{"id":1960,"date":"2010-01-19T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:21:19","slug":"convert-chm-to-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/convert-chm-to-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert CHM to PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to convert CHM to PDF in Linux<\/h3>\n

1. Install dependencies by running the following command in the terminal:
\n
\nsudo apt-get install htmldoc libchm-bin python-chm
\n<\/code>
\n2. Next, download chm2pdf by clicking here<\/a><\/u> or using wget
\n
\nwget http:\/\/chm2pdf.googlecode.com\/files\/chm2pdf-0.9.1.tar.gz
\n<\/code>
\n3. Now extract the downloaded file.
\n
\ntar -xzvf chm2pdf-0.9.1.tar.gz
\n<\/code>
\n4. Browse to the folder you extracted and run:
\n
\ncd pdf-0.9.1
\nsudo python setup.py install
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Now on the command line, type:
\n
\nchm2pdf [options] input_filename [output_filename]
\n<\/code>
\n<\/p>\n

chm2pdf examples<\/h3>\n

Unstructured HTML files inside the CHM file, use of –webpage option – produces my-file.pdf:
\n
\nchm2pdf --webpage my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nStructured HTML files:
\n
\nchm2pdf --book my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nStructured HTML files, produce a table of contents page automatically (–title option):
\n
\nchm2pdf --book --title my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nStructured HTML files, produce a table of contents page automatically (–title option), add a \u201ctitlepage\u201d as found in the toc.html file inside the CHM:
\n
\nchm2pdf --book --title --titlefile toc.html my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nIf the file \u201ctoc.html\u201d is not found, a warning will be issued and the option will be ignored – just browse the (very verbose) output of chm2pdf to see that warning if you suspect you mispelled the titlefile name.<\/p>\n

Like above, now with an explicitly set page size and maximum compression level for the resulting PDF:
\n
\nchm2pdf --book --title --titlefile toc.html --size 177.8\u00d7233.3mm --compression 9 my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nLike above, but name the PDF \u201cyour-file.pdf\u201d:
\n
\nchm2pdf --book --title --titlefile toc.html --size 177.8\u00d7233.3mm --compression 9 my-file.chm your-file.pdf
\n<\/code>
\nA very interesting option (and one that is not htmldoc-specific, but is pure chm2pdf-specific) is the –extract-only option:
\n
\nchm2pdf --extract-only my-file.chm
\n<\/code>
\nwill extract the contents of my-file.chm (all the HTML and other, \u201cspecial\u201d, files inside the CHM) into the directory CHM2PDF_TEMP_ORIG_DIR\/my-file. Thus, if CHM2PDF_TEMP_ORIG_DIR has its default value \u201c\/tmp\/chm2pdf\/orig\u201d, chm2pdf will extract the file into \/tmp\/chm2pdf\/orig\/my-file and stop. <\/p>\n

You can then examine the extracted files at your pace. They will be overwritten next time you call chm2pdf with the same file(name).<\/p>\n

If you want to know more available options use the following command from your terminal
\n
\nchm2pdf --help<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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