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DESCRIPTION
iChm is a chm file reader for Mac OS X.

Features include:

  • Fully built with Cocoa. No ugly window and slow rendering.
  • Tab browsing
  • Search through the chm file. Automatically sorted by relevance.
  • Search in Index by title.
  • Find in the page
  • Index
  • Save whole file to PDF
  • Continuous reading with Page down/Page up
  • Text encoding switching
  • Tag powered bookmark
  • Back/Forward/Home
  • Text zoom
  • Automatically locate current document in table of content
  • Localized in 6 languages
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4:
  • Save whole file to PDF
  • Continuous reading with Page down/Page up
  • Remember latest viewing page per file
  • Remember search option per file

iChm for iPhone/iPod Touch is also available at App Store

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Robin Lu
Downloads:18,160
  - Version d/l:8,801
Utilities:File Management
License:Free
Date:11 Nov 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****.
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iChm User Reviews (11 posts)Write A Review
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Nov 30 2008
*****

SURFSPIRIT  Fast and the following feature is a must for me "Save whole file to PDF"

Great App! :)  
(Version 1.4)

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Sep 18 2008
*****

RICHOZ  Simple and to the point. Great app!  
(Version 1.3.2)

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Aug 26 2008

TERRYANDTAOTAO  Among iChm, xCHM chmox and ArCHMock, iCHM is the the only one I would recommend.

I know it only took the coder several days to finish it. Really appreciate it. It's good to see more Chinese developers write high quality opensource programs.  
(Version 1.2)

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Jul 30 2008
****.

TEKL  I tried several CHM Viewers for OS X. iChm, xCHM and ArCHMock are the only one which I can recommend.

But all are not perfect yet.

ArCHMock 1.1:

+ Fast

+ Nice Interface

+ Good HTML rendering (Webkit)

+ Highlighting search results in Text

+ Good keyboard support (Cmd+G etc.)

+ Bookmarks

+ Automatically locates the current page in the table of contents

+ Good search results (can be sorted by relevance)

+ Zooming can be resetted

+ Remembers the last position

+ Open source

- No Index

- No options for searching

- No "find in page"

- No toolbar button for print (but Cmd+P works)

- No tabs or multiple document windows

iChm 0.9.1:

+ Fast

+ Nice Interface

+ Good HTML rendering (Webkit)

+ Tabs

+ Auto-update feature

- No Index

- Bad keyboard support (no Cmd+G)

- No options for searching

- You habe to manually 'locate' the current page in the table of contents

- Only searchs for words (no partial search)

- No home button (and no hotkey for that)

- Because of the small tabs its hard to get the title of the current page (which is not shown in the window title)

xCHM 1.13:

+ Contents/Index/Results on left side

+ Searchable index

+ Options for searching in titles only or partial

+ Automatically locates the current page in the table of contents

+ Bookmarks

+ Open source

- Ugly interface

- Bad HTML rendering

- Does not support custom context menus (like in SelfHTML)

- Slow (scrolling)

- Search results are always sorted alphabetically

- No tabs or multiple document windows

- The binary of the Mac version won't be updated anymore

At the moment ArCHMock has the best usability for me.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 30 2008

SPLYB  Nice review.

I will try my best.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008
****.

GAOSHAN  Now that I have had a chance to use a working version, new review.

I like it. The cocoa interface is better than much of what is available in other chm viewers. Tabs are nice to have as well.

What does the "Locate" button do? Clicking it doesn't seem to do anything.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

SPLYB  Thank you very much for your patience.

When you click links in file, you may want to know where the page is in the table of content. The 'locate' button serves for that. In most time, when you just click on table of content for navigation, you don't need that button.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

GBK  OK ! now all is good on MU ! really reactive :]  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

MACUPDATE ADMIN  All thanks are due to the developer for being so responsive in fixing the issue...  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

GBK  ok, i've missed sthg : "Intel only"...  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

MACUPDATE ADMIN  So, you're saying that it did not work for you because you have a PPC Mac?  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008
*****

SCOTTDB  Perfect CHM reader.

Cocoa, tabs, fast, simple interface, SEARCH!

Well done. I'll be donating shortly.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008
*****

LIBIN PAN  A great chm reader! Simple and very fast. Tab view is a truly innovative!  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008
***..

GBK  looks good !... but crash report send to dev after 1st launch :(  
(Version 0.9.1)

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Jul 29 2008

SPLYB  If you were using version 0.9, please update to 0.9.1.

I have fixed the crash.

Sorry for the crash.  
(Version 0.9.1)

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