Hi all, I finally got Plucker working last night on my Handera 330. (More details in a later message on how I think the docs for the Linux install could be improved.)
I can confirm the problem with display on the Handera 330 reported here by Brian Casten (and earlier by others) and offer a few more details and a workaround: > I have attempted to run Plucker, about which I've heard great > things, on my HandEra 330. Unfortunately, the Plucker manual gets > stuck in some kind of loading loop when Plucker starts. I can see a > percentage at the top of the screen cycling from 0% to 10% over and > over and the contents of the first page just flicker as this > happens. A reset is required to exit Plucker. I've heard from > someone on a board that this is only a problem with compressed > documents. But compression is one of the big benefits of Plucker, > so it seems to me that it's broken for my purposes. As Brian said, the screen just keeps redrawing until it bombs with: Event.c, Line: 191, Event queue full and the device has to be reset. The problem seems to have more to do (as David Desrosiers suggested in a followup) with scaling than with compression. (All Plucker documents are compressed, right?) I get the problem whether I choose zlib or doc compression *if* Plucker is set to "Scale to fit" in the Handera's "Applications" part of the Prefs settings. Either compression method works fine if scaling is turned off as outlined below. So to work around this for now, go to the Prefs application (not within Plucker, but for the Handera itself, i.e. where you set the system time, etc.), choose "Applications" from the upper-right pull-down Menu, find Plucker, and set it to "Center" instead of "Scale to fit". This causes Plucker to display in the central 1/4 of the screen rather than scaling up to its full resolution. It's sad not to use the full screen, but at least it works for now. (This workaround was offered by Michael Perry on the list back in July, but I just thought I'd clarify it in this thread.) Thanks to all for your work on Plucker - let me know if there's any testing I can do on my Handera that would help out. Eric Jensen
