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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup