Chm For Mac Reader

IChm is a chm file reader for Mac OS X. ###Developer Notes:### To build this fork of iChm (and its submodules), you’ll need at least Xcode 5.1 in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). ###Features### Fully built with Cocoa. No ugly window and slow rendering. Tab browsing; Search through the chm file. Automatically sorted by relevance. Find in the page; Index.
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CHM Viewer

Introduction

Mac iCHM reader. ICHM is an completely free and functional CHM reader for MAC that has the ability to search, tab browse files, navigate instantly and export CHM to PDF format without too much of fuss. You can directly download iCHM reader from here. Though Chmox CHM viewer for MAC is not updated anymore but this program is a good chm viewer! It does handle chm files appropriately.

CHM Viewer is a free software to view CHM format files, it can quickly open the *.chm file, format and display the contents, and it is a completely freeware, easy to use very much.

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Hot to Use

In main menu, select 'File' -> 'Open' (hot-key is 'Ctrl + O'), and choose one (*.chm) file, so you can browse the contents of the file.

After the CHM file is opened, in main menu 'Option', you can modify the default font, and can zoom in and zoom out default font size, zoom in hot-key is 'Ctrl + NUM+' and zoom out hot-key is 'Ctrl + NUM-'. You can also change default font color, viewer background color and hot spot color.

The Find function's hot-key is 'Ctrl + F', it allows you to easily search the contents of the file.

If your CHM files include images, you can right-click on the image, software will pop up a shortcut menu. You can copy the image to the Clipboard, ot save it as JPG/JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF image file.

In addition, CHM Viewer also supports the Export function, you can output the entire contents of your CHM files, save it as HTML files. Select the 'Export as HTML Files' in main menu 'File', software will let you specify a folder, this folder will be used to store all output HTML files and images.

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CHM File Format

The CHM's full name is Compiled HTML Help, it is an unique help file format on Windows platform, it's file extension icon is usually a document icon with a question mark, that mean these files are help documentations. Today, The Internet have a lot of e-books in CHM formatm, it is popular.

In Windows OS, some CHM files can not be displayed, while open a CHM file, you will get a message like 'Cannot open the file' or 'Navigation to the webpage was canceled', that is because some CHM files that you downloaded from the Internet may with some safety issues, so it must be unlocked in order to display. But using CHM Viewer, you can safely open these files, because it does not use IE to display HTML files, so it can avoid these potential security issues.

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Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF supports viewing CHM files. Sumatra is free, open-source and supports many other formats, like PDF, ePub, MOBI, XPS, DjVu, CBR, CBZ.

XCHM

XCHM is a cross-platform, open-source CHM viewer. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

FBReader

FBReader is a cross-platform, open-source eBook reader that can also read CHM files.

CHM Reader extension for FireFox

CHM Reader is not a stand-alone application but an extension to FireFox which allows reading CHM files directly in that browser.

ExtraCHM

Beyond CHM

Beyond CHM is a commercial, multi-tab CHM reader and editor.

UltraCHM

Details of CHM format

CHM stands for Compiled HTML and is a format introduced by Microsoft to be used by Windows application to provide documentation.

CHM document is a collection of HTML pages, compressed and packed as a single file. Files are compressed with lzx algorithm. CHM document also contains additional files like pre-build search index, table of contents structure etc. For the most complete description of the CHM format, you can read Unofficial HTML Help Specification.

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