bugs on Plucker Desktop for Windows
>> The output pdb file is not compressed with zlib, although this >> option is selected. > >The entire PDB will not be compressed; rather, its component records will be. The >viewer decompresses it on a record- by- record basis. Thanks, Chris, but I'm not sure whether I understand you. I have generated a pdb file which twice as big as the pdb file generated with the previous (1.13) command-line version. It seems to be a bug and I wonder whether it would have something to do with the fact that the version 1.13 had used Python 2.2 and the Desktop version has a built-in 1.5 Python version. (It may be nonsense, I don't know.) By the way, it would be better to offer the binaries for all platforms also without the built-in Python version. The same happens with the other features of the Windows desktop version: url info is included when not requested, there is no owner id although requested. And the Windows Plucker Desktop is specially unstable, I mean, I have must force the restart when using it allmost all the times (about 10 and I use W98SE). I hope it helps, Pablo ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: branches in i18n branch
On 2002.9.14, at 02:06 AM, Michael Nordström wrote: > >> i18n-bookmark, > > Bookmarks shouldn't be more than 20 chars (for practical reasons, > since you can't view longer names in the popup dialog), so you > might want to decrease the 100 chars you include. Bookmark is limited to 30 letters (according to the width of Bookmarkform dialog). Fixed. > >> i18n-hardcopy, > > Several crashes and unhandled exceptions (515) on my Palm V > (running OS3.3). Seems like any page with a visible link will > fail. Other pages will sometimes be copied, but most of the > time nothing will happen. Sorry it is not i18n-hardcopy, but i18n-hardcopy2. i18n-hardcopy2 worked much better. Anyway those sub-branches are merged to i18n and modified there. Please see i18n instead. matto ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Possible fix for url-pattern patch attached
Thanks, Robert. That looks reasonable. I'll add it in. Bill ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
RE: Scaled-down images
I have had the same problem. Seems the newest version of the image parser is not handling alt_* dimensions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erb Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scaled-down images I installed the windows install of Plucker Desktop beta. (dated 9/10). I have one problem: When using plucker-build to convert a local html file, the alt_maxwidth and alt_maxheight for images seems to be ignored; large images are scaled but not linked to full-size versions, even when sufficiently large alt size is specified. Before I report a bug I want to make sure I am not doing anything wrong. Thanks, -- Erb == "The only time I like in the morning is afternoon." - Russell D. Cooper "If you do everything, then you're all done." - Melissa F. Cooper "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." - Larry Wall == ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.386 / Virus Database: 218 - Release Date: 9/9/2002 ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Possible fix for url-pattern patch attached
URL pattern seemed to have temporary stopped working for a while. The bug is here:
http://www.gnu-designs.com/bugs/view_bug_page.php?f_id=285
Attached is a patch to allow url_pattern to correctly filter, when specified as a
commandline
key.
Bill, did you want to check this over, and see if this is the right solution, and
patch the CVS
branches if you agree with it?
The patch doesn't have many lines. There is only an addition of a few lines which
allow
url_pattern to be collected and put as an attribute of a SpiderLink tag.
The addition of these lines makes url_pattern in the config file work for me (using
wired as an
example test).
