Plucker is an offline Web and free

e-book reader An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-read ...

for

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is pro ...

based handheld devices,

Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants. Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...

( Pocket PC) devices, and other PDAs. Plucker contains

POSIX The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming inter ...

tools, scripts, and "conduits" which work on

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and la ...

, Microsoft Windows, and

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. Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.

Features

* 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) *

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and PalmDoc compression (in native and ARM optimized versions) *

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, and

Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offic ...

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

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), content can be created for Plucker from many sources, including

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, PDF, RDF, RSS, text files, and many other file formats Plucker is licensed under the

GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general ...

and is

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

References

External links

* *Source code : :
SourceForge
:* https://web.archive.org/web/20160810134237/https://code.google.com/archive/p/plucker/ :* https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2/code.google.com/plucker/source-archive.zip :* https://github.com/arpruss/plucker :* https://web.archive.org/web/20060820142302/http://lists.rubberchicken.org/pipermail/plucker-announce/ :* https://web.archive.org/web/20060820142148/http://lists.rubberchicken.org/pipermail/plucker-list/ :* https://web.archive.org/web/20060820142319/http://lists.rubberchicken.org/pipermail/plucker-dev/
Sample Plucker documents
- ebooks and other works.
Plucker Projects
aka "Plucker Workshop"
Vade-Mecum
Plucker viewer for Pocket PC. * * https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Plucker * https://sunrise.mobileread.com/ * https://sourceforge.net/projects/sunrisexp/files/Source/0.42j/ * https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/SunriseXP_reference * https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Web-clipping_software Ebooks Free web browsers {{Free-software-stub

Features

See also

References

External links