are mentioned on the CHM Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...dows_platforms

For the following reasons, your intentions are very suspect:

you necroposted this
you've been posting promotions for a shady and utterly worthless (and expensive closed-source and commercial) Windows-only program
your username is a reference to the product mentioned above
your homepage is the product homepage
this post is obviously setting up for another advertisement to be posted