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Reading CHM files on OS X

Wednesday 28 December 2005 - Filed under mac

I had to look at some docs that were in Microsoft Help format – ‘.chm’, or ‘Compiled HTML’. It looks like a compressed, possibly indexed web archive format. Luckily, I only had to look for a minute before I found an OS X reader for CHM files that I like – Chmox. It gives you the pages and the index, then basically gets out of your way.

2005-12-28  »  mike

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  1. Mark Grimes
    28 December 2005 @ 5:09 pm

    I’ve used them all and have to say Chimp is my favorite and even comes with a Spotlight mdimporter plugin.

  2. ollie
    29 December 2005 @ 6:21 am

    I think the link is supposed to be http://chmox.sourceforge.net

  3. mike
    29 December 2005 @ 12:04 pm

    ollie: Thanks, it’s fixed in the post now.

    For what it’s worth, Chimp does look really good, but I don’t read CHM files often enough to justify even a price as low as $5.

  4. Henning
    3 January 2006 @ 12:17 pm

    There’s another free one that even provides search functionality and favourites: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chamonix

  5. Oskar
    6 March 2006 @ 6:02 pm

    Damn, have been looking for a Spotlight importer for .chm files, and now the Chimp site seems to be down!

  6. cooper
    6 May 2006 @ 5:06 am

    I am trying chimp, the mdimport plugin must be installed manually, and if it hadnt been mentioned here I would never know about it.

    Must copy it yourself into /Library/spotlight from the application package.

  7. Peter
    22 November 2006 @ 11:43 am

    Hello!, How Chmox don’t let zoom in images…

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