Dependencies

On my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn I need pdftk installed.

Before these steps you need two other things installed. pychm module ( http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/pychm.html ) and chmlib ( http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/ )

chmlib needs to be configured with ./configure --enable-examples

Additionally you need htmldoc ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc/ ) and pdftk ( http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/#packages )

On Ubuntu Gutsy I had to run following command: sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libchm.so.0 /usr/lib/libchm.so.0

A Ubuntu walk through...

http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/

• Download chmlib from the above link and Extract the files
• If you do not already have the "build-essential meta-package" (ie if you have not compiled anything in the past then run)

sudo apt-get install build-essential

• Next open terminal and,go to the chmlib directory and then run

./configure --enable-examples

• and then run

sudo make install

• next,install pychm

sudo apt-get install python-chm

• htmldoc

sudo apt-get install htmldoc

• and pdftk

sudo apt-get install pdftk

Finally follow the procedure above to install chm2pdf

PS:use

sudo python setup.py install

I have made many changes to the script! Read the whole story on my Forum at:

How to convert CHM to PDF with chm2pdf in Linux

For example, now you can use all options of htmldoc (almost 100 of them!) from the command line!

Download it from:

http://www.karakas-online.de/downloads/chm2pdf-0.9.tar.gz

Type

chm2pdf --help

for a quick help. Usage examples and all details in the Forum thread above.

Enjoy! :-)

Chris Karakas http://www.karakas-online.de

I have built a Debian package for chm2pdf. It is available here: http://ximaera.name/ximaera/files/chm2pdf_0.9_all.deb .

Hope it will be useful for those guys who want to keep all packages' dependencies on their hard disk, not in their heads -)

Feel free to contact me for any issues at ximaera@gmail.com Artyom Gavrichenkov

THIS PRODUCT IS GAY AND DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE ITS NOT ON WINDOWS

Thanks Guy! Wonderful! :-) A small note. It doesn't work if the filename contain any space.

Alessandro

zioalex try putting the entire filepath in quotes, or escaping the space character ('\ ' instead of ' ').

=on debian etch=

 apt-get install libchm1
 apt-get install libchm-dev
 apt-get install libchm-bin
 apt-get install libchm
 apt-get install htmldoc
 apt-get install htmldoc-common
 apt-get install python-chm

page_filename = /tmp/chm2pdf/orig/1111/ Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 887, in <module>

main(sys.argv)

File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 883, in main

convert_to_pdf(cfile, filename, outputfilename, options)

File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 242, in convert_to_pdf

correct_file(page_filename, htmlout_filename, html_list, objective_urls)

File "/usr/bin/chm2pdf", line 113, in correct_file

pf=open(input_file,'r')

How do I do this on OS X 10.5 ?