Comments on: Convert CHM to PDF in (Fedora) Linux

By: Randell

Randell — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:15:01 +0000

Thanks for the addition info, Abdelrhman. I guess it would be best to report those bugs containing the exact errors on the project page so that the owners can work on them: http://code.google.com/p/chm2pdf/

By: Abdelrhman Mohammed Abotaleb

Abdelrhman Mohammed Abotaleb — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:43:36 +0000

Thanks a lot Eng/Randell for your fast reply;
–book option works sometime on specific files and other times doesn’t work.
I converted till now about four books ; each is about 600~800 pages
and the conversion took about roughly three minutes.
No missing pages – but only duplicated sections when the option –webpage is used.
Neither missing pages nor duplicated sections when –book option work without errors.

By: Randell

Randell — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:26:33 +0000

If I remember correctly, I also got errors when using the `–book`option. Were there any missing pages in the generated PDF? How many pages were you trying to convert?

By: Abdelrhman Mohammed Abotaleb

Abdelrhman Mohammed Abotaleb — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:02:22 +0000

Thanks a lot ; I followed the steps under fedora FC12 and it’s OK.
but while trying to converting a book name.chm using –book option it gives me an error
when using –webpage option it generated the pdf file after a while but the same problem
as furicle told. after each section in the converted file a duplicated version is generated.

By: furicle

furicle — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:40:04 +0000

Another alternative is Calibre – http://calibre-ebook.com/

I recently converted a large CHM into pdf with OK results. Some sections seem to have ended up duplicated, but nothing was missing, and the diagrams stayed intact.

Interestingly, it worked better on my older Ubuntu system than on OSX – both using the same version of Calibre. I’m guessing different versions of Ghostscript.

Next time I’ll try your recommendation and see how it compares/