Not that I'm an expert on this or anything, but I remember when I downloaded a bunch of Baen books a few years ago, in Palm format, there were a few that had the html coding throughout, just like you have found. I didn't read them with Plucker, I read them with eReader, so I know it wasn't a Plucker issue.
Jennifer. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Cherny Sent: February 9, 2008 10:30 AM To: General Plucker discussion Subject: Re: What Am I Missing? Dennis and David, The files I am trying to convert come from Baen Books free library. They are available for download in several format. I have previously downloaded them in rtf and doc format for the laptop and now want to convert them to the Plucker for the Palm TX. I do have a card reader and can copy the files directly to the expansion card. Baen offers many of its books in the "Palm" prc format. I downloaded one to try it. The Palm software happily treated it like it was supposed to, but when we read it on the Palm, it included html coding on every page. Since the Gutenberg books downloaded in Palm format and the Gutenberg books converted with the Plucker software to Plucker format work properly and the Baen books don't, it would seem to me that the issue is in the conversion and not the viewer and transfer software. Since my original post, I have tried having Word save the files as MS DOS and Unicode text files. Neither of these options seemed to work. I do not have Perl, so the demoronizer program is not an option. Any ideas? Thanks! Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "dmccunney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General Plucker discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: Re: What Am I Missing? > On Feb 8, 2008 9:49 PM, Bob Cherny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The files are landing in the launcher subdirectory. > > I use /Palm/Programs/Plucker, and drop the files there with a USB card > reader. I *don't* like the habit of everything winding up be default > in /Palm/Launcher. (And I have 3,210 Plucker files on my device, so I > damn well want them in their own directory.) > > If you don't have a card reader, look at PInstall from Envicon.de. > It's a freeware replacement for the Palm Install Tool and Quick > Install programs. It doesn't use Hotsync (and it shuts down Hotsync > Manager if it's running and restarts it when it's done.) And it > doesn't care about Hotsync ID. It simply sends selected files out the > selected port to the connected device. I can install to RAM or to a > specified directory on a card. > > http://www.envicon.de/e/pinstall/pinstall.html > >> Upon further experimentation I have discovered that files I downloaded >> from >> Gutenberg as text files (as opposed to rtf or doc files) convert properly >> and work as they should. > > PG doesn't offer RTF or doc files, so I'm not sure how you are getting > those. I grabbed the zipped HTML, which converts readily. > >> The files that are not working properly are those converted from rtf or >> doc >> files. Therefore it would seem that there is something wrong in one of >> the >> settings I am using to make the conversion. What settings should I use >> when >> I save the file to txt to make them compatible? > > Since you run Windows, take a look at Rafael Setzer's PDA Converter: > http://www.jakewalk.de/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=MySoftware.PdaConverter > > PDA Converter is a GUI shell for the Plucker parser that does the > conversion. IT provides a friendly way to specify the desired > options, then calls the Plucker parser as a background task to convert > the file(s). > >> Thanks! >> Bob > ______ > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. > http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
