>
>
> What the heck is pilot.pm, and what do you need it for?
>
>
> What's perl.pm? What are these two modules and what makes you think
>you need to use them?
>
>
> You don't need it, but it's not called pilot.pm, it's PDA::Pilot,
>which provides Pilot.pm (not pilot.pm or perl.pm). These are simply for
>writing perl scripts which talk directly to your Palm handheld. Not likely
>in this case.
>
The file, REQUIREMENTS, included in plucker_bin-1.2beta13.tar.gz says:
Additional software (e.g. to include images): ImageMagick, pilot-link
(including the Pilot.pm module), perl, netpbm 9.15 or later,
jpeg (djpeg)
Since I have everything else on the image list except Pilot.pm
installed, I suspected this as a problem. Should this part of the
documentaion be updated? It also turns out that I have djpeg as well,
though not reported on the previous message.
> How about providing your ~/.pluckerrc file, so we can see what
>settings are being used. Also your plucker.ini from your Windows box would
>be helpful, so we can see your global settings and compare them.
>
>
.pluckerrc is attached. I'm running windows now, so it might be
tomorrow before I can send the .ini file. The section in question is
the same in both, with the exeption of the pre_command. With
.pluckerrc, plucker-build.jar DOES include images, but not plucker-build.
> It's not hard at all, you probably are just missing one component.
>
I hope you are right.
>Have you tried cranking up the verbosity on plucker-build (-V3) to see if
>you can expose some more errors that may help?
>
>
>
There are no errors when I do this. Just messages saying, "Not fetching
image...". This would seem to indicate that .pluckerrc is faulty, but
if so, why do I get images when using plucker-build.jar?
[JavaLanguageSpecification]
alt_maxheight=1000000
alt_maxwidth=1000000
alt_text=1
backup_bit=0
bpp=16
compression=zlib
copyprevention_bit=0
copy_to_dir=
doc_file=JavaLanguageSpecification
doc_name=Java Language Specification
home_maxdepth=5
home_stayondomain=0
home_stayonhost=1
home_url=file:///export/Java/Books/JavaLanguageSpec/j.title.doc.html
image_compression_limit=50
indent_paragraphs=0
launchable_bit=1
maxheight=420
maxwidth=420
no_url_info=1
update_base=2002-03-18T10:54:13
update_enabled=0
update_frequency=1
update_period=daily
user=Edward Rayl
verbosity=1
referrer=
user_agent=
before_command=
after_command=
home_url_pattern=export/Java/Books/JavaLanguageSpec/.*
exclusion_lists=
charset=
anchor_color=#0000FF
category=
owner_id=
big_icon=
small_icon=
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
[JavaCollections]
alt_maxheight=0
alt_maxwidth=0
alt_text=1
backup_bit=0
bpp=16
compression=zlib
copyprevention_bit=0
doc_file=JavaCollections
doc_name=Java Collections
home_maxdepth=4
home_stayondomain=0
home_stayonhost=1
home_url=http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/index.html
image_compression_limit=50
indent_paragraphs=0
launchable_bit=0
maxheight=250
maxwidth=150
no_url_info=1
update_base=2002-03-18T10:54:13
update_enabled=0
update_frequency=1
update_period=daily
verbosity=1
user=Edward Rayl
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
home_url_pattern=http://java\.sun\.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/.*
exclusion_lists=exclusionlist.txt
copy_to_dir=
[CholesterolBusters]
alt_maxheight=0
alt_maxwidth=0
alt_text=1
backup_bit=0
bpp=16
compression=zlib
copyprevention_bit=0
doc_file=CholesterolBusters
doc_name=Cholesterol Busters
home_maxdepth=5
home_stayondomain=1
home_stayonhost=0
home_url=http://www.cholesterolbusters.com/
image_compression_limit=50
indent_paragraphs=0
launchable_bit=0
maxheight=250
maxwidth=150
no_url_info=1
update_base=2002-07-06T10:54:13
update_enabled=0
update_frequency=1
update_period=daily
verbosity=1
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
user=Edward Rayl
copy_to_dir=
[DrinkBoy]
alt_maxheight=1000000
alt_maxwidth=1000000
alt_text=1
backup_bit=0
bpp=16
compression=zlib
copyprevention_bit=0
doc_file=DrinkBoy
doc_name=Drink Boy
home_maxdepth=3
home_stayondomain=1
home_stayonhost=0
home_url=http://drinkboy.com/offline/index.html
image_compression_limit=50
indent_paragraphs=0
launchable_bit=0
maxheight=250
maxwidth=150
no_url_info=1
update_base=2002-07-15T07:54:13
update_enabled=1
update_frequency=14
update_period=daily
verbosity=1
user=Edward Rayl
copy_to_dir=
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
[Homepage]
alt_maxheight=1000000
alt_maxwidth=1000000
alt_text=1
backup_bit=0
bpp=16
compression=zlib
copyprevention_bit=0
doc_file=Homepage
doc_name=Home Page
home_maxdepth=2
home_stayondomain=1
home_stayonhost=0
;;home_url=plucker:home.html
home_url=/home/erayl/.plucker/home.html
image_compression_limit=50
indent_paragraphs=0
launchable_bit=0
maxheight=250
maxwidth=150
no_url_info=1
update_base=2002-07-17T07:46:56
update_enabled=1
update_frequency=1
update_period=daily
verbosity=2
user=Edward Rayl
copy_to_dir=
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
before_command=perl .plucker/slashpluck-0.21/slashpluck.pl
[NEW_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE]
doc_name=New Channel Template
home_url=plucker:/channels/NEW_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE/home.html
verbosity=1
home_maxdepth=2
home_stayonhost=0
home_stayondomain=1
indent_paragraphs=0
bpp=16
alt_text=1
maxwidth=150
maxheight=250
alt_maxwidth=1000000
alt_maxheight=1000000
compression=zlib
image_compression_limit=50
no_url_info=1
copyprevention_bit=0
backup_bit=0
launchable_bit=0
doc_file=channels/NEW_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE/NEW_CHANNEL_TEMPLATE
update_enabled=0
update_frequency=1
update_period=daily
update_base=2002-03-18T10:54:13
user=Edward Rayl
copy_to_dir=
[PLUCKER-DAEMON]
autoupdate_mode=0
autoupdate_deferred_spider_time=00:00:00
;;
;; This is a sample config file.
;;
;; Under OS/2 and Windows this should be called 'plucker.ini'.
;; For Windows, put this in the pluckerhome directory or in the
;; pluckerdir directory.
;;
;; Under unix, this should be called 'pluckerrc' if it is the system
;; wide config file and '.pluckerrc' if it is a user config file.
;; This should have been installed in the correct place.
;;
;;
;; Entries are key = value pairs ordered into section. A section is
;; named and begins with a line in square bracket, where the brackets
;; contain the section name.
;;
;; General entries can go into the [DEFAULT] section.
;;
;; Under Windows, the [WINDOWS] section is also searched.
;; Under OS/2 the [OS2] and [POSIX] sections are searched
;; Everywhere else [POSIX] is searched.
;;
;; --------------------------------------------------------------------
[DEFAULT]
zlib_compression=
maxwidth=150
maxheight=250
alt_maxwidth=500
alt_maxheight=500
status_line_length=200
;;
;; In the general section you can set the following items:
;;
;;
;; Verbosity level:
;;
;; 0 - silent except for errors
;; 1 - progress status
;; 2 - debugging
;;
;;verbosity = 1
;;
;; Path to the plucker dir.
;;
;;pluckerdir =
;;
;; Name of the directory where cache files will be stored
;; (relative to pluckerdir)
;;
;;cache_dir_name = cache
;;
;; Document name
;;
;;doc_name =
;;
;; Filename for the document
;;
;;doc_file =
;;
;; Compression type
;;
;; doc - use the DOC compression (works on all supported versions)
;; zlib - use ZLib compression (doesn't work on 2.x devices)
;;
;; Zlib compression is typically much better than DOC compression.
;;
;;compression = doc
;;
;; Default category for the created document (you can assign several
;; categories separated by ';')
;;
;;category = Unfiled
;;
;; Document attributes
;;
;; If the copy prevention attribute is set it will not be
;; possible to beam a copy of the document to another device.
;; The backup attribute will indicate that the document should
;; be backed up (requires a desktop tool that checks this
;; attribute) and the launchable attribute will make the
;; document visible so that the user can tap on it to launch
;; the viewer with the selected document.
;;
;;copyprevention_bit = false
;;backup_bit = false
;;launchable_bit = false
;;
;; The URL to the document and the max depth to
;; spider this document. It is also possible to specify
;; that the spider should only follow links on the same
;; host (site) and/or fetch pages below the home URL
;; whose URLs starts with the given STAYBELOW value.
