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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For .uif there is the tool uif2iso. To be found at http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm#uif2iso
There are many programs for reading .chm. Like chmsee, gnochm, kchmviewer, xchm, you name it.
Regards,
Sebastian
Posted by Sebastian on April 03, 2008 at 04:36 PM PDT #
Thanks Sebastian! I was hoping somebody would add a comment like this. From googling around, I didn't stumble across anything like uif2iso.
Posted by Rich Burridge on April 03, 2008 at 04:42 PM PDT #
xchm
Posted by Me on April 03, 2008 at 05:32 PM PDT #
gnochm is great. its a gnome frontend to xchm
Posted by Seth on April 03, 2008 at 06:13 PM PDT #
CHM are basically a bunch of html files compiled together in an archive. gnomechm works well except that sometimes it doesn't render things like certain images (it has been a while since I've used it maybe it's fixed now). You can also use arCHMage to extract your chm file to html files. It can even works as a apache extension.
Posted by Olivier Le Thanh Duong on April 03, 2008 at 11:43 PM PDT #
kchmviewer
Posted by Pepa on April 04, 2008 at 04:27 AM PDT #
Thanks everybody. I knew there would be a load
of choices. When it comes to things like this,
I tend to initially try out the one that Google
returns near the top of a search. Unless it
really sucks and/or doesn't meet my needs, I don't
look much further.
Perhaps I should, but there are only so many
hours in a day.
Posted by Rich Burridge on April 04, 2008 at 06:55 AM PDT #