Hi
I just released JPluck 0.9 beta 1 and the first alpha of the JPluck HotSync conduit. (The conduit is Windows-only.) NOTES FOR USERS OF JPLUCK 0.9 PRE1 AND PRE2 It's best to delete the configuration files "settings.xml" and "configurationSettings.xml " files in <user home>/.jpluck. This ensures that you start cleanly. The default number of active HTTP connections has been lowered to 2. I did this to avoid pounding sites in "turbo mode" by default. You can still raise the active connections to 4. I have it set to 2 connections with a delay of 200 milliseconds and throughput is still very good. NEW FEATURES - HotSync Conduit (see below) - Introduced HTTP connection delay. You can configure the delay in milliseconds. The minimum (and default) delay is 500ms - Capped the maximum number of connections to 4. The default number of connections for new installations is 2. Actually, I have set it to 2 and throughput is not affected that much on my ADSL line. Anyway, you can set it to 4 if you want and that should give you the same performance. - Added Windows-only "minimize to system tray" option for JPluck X. This lets you hide and activate JPluck quickly without incurring the Java startup overhead. - Added icon for the tray and main window. It's a simple rescaling of the 32x32 icon and doesn't look very good as 16x16. It's better than the generic Java cup, though. - JPluck C now returns error codes. - Added option to retrieve pages and images from the cache only, without making a network connection. This offline mode is great when you want to experiment with conversion settings or XSL stylesheets. - Added command-line switches to JPluck C that let you convert specific documents only. CHANGES AND FIXES - Default L&F on Mac OS X should be set to Aqua. (I cannot actually test this as I don't have access to a Mac. Let me know.) - Windows L&F is no longer selectable on non-Windows platforms. (It cannot be supported on non-Windows platforms due to legal reasons.) - Fixed many minor UI issues. - Added workaround for parsing combinations of <li> and <br> tags. This affected quite a few sites. The result was that you got two list bullets instead of one. - Fixed parsing issue for Windows CP1252-encoded pages with characters in the range 128-159 (which contains signs like the Euro, promille and ellipsis). The PalmLatin character set is actually based on CP1252. - Fixed parsing of <p></p> combination. - Text content of <option> elements is now ignored. - Text record overrun (>32K) when the server returns a text/html MIME type for binary content is handled more gracefully. The offending "text record" is removed before the PDB is written out. Previously, the entire PDB generation process failed just because one text record was too long. - Changed the term "Conversion Settings" to "Conversion Profiles". The command-line switches for JPluck C have changed accordingly. - Cleaned up JXL 0.9 DTD. The elements that are not (yet) used are removed from the DTD to avoid confusion. - Removed scripting. This feature is not very useful in its present state. Will reintroduce this after 0.9. - Updated the RSS stylesheet to handle RDF-style syntax as well. This stylesheet is still very quick-and-dirtyish. - Added an XSL stylesheet for The Onion so that the pods://avantgo/back links point to the index page. (Anyone remember that thread?) - Added a XSL stylesheet that fixes the double list bullet problem on the MSNBC index page. HOTSYNC CONDUIT The HotSync conduit is a DLL that invokes JPluck C during the HotSync process. There is a configuration dialog in the conduit itself that lets you specify the JXL and the Conversion Profile. You can also choose between GUI and console display. The conduit is described in detail here: http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/conduit.html You have to install it manually but the process is very easy: just copy the DLL to the Palm Desktop directory and run "regsvr32 jpluck_conduit.dll". Anyway, see the page for more info. A manual will be provided shortly. It will be bundled as helpfile with the next release. Let me know what you think. Regards -Laurens --- http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/ JPluck - open-source Plucker document creation toolkit. NOTE: Please report JPluck bugs and issues directly to me by e-mail. Do not discuss JPluck technical issues on the Plucker mailing lists. _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