;;
;;home_url = plucker:/home.html
;;home_maxdepth = 2
;;home_stayonhost = false
;;home_staybelow =
;;
;; Bits per pixel for images (0 to means 'no images')
;;
bpp = 8
compression=zlib
image_parser=windowspil
http_proxy=
http_proxy_user=
http_proxy_pass=
;;
;; Max width and height for the images. Alternative maximum width
;; and height can also be specified. These values are used for 'big'
;; versions of inlined images that had to be scaled down in size to
;; obey the maxwidth and maxheight parameters.
;;
;;maxwidth = 150
;;maxheight = 250
;;alt_maxwidth =
;;alt_maxheight =
;;
;; If an image is smaller or equal to the given limit (in bytes)
;; the image will not be compressed.
;;
;;image_compression_limit = 0
;; Specify which parser to use to convert images. Defaults to
;; whatever the system determines to be the default parser.
;;
;; imagemagick - ImageMagick image parser
;; netpbm - NetPbm image parser
;; pil - PIL image parser
;; windows - Windows image parser
;;
;;image_parser =
;;
;; A string specifying a command to be executed before spidering.
;;
;;before_command =
;;before_command1 =
;; :
;;before_command9 =
;;
;; A string specifying a command to be executed after spidering.
;;
;;after_command =
;;after_command1 =
;; :
;;after_command9 =
;;
;; Store an icon in AppInfo block. If no big or small icons
;; are specified default icons will be used.
;;
;;icon = false
;;big_icon =
;;small_icon =
;;
;; Specify proxy (http://proxy:port) and username and password for
;; basic proxy authentication if that is used. The environment variables
;; HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY_USER and HTTP_PROXY_PASS will be used as
;; default values.
;;
;;http_proxy=http://www-proxy.us.oracle.com:80
;;http_proxy_user =
;;http_proxy_pass =
;; -----------------------------------------------------------------
[POSIX]
;; In the POSIX section you can set the following items:
;;
;; Name (and maybe path) for the image tools:
;;
;;ppmquant_program = ppmquant
;;ppmtoTbmp_program = ppmtoTbmp
;;pnmscale_program = pnmscale
;;pnmfile_program = pnmfile
;;giftopnm_program = giftopnm
;;djpeg_program = djpeg
;;pngtopnm_program = pngtopnm
;;convert_program = convert
;;
;; Name (and maybe path) for the color maps used by
;; ppmquant:
;;
;;palm1bit_graymap_file = palmgray1.map
;;palm2bit_graymap_file = palmgray2.map
;;palm4bit_graymap_file = palmgray4.map
;;palm8bit_stdcolormap_file = palmcolor8.map
;;
;; List of filename specifying exclusion lists to be
;; inspected. Names are separated by colons.
;;
;;exclusion_lists =
;; -------------------------------------------------------------------
[OS2]
;; For OS/2, you can also set the following items:
;;
;; List of filename specifying exclusion lists to be
;; inspected. Names are separated by semicolons.
;;
;;exclusion_lists =
;; --------------------------------------------------------------------
[WINDOWS]
group_path=C:\Documents and Settings\Edward Rayl\Start Menu\Programs\Plucker\
convert_program=C:\Program Files\Plucker\ImageMagick\convert.exe
convert_program_parameter=%input% bmp:%output%
bmp_to_tbmp=C:\Program Files\Plucker\Bmp2Tbmp\Bmp2Tbmp.exe
bmp_to_tbmp_parameter=-i=%input% -o=%output% -maxwidth=%maxwidth%
-maxheight=%maxheight% -compress=%compress% -bpp=%colors%
use_conduit=1
python_program=C:\Program Files\Plucker\Python\python.exe
;; For Windows, you can also set the following items:
;;
;; List of filename specifying exclusion lists to be
;; inspected. Names are separated by semicolons.
;;
;;exclusion_lists =
;;
;; Name (and maybe path) for the ImageMagick convert tool
;; and the command line parameters.
;;
;;convert_program = convert.exe
;;convert_program_parameter = "%input% bmp:%output%"
;;
;; Name (and maybe path) for the Bmp2Tbmp tool and the
;; command line parameters.
;;
;;bmp_to_tbmp = Bmp2Tbmp.exe
;;bmp_to_tbmp_parameter = "-i=%input% -o=%output% -maxwidth=%maxwidth%
-maxheight=%maxheight% -compress=%compress% -bpp=%colors%"
;;
;; Specify the value for the %compress% parameter.
