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diff --git a/office/kchmviewer-qt/README b/office/kchmviewer-qt/README index 2bd3d33686..c476a9db47 100644 --- a/office/kchmviewer-qt/README +++ b/office/kchmviewer-qt/README @@ -1,16 +1,18 @@ -KchmViewer is a CHM (MS HTML help file format) viewer written in -C++. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses the -Trolltech Qt widget library and does not depend on KDE or Gnome. -However, it may be compiled with full KDE support including KDE -widgets and KIO/KHTML. This script builds Qt-only version. +Kchmviewer is a free, open-source CHM (aka MS HTML help) and EPUB viewer +written in C++ for Unix, Mac and Windows systems. Unlike most existing +CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and could +optionally be compiled for better KDE integration. It does not require +KDE, but may be compiled with KDE widget support. Since version 5.0 it +uses the Webkit API to show the content. This script builds Qt-only +version. -The main advantage of KchmViewer is extra support for non-English -languages. Unlike other viewers, KchmViewer in most cases is able -to detect help file encoding, correctly shows tables of contents of -Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese help files, and does correct -search in non-English help files (search for MBCS languages - -ja/ko/ch is still in progress). +The main advantage of kchmviewer is the best support for non-English +languages. Unlike other viewers, kchmviewer in most cases is able to +correctly detect the chm file encoding and show it. It correctly shows +the index and table of context in Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Korean, +Chinese and Arabic help files, and with new search engine is able to +search in any chm file no matter what language it is written. -KchmViewer is written by George Yunaev (see the contacts page -for details), and is licensed under the GNU GPL license. It uses -chmlib and some ideas and code from xhcm. +kchmviewer is written by George Yunaev, and is licensed under GNU +General Public License version 3. It uses chmlib to handle the CHM +files, and some ideas from xchm. |