kchmviewer: a better way to browse CHM files

It may be very old, but Microsoft's Compiled HTML Help (CHM) is still a common format for software documentation, as well as the occasional ebook. Windows has a standard HTML Help viewer which should be able to display most files, but it’s a little fragile (just search the web for "regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx"). It may not work well if you need to display files in various character sets. And even if there are no problems, it's still a very basic viewer. Kchmviewer offers an appealing open source alternative. The core of the program looks like the CHM viewer you know -- content… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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