Jeremy Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Anyone know of good freeware software to view CHM files and also to merge PDFs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) Dunno about the PDF thing, but MS has a CHM (Compiled HTML Help) Help Editor (free); takes some "fiddling" to figger it out.Or did I misunderstand the question? Edited January 10, 2008 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srikat Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 http://www.pdfsam.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Xchm:http://xchm.sourceforge.net/pdftkb:http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) Xchm:http://xchm.sourceforge.net/I do not see a Windows version. Edited January 12, 2008 by Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) Xchm:http://xchm.sourceforge.net/I do not see a Windows version.Huh? Go to the project page:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87007http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xchm/xchm...mp;big_mirror=0jaclaz Edited January 12, 2008 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I've had great luck with xCHM on win32. My help subsystem doesn't exist thanks to some handy magic from the HFSLIP team and xCHM is a suitable replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 How did I miss that... huh.Must have been really tired when I was checking.Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Are you guys removing the Help Engine from windows or did I miss something? If so why: Size, Security, Other? Also how are the two (PDF) related? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 From an HFSLIP user's perspective, the help engine is removed as a side effect of removing IE and its HTML rendering engine. We primarily do it for security.The PDF question should be quite a separate issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Sorry about that.No prob, mate. @DigeratiPrimeI may add that apart "straight HFSLIP" any project aimed to considerably reduce the bloat of a build has to face the total removal of the IE engine, as initially started by Fred de Vorck, and sporting this logo is actually cool :Just as an example, xchm does work also in this EXPERIMENTAL "micro-build":http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.htmlIt might be useful, even in a "Emergency Recovery Only" build, to be able to access Windows Help files.And yes, .pdf is an alltogether different matter, reading them has not been a problem since Foxit made available it's reader, but sometimes one needs some editing and doesn't want (or cannot afford) full blown pdf creating apps.BTW, there is an even smaller pdf reader around:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...15&hl=foxitjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Thanks for the answers guys. I dont use HFSLIP rather nLite but I forgot it will also break "reading chm files" by removing IE Core, even though it also has a separate Help Engine component. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I could not resist, but if some one knows how to keep MS Office and MSN (Live) Messenger working without IE core, please post here or better PM me (I could be outdated ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I may add that apart "straight HFSLIP" any project aimed to considerably reduce the bloat of a build has to face the total removal of the IE engine, as initially started by Fred de Vorck...I thought that was probably the case but most of my experience is with HFSLIP so I didn't want to speak for the *Lite community. And Fred Vorck is an HFSLIP guy I could not resist, but if some one knows how to keep MS Office and MSN (Live) Messenger working without IE core, please post here or better PM me (I could be outdated ).The person I'd ask is Oleg_II in the HFSLIP subforum. He created a kludge to enable HTML support without IE a while back, and I recall that there was at least one other member (tommyp?) there that had a similar accomplishment. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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