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app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« on: September 24, 2010, 10:11:58 AM »
Is there a linux app for reading Windows .chm help files?

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Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2010, 10:21:28 AM »
This one http://www.karakas-online.de/downloads/chm2pdf-0.9.tar.gz needs htmldoc, chmlib, pychm and python to work - some efforts needed I guess ;)
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Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2010, 10:21:58 AM »
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Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2010, 05:43:18 PM »
If you already have Firefox, there's a "chm reader" extension.  I use it as the MS one does not allow font size adjustments.

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Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2010, 09:43:44 PM »
xchm, chmsee and gnochm are the ones that I know about. All depend on libchm; afaik xchm is based on wxwidget, chmsee on gtk+ and gnochm on python-gtk+. And iirc, gnochm renders best.

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Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2010, 01:48:18 PM »
Kchmviewer, despite its name, does not necessarily depend upon the KDE libs and can be built as a standalone Qt app. (Also depends on libchm.)