Plucker

Plucker is an offline Web and free e-book reader for Palm OS based handheld devices, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) devices, and other PDAs. Plucker contains POSIX tools, scripts, and "conduits" which work on Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Unix. Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.[4]

For other uses, see Plücker.
Plucker
Original author(s)Mark Lillywhite[1]
Developer(s)Plucker Developers[2]
Initial release1998[3]
Stable release
1.8 Palm Application
1.6.2.0 Desktop Installer Package
0.6.3 Windows Mobile devices / 2004
Written inPython
Operating systemPalm OS, Linux, Windows, Windows Mobile
LicenseGNU General Public License
WebsiteLast archive of official website (2015-07-09)
PHP Manual in Plucker format (Landscape on a Palm Tungsten T3 device)

Features
  • Clickable images (with pan and zoom)[5]
  • Italic and narrow support
  • High-resolution fonts
  • Multiple concurrent documents (more than one copy of the same material)
  • Configurable display options (rotation, configurable toolbars)
  • Advanced stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation)
  • zlib and PalmDoc compression[6] (in native and ARM optimized versions)
  • Python, C++, and Perl distillers and scripts
  • A Microsoft Windows graphical installer

Through the use of intelligent "distillers" written in many common languages (currently Python, C++ and Perl with third-party versions written in Java), content can be created for Plucker from many sources, including HTML, PDF, RDF, RSS, text files, and many other file formats[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Plucker is licensed under the GNU General Public License and is free software.[19]

See also
  • Wikipedia:Snapshots - 2000 Wikipedia articles in Plucker format
  • FBReader - free FictionBook ebook reader which can view Plucker and HTML files.
  • iSiloX
  • Evernote
  • Calibre

References
  1. Desrosiers, David A. (10 October 2002). "Interview with Mark Lillywhite, original author of Plucker". Plucker. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.
  2. "cvs.plkr.org/AUTHORS?view=co". plkr.org. 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  3. "An Open Source Success Story: A History of Plucker". Plucker. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.
  4. Steward, Sid (2004). "Create a Handheld Edition from Your HTML". PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools. O'Reilly Media. pp. 91–94. ISBN 9781449362201. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  5. "MobileRead Wiki - Plucker". wiki.mobileread.com. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  6. "Invoking the parser". Plucker User Guide. Archived from the original on 6 May 2006.
  7. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/a.html". Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  8. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/aa.html". Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  9. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/b.html". Archived from the original on 6 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  10. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/ba.html". Archived from the original on 25 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  11. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/bb.html". Archived from the original on 6 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  12. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/bd.html". Archived from the original on 6 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  13. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/be.html". Archived from the original on 25 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  14. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/ea.html". Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  15. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/eb.html". Archived from the original on 6 May 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  16. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/ec.html". Archived from the original on 1 October 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  17. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/ed.html". Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  18. "code.plkr.org:80/docs/ee.html". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  19. "Plucker FAQ - Plucker Documentation". 29 October 2007. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
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