.chm files

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viewers

Desktop

Desktop standalone applications:

To open a .chm file with linux, use one of the following viewers:
app-text/kchmviewer
Homepage: http://www.kchmviewer.net/
Description: A feature rich chm file viewer, based on Qt

app-text/xchm
Homepage: http://xchm.sourceforge.net/
Description: Utility for viewing Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files

Plugins

ChmFox brings the best CHM file reading experience to Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chmfox/

Convertors

app-text/chm2pdf
Homepage: https://code.google.com/p/chm2pdf/
Description: A script that converts a CHM file into a single PDF file

Libraries

Low level libraries. Regular users don't need to directly install any of those. Instead, they will be installed as dependencies for some of the above software.

dev-libs/chmlib
Homepage: http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/
Description: Library for MS CHM (compressed html) file format

dev-python/pychm
Homepage: http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/pychm.html
Description: Python bindings for the chmlib library