Re: CHM on other platforms; was: re: RoboHelp: Ready to Publish...how do I do that?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Yeah, sure, strictly speaking CHM can be made to work on MacOS or
Linux if you install a a converter or viewer.

With the exception of PDF, I think that's a dealbreaker, ladies, so
I'll continue to round that off as "won't work."

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:34 PM, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> With respect, your information is either simply misinformed or
> seriously out of date.
>
> I just looked at the Ubuntu package manager, and counted at least five
> different tools for viewing CHM files in Linux--and one that converts
> .chm to .pdf, by the way (apparetly a Python script that might also
> work in Windows if the appropriate libraries are present).\
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