Questions tagged [chm]

Chm is a proprietary Microsoft file format and chm files are compiled html help files that contain html files and an index. It can, however, be opened by some programs that run on Ubuntu.

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How to open and convert CHM documents?

I have some documents that are in a .chm format. I wondered if there is a file format that can be easier to navigate, supported and of equal file size in Ubuntu? If there is, I would like to start converting all those books and probably using them…
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Is there any terminal viewer of CHM files in Ubuntu?

I did not manage to find anyone. I have a problem that I need to access my CHM files over network and over VPN which makes the requirement rather slow with the normal CHM viewer. Therefore, I thought about terminal viewer of the format. There are…
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How to convert this chm file to pdf?

I want to convert a chm file to a pdf file. Calibre's command ebook-convert ebook-convert 1.chm 1.pdf only converts the first 7 pages of the chm file into a pdf file, while the chm file has much more pages. How can I convert the whole chm file into…
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Multi-page Static Website to PDF/CHM/Other Converter

I have several small static websites that I want to turn into PDFs, CHMs, or a similar format. These websites are documentation generated by Ruby's RDoc tool. They have an index.html file and links to other static files all contained in directories…
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How do I convert CHM files to pdf?

Here's a list of things I've tried: Calibre from which I received a file containing the table of contents of the chm file with each title hyperlinked to nowhere (i.e. they're highlighted in blue and underlined). chm2pdf which gave me nothing and…
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chmsee not opening php manual

I have chmsee 1.0.7 installed on Ubuntu 10.04. It opens a small chm files (1Mb or 2Mb files) but when I try to open php manual chm file which weights about 10Mb it doesn't open it and doesn't show any error message. Where is the problem? Has anybody…
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Highlight text in CHM files

I have few chm files and i'm using xchm reader as the tool. but i need to highlight some important points in the documents. is there is any possible plugin for xchm or any special chm readers available for Ubuntu that can highlight text..?
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which format is more suitable for reading on a laptop and converting to pdf: chm or epub

which format is more suitable for reading on a laptop and Ubuntu (for bookmarks, annotations, viewing, navigation, ...): chm or epub? which format is more suitable for converting to pdf on Ubuntu: chm or epub? Thanks!
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xCHM can't open any of chm file

My xCHM Reader can't open any file. When I try to open a chm file I get this error: ../src/common/unichar.cpp(65): assert "Assert failure" failed in ToHi8bit(): character cannot be converted to single byte
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ways to convert chm to djvu

I was wondering how to convert chm to djvu? Command line, GUI or online solutions are both fine. My OS is 10.10. Thanks and regards!
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