![]() The idea of a 'compiled' HTML format' where all the 1,000's of tiny sub-files are in a zipper for easy emailing/interchange always sounded attractive to me - I could never understand why the W3C didnt define one, left it to late-to-the-web-closed-shop-MS to define a proprietary one, by all accounts poorly documented. When googling chm to pdf saw lists of other utilities, some commercial, with some negative comments about conversion quality. Searching more Calibre links took me to: does anyone know if using 'chmdeco' is worthwhile ? My end objective, is to be able to 'print' typically 1 chapter from a sizeable 500+page CHM technical documents, i.e formatted & hyperlinkded ToC, Chapters, text diagrams, index. Is there a set of recommended Settings to 'tune' the Calibre CHM i/p plugin ? I read ( /conversion) you use a system of i/p & o/p plugins, saw much that requires good knowledge of html (don't have), but no simple instruction on improving CHM conversions. Is there anything I can do to help Calibre CHM converter to work better ? Even the simplest of non-MS programs I use are able to recognise the default Printer Driver without asking me to install it again !!Īs Foxit can easily generate a user defined selection of pages into a new PDF file using my CutePDF Print Driver, I thought all I need now is a CHM2PDF converter - that ACCURATELY converts CHM to PDF, and problem solved. I found the Windows HTML Help Viewer inadequate in 2 respects: its Print function very primitive - a) doesnt allow one to select a page range for printing, b) doesnt seem to recognise my installed default Print Driver: 'CutePDF Writer' - just presents me with a 'Add Printer' dialog. Reason I want to convert to PDF is for easy emailing of selected pages to be printed on a remote printer - and I found PDF is the easiest format for non-technical people to print from. Just in case anyone thinks the source CHM is corrupted, it works perfectly using the MS Windows HTML viewer This produced a 5.3MB PDF - but also badly converted. I tried again, this time using default o/p format EPUB. All it had was the 'ToC' from the source file, i.e just a few pages, not the 690 pages of the complete source. CHM was 5.9MB, but o/p PDF only 297KB -far too small. Altered default o/p format from ePUB to PDF. CHM shown in the list, I clicked ' Convert Books'. CHM Book I wanted to convert, it just invoked the primitive Windows ' HTML Help' applet that is part of Win7 - no different than clicking on a. Installation of latest (0.48.48) Calibre straightforward, no questions as to formats. PDF converter and was pointed to your Calibre as having a format converter that included.
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