Convert CHM to PDF on Ubuntu

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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By default, you cannot view CHM file in Ubuntu. To view the CHM file, you can use GnoCHM. However, I found that GnoCHM is not so stable and crash a lot. Hence, another option is to convert it to PDF. What you need is the chm2pdf and python-beautifulsoup packages.

Install the packages

sudo apt-get install chm2pdf python-beautifulsoup

Convert the CHM file to PDF

chm2pdf --webpage --beautifulsoup filename.chm

You can even change colour, font, and margin of the generated PDF file. For more information on how to do so, please invoke

man chm2pdf

command on the terminal.

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