Online Help for PDF2CHM

How to Use PDF2CHM - Step by Step Help for You to Convert PDF to CHM

Step 1: Active your PDF2CHM

  • Click on "Register" button located on the right of every PDF2CHM's Ribbon Category.Click on Register button
  • You will now see the Register screen. If you have not registered PDF2CHM please click here.Register screen of PDF2CHM
  • Copy and Paste your Serial Number into the registration textbox fields.
  • Ensure that all information is to the far left of the textbox fields and no blank spaces to the left before clicking the "Active" button.

Step 2: Open a PDF File

  • Click "Home" category tab on the top to show the main functions. Open a PDF file is the first task you should to do.
  • Click "Open PDF" button(Orange highlighted button in the below image) to show the PDF file open dialog(shown in Figure 1), then select a Word document and click Open button. The the PDF2CHM Conversion Wizard will be shown(see Figure 2). All the PDF Bookmarks(or the page number) in the PDF file will be added to the Content Tree(see Figure 3).PDF2CHM - Open PDF
    • Figure 1:Find a PDF file to open
      PDF2CHM - Open PDF Dialog
    • Figure 2: PDF2CHM Conversion Wizard
      PDF2CHM - PDF2CHM Conversion Wizard
  • Follow the PDF2CHM Conversion Wizard 5 steps, and set some conversion preferences, then at the last step you need click Convert button(see Figure 3). You will see the Conversion Progress dialog(see Figure 4). Wait a moment, PDF2CHM will convert your PDF file to html files by PDF bookmarks(or page number). After this, all the PDF bookmarks(or the page number) in the PDF file will be added to the Content Tree (see Figure 5).
    • Figure 3: The Last Conversion Wizard Step
      PDF2CHM - Last Conversion Wizard Step
    • Figure 4: Conversion Progress Dialog
      PDF2CHM - Conversion Progress Dialog
    • Figure 5: Add PDF Bookmarks to the Content Tree
      PDF2CHM - Add PDF Bookmarks

Step 3: Select the Topics

  • After all the topics in PDF file are added, you must select the topics which you want to convert to CHM.
  • Left click the CheckBox in the left of a topic item to select, or use the advanced select operation in the Home category tab.PDF2CHM - Select the Topics

Step 4: Compile to CHM

  • Click "Compile CHM" button(Orange highlighted button in the below image) to create your chm file.PDF2CHM - Compile CHM Button
  • You can see a compiling process dialog as below,
    PDF2CHM - CHM Compiling Process Dialog
    and then the result CHM file will be opened.PDF2CHM - CHM Compile Result