KchmViewer

A viewer of CHM (MS-Help) files

Office

Not tested on a device yet. What that means

KchmViewer in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own kchmviewer package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so KchmViewer should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

With Device files granted, a document saved in your Linux Documents or Downloads folder is in Android's folder too, where Android apps can open it. More about office apps in Breadstick.

About KchmViewer

From Debian's package description

KchmViewer is a chm (MS HTML help file format) viewer, written in C++. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and does not depend on KDE or GNOME. However, it may be compiled with full KDE support, including KDE widgets and KIO/KHTML.

The main advantage of KchmViewer is non-English language support. Unlike others, KchmViewer in most cases correctly detects help file encoding, correctly shows tables of context of Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese help files, and correctly searches in non-English help files (search for MBCS languages - ja/ko/ch is still in progress).

Completely safe and harmless. Does not support JavaScript in any way, optionally warns you before opening an external web page, or switching to another help file. Shows an appropriate image for every TOC entry.

KchmViewer Has complete chm index support, including multiple index entries, cross-links and parent/child entries in index as well as Persistent bookmarks support. Correctly detects and shows encoding of any valid chm file.

From Debian's description of the kchmviewer package, under that package's license.

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Sources and licenses

  • Name and summary: the desktop entry in Debian's kchmviewer package, under that package's license.
  • Description: Debian's description of the kchmviewer package, under that package's license.
  • Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the kchmviewer package.
  • Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
  • Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.

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