Best wishes,
Robert
cvs diff -u2 Spider.py
Index: Spider.py
===
RCS file: /cvs/plucker/plucker_src/parser/python/PyPlucker/Spider.py,v
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -2 -r1.70 Spider.py
--- Spider.py 9 Jul 2002 15:45:03 - 1.70
+++ Spider.py 17 Sep 2002 22:58:56 -
@@ -99,4 +99,5 @@
"stay_on_host",
"staybelow",
+"url_pattern",
"current_depth",
"noimages",
@@ -177,4 +178,5 @@
self._maxheight = None
self._bpp = 1
+self._url_pattern = None
old = dict.copy()
for key in old.keys():
@@ -200,4 +202,5 @@
if self._stay_below:
res = res + (" STAYBELOW=\"%s\"" % self._stay_below)
+res = res + " URL_PATTERN='%s'" % self._url_pattern
res = res + " URL='%s'" % self._url
res = res + " " + repr (self._dict)
Re: Plucker Desktop hits PDABuzz.com
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:04:52PM +0100, Robert O'Connor wrote: > I have a feeling that the year 2003 is going to see the Plucker > viewer on a majority of Palm handhelds. Be careful of what you wish for :) -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada msg03164/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Request advice from Bill Janssen: Python distiller keys: owner_id_build and no_urlinfo
> Agreed, let's work on flattening the options and agreeing on what > means what (--title vs. -N vs. doc_name et al) and start there. We can build > on that, once we all agree on our options and how we'll reference them. I think the man page is straight on all the command-line options. I should just add the config file option names to it. Frankly, I never figured anyone would ever put owner_id_build in a configuration file, but would only use it from the command-line. I forgot just how paranoid a lot of folks out there are. Bill ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Plucker Desktop hits PDABuzz.com
On 17 Sep 2002 at 15:55, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > If anyone hasn't noticed yet, we're on the front page of pdabuzz.com > for Plucker Desktop. Expect the usual onslaught of newbies and rants to hit > the lists. The sites are getting absolutely pounded.. I only wish I had the > new site up, oh well.. soon. Great that they can help pass the word around of Plucker. Perhaps some page later on down the road after the new site has the finishing touches, can set aside room for 2 pages for: -Clips of various Plucker reviews with links back to the site that helped pass the word around of our non-profit project. -A media kit page, that gives a journalist-friendly blurb bullets of what plucker is, it does, history etc, and some premade higher resolution screenshots (600dpi? I forget what resolution/image format is preferred) for use in a print magazine? A possible clips page type of thing: http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/review.cfm A possible print-friendly screenshots type of thing: http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/media.cfm I have a feeling that the year 2003 is going to see the Plucker viewer on a majority of Palm handhelds. Best wishes, Robert ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Request advice from Bill Janssen: Python distiller keys:owner_id_build and no_urlinfo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'd like to go easy on fancying things up, as I have to replicate the > parsing functionality in libunpluck. Agreed, let's work on flattening the options and agreeing on what means what (--title vs. -N vs. doc_name et al) and start there. We can build on that, once we all agree on our options and how we'll reference them. d. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.1.92 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h4QDkRQERnB1rkoRAmmAAKCtU9Xr22/ttoZzdQcfSz+P2WpDigCcDdMp CNSC5oRd57wekoAYSP+iUWI= =7PbU -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Request advice from Bill Janssen: Python distiller keys: owner_id_build and no_urlinfo
> I'm not sure from these examples if it can handle non-ini-style > files, like those used by apache or ones with delimited blocks, but I'm sure > it's not impossible to roll one out of it. I'd like to go easy on fancying things up, as I have to replicate the parsing functionality in libunpluck. Bill ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Some Plucker Desktop issues (Was Re: What is the feedback address for Plucker Desktop?)
> 1. Plucker desktop breaks the effect of > > max_tbmp_size= 6 > try_reduce_bpp = false > > Background: I have a 16-bit color Palm (M-515) and I like full color > images, even if it means the size is reduced. > > Plucker 1.1.13 does this fine (with verbosity=2, you even get a nice > list of "trying 90%...", "trying 80%..." type messages, until at some > point the bmp size is < 60k). > > But the moment you install Plucker Desktop, this breaks. Hi Sitaram, thanks for your letter. The distiller has changed and been improved a lot since 1.1.13 which is now more than a year old. plucker-build commandline is still available, and you can test the distiller script directly to help pinpoint your problem. > 2. It seems to hang sometimes, for reasons I have not had time to > figure out. (Sorry to sound like a typical newbie - "it doesn't work" > :-) If I find