Well CHM is popular on Windows, and people tend to make a compact file instead of sharing all the HTMLfiles, and gain global search as a plus.
However, on FreeBSD, or the Unix world as a whole, it’s not easy to view CHM files cause the format is hold by MS. Most of the work nowadays is done around chmlib. Most of the time I’ll run a command line tool like chm2html to decompile the CHM file to HTML, because most of the GUI viewers I found lacks something: supporting Chinese, or change fonts. Sometimes the font is just too small that I can’t see it clearly. By decompiling that to HTML and visit in a web browser, I can at least change the font, though I’ve lost the capacity of search.
But today I found kchmviewer which did a pretty good work: It support Chinese, changing font size (I guess it’s using the mozilla/firefox render engine cause I can change the font size by C-+ and C—). And don’t be confused by the name, this tool doesn’t require KDE at all. The only thing it required is QT.
Now I’ve bind it as my default CHM viewer. The only thing left is searching Chinese phases, though it can search English phases in Chinese documents. It is said in the homepage that this will be coming soon. Great!
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