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DESCRIPTION

Chimp lets you view all those pesky CHM files that are floating around. CHM stands for Compiled HTML, and it's used by Microsoft Windows for help files, documentation, magazines and eBooks. Chimp lets you open these files with the elegance and ease you'd expect from OS X.

Features:

  • Document-wide searching
  • Document-wide printing
  • Editable bookmarks
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1:
  • Export to PDF (10.4 only)
  • Spotlight indexing
  • More compatible with unusually formatted files
  • Bug fixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Sphera Software
Downloads:21,716
  - Version d/l:16,964
Utilities:File Management
License:Shareware
Date:06 Oct 2005
Platform:PPC
Price:$4.95
RATING
****½
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Apr 13 2009

SPERMIN8R  As it is discontinued and you can't register...

$5 is nothing for something that is useful

(I wanted to buy it too but as of now I can't)

Use this to register:

Name:Santa Claus

SN:Chimp-R80R-0100-3M53-0052-202F  
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 7 2008

SCHOSCHIE  The company who makes this appears, very unfortunately, to be defunct.

From the spherasoft Website:

To everyone looking for SpheraSoft:

I don't know what happened to SpheraSoft, nor do I know how to contact them. Black Ring obtained their IP a few months ago. I would assume the company has dissolved. Please understand that I can not help you with your programs or serial numbers.

-Nace 1-17-08  
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 24 2009

BB553  Chimp v1.1

http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/02a994512a8591b84781276e63181418/49a3a968/400009854/mac/Utilities/chimp.dmg  
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 3 2008

NDP630  I have paid the $4.95 for the program today 2-3-08. I have a serial number to activate it, and I can't find a place to download it now. The site and company appear to be gone. Does anyone have any idea where I might be able to find a copy? I have tried to contact esellerate (whom I made my payment through) and we'll see where this goes. I just want copy of the program i can activate. Can anyone help me out with this?   
(Version 1.1)

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Jun 4 2008

PRES!  as of early June 2008, it's still available here:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Chimp.shtml

(...of course I can't register it or anything, but I got it! ^^;)  
(Version 1.1)

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Nov 17 2007

NIQ  Please bring this back! It was the best chm viewer available!  
(Version 1.1)

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Oct 13 2007

EGN  The download link brings up a "site suspended" sign.

Not there.  
(Version 1.1)

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Aug 30 2007

DOMINIKHOFFMANN  I have been unable to contact the developer. On my Intel system at least, I can't use the search function. Furthermore, I have not heard back from the developer in about four weeks on the issue of not being able to export to PDF after registering the application.  
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 28 2007
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GREGORGY  The only thing that this app could benefit from is numbering pages or titling them when printing or exporting.

That aside, about 6 minutes after downloading I registered. It did EXACTLY what I wanted with no extraneous clicking and sorting and setting options and messing around.

A large CHM file was exported to PDF (1000+ pages) in little under a minute.

That same thing would have taken me days using other solutions I tried.

Well done!  
(Version 1.1)

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Aug 9 2007

DOMINIKHOFFMANN  Just like GREGORGY, I was looking to export a whole CHM file to PDF. I was delighted to find that the unregistered version did just that, albeit with the limits of trial operation. While I didn't bee GREGORY's 6 min to register, I came close. With Chimp registered, however, the PDF export no longer works. It simply does nothing, after I specify the destination file name and location for the PDF.

Dominik Hoffmann  
(Version 1.1)

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Aug 9 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  Have you tried contacting the developer?

http://www.spherasoft.com/contact.html  
(Version 1.1)

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Aug 9 2007

DOMINIKHOFFMANN  I am currently waiting for his response.  
(Version 1.1)

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Jan 11 2007

LEONCAHUN  Great app. Please make it universal!  
(Version 1.1)

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Oct 10 2005
****½

BRIAN  Had a problem applying the registration code in 10.4.2 but a couple of e-mails later the guys at Sphera mailed me a fixed version.

Works like a charm. Beats the pants off CHM Viewer and Chmox (slow, no search, no export to pdf).

Nice work Shawn, great support and a great app.  
(Version 1.1)

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Oct 6 2005
****½

ENDE  It works like a charm on my Mac (2xG5, Tiger). I missed this important feature .CHM -> PDF and vuala! here it is!!!

I only miss a way to enlarge the Courier font, specially in .chm dedicated to programming, where the Courier listings are so frequent. It would be great to have some preferences where to select the size of default (?) fonts...

Great update, faster than the previous.

Anyway, Chimp is far away from Chmox, CHM Viewer, and Xchm. It has find, it is more robust and faster launching...  
(Version 1.1)

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