---On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:14:16 -0400 (EDT), David A. Desrosiers said
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> I just noticed a few things while testing some content in 1.2b9 and
> the parser that comes with it.
> 4.) Changing the image parser to imagemagick still tries to find and
> use ppmtoTbmp, but of course that doesn't exist anymore.. and it
> won't do 8bpp or 16bpp anyway in the "standard" packaged
> version without patching.
Now that imagemagick supports the palm format, I have a parser
function that uses imagmagick exclusively. I'll see about adding 8 and 16
bpp and submit it.
> 6.) Using a maxdepth of 2 on a site which is very deeply linked to
> offsite references (NewsBlaster again), tapping on a link that
> is _NOT_ in the document will report a 'No URL information
> found', as if I had used --no-urlinfo, but I did not (and it's
> not in the ~/.pluckerrc file either). I have yet to produce a
> pdb with this parser and viewer version which will show me the
> actual URL of an out-of-range link in the pdb.
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> I think this is the result of the fix for the "Unhandled
> Exception" errors that were happening with the previous parser
> revision. Those no longer happen, but are now replaced with the
> 'No URL information' message.
You are correct sir! Bill J. and I both found that problem and he
checked in the fix...
> 7.) When there is no url info present for a link, the dialog still
> contains a "Copy URL" button. Tapping on this will then create
> an entry in MemoPad with the time/date and a "No URL information
> was found" message. Probably not ideal in the long run. If
> there is no url information, we should lose the button that says
> "Copy URL".
Nice thought. I'll dust off my fingers and take a look...
--re: A few 1.2b9 distiller/viewer issues
Chris
Christopher R. Hawks Software Engineer
Syscon Plantstar a Division of Syscon International
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