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.
4:25 pm December 28, 2005
under mac
I’ve used them all and have to say Chimp is my favorite and even comes with a Spotlight mdimporter plugin.
I think the link is supposed to be
http://chmox.sourceforge.net
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.
There’s another free one that even provides search functionality and favourites: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chamonix
Damn, have been looking for a Spotlight importer for .chm files, and now the Chimp site seems to be down!
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.
Hello!, How Chmox don’t let zoom in images…