On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Dennis, > > I got the html files from project Gutenberg so they're probably not > converted.
Nope. They aren't. PG offers plain text and HTML. (And as Chris YHawks mentions, they offer pre-converted Plucker files, which they create on the fly when you select that.) > And I currently don't have (?) ability to convert? (Not sure...just > installed plucker. Thurs) When I go to open the html files, it offers now > to open using iSiloX converter...? is this the plucker converter? No, it isn't. iSilo is a competing product that does things similar to Plucker. Most folks will use one or the other, but Plucker won't understand an iSilo file, and vice versa. I have iSiloX Desktop installed for one purpose: I use it to generate iSilo versions of True type fonts, which I can then convert on the PDA for use in other programs. For actually reading HTML on my PDA, I use Plucker. > On my computer where I have the palm files there is no programs subdir in > the root. or under the name. I did install Plucker using quick install and I > can open it but the > only doc that's in the library is the userguide. Side note: I presume that > when I ultimately (God willing) get files in the library I'll be able to > change their category from Undefined to something else? I just tried > changing the user guide from Unfiled to Books (one I defined) but it didn't > change as far as I can see. I'll play with it a bit. Two more things: First, forget about the desktop. Where the files live on it is irrelevant for what you want to do. What you will be concerned with is where to place them on the card in your PDA so Plucker can find them. You have three choices: /Palm/Ebooks, /Palm/Launcher, and /Palm/Programs/Plucker. I prefer /Palm/Programs/Plucker, but any of the three will work. I recommend against using /Palm/Launcher because too many other things also expect stuff to be there, and keeping straight what belongs to what is a pain. The only thing in /Palm/Programs/Plucker is Plucker documents... Second, if you haven't, make sure you installed syszlib.prc (included with the Plucker viewer) on your PDA. Zlib lets Plucker view documents created with the "high-compression" option. It's a shared library, and must live in RAM. It can't be on a card. The Plucker viewer itself *can* be run from a card, and you can drop it in /Palm/Launcher to save RAM. What sort of desktop machine are you using, and what OS? You'll need the Plucker Desktop installed to do conversions from raw HTML to Plucker format. The desktop includes the Plucker parser that actually does the conversions. If you run Windows, I can recommend a freeware utility you might like to aid the process. > I'll go back to the plucker web pages and see about the plucker desktop to > do conversions. Good plan. > sorry to bug ya. No apology required. I like helping folks to use Plucker. > Thanks for the help too via interesting questions to sayt he least! Have to determine where you are now before I can tell you where to go. :-) > Christopher culp ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