time to investigate this further and determine some > actual reason I will email you. Meanwhile, treat this as just FYI :-) Can't help much on that one until there is some steps to reproduce. Sorry ;-) > Worse, if I run a set of updates all > together, and say the last of them hangs and I have to kill it, then > *none* of the databases make it to the Palm "Install" directory. That is a design decision and is unlikely to change. On Linux, to install files to the handheld, you push the hotsync button to move the files. If there was an install after each channel update, then the Linux user would have to sit there by the machine, pressing the hotsync button each time. When the lot is installed at the end, there only needs to be one button press. Introducing an #ifdefcode fork for installing each one sequentially on MSW makes proper maintenance more difficult. If you like DOS consoles, you can use them: Preferences dialog > Spidering tab > Show progress with [console window]. > 4. If the internal scheduler granularity is set lesser than the time > taken to download one database (say I have a very large one which takes > more than 10 minutes, the default granularity), then Plucker Desktop > starts up another session! Even more interesting, when they both > complete, I still have no PDB file in C:\Palm\MYName\Install! Thanks. I'll take a look. This shouldn't happen--a flag gets turned on and off to tell whether it is okay to start a new autoupdate. There may have been a miss of the flag setting at some point. > Otherwise it looks great. I love many of the features, but these > problems (especially #1 at the top) prevent me from using it. (Don't > tell me that's because of the change from Bmp2Tbmp to netpbm2, and that > therefore even "plain old plucker" will no longer do this come 1.2 ! :-) The MSW doesn't use netpbm2, it uses Bmp2Tbmp. Dirk has written some all-in-one PIL parsers, but IIRC correctly there weren't quite as mature as PIL+Bmp2Tbmp. Best wishes, Robert ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: beaming docs with url titles bug in plucker 1.2 beta 12
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002, Patryk Laurent wrote: > you sync a document to a Plucker installation allowing it to retain it's > default http:// url title and attempt to beam it to another Palm (which has > Plucker 1.2 beta 12 installed) the receiving Palm errors: Try to beam it to a device that doesn't have Plucker installed and you will get the exact same error. When the current beam support was added I wanted to keep it simple and decided to just send the data to the PalmOS launcher app (Applications). However, when you use a filename like http://foobar.com the file that is sent to Applications is called http://foobar.com.pdb and apparently it doesn't like that format. Actually, it is not the "http://"; that is the problem, but the '.'. Rename a document to anything with a '.' in it and then try to beam it; it will fail with the unknwon format error. A document called "http://foobar"; will work, though. Still, it is probably a good idea to avoid names with ':' in them, since (in PalmOS4 and later) they will be treated as a URL that identifies the exchange library to connect with ;-) I have a local version that will handle beamed Plucker documents internally, but I will not include that in the 1.2 release. It will accept documents with an extra '.' in the name, though. Currently, it will just ignore a received document if a document with identical name already exists, but I intend to add an option for the user to either rename the current document, choose to delete it or reject the received document. I would also like to add support for receiving the documents directly to an external card. /Mike ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Plucker Desktop - Suggestions
Ken Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Include the RTF2HTML program with the distribution (it's freeware) and It's an executable for Windows only and its licence is not free enough to allow it to be ported. Maybe a better idea would be to either provide hooks for it, and maybe other similar tools like antiword or plucker-oebps. > 2. Provide an option for the user to specify the automatic generation of > bookmarks form HTML or RTF headings. [...] Or a jump list based on id or name attributes in the xhtml. Not sure which is better. MJR ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
RE: STAYBELOW
> -Message d'origine- > De: Rob OConnor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: jeudi 12 septembre 2002 15:15 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet:Re: STAYBELOW > > > Is staybelow still in the Plucker Desktop docs > somewhere? If so, it should be expunged. Yes. Simply searching for "staybelow" in the help application gives 8 results (as simple text in a sentence, as the config options, in the index, etc.) Do you want me to update the help files ? (I can do that if I can be sure not to break their format... and if I can find the sources in CVS -- currently not...) I just saw you removed the term from the app strings (.po file). NH ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
RE: windows installer?
