Can We Read CHM files from Puppy ?

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Can We Read CHM files from Puppy ?

#1 Post by shabri »

Migration from Windows to Linux is interesting,
there are many replacements for windows softwares in Linux.

but how about our collection ebooks in CHM format ?

Can we read CHM files from Puppy ?



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#2 Post by MU »

http://www.herdsoft.com/linux/themen/chmviewer.html (german)

Download:
http://www.herdsoft.com/ftp/chmviewer-0.1.tar.gz

from
http://www.herdsoft.com/ftp/downloads.html#chmviewer

Simply unzip to /usr/local/bin

Then run
displaychm "/PathToYourFiles/Whatever.chm"

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#3 Post by shabri »

what else can I say ??

cOOL !

thanks Mark !


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#4 Post by noip »

With IE6 installed in Wine, chm files display beautifully.
If you google on "xchm" you'll find a few other resources.

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displaychm fonts

#5 Post by Sarah F. »

I'm having a great time setting up my Puppy Linux, it really does just work. I quickly got Truetype fonts working in Mozilla and that's looking fantastic thanks to the info on this forum.
I'm glad to see that this .chm reader also works very easily.
But I would like to know how I can improve the appearance of the fonts that displaychm uses.
On my laptop displaychm text looks very jagged and I'm not clear how displaychm is producing its text so that I can change the settings.
I had a look at xchm but that requires wxwidgets libraries.
Any advice gratefully received.

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#6 Post by MU »

I made a dotpup of xchm from the slackware-packages.

It cannot display pictures, did not find out why :(
But the fonts look very good.

Download (3 MB, 10 MB extracted)
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Office/XCHM-wxGtk-2.6.pup
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/getdir.pup

I packaged it so, that everything is installed to /usr/local/XCHM, also wxWidgets 2.6, to avoid conflicts with other programs.
wxWidgets is a bit larger than it needs to be, because I included all libs, in case someone needs them for another program.
The XCHM-script shows, how to use these libs for other programs.

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#7 Post by Sarah F. »

Hi Mark,

Thank you so much for the software. It works perfectly, images and all.
You're right, the fonts do look very nice indeed. I think it should be added to the dotpup archive.
I could do with learning how to put them together myself too.
I'm more impressed by this OS and the forum every day.

Best Wishes,

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#8 Post by MU »

:shock: images work for you?
I have 2 test.chm, where images do dot work.
But maybe it has to do with the files itself.
If I click on a weblink, I can see images.

In this one, I see no images:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Office/Test.chm
But in chmviewer, they are visible.

But great, if it works with your documents :P
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really thanks

#9 Post by xuhainanjing »

thanks. guy, your xchm package works really fine

I have spent some time looking for the chm file reader for puppy, even I want to hop to another distribution, because I think the package manager is not so convennient like other distro, your work
stops me, really thanks

BTW, your test chm file can't display image on my computer, I have tested it :)

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#10 Post by debernardis »

If you use Firefox there is a nice chm viewer as an add-on. In my hands it works better than the standalone viewer.

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#11 Post by bruceoutdoors »

none of those mentioned in this thread worked for me. Chmdisplay practically didn't do anything. The chm add on for firefox apparently didn't work as well. Kept telling it is not compatible with firefox

use kchmviewer instead:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 33c9d7729

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#12 Post by Makoto »

Note that this thread was last updated in 2006. :P

Chmdisplay was probably missing some dependencies - if you still have it installed, what happens if you open a terminal window (rxvt, or whatever else you might have) and start it from there?

The Firefox extension (wait, wasn't there more than one? I don't remember...) probably hasn't been updated in a long time. You can try the 'make compatible' features of extensions like MR Tech Toolkit or Nightly Tester Tools (to bump the version compatibility number in the extension installer and trick FF into allowing it), or turn off Firefox's extension compatibility checking. That's no guarantee the extension will work properly, unfortunately. (Firefox could've simply changed too much for it to work since the extension was last updated, which could be why the extension author hasn't updated it. Who knows? :oops: )
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#13 Post by DMcCunney »

CHM is also one of the formats supported by the open source FBReader program, which displays ePub, Mobipocket, Plucker, and other ebook file formats. I use it for ePub, Mobi, and Plucker files. I haven't tried it on CHM files, and can't say from experience how good a job it does.

There's a PET of the current version posted in the Additional Software (PETs 'n stuff) forum, here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 86&t=23440
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#14 Post by abushcrafter »

Wine comes with a chm viewer. It needs the windows version of gecko installed which you can install using Wine Tricks.

Code: Select all

wine hh /path/to/chm/file.chm

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#15 Post by dejan555 »

Puppy used to have this chmsee by default there's still package in repo:

chmsee-1.0.0.pet
Probably needs this too chmlib-0.39.pet
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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Ultrachm

#16 Post by doctor82 »

I tried the above methods. But the chm failed to display for reasons unknown to me (I'm no geek). I installed ultrachm using wine and finally I could read my library of chm files. I'm using lupu - 5.2.8. Search ultrachm using google to get the download link to the windows software.

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Firefox addon

#17 Post by doctor82 »

I installed the firefox addon called CHMFox at https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/chmfox/

For me this is the only working way right now. I have a collection of ebooks in chm format and I was really desperate to open them in puppy.

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#18 Post by snayak »

chmsee: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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