October 15, 2003
http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr?a=news&article=33
PRESS RELEASE
Happy 5th Anniversary, Plucker! Just 5 years ago yesterday, Plucker
was released for the first time to the public.
And now, Plucker 1.6 is out, and is the best release thus far. There
are many new features in this release, building on the success and feedback
from users of previous Plucker releases.
What? You don't have Plucker 1.6 yet?
Plucker now fully supports high-resolution screens (such as those
found on Sony [such as the UX50], Handera, and newer Palm handhelds [such as
the Tungsten T2 and Tungsten T3]), virtual graffiti, scale-to-fit, zoomed
images, HTML tables, screen rotation, and more!
This is a monumental release!
From the Plucker 1.4 series onward, even-numbered releases are
considered "stable", and odd-numbered releases are considered "unstable"
("beta", or "testing", as you prefer). If you wish to test the latest
bleeding-edge features, and don't mind a crash or two, and are willing to
report detailed feedback, use n "unstable" release. If you want to try the
most stable, reliable version of Plucker, please stick to the "stable"
release.
Any bugs you find, please report them in our bug tracker. Make sure
to search existing bug reports for similar errors before posting a new bug
report. Many times, bugs are reported in duplicate by several users because
they didn't search the existing bugs reported for similar problems.
Here is the laundry-list of some of the changes you will find in
Plucker 1.6. There are a lot of new things fixed, added, and changed in this
version of Plucker, so please download it and try out all the new features
and options yourself.
User Stuff:
* Support for anti-aliased fonts. To convert outline fonts to Plucker
format, you may need things from palmfontconv.sourceforge.net
* Keyboard customization support. (Alexander Pruss)
* Added support for continuous viewing of more than 32K of text.
(Alexander Pruss)
* Sped up rendering. (Alexander Pruss)
* Added display rotation. (Alexander Pruss)
* Added multiple term search. (Alexander Pruss)
* Added search armlet. (Alexander Pruss)
* AxxPac support (Angel Ivan Moreno)
* Handspring JogDial support (Rod Whitby)
* Handspring 5-way pad support (Michael Nordstr�m)
* Support for online access to external links on Treo600 (Michael
Nordstr�m)
* Preference option to enable/disable soft-hyphens; some languages use
the same keycode for a normal character (Michael Nordstr�m)
* Win32 script for handling POST requests in Plucker and also an Outlook
VBA macro to extract Plucker URLs (Jahn Rentmeister)
* Support for images (and tables) with height x width x depth larger than
480,000 (Multiimage) (Adam McDaniel, Chris Hawks)
* Rotation of fullscreen images and tables (with 66 Mhz or higher CPU)
(Chris Hawks)
* Python Parser can create Multiimage images. (Chris Hawks)
Development stuff:
* Changed the type and handling for several config options (Michael
Nordstr�m)
* Removed ZLib directory and will include either M68K or Armlet version
of the SysZLib.prc in the viewer package (depending on the
configuration used for the viewer.)
* Included Justin Clark's armlet port of SysZLib.h.
This release does not include Plucker Desktop or any other GUI-based
Plucker tools, other than the standard viewer, distiller, and documentation.
If you require other components to test this build, please get them from CVS
directly, or download them from the project sites themselves:
* Plucker Desktop (Windows, Linux, and OSX Desktop GUI for Plucker)
http://desktop.plkr.org/
* JPluck Java-based Desktop (Now includes Plucker 1.6 and runs anywhere
Java 1.4 runs)
http://jpluck.sf.net/
These files below are provided in BitTorrent format for convenience.
BitTorrent is a file distribution protcol that benefits when more
people are actively downloading at the same time. If you use BitTorrent to
download these files, please remember leave your BitTorrent client running.
Peer-to-peer only works when there are peers on the network! Keeping your
client open makes it easier for everyone else to get the files at a faster
speed than if you did not keep your client open. Please help spread the
bandwidth around, don't just download and close your client and leave!
* Plucker 1.6 Hires viewers (296,845 bytes. viewer, zlib,
PluckerUserGuide.pdb only)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker-1.6.zip.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 Non-hires viewers (624,159 bytes. All non-hires viewers, 14
languages)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_viewer_nonhires-1.6.tar.bz2.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 (919,020 bytes. High-resolution viewers, 14 languages)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_viewer-1.6.tar.bz2.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 rpm (2,436,273 bytes. viewer and Python distiller)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker-1.6-1.i386.rpm.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 source (2,962,001 bytes. Includes Palm and GTK+ viewer,
Plucker Desktop, and distiller sources, as well as docs)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_src-1.6.tar.bz2.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 Python distiller (106,251 bytes. Python distiller component
only)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_parser-1.6.tar.bz2.torrent
* Plucker 1.6 Documentation (344,712 bytes. Documentation for Plucker 1.6)
http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_docs-1.6.tar.bz2.torrent
Good luck, and keep on plucking!
The Plucker Team
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