Try the Plucker Desktop on http://desktop.plkr.org (latest beta dated 2002-09-10) : it included the wonderful Plucker Desktop and two marvelous beta viewers for your Palm. NH > -Message d'origine- > De: Peter & Melodye Bowers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: samedi 14 septembre 2002 15:22 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent_From_Home > Objet:windows installer? > > I don't know if you are the person to whom I should be writing, but I can't > find other contact information and I'm a bit lost about how to find this on > your web site... > > I have recently gotten interested in Plucker and so downloaded the most > recent version (1.2beta12). I have downloaded hundreds of palm programs and > so expected a simple readme or index.html explaining the process of > installing the software. Instead I find a comment (somewhat buried in the > documentation) that I need to download the windows installer from the > plucker site (no site given) and it will do everything for me. GREAT! Life > is that much easier... The problem is that I can't find it ANYWHERE! > > Can you or someone else point me to where I find the windows installer for > plucker? > > Thanks! > > -Peter > > ___ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
RE: Plucker 1.1 Release Article
Try the Plucker Desktop on http://desktop.plkr.org (latest beta dated 2002-09-10) : it included the wonderful Plucker Desktop and two marvelous beta viewers for your Palm. NH > -Message d'origine- > De: ben [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: lundi 16 septembre 2002 23:38 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet:Plucker 1.1 Release Article > > I'd love to try the new beta but i only have access to a windows computer. > is there any way that i can compile the source on a windows box or has some > one made a win binary yet? > ben~ > > ___ > plucker-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Nested keys (Was Re: Request advice from Bill Janssen: Python distiller keys: owner_id_build and no_urlinfo )
On 16 Sep 2002 at 23:16, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > I'm not sure how hard it would be for the python tools and the > other bits to parse nested blocks, or options nested within opening and > closing tags, but that's one approach also. Something like: > > >update_enabled = 0 >update_frequency = 1 >update_period = daily >update_base= 2002-09-08T12:57:15 >close_on_exit = 0 >close_on_error = 0 > I certainly agree on using a single .ini/rc, as otherwise it gets too crazy to try to manage options. For sections, there is a [PLUCKER_DESKTOP] section that sets switches for the program that are only relevant to it (position of a last window save, etc). Keys used inside a channel section are there for other tools to use also. update_base is pretty generic, if there was another tool, plucker-foo, to manage update times, they are going to need the same set of keys and it would be somewhat confusing to have the plucker-foo keys want to read/write keys. It makes the keys a bit more seemless if the reusable ones are available to be global, and it is tough to know in advance what will be needed in the future. For example, "user" key was created by Dirk for RunSync.exe to install; when it was time to pick a key for installing graphically, can just reuse the existing key in a new way. For run-ins of keys, I think good documentation of the config file is good enough. Someone making a new tool can look at what keys already exist, and use the ones that address the current problem (as time goes on, more and more problems will already have been solved, so can just reuse the existing keys). If there isn't a key to fit, drop an RFC on plucker-dev about it, pick a key name and use it, (which has been done in the past quite well). I do like the arrangement of keys to group them into sets for readability, but we do that in the commented .ini/.rc file anyways with just some comment spaces between the groups of things. A full-on XML file config wouldn't be too bad for a later date, as we discussed some months back. There are 2 keys that would be useful to have attributes to describe a channel, the user installations and integrated exclusion list. and http://.*x10.*"; action="exclude" priority="1" /> ...and so on. That isn't a feasibily a Plucker 1.2 possibility though. The only problem in that it is somewhat difficult to then keep things on the command-line the same as the config file. Using separate keys keeps it easier to type into the command line: --exclusion1=http://.*x10.*;-;1 --exclusion2=http://.*;+;0 Commandline arguments are a good way to keep available for other future tools to use. For example, can run a browser plugin for adding a channel to manage, by just calling a commandline on it and terminating, instead of juggling file drops, IPC, etc. Best wishes, Robert ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Plucker 1.1 Release Article
I'd love to try the new beta but i only have access to a windows computer. is there any way that i can compile the source on a windows box or has some one made a win binary yet? ben~ ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
RE: Soliciting input for Plucker options/arguments
Title: RE: Soliciting input for Plucker options/arguments I just started using VFS and it creates this bit of a problem. Under normal circumstances when a desktop-side PDB is created, it uses the "doc_file" value for the filename and when the install conduit transfers the file to the PDA, the filename is changed to the "doc_name" value. However, If I want to bypass the install conduit and have my PDB created directly on my VFS media (compact flash module), I'd like a parameter to allow the file to be created with the "doc_name" value for the filename. I understand this may cause some issues because some desktop OS may have problems with blank spaces which are allowed for PDA VFS filenames but that's the only issue I see...
