If you try to click on “open with” (right click context) the chm file the first time after you move the file to a more apropiated place than the one you dowloaded it to (my case), then choose the kchmviewer program from the suggested list, it will fail reading the contents, it reads the tree structure though. Maybe one minor bug but I don’t know if it’s os related or kviewer’s: I had the intuition to choose kchmviewer and… yay it worked right on! Thanks for this useful and efficient post.

XCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book. Originally written for UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), xCHM has been since ported to Mac OS X and Windows. XCHM is a cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib, with borrowed bits from Pabs' chmdeco project. Install gnochm Using the following command It is implemented in Python, using the P圜HM bindings for chmlib. Install kchmviewer Using the following command It has the features set of standard viewer: search (including non-English CHMs), bookmarking, font size changing, index/content browsing, codepage support, and more. The main point is compatibility with non-English CHM files, including most international character sets.

It can be build as a stand-alone Qt-based application or a KDE application. Kchmviewer is a CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE. You can use either kchmviewer or gnochm or xchm. Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format.

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