Access to PDF and CHM files from within Shell

[Kerry Hoath]

You can unzip a chm and you get a pile of html files; which should read with 
lynx or your browser of choice.
I uncompress them with 7-zip under windows; not sure if p7zip under Linux 
will do the job; it might.
I have also not tried unzip on .chm files but they are a zip archive; or a 
variant of same.

You usually have to convert a pdf to text or similar; loosing formatting 
information in the process; that has been my experience.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Murphy" <mhysnm1964 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:49 PM
Subject: Access to PDF and CHM files from within Shell


All,

I want to know if the following is possible?

1.  Accessing a CHM file from the Shell?  If so, how and is it possible to 
keep the HTML structure or do you have to extract it out as a web page?

2.  Is it possible to access PDF without converting it into HTMl or Text by 
using the pdf2ps ps2html tools?  Basically, I have some secure PDF documents 
which I want to access under Linux.

Sean
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