RE: Plucker 1.1 Release Article
Title: RE: Plucker 1.1 Release Article Another issue or 2. When I choose a bmp for the launch icon, the pdb is not generated. I can't get you the error message if necessary. It also appears that I have to have my mouse over the results window when updating for the operation to work. Or maybe it's just not showing the results but is still updating. Thanks again, Scott M. -Original Message- From: Scott McCullor Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Plucker 1.1 Release Article Love Desktop so far. Much easier to use and should make a huge dent in the Avantgo market. I have this problem, though. I'm plucking html pages that I authored and there are plenty of images (gif files) which are accessed via hyperlinks. Every one of them has been reduced in size even though I selected always link thumbnail to second full size image. This would be ok but the hyper link isn't there and I can't open the full sized image. I've tried leaving them as hyper links and also embedding the full sized image in the document but neither seems to give me the full image. When I use version 1.1.13 my images were full size and I could scroll them. It will be ok for what I'm doing but the increased color support and color hyperlinks and text would make these documents a lot better. If you'd like my .pdbs for examination, I'll be glad to get them to you ASAP. Thanks for the products and the help, Scott McCullor TAC Americas Tech Support
Plucker 1.1 Release Article
Title: Plucker 1.1 Release Article Love Desktop so far. Much easier to use and should make a huge dent in the Avantgo market. I have this problem, though. I'm plucking html pages that I authored and there are plenty of images (gif files) which are accessed via hyperlinks. Every one of them has been reduced in size even though I selected always link thumbnail to second full size image. This would be ok but the hyper link isn't there and I can't open the full sized image. I've tried leaving them as hyper links and also embedding the full sized image in the document but neither seems to give me the full image. When I use version 1.1.13 my images were full size and I could scroll them. It will be ok for what I'm doing but the increased color support and color hyperlinks and text would make these documents a lot better. If you'd like my .pdbs for examination, I'll be glad to get them to you ASAP. Thanks for the products and the help, Scott McCullor TAC Americas Tech Support
Re: Soliciting input for Plucker options/arguments
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 08:32:36PM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > I'm not exactly sure what you mean.. could you give me an example? I personally grep/sed/awk some pictures out of html files. This gives me URL like http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ch/1991/ch910914.gif for calvin&hobbes Using the standard maxwidth setting, it just make the picture as big as the screen. I would like this picture (and only this one) to keep its original size, else hires makes it too small to be read. > You would mail this off to the Plucker server, to a special account, > and it will fetch and convert the site you specify for you, based on these > parameters. Within a few seconds to minutes, depending on the size of the > content fetched, you will receive a .pdb in your email with the content > you've requested. Quite interesting. > If I understand you correctly, you are asking for a per-link > maxdepth customization, which wouldn't be possible with this process, since Not exactly- a per-link size setting. A per-link colordepth setting could also be useful : I want my comics in b&w but maps from weather.com or similar should be in full color. -- Guylhem P. Aznar Now *@externe.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]>@metalab.unc.edu->@7un.org->@externe.net) http://externe.net/geekcode http://externe.net/photos GPG: 92EB37C1 DD11C9C9 20519D01 E8FA1B11 42975AF7http://externe.net/pubkey ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Soliciting input for Plucker options/arguments
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 02:53:50PM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Please look over the list below, and tell me if I've missed any > options or arguments that the current Plucker viewer, Desktop, Parser, and > tools support. .. > maxheight = # maximum height of images in document > maxwidth = # maximum width of images in document > alt_maxheight = # must be > maxheight > alt_maxwidth = # ditto, must be > maxwidth What about a link specific option? It could be useful for comics or other specific pictures like satellite maps. -- Guylhem P. Aznar Now *@externe.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]>@metalab.unc.edu->@7un.org->@externe.net) http://externe.net/geekcode http://externe.net/photos GPG: 92EB37C1 DD11C9C9 20519D01 E8FA1B11 42975AF7http://externe.net/pubkey ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
windows installer?
