Jan 11
Reader Phouty sent in:
QuickChm is a quicklook plugin which lets you preview a CHM (compiled html) archive in quicklook.
Reader Phouty sent in:
QuickChm is a quicklook plugin which lets you preview a CHM (compiled html) archive in quicklook.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:03 am
I’ve got problems with this plugin..actually with BetterZip, which opens .chm files instad of this CHMplugin.
Is there any way I could tell BetterZip plugin to avoid .chm files?
March 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
Same issue here. BetterZip plugin will take over the Quickchm. Any resolutions between the developers?
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Has this been resolved yet? I have the same problem! Betterzip has taken over the chm viewer AND I’ve removed the Betterzip quicklook plugin from the System\Library\Quicklook folder.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:58 am
i had the same problem. i went into the package and backed up the info.plist in the betterzip plugin, then deleted all the dict entries for the chm stuff. i was able to relaunch finder and prevent betterzip from opening the chms, however… i wasnt able to open the chms with quickchm, i tried all 4 versions of the quickchm plugin and have not had any success in getting the plugin to work.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:35 am
I just removed both entries about CHM files in “BetterZipQL.qlgenerator/Info.plist” and it worked for me. Just open it with TextEdit and search for “chm”.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
again i removed the entries in the betterzip plugin, but the chm plugin doesnt work still, even after relaunching the finder. which plugin are you using? im using the quickchm plugin from the x86_64 folder…
April 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Try this
Open info.plist in BetterZip, and remove these
CFBundleTypeRole
QLGenerator
LSItemContentTypes
com.microsoft.chm-archive
UTTypeConformsTo
public.data
public.archive
UTTypeDescription
Compiled HTML Archive
UTTypeIconFile
CHM
UTTypeIdentifier
com.microsoft.chm-archive
UTTypeTagSpecification
public.filename-extension
chm
Open info.plist of quickChm, and add these, so it looks like
CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
English
CFBundleDocumentTypes
CFBundleTypeRole
QLGenerator
LSItemContentTypes
dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80g4dr
CFBundleTypeRole
QLGenerator
LSItemContentTypes
com.microsoft.chm-archive
UTTypeConformsTo
public.data
public.archive
UTTypeDescription
Compiled HTML Archive
UTTypeIconFile
CHM
UTTypeIdentifier
com.microsoft.chm-archive
UTTypeTagSpecification
public.filename-extension
chm
CFBundleExecutable
quickchm
CFBundleIdentifier
com.apple.quickchm
CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
6.0
CFBundleName
quickchm
CFBundleShortVersionString
1
CFBundleVersion
1.1
CFPlugInDynamicRegisterFunction
CFPlugInDynamicRegistration
NO
CFPlugInFactories
E2C38A8F-80B7-47B2-A1AB-9CB508FF29CA
QuickLookGeneratorPluginFactory
CFPlugInTypes
5E2D9680-5022-40FA-B806-43349622E5B9
E2C38A8F-80B7-47B2-A1AB-9CB508FF29CA
CFPlugInUnloadFunction
QLNeedsToBeRunInMainThread
QLPreviewHeight
600
QLPreviewWidth
800
QLSupportsConcurrentRequests
QLThumbnailMinimumSize
17
April 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am
omg… how come all the xml formating strings are disapperad !!!
Ok, in the simple form…
Open info.plist in BetterZip, and search for “chm”, you will find 2 main entries
The 1st one calls dict/array/string/com.microsoft.chm-archive, and the second one include 3 chm strings calls dict/string/com.microsoft.chm-archive
delete both entry from the dict level, and add them to info.plist in quichchm, just below dict/array/string/dyn.ah62d4rv4ge80g4dr, in parallel, not inside !
Not very easy to explain xml… but if you know xml, it seems obvious…
March 30th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
QuickChm crashes in 10.7.3
Such an excellent plugin it was.
Please qiqian, update it.