Plucker is an offline Web and free eBook reader for Palm OS based handheld devices, Windows Mobile (PocketPC) devices and other handheld PDAs. Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is an embedded Operating system initially developed by U Windows Mobile is a compact Operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for Mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32
Plucker contains POSIX tools, scripts and "conduits" which work on UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. POSIX (ˈpɒzɪks or "Portable Operating System Interface" is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently
Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.
Plucker supports many advanced features, including:
- Clickable images (with pan and zoom)
- 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 DOC compression (in native and ARM optimized versions)
- Python, C++ and Perl distillers and scripts
- A Microsoft Windows fully-integrated 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 RSS, RDF, text files, HTML, PDF, and many other file formats. Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized
Plucker is licensed under the GNU General Public License and is Free Software. Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified
See also
- Wikipedia:Snapshots - Subset of 2000 wikipedia articles available in Plucker format
- FBReader - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files. FBReader is a free and Open source E-book reader for Linux. It was originally written for the Sharp Zaurus and currently runs
- Sample Plucker documents for dozens of different ebooks and other works.
References
External links
- Plucker website
- Plucker Projects, aka "Plucker Workshop"
- Sunrise Desktop
- Vade-Mecum, Plucker viewer for Pocket PC. A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware Specification for a Handheld -sized Computer ( Personal digital assistant
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