I don't know if you are the person to whom I should be writing, but I can't find other contact information and I'm a bit lost about how to find this on your web site... I have recently gotten interested in Plucker and so downloaded the most recent version (1.2beta12). I have downloaded hundreds of palm programs and so expected a simple readme or index.html explaining the process of installing the software. Instead I find a comment (somewhat buried in the documentation) that I need to download the windows installer from the plucker site (no site given) and it will do everything for me. GREAT! Life is that much easier... The problem is that I can't find it ANYWHERE! Can you or someone else point me to where I find the windows installer for plucker? Thanks! -Peter ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Scaled-down images
I installed the windows install of Plucker Desktop beta. (dated 9/10). I have one problem: When using plucker-build to convert a local html file, the alt_maxwidth and alt_maxheight for images seems to be ignored; large images are scaled but not linked to full-size versions, even when sufficiently large alt size is specified. Before I report a bug I want to make sure I am not doing anything wrong. Thanks, -- Erb == "The only time I like in the morning is afternoon." - Russell D. Cooper "If you do everything, then you're all done." - Melissa F. Cooper "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." - Larry Wall == ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
What is the feedback address for Plucker Desktop?
Hi all, Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find the feedback address for Plucker Desktop in all of http://desktop.plkr.org/. I have a few comments that I would like to pass on. Could someone please give me the address? Thanks... -- Now, just in case the address is the same as for the main Plucker tool, here goes: 1. Plucker desktop breaks the effect of max_tbmp_size= 6 try_reduce_bpp = false Background: I have a 16-bit color Palm (M-515) and I like full color images, even if it means the size is reduced. Plucker 1.1.13 does this fine (with verbosity=2, you even get a nice list of "trying 90%...", "trying 80%..." type messages, until at some point the bmp size is < 60k). But the moment you install Plucker Desktop, this breaks. 2. It seems to hang sometimes, for reasons I have not had time to figure out. (Sorry to sound like a typical newbie - "it doesn't work" :-) If I find time to investigate this further and determine some actual reason I will email you. Meanwhile, treat this as just FYI :-) Plucker (plain) has *never* hung on me yet :-) 3. The plain (textfile-based) plucker allows me to hotsync more than one database at a time. I know this is not a bug, and I know enough to realise this may even be a fundamental design issue with having a GUI, but it was one of the factors. Worse, if I run a set of updates all together, and say the last of them hangs and I have to kill it, then *none* of the databases make it to the Palm "Install" directory. In other words, I have to run them sequentially to avoid this. Run one, wait for it to complete (or hang - kill), then the next, etc. (But see next issue :-) 4. If the internal scheduler granularity is set lesser than the time taken to download one database (say I have a very large one which takes more than 10 minutes, the default granularity), then Plucker Desktop starts up another session! Even more interesting, when they both complete, I still have no PDB file in C:\Palm\MYName\Install! Otherwise it looks great. I love many of the features, but these problems (especially #1 at the top) prevent me from using it. (Don't tell me that's because of the change from Bmp2Tbmp to netpbm2, and that therefore even "plain old plucker" will no longer do this come 1.2 ! :-) Thanks for a great product, in spite of all this. Plucker itself (the main product) is a God-send for me in many ways! -- Sitaram Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. --Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Plucker Desktop - Suggestions
Great to see you adding a Windows front-end to Plucker. I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Include the RTF2HTML program with the distribution (it's freeware) and integrate it into the Plucker Desktop to give users the ability of converting Word and RTF documents to Plucker format. Here is a download link:: .http://www.ebookgraphics.com/software/software1.html 2. Provide an option for the user to specify the automatic generation of bookmarks form HTML or RTF headings. A range of headings could be turned on to place bookmarks in the Plucker output file. For example - generate bookmarks for heading levels 1 through 3. Regards,Ken Findlay
beaming docs with url titles bug in plucker 1.2 beta 12
