Can We Read CHM files from Puppy ?
Can We Read CHM files from Puppy ?
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 ?
Shabri
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 ?
Shabri
patience is pearl
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"
Mark
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"
Mark
displaychm fonts
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.
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.
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.
Mark
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.
Mark
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,
Sarah F.
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,
Sarah F.
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
Mark
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
Mark
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really thanks
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
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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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
use kchmviewer instead:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 33c9d7729
Note that this thread was last updated in 2006.
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? )
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? )
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In memory of our beloved American Eskimo puppy (1995-2010) and black Lab puppy (1997-2011).
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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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Dennis
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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Dennis
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Wine comes with a chm viewer. It needs the windows version of gecko installed which you can install using Wine Tricks.
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wine hh /path/to/chm/file.chm
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
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]
Ultrachm
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.
Firefox addon
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.
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.