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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: jur on September 24, 2010, 10:11:58 AM

Title: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: jur on September 24, 2010, 10:11:58 AM

Is there a linux app for reading Windows .chm help files?

Title: Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: gutmensch on September 24, 2010, 10:21:28 AM

This one http://www.karakas-online.de/downloads/chm2pdf-0.9.tar.gz (http://www.karakas-online.de/downloads/chm2pdf-0.9.tar.gz) needs htmldoc, chmlib, pychm and python to work - some efforts needed I guess ;)

Title: Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: curaga on September 24, 2010, 10:21:58 AM

Wine, at least.

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=551

Title: Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: holiday 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.

Title: Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: SvOlli 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.

Title: Re: app for reading windows help files? xxx.chm
Post by: peterc 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.)