Greetings, I wanted to inform you that I had found a bug in Plucker 1.2 beta 12. If you sync a document to a Plucker installation allowing it to retain it's default http:// url title and attempt to beam it to another Palm (which has Plucker 1.2 beta 12 installed) the receiving Palm errors: "Data received in Unknown Format." after receipt. If you rename the document to a regular name, it succeeds and the receiving Palm says "Do you want to accept "filename" into Applications?" This occured sending from a Handspring Visor Neo to both a Palm 105 and to a Handspring Visor (original). Thank you -- excellent app. Patryk ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: STAYBELOW
--- Nicolas Huillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Plucker Desktop describes the STAYBELOW as a > regexp that URLs crawled > must match to be included in the document, whereas > the Plucker Doc > describes it as the beginning of the URLs that are > accepted... > Ie, according to Plucker Desktop, > /^http:\/\/my\.site\.org\/mydir\/.*$/ > would be the same as what the Plucker Doc would > write as > http://my.site.org/mydir/ > Where is the truth ? > (actually none of the two notations work in Plucker > Desktop : I can submit > a bug once it's clear what the param syntax really > is) > > NH Is staybelow still in the Plucker Desktop docs somewhere? If so, it should be expunged. It is deprecated since the same thing should be able to be done with url-pattern. Unfortuately, the parser seems to have some problem in that it ignores url-pattern. A bug report was filed on this is on bugs.plkr.org a few days ago. Best wishes, Robert __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
Re: Colored links
--- "Laurens M. Fridael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Now that the viewer supports colored text, it would > be nice to have colored > links as well. It's there. The current behaviour is that if the document doesn't have a color tag, then it is colored the same as the text. Otherwise you have to switch it on via anchor_color key in your ini. anchor_color can be one of the 16 basic named colors, or a hex like #44FF33 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
comments and possible bugs
Dear Plucker Team, I recently downloaded Plucker Desktop (1.2beta12) and want to say that it's a wonderful piece of work. I had tried Plucker a long time ago but AvantGo had a few sites I really liked and the auto-sync was much more userfriendly on my windows box. After my handful of sites was cut into half a handful with their usage limits I decided to take a look at Plucker again and there's Plucker Desktop at the top of the news. Just want to share a few comments with you from using it the past few days. Good: Much smaller than Avantgo. saves 200k+ (aka 200 news articles) Multiple DB good idea. don't have to sync everything. Old commandline method not very accomodating. Most everything. Bad: 1) The URL filter doesn't seem to work. This occurs both under the Configure-Limits checkbox/form and manually using the url_pattern tag via StartingPage-List-InsertaHyperlink-URLpatternfilter. (My apologies if i missed the note that says "not yet implemented") 2) I also am having trouble spidering a few websites. It seems to be due to the "%20" escape as observed during Max detail. If the URL is explicitly mentioned (website, file, list) it seems to work. But if a link with the "%20" escape is encountered it seems to be translated first before requesting it and thus breaks. Here is a snippet from http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/index.html?body_template=topnews.html Explicit: 6 collected, 3 to do Processing http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/Story/inde.ZAGAT%20REVIEWS... Retrieved ok. Parsed ok. Encountered: 11 collected, 17 to do Processing http://www.ny1.com/ny/NY1ToGo/Story/inde.e=ZAGAT REVIEWS... Retrieval failed: -1 -- Bad request . 3) Viewer: Too little free ram (under about 40k) results in "Exception error" on Palm on document load and exiting to launcher. Restarting Plucker results in immediate attempt to reload document and corresponding exception. Cannot return to Document Library to delete. Requires 3rd party app to delete db, or syncing and overwriting with a smaller db. Ugly: Confusing buttons. Maybe make it similar to the viewer and have config, delete, update next to each channel instead of selecting a channel, hovering over the button and then clicking. Renaming a channel doesn't rename the folder+database created. (Name in document library listing is updated) Maybe during Max Detail don't truncate the URLs. Update progress dialog doesn't automatically update. meter doesn't increment nor message window display new messages unless a refresh is forced via mouse movement over window. Downloads and conversions continue to take place, and messages are queued up until refresh takes place. When not connected, Plucker Desktop will update due channels with "404 Not Found" errors (tiny useless dbs). Info: WindowsXP (celeron 500, 256MB ram) Plucker Desktop v1.2beta12 for windows (Sept 3, 2002) PalmIIIe 2MB ram. PalmOS 3.1 PalmOS Emulator w/ 3.0 rom. (much faster to check experimental channels than via syncing) Maybe important, 56k modem usually connecting at 33k -> slow downloads and paid attention during channel update Walter Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
