CHM to PDF

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:13:36 GMT, Felix Rawlings staggered into the Black Sun and said:

For Microsoft's Compiled HTML (.CHM) format, there's a library called chmlib that can read and extract the HTML and images to a specified directory. The source tarball comes with an example program called "extractchm" ; if you do "extractchm $FILE.chm $DIRECTORY" , it'll decompile $FILE.chm and put all the HTML and images into $DIRECTORY.

That may not exist in the form you want, and it'd really be a dumb thing to do since .CHM files don't really have a linear page order the way designed-for-dead-trees documents do. You can decompile these things easily and then render the individual HTML pages to PostScript using Mozilla or something. Putting the individual pages together in a way that makes sense will probably require a fair amount of human intervention, unless the .CHM files are set up in ways that most .CHM files I've seen aren't. Oh well, HTH,

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