Plucker 1.4 Beta 1 is now available for testing

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Please remember, this is a beta, not an official release. That being said, it is very stable, and much more feature-rich than the previous release of Plucker, so please download and test it thoroughly.

Since Plucker 1.2 was released, many hundreds of people have helped make Plucker better and better. Many commercial companies use Plucker in their businesses, and thousands of happy users are using Plucker every day.

Plucker 1.4 beta 1 includes a healthy set of changes from 1.2, many more features and enhancements.

This beta release does not include Plucker Desktop or any other GUI-based Plucker tools, other than the standard viewer, distiller, and documentation. If you require other components to test this build, please get them from CVS directly.

POSIX binary-only version (zip, 254,305 bytes)

RPM Package (rpm, 1,942,349 bytes)

Plucker Documentation (bz2, 331,247 bytes)

Plucker Python Distiller only (bz2, 102,928 bytes)

Plucker viewer only (bz2, 638,753 bytes)

Hi-Res Viewer version (bz2, 494,071 bytes)

As always, the source code itself is available in CVS, under the proper tag, if you should want to contribute to the development of Plucker itself.

If you have a Hi-Res device, one capable of displaying more than 160x160 on the screen, you will want to use the Hi-Res viewer version, instead of the standard viewer version. Additional information on the Hi-Res viewer can be found at http://hires.plkr.org/.

This is a beta release, and is not intended for production use. If you find any bugs or oddities in this build, you must report them in the bug tracker so they can be addressed immediately. Please remember to select the '1.4 beta 1' version when reporting your bug, and be as detailed as possible in your bug report.

Here's a short list of what is available in this beta release:

• Changed checkbox option to update document list manually into a selection list with options to manually update list, automatically update documents in RAM and external cards, or only in RAM (Michael Nordström)
• The viewer will "remember" the category settings also for documents on an external card that has been removed (Michael Nordström)
• Hires support (Adam McDaniel)
• New Document Library (Adam McDaniel)
• i18N support (Masakazu Matsumoto)
• Next/prev anchor support (Josef Hajas)
• Added Thai translation (Karin Pimsamsee)
• Support for HTML tables

• Added linked list feature; will be used for anchor handling, cache, etc. (Michael Nordström)
• The viewer will accept beamed documents (Michael Nordström)
• Possible to use build directories for the viewer (Michael Nordström)
• Removed support for the now obsolete A4 based version of prc-tools (Michael Nordström)

The Plucker Team
plucker-dev@plkr.org