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Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: petya on February 26, 2005, 04:57:09 am

Hi! I am using cacko 1.22 and it's fantastic, i can read almost all my ebooks on pda, with bookreader, justreader, and qpdf2, but i have some books in windows help file format (chm, some kind of compressed html). What reader should i use for that?

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: Bertram Wooster on February 26, 2005, 07:40:10 am

supposedly qtreader is able to read .chm - unfortunately though i can't really make it work on my c3000 (yet). nevertheless, give it a try:
http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/ (http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/)
good luck!

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: padishah_emperor on February 26, 2005, 08:01:10 am

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supposedly qtreader is able to read .chm - unfortunately though i can't really make it work on my c3000 (yet). nevertheless, give it a try:
http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/ (http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/)
good luck!
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Yep, I'm using opie-reader (qtreader) and it works with all kinds of formats even HTML, never tried .chm

I can try for you if you want to PM me.

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: Stubear on February 26, 2005, 10:00:56 am

I can confirm that the latest version of opie-reader (both at Tim's site) and the Cacko feed) support chm files.

In fact opie-reader reads some chm files better than xchm on my linux box does.

Thanks Tim:)

Stu

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: petya on February 26, 2005, 12:12:29 pm

that's it!! thanks

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: TimW on February 28, 2005, 08:18:40 am

Actually, Bob Griffin did most of the hard work on getting chm support into opie-reader so thanks to him.

I don't use chm very much so I can't be certain on this next point but I've been fixing things in the html handling which will probably help a lot with stability when reading chm files (it affects rb files too, which was how I found it). If you are getting a lot of segfaults in chm (or rb, for that matter) and you want to try the latest unstable to see if it fixes anything, drop me a line (timwentford  at  hotmail  dot    com).

Let me know if you are using a sharp based rom or an opie based one, and if you have opie whether it is gcc 2.x based or gcc 3.x based. Note that I can't build for the latest opie properly as I can't get the latest cross compiler but the only problems I have found is when putting %ages into the "Jump to" dialog so it should be pretty stable (it is the version I am currently using on a day to day basis).

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: ScottYelich on February 28, 2005, 09:41:40 am

Another possibility is "chmlib" (make examples) -- it will convert .chm into MANY .html
files.

Scott

Title: Ebook Readers
Post by: petya on March 07, 2005, 04:14:31 am

Opie reader opens the chm file and displays it, but i cannot navigate in it. When i tap on a link, it asks me where to save the file. What am i doing wrong?

petya