![]() ![]() For example, Calibre, a popular online CHM to PDF Converter, it is totally free, but its transformation effect is so-so. Actually, I tried several recommended ways to convert CHM to PDF Mac, there are advantages to each. How to convert CHM to PDF Mac? There may be various methods to do it. Since it is so, why not convert CHM to PDF so that we can view it anywhere. On the contrary, PDF format undoubtedly is the most common format in the world, no matter Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android. We all know, without the help of the third application, we can’t directly view CHM file on Mac. Sure, they don’t take any space on a bookshelf, they are cheaper than paper books and they don’t require cutting wood to create paper, but still they are not very convenient for reading and finding some information.Īnyway, there are some places on the Net where it is possible to find CHM e-books.Nowadays, Apple’s Mac is commonly used in business, but we usually receive some CHM format document send from our customer who use windows. As a result such e-books don’t have any significant advantages over printed ones. Used for submitting books to a printing office and therefore they don’t have to prepare any other kind of documents to publish an e-book, they can just sell PDFs, while creating a CHM file involves a greater amount of work. In a conclusion I’m going to say that actually it’s quite obvious that PDF is such common as an e-book format because it is the format that is The CHM search engine is also morphological a When you search through a CHM documents you will get a list of the relevant chapters and pages ordered by their relevancy. In addition, when you open a PDF document, all its contents get loaded at once, while CHM only loads the pages and the chapters you are reading.Īnd of course the main advantage of CHM over PDF is its search capabilities. ![]() It supports chapters, yes, PDF does also can contain chapters in the document, but they are no so convenient. In fact, the format is just a collection of simple HTML pages. ![]() I suppose everyone must be familiar with it. Nevertheless, there is a document word that doesn’t have the above mentioned disadvantages. So, it’s not very convenient to search through a 500 pages document for a word that you might find in its bottom or in the middle of the document. Sure, you can open the “Full Reader Search” window, but still it will just represent a list of matched occurrences. The problem with searching through PDF is its linearity, I mean, when finding some word or a phrase it will show you every occurrence of that word or phrase from the top of the document to its bottom. ![]() Frankly speaking, it’s not format’s fault, but a glitch of the current PDF viewers. There is a significant disadvantage of PDF – its searching capabilities. Of course, it’s not the only reason why I think this format is a poor choice for e-books. Well, the first of all, it tends to be slow, of course, it might depend on an application you are viewing your document with, but still opening large files in Adobe Acrobat doesn’t seem to be an easy walk. PDF is a really cross-platform format, the most popular PDF viewer – Adobe Acrobat – is freely available in all popular operating systems – Windows, Mac OS and Linux. At a first glance, it seems to be a reasonable choice. PDF (Portable Document Format) is a common choice for e-books, big manuals comprising of several hundred pages and other documents. Why I hate PDF as an E-book Format or PDF vs CHM ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |