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Plucker v1.0

Size: 276 KB
Date: May 22, 2004 (Updated)
Type: Freeware
Requirements:
  • PalmPilot Professional
  • Palm OS v3.1
Download:
  • plucker-1.8.zip

Author: The Plucker Team
Home: http://www.plkr.org/
Email: plucker@plkr.org


Description:
Plucker is an offline HTML viewer for PalmOS® devices packaged with UNIX and Linux conduits and a Windows installer in Virtual Pascal.

An included set of scripts will spider HTML pages which you specify to a supplied depth, and parse them on your desktop machine.

Those webpages are processed there and transferred to the Palm for viewing by Plucker.

Plucker supports clickable images, italics, multiple databases, configurable display parameters and stylus options, compression, Perl and Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a whole lot more!

Update Description:
v1.6.2 (stable) and 1.7 (unstable) Release date: 1/10/04:

  • Many issues were fixed in these releases, and you can consider this a "bugfix" to the Plucker 1.6.1 codebase. You should upgrade immediately to this release, if you want the latest stable Plucker code running on your device.
  • Similar to Plucker 1.6.1, Plucker 1.6.2 closes several issues found by users and other developers of Plucker and Plucker projects.
  • Most of the changes in 1.6.2 are internal, and no major "features" were added. This is a cleanup and bugfix release. Below is a list of the fixes applied to this version.
  • Any bugs you find, please report them in our bug tracker. Make sure to search existing bug reports for similar errors before posting a new bug report. Many times, bugs are reported in duplicate by several users because they didn't search the existing bugs reported for similar problems.
List of items fixed, changed, and added in 1.6.2 and 1.7 releases can be found on our website. The details of this release are also on the project website (PalmGear truncates the description field, so the changes cannot be posted here, please go to our website to find the list of changes and updates in these two versions).





Reviews:

* [May 7, 2011] by Someone
Doesn't work. When I try to load the user guide it crashes.

***** [Dec 24, 2006] by remoran
The Best there is. I only wish all books, free or otherwise, was in this format as Plucker is the only app that works seamlessly with memory cards in the Palm. Wonderful app, great price. :)

***** [Dec 5, 2006] by Zafado
Incredible viewer, I use this in my palm zire and works great. the best of the best.

***** [Apr 6, 2006] by Tamson Mcguire
Once you have the daily paper loaded in automatically before you wake up in the morning you will never again have to fumble with a broadsheet on public transport let alone buy a paper, read the adds and consume trees. TIP: Get plucker, 'syncer' or the like, enable daily wakeup on mobo and channel scheduling in plucker. HOTSYNC DOES NOT FINISH WHILE SPIDERING PROGRESS DIALOGUE LEFT OPEN (default) so you need to turn it off in prefs to get things going auto.

***** [Feb 26, 2005] by Calvin
Can't believe this software is for free. It is very useful for downloading web contain for offline reading. One of my favorite program, thank you.

***** [Apr 27, 2004] by Ethan Duffy
This is one great piece of software!!! I use it for sites like Yahoo and USA Today for news, Movie Habit for reviews and Lots of other great sites All in the palm of my hand without the expensive modem and service. I also like the expandibility of the desktop software. They have it for Linux, Mac and PC. Thanks Guys!!!

*** [Feb 26, 2004] by Dan
The documents look pretty on my hi-res clie, but the desktop software is just annoying. I'd be nice if I could just right click on a file and choose "send to palm", but I guess that's just too user friendly.

**** [Feb 23, 2004] by David_Zire71
When I configure a channel with a list of url's to retrieve data from the program doesn't do anything..... but if I configure a channel to start with only one url then it works fine..... I would like to know how to make this program retrieve pages from several sites in one channel.

***** [Dec 12, 2003] by jedkiwi
This is by far the most worthwhile thing you will ever have to download for your Palm. It can get documents from the web or your computer. The most amazing part of it is the compression, I was able to compress JRR Tolken's Fellowship of the ring (600kb in txt format) down to an amazing 200kb! Keep up the good work!

***** [Dec 2, 2003] by dh
Very, very good program... very handy. Thank you so much! I find it much easier to read large quantities of text on the palm screen (and take it anywhere!) than on a computer screen. I found this program very easy to use and along with WINHTTRACK it is unbeatable! And even with a greyscale screen the graphics I needed were very viewable. For what the palm is capable of (and you must think about this, not to expect too much) it is terrific.

I found one small bug on my Palm Vx (OS 3.5.3) that causes the scrollbar to malfunction once in a rare while and keep paging up or down without stop (resizing the scroll box wrong?). This can only be stopped by dragging the scroll box to the top. But as this is a work in progress, it only gets better. :) Anyway, great job and thanks again!

***** [Nov 10, 2003] by Peter V.
Plucker is definitely a winner in converting large files. I have been converting many PDF files of 1000+ pages (via html intermediate output) with only rarely parsing errors. The output produced by Plucker is very readable and the document reader is very nice to use. My core application for managing all documents and images stored on CF memory card.

***** [Oct 25, 2002] by Handspring Neo User
This is so much better than advantgo. There is no size limit to convert! Installation really was quite easy for Windows. I use this to get weather forcast everyday, movie listings for the local theatre once a week, and daily news. This program couldn't be much better! Thanks for writing this as a freeware with no kb limit!

**** [Oct 22, 2002] by Adam McDaniel
I'm currently working the NR70 problem now. For some people it works, for others it doesn't. Since I don't have a device it's very difficult to debug since the emulator is crap. Watch hires.plkr.org for more info on when it is fixed.

**** [Oct 20, 2002] by Marc Cueni
I am a very pleased Plucker User, but was waiting with great expectation the HiRes port. Alas, it crashes my Clie NR70V as soon as I try to launch it. Hope you'll be able to fix that. Anyway, it's my favorite for all HTML content on the Palm. Thanks for the good job.

***** [Oct 15, 2002] by William Tanksley
Impossible to rate this excellent program any better. The previous reviews were of an earlier version; the current version lets you simply right-click on the file you want, and Plucker will drop the translated and ready to load file in the same directory. The upcoming version includes a very powerful desktop manager, already equal to the one included with AvantGo. As a bonus, Plucker files tend to be smaller than any other document format, including iSilo (and, of course, that means that they're MUCH smaller than the impossibly huge AvantGo files). However, the version number's wrong above -- the actual version is 1.12 beta 13, not 1.13.

***** [Jan 30, 2002] by John Davis
Of course, anyone who has only done thousands of click in his life thinks that executing a program on the command line is nothing less than extremely dangerous and difficult.... Great app, great thing that someone also takes into consideration the people who actually run a real OS.

***** [Dec 11, 2001] by Euan Bucnanan
Contray to what the previous reviewer said Linux users can run AvantGo, I know because that's what I used to do before I found Plucker. You don't need to be a degree in computer science, you just need to spend about half an hour reading the FAQ that comes with the program. It is a disservice to the average Windows user to suggest that they are incapable of this. Plucker is very powerful, very versatile and far suprerior than AvantGo. It may take a bit of learning but it's worth it.Contray to what the previous reviewer said Linux users can run AvantGo, I know because that's what I used to do before I found Plucker. You don't need to be a degree in computer science, you just need to spend about half an hour reading the FAQ that comes with the program. It is a disservice to the average Windows user to suggest that they are incapable of this. Plucker is very powerful, very versatile and far suprerior than AvantGo. It may take a bit of learning but it's worth it.

** [Nov 12, 2001] by Iain Cheyne
This is a very powerful program, capable of producing very readable hypertext documents. Unfortunately it is very difficult to use. It is mainly aimed at Linux users who can't run AvantGo. As a result the document creator uses a command line interface that is useless to anyone who has not got a Computer Science degree. Your average Windows user should steer clear of this, at least until they have built a GUI for the parser.


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