Where can I find a PDF to CHM converter for Windows?

kaydo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:25:19 -0800

Where can I find a PDF to CHM converter for Windows? Where can I find a XP or Vista compatible PDF to CHM converter? I have a number of ebooks and other documentation in bookmarked PDF format. This is ok, but I'd really prefer CHM.

I've downloaded the obvious looking stuff and taken it for a test drive. All formatting and fonts have been lost across a variety of different PDF files which has left me with something pretty unreadable.

I don't mind if it's paid software, but I'd appreciate a recommendation from someone who may have used a similar tool before. Is this a realistic dream?

.chm to .pdf conversion in Mac OS X?

Señor Pantalones — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:11:51 -0800

.chm to PDF conversion, Mac OS X. There seems to be no easy way to do it. Does anyone have an effective and trustworthy workflow they can recommend? (more inside) After recently switching to Papers for my eBook/journal librarian, I need to get rid of all these pesky .chm files. So far I've tried...

- Tubby (chm expander) to Acrobat Professional. Works, but you need to manually nest chapters and subchapters, and it throws some ugly markup artifacts into the document.

- Tubby to HTMLDoc (cli binary). Does a nice job converting to PDF, better than Acrobat, but spits it all out as one big unordered file, which needs far more reorganization.

- Chamonix -> Print. Only prints single pages as pdf, not entire document.

- chm2pdf (python). Looks promising but even after compiling for OS X it keeps failing...maybe I am doing something wrong.

Any tips would be appreciated, and if you haven't checked out Papers yet, you'll love it...

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