- Plucker
Plucker is an offline Web and free
e-book reader forPalm OS based handheld devices,Windows Mobile (PocketPC) devices and other handheld PDAs.Plucker contains
POSIX tools, scripts and "conduits" which work onUNIX ,Linux ,Microsoft Windows andMac OS X .Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.
Plucker supports many advanced features, including:
* Clickable images (with pan and zoom)
* Italic and narrow support
* [http://projects.plkr.org/custom-anti-aliased-fonts/ High-resolution fonts]
* Multiple concurrent documents (more than one copy of the same material)
* Configurable display options (rotation, configurable toolbars)
* Advanced stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation)
* [http://www.zlib.net ZLib] and DOC compression (in native and [http://www.copera.com/zlib-armlet ARM] optimized versions)
* Python, C++ andPerl distillers and scripts
* A Microsoft Windows [http://desktop.plkr.org/ fully-integrated graphical installer]Through the use of intelligent "distillers" written in many common languages (currently Python, C++ and
Perl with third-party versions written in Java), content can be created for Plucker from many sources, includingRSS ,RDF , text files, HTML,PDF , and many other file formats.Plucker is licensed under the
GNU General Public License and isFree Software .See also
* - Subset of 2000 Wikipedia articles available in Plucker format
*FBReader - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files.
* [http://plkr.org/samples Sample Plucker documents] for dozens of different ebooks and other works.References
External links
* [http://www.plkr.org/ Plucker website]
* [http://projects.plkr.org/ Plucker Projects] , aka "Plucker Workshop"
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sunrisexp Sunrise Desktop]
* [http://vade-mecum.sourceforge.net/ Vade-Mecum] , Plucker viewer forPocket PC .
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