For the Baen books, I download the html files. I then tell the Plucker
desktop application where the files live. It then plucks the files as if
they are a website.
Plucker settings
Starting Page
Click local file and enter the filename
file://C:\data\books\destiny\0671578723.htm
Limits tab
Set Maximum Depth to 30
Hope this helps.
--Stephen
At 10:29 AM 2/9/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>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
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