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From Plucker Documentation

Plucker is an offline Web and e-book viewer for PalmOS® based handheld devices and PDAs (as well as desktop machines). Plucker is available with tools to use with Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX operating systems through the use of scripts, tools and conduits that let you decide exactly what part of the World Wide Web you'd like to download onto your PDA (as long as they're in standard HTML or text format). These web pages are then processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.

Plucker supports many features, including clickable images (pan and zoom), italic, narrow, and high-resolution fonts, multiple concurrent documents and databases, configurable display parameters and stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation) ZLib and DOC compression, Perl and Python conduits and parsers, a Windows fully-integrated installer, and a whole lot more!

Through the use of intelligent desktop 'parsers', content can be created for Plucker from many sources, including RSS, RDF, text files, HTML PDF, and many other file formats.

Plucker is Free Software, covered by the GNU General Public License and that means that you can use it without charge, you can give it away to others, and that you can even modify the program (or pay others to do it for you) to customize it or add the features you want.

If you believe in the Free Software philosophy join us! We're actively looking for contributors, authors, testers, and anyone else who will give us a helping hand maturing Plucker into a more useful and popular project.

Any product names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For other questions regarding Palm trademarks, please visit the palmOne Trademark page for further detail.

If your questions is not answered in this manual, please check the Plucker mailing lists which may have more recent information.

There is also an irc channel available for real-time help if you should need it. Point your irc client to irc.plkr.org and join the channel #plucker. Please be patient after asking your question(s), as many people may be idle or away from the keyboard when you join.

If you are interested in supporting the ongoing maintenance and creation of these Plucker documents please feel free to contact me directly.

1. Preface
   1. System Requirements
      1. Supported Devices
   2. How Plucker Works
   3. Converters
   4. Feedback
2. Plucker Components
   1. Viewer
      1. PalmOS
      2. PocketPC
      3. Linux viewer
      4. Nokia 770 viewer
      5. Windows viewer
   2. Distiller
      1. Python
      2. C++
      3. Other
   3. Desktop
   4. Plucker Plugin Interface (PPI)
3. Installation and Quickstart Guide
   1. Installing Plucker on Windows
   2. Installing Plucker on Linux
   3. Installing Plucker on OSX
4. Configuring Plucker
   1. Configuring Plucker on Windows
   2. Configuring Plucker on Linux
   3. Configuring Plucker on OSX
5. Third Party Plucker Tools
   1. JPluck
   2. Opusculus
   3. Sunrise
   4. pdaConverter
6. Plucker Database Format
7. Hints and Tips
   1. Images
   2. Tables
   3. Links
8. Other Plucker Documents
   1. Plucker FAQ