Thursday April 03, 2008 Reading uif And chm Files Under Ubuntu
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I came across two files types earlier this week that I hadn't seen before. <filename1>.uif and <filename2>.chm. Luckily there is a nice web site that has a potted history of them (uif chm). |
There is a Windows program called MagicISO that will allow you to extract files inside a uif file. And it "just works" via Wine on my Ubuntu Horny Hippo system.
With the chm files, there is a wonderful little Google Code program called chm2pdf that will nicely convert the files to PDF which I can then read with evince. It's still got a couple of things that need to be fixed. The page numbering is all shoot to pieces and it really doesn't like it if the original chm file has spaces in its name, but I can live with the first one and a simple rename before trying to do the conversion solves the second one.
(I also found that FBReader nicely reads chm files too).
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