Hi,

I've released JPluck 0.9 beta 2.

http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/

Beta 2 has several important improvements:

- New: Scheduling
Documents can now be scheduled for conversion on specific days of the week
and times of the day. More information on the special Scheduling page. (See
the Manual section on the site.)

- Improved Windows HotSync conduit
The conduit has been upgraded significantly and is now part of the main
distribution. The big improvement is that PDBs can be synced to RAM right
after they have been generated, while the rest of the documents are
downloaded and queued in parallel. This can greatly reduce HotSync time when
you convert multiple documents, especially on a serial or IR connection. The
second improvement is that you can instruct the conduit to convert only
scheduled and due documents. Finally, the Windows installer now registers
the conduit automatically. (Note that the conduit cannot sync PDBs to memory
cards yet. Documents meant to be stored on memory cards are still synced at
the end of the HotSync process. This will be addressed shortly.)

- New: Broken links handling
Links to pages that are not present in the resulting Plucker document can be
given a distinct color or removed from the document altogether.

- New: HTML to XML conversion dialog
This feature is meant for developers who want to create XSLT stylesheets to
transform HTML pages. Simply specify a filename or URL and JPluck
automatically retrieves the HTML page and converts it to well-formed XML.
You can then paste this XML into a dedicated XSLT editor and develop
stylesheets there.

- Improved character handling
JPluck now translates Unicode entities to the PalmLatin character set where
possible. Examples include the curly quotes, the promille, the ellipsis and
the Euro.

- Improved logging
JPluck C can now send log messages to standard out, a log file and the
progress window simultaneously. JPluck X can now automatically save messages
to a global log file and/or to a JXL-specific local log file.

- Miscellaneous
Added the ability to override the user agent on a per-Document basis. Added
the option to specify the HotSync destination on a per-Document basis. Made
several interface improvements.


Broken links handling is a particularly useful feature that, at least for
me, greatly affects usage of the Viewer. By giving them a distinct color (I
prefer red) I can quickly scan a document and skip the broken links. No more
tapping on a link and then finding out it isn't in the document.

To configure the conduit, click on the HotSync icon in the system tray and
select Custom... from the popup menu, then double-click on JPluck in the
conduit listing. This brings up the conduit configuration dialog.

Let me know what you think.


Regards
-Laurens
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