;;
tbmp_compression_type = yes
;;
;; The following parameters can be specified for 'convert_program' and
;; 'bmp_to_tbmp':
;;
;; %compress% = will be equal to the 'tbmp_compression_type' key if
;; compression is used, otherwise 'no'
;; %colors% = '1', '2', '4' or '8'
;; %maxwidth% = maxwidth value
;; %maxheight% = maxheight value
;; %input% = the input filename
;; %output% = the output filename
;;
;; These keys control the way that the images are converted to the Palm Tbmp
;; format.
;;
;; The maximum size of an Tbmp bitmap is 60,000 bytes (before Plucker's
;; document compression); you can set the max_tbmp_size key to an lower
;; value to save memory on your device.
;;
;; The tbmp_compression key controls the internal Tbmp compression (not
;; related to Plucker's document compression); if set to true, the Tbmp's
;; are smaller, and you can use pictures that normally exceed the maximum
;; size (as set by max_tbmp_size). However, this will not work on all OS
;; versions; if your OS does not support this, the viewer will display a
;; warning message and not show the pictures.
;;
;; If a bitmap exceeds the maximum size, and try_reduce_bpp is set to
;; true, the parser will try to reduce the BPP (bits/pixel) until the
;; size is OK; if it's still too big with bpp=1, the dimension of the
;; bitmap will be reduced in 10% steps if the try_reduce_dimension key
;; is set.
;;
;; How big a Tbmp will be after a bpp or dimensions reduce are calculated,
;; but this won't work if you use tbmp compression. To still get the
;; maximum quality (highest possible bpp and size), set the guess_tbmp_size
;; to false. In this case the bitmap will be converted in every step
;; to get the resulting size. This could need some more time.
;;
;;max_tbmp_size = 60000
tbmp_compression = true
;;try_reduce_bpp = true
try_reduce_dimension = true
guess_tbmp_size = false
close_on_exit=1
close_on_error=1
;;
;; The following items are currently only used if the Installer is
;; used to setup the desktop tools:
;;
;; HotSync user name:
;;
;;user =Edward Rayl
;;
;; Name (and maybe path) for the Python executable.
;;
;;python_program =
;;
;; Set close_on_exit to true to close the terminal window when PyPlucker
;; is finished. Set close_on_error to true to close the terminal windows
;; if the parser exit with an error.
;;
;;close_on_exit = false
;;close_on_error = false
;;
;; Specify if the conduit.exe should be use to build the PDB or
;; if PyPlucker should be used instead (only for debugging)
;;
;;use_conduit = true
;;
;; Play a sound when the spider finish building the document.
;;
;; Valid parameters:
;;
;; - Drive:\Path\Filename.wav : A filename (with full path) for a
;; WAV file.
;;
;; - *MELODY:<notes to play> : Playing a list of notes using the
;; computer speaker
;;
;; Format of <notes to play>:
;;
;; <note><octave><space><duration>|<note><octave><space><duration>|...
;;
;; <note> : One of [C;C#;D;D#;E;F;F#;G;G#;A;A#;H] or 'P' for Pause
;; <octave> : 2, 3, 4 or 5
;; <space> : A space char (' ')
;; <duration> : The duration in 1/100 seconds
;;
;; - *BEEP : Standard beep using the computer speaker
;;
;; - *ICONASTERISK : System sound "SystemAsterisk"
;;
;; - *ICONEXCLAMATION : System sound "SystemExclamation"
;;
;; - *ICONHAND : System sound "SystemHand"
;;
;; - *ICONQUESTION : System sound "SystemQuestion"
;;
;; - *OK : System sound "SystemDefault"
;;
;; Example: ready_sound = "*MELODY:C5 18|A4 18|P 37|C5 18|A5 18|P 37|C5 18"
;;
;;ready_sound =
;;
;; Editor to use for HTML files.
;;
;;html_editor = "Notepad.exe %s"
;;
;; Editor to use for INI files.
;;
;;ini_editor = "Notepad.exe %s"
;;
;; Editor to use for text files.
;;
;;text_editor = "Notepad.exe %s"
;;
;; Program to use for HTML files stored on the web. (%s is
;; the placeholder for the path and filename for the file)
;;
;;url_editor = "%s"
;;
;; Program used to view HTML files (local and web). (%s is
;; the placeholder for the path and filename for the file)
;;
;;html_viewer = "%s"
;;
;; These items are only available in the 'MAIN' config file:
;;
;; Path to the Plucker Program Group.
;;
;;group_path =
[CONTEXT_DEFAULT]
home_stayonhost=true
bpp=8
