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What do you use to bookmark and annotate your .chm files?
Armando:
I don't really like chm files. Probably because I'm ill equipped to deal with those -- [edit] can't annotate or bookmark anything [/edit]. Do some of you use/know special readers with light annotating features (eg : bookmarking and highlighting)?
Here's some of what I found on the DC forum about CHM editors and/or readers (not always perfectly related with my problem -- reading, bookmarking, etc, and not necessarily "complete authoring"):
how do you write a .chm file?
A decent CHM viewer for Windows
Help authoring
Help Authoring Gem (cool software, but only chm creator, really... absolutely not a reader... Well, I don't think so)
[edited for more clarity...]
Target:
not quite sure what your issues are here, more details please...
CHM files are self contained and don't normally require any sort of reader application - there is an issue with XP where one of the MS security updates 'broke' CHM functionality - basically it blocks the opening of 'unregistered' help files.
Google turns up a few options to register uncooperative help files (or see the <a href="http://www.vizacc.com">VA Help site</a> for CHM register)
don't know about the bookmarking functionality, I've never seen or heard of this one before...
Armando:
Sorry if I was unclear... My problem with chm is that you can only... read them. But I like to annotate and bookmark anything I read. Hence, my desire to have a chm reader which allow bookmarking or annotating. :)
Target:
I don't know that much about them, but a random check here indicates there is a favourites tab (on the left hand pane)where you can (presumably) bookmark your...err...favourites
The existence of this functionality may be dependent on the tool with which it was authored and/or the authors preferences when building the file...
you might be lucky to find any sort of annotation application - having said that I have a vague recollection of apps that will allow you to do this with web pages so that might help.
Another option would be to decompile to a collection of HTML files that you can do what you want with...
Shades:
Not free, but this document converter seems to be what you need.
http://www.print-driver.com/download/
Or go the freeware route:
http://www.gridinsoft.com/chm.php
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