David A. Desrosiers
Saturday January 10th 2004 - 11:36:27

Happy New Year! Plucker 1.6.2 and 1.7 are out!

Many issues were fixed in these two releases, and you can consider them as
"bugfix" releases to the Plucker 1.6.1 codebase. You should upgrade
immediately to 1.6.2 or later if you want the latest stable Plucker code
running on your device.

Similar to Plucker 1.6.1, Plucker 1.6.2 closes several issues found by
users and other developers of Plucker and Plucker projects.

Most of the changes in 1.6.2 are internal, and no major "features" were
added. This is a cleanup and bugfix release. Below is a list of the fixes
applied to this version.

Any bugs you find, please report them in our bug tracker. Make sure to
search existing bug reports for similar errors before posting a new bug
report. Many times, bugs are reported in duplicate by several users because
they didn't search the existing bugs reported for similar problems.


List of items fixed, changed, and added in 1.6.2 and 1.7 are as follows:

  * Fixed to non-rotation in fullscreen mode

  * Sony OS4 high-resolution fixes

  * Implemented a fix to the "jumping back button" problem

  * Fixed OS3.5+ non-white background rotation

  * Fixed OS5 fullscreen table bug

  * Bug #836: Rotation with background color fails

  * Bug #943: OS 3.1 image cache fix

  * Added Plucker viewer translation to Catalan (thanks Albert Cuesta!)

  * 20-100 percent speedup in rotation

  * 1-bit clockwise rotate speed optimized by 40%

  * Faster antialiased text on 68K units

  * Bug #856: The drop down over laps with the g at the end if "Paragraph
    spacing"

  * Bug #918: Library doesn't reset the top of the screen when using the
    hard-buttons to scroll

  * Bug #716: Delete document" in command toolbar

  * Bug #919: In Library, change initially highlighted entry to Middle of
    page instead of top

  * Removed "Enable dynamic scrollbar", "Enable visual aid", and "Click
    sound for links" preference options

  * Fixed for devices not equipped with a 5-way or jogdial

  * Fixed colored anti-aliased text for 8bpp on all devices and 16bpp on
    ARM devices

  * Fixed unicode at end of line bug

  * Support for font remapping

  * Fix possible bug if last character has odd width

  * Fix bug with continuation of search down in doc

  * Fix seek to first line of para bug (search, etc.)

  * Italic font support

  * Fixed the OS5 "colorized text" bug

  * Implemented grayscale kerning

  * Added support for multiimages and links to large images

  * Bug #990: Device crash if adding more than 15 bookmarks

  * Background erasing for italics and kerned fonts fix

  * Fix bug mixing VFS and non-VFS user fonts

  * Added support for for VFS fonts

  * Fix for cell height when there is no text

  * Added font cache removal

  * TextParser overrides sgmllib.attrfind. Python has since corrected the
    original bug and some more besides, but Macs and Linux may not have the
    updates. This updates Plucker to use the current (2.3.3) version.

  * Changed TextParser.py color handling to accept all (non-system) colors
    defined for SVG, and to return black for all failures, instead of
    sometimes returning black and sometimes None.

  * Added support for colors using RGB in hex with only one
    character/color. This is done only when the alternative is giving up
    and defaulting to black.

  * Cleaned some comments and doc-strings. Also ensured that #RGB turns
    into #RRGGBB as a courtesy to the image and color processing portions.
    (Be strict in what you emit...)

  * Make (most) <style> and <option> tags invisible. Make some junk alt
    attributes invisible. (Keeps alt tags that contain actual content.)

  * Fix for table cells containing only white space

  * Make the attrfind override conditional. Override if the python version
    is too old.

  * Sidlon's fix for URLs broken by a linebreak. Long term, perhaps we
    should replace all whitespace in cleanup, but this was tested and
    worked with the example broken URL. Good enough.

  * Added a "coding: " directive for the french quote signs. Python now
    warns about 8-bit characters unless you tell it which encoding you are
    using. I assumed the default iso-8859-1, since it is standard and does
    look right for these characters.

  * Stop the None has no attribute problems. Let the library do its work.
    Also cleaned up some comments. Also reused the opener object -- *much*
    faster on windows. This provides a "known good" baseline for the newly
    planned development (cookies, etc).

  * Added tables support to the GTK+ viewer

  * Fix for tables w/ rowspan/colspan > 1

  * Added Plucker viewer translation to Norwegian (thanks Geir-Tore
    Lindsve!)

  * Added check for the real OS version since new functions on an old
    device cannot be tested

  * Feature requests for #824 and #915: Return from external links form
    using HW button, fiveway, etc.

  * Support rotation for the fiveway and only go back if the left arrow
    action is 'go back'

These files below are provided in BitTorrent format for your convenience.
BitTorrent is a file distribution protcol that gains its advantages when
more people are downloading at the same time. If you use BitTorrent to
download these files, please remember leave your BitTorrent client running.
Peer-to-peer only works when there are peers on the network! Keeping your
client open makes it easier for everyone else to get the files at a faster
speed than if you did not keep your client open. Please help spread the
bandwidth around, don't just download and close your client and leave!

If you want to help distribute Plucker to others, please download the
Zip-o-Torrents file, unpack it, and run your multi-torrent client on all of
the files inside of it (or at least the 1.6.2 downloads and latest Plucker
Desktop versions, since they are the largest of the downloads).

  * Plucker 1.6.2 Hires viewers (297,113 bytes. viewer, zlib,
    PluckerUserGuide.pdb only)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 Non-hires viewers (627,017 bytes. All non-hires viewers,
    14 languages)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 (922,903 bytes. High-resolution viewers, 14 languages)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 rpm (2,457,201 bytes. viewer and Python distiller)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 source (2,968,427 bytes. Includes Palm and GTK+ viewer,
    Plucker Desktop, and distiller sources, as well as docs)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 Python distiller (106,282 bytes. Python distiller
    component only)

  * Plucker 1.6.2 Documentation (349,267 bytes. Documentation for Plucker
    1.6)

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development and maturity.


The Plucker Team
plucker-dev@plkr.org