I have been trying different Plucker books in the viewer on the Nokia
770, which I received a week ago. At first I was simply trying it
with e-books I made using Plucker distiller, and I know that the
Windows version of that is way out of date. So when I had problems I
thought it was with my files.<br>
<br>
Yesterday I tried some books made elsewhere, longer books, and I had the
same problem -- although the pdb file seems to be full and complete,
only a certain number of pages or lines are displayed in the Plucker
Viewer. I make it as about 49 pages in the 770 screen size.<br>
<br>
This occurs even when the only application I have open is the Plucker
Viewer, even after resetting the 770. If it is a
memory issue, it doesn't seem to be coming from the 770 but from
Plucker.<br>
<br>
Is this something others have experienced?<br>
<br>
For instance, I tried reading the Project Gutenberg-generated version of Herman Hesse's
Siddhartha (downloadable at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2500" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2500</a> ). The last thing I can see in this text is
the end of the paragraph beginning, "This myth, this rumour, this
legend resounded."<br>
<br>
In the online version of Siddhartha at
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=2304&pageno=1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=2304&pageno=1
</a>
, this point appears midway on page 11. The PG text itself extends to
page 79.<br>
<br>
The last word I can read in the text
is the 28,595th character in the book. In a different book (in html), the
last word is the 31,292nd character; removing the markup, the last
character is the 28,815th character. <br>
<br>
If this is simply something I can and should adjust in the Viewer on the 770, anyone please advise.<br>
<br>
If not, perhaps the GTK+ or the ported version has a restriction on how long a single page can be.<br>
<br>
To explore this issue further, I experimented by taking PG's text,
converting it to HTML and breaking it into 12 files, linking each
chapter to the preceding and following chapter and to a Table of
Contents (itself linked to all the chapters, of course). This created
no problems whatsoever. <br>
<br>
I also opened the CIA World Factbook with
high-res color illustrations from memoware
(<a href="http://memoware.com/?screen=doc_detail&doc_id=15510&back=main" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://memoware.com/?screen=doc_detail&doc_id=15510&back=main
</a>
). At 7.7 mb, it is more than 85 times larger than the original
Siddhartha pdb file. It has some 225 separate pages, one for each
country and dependency/special-sovereignty-area, all connected to a
TOC. Again no problems.<br>
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I do not own a Palm so I can't check these texts in the canonical
Plucker Viewer, but since so many pdb files seem constructed from a
single long text (at least: 'longer than 11 pages') I don't think this
is a Plucker issue per se.<br>
<br>
Additionally, when I make Plucker pdb files using a Windows distiller,
any special character -- dash, bullet, true-quote -- shows up as
garbage characters or unrecognized characters, no matter what encoding
I use for the text or for the output. Instead of Windows-1252, what
encoding do Linux devices like?<br>
<br>
One more thing: as others have noted, after adding a book to the
library, I must first exit Plucker and relaunch to see the title. To
delete a title from the library I must also delete the file from the
MMC card or else its entry persists.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
Roger Sperberg<br>
<br>
PS: I am using ver 40-18 on the 770.<br>
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