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	David A. Desrosiers
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	Saturday May 22nd 2004 - 01:37:27
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<title>
	What would you do for a Plucker? Plucker 1.8 is
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        If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please
        visit our donate page to find out how to contribute to help support
        Plucker's development and maturity.

        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 1.8 and 1.7.2 releases
        can be found on our website. The details of this release are also
        on the project website.


        User stuff

          * DIA support! This means you can use the "Direct Input Area" on
            your Tungsten T3 device, or other oddly-sized devices
            (Alphasmart Dana, TapWave Zodiac, and others) with Plucker in
            full-screen mode. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Dictionary lookup support. If you use RoadLingua, you can now
            use their dictionaries to look up words directly from within
            Plucker.

          * i-mode support (Dave Maddock)

          * The 5-way support in the library has been changed. (Michael
            Nordström)

          * New behaviour:

              * If the list of documents is only one page then the fiveway
                will be activated from the beginning.

              * If the displayed list of documents includes the last
                accessed document then the fiveway will be activated.

              * The select/centre button will activate the fiveway and the
                initially selected document will be the last accessed
                document or if that document isn't visible the document at
                the middle of the page will be selected. When the fiveway
                is activated the select/centre button will open the
                selected document.

              * The up/down button will either scroll the list one page
                up/down (when the fiveway isn't activated) or select the
                previous/next document in the list (when the fiveway is
                activated).

              * The left button will deactivate the fiveway or if the
                fiveway isn't activated it will exit the viewer. When the
                list of documents is only one page pressing left will exit
                the viewer instead of deactivate the fiveway.

              * The right button will display the popup list with different
                actions for the selected document (when the fiveway is
                activated). When the fiveway isn't activated the right
                button will not result in any action.

          * The following preferences have been removed:

              * "Enable dynamic scrollbar"; always disabled.

              * "Enable visual aid"; always enabled.

              * "Click sound for links"; always enabled (i.e. it uses the
                setting for "system sound").

          * Faster rotation. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Faster anti-aliased fonts on 68K. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Support for (slow) colored anti-aliased text in 8bpp.
            (Alexander Pruss)

          * Anti-aliased fonts now work with colored backgrounds.
            (Alexander Pruss)

          * Support for font remapping via font package. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Italic font support. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Kerning for antialiased fonts. Requires version 0.70+ of
            PalmFontConv. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Font packages can be put on VFS either in /Palm/Launcher/ or in
            /Palm/Programs/Plucker/Fonts/ (Alexander Pruss)

          * You can now tap on a word to either put the word in the search
            form or to look it up in a dictionary. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Added Plucker Plugin Interface (PPI) to configure the interface
            with third-party dictionary programs. (Chris Hawks)

          * Added Catalan translation (Albert Cuesta)

          * Added Norwegian translation (Geir-Tore Lindsve)

          * Added option to select whether the sort by date should use only
            the date or if it should use both date and time (faster, but
            could make the list look 'unsorted'). (Michael Nordström)

          * The external card support will be disabled when the device
            detects a low power situation to avoid errors when trying to
            access the card through VFS. (Michael Nordström)

          * External bookmarks support in viewer. (Dave Maddock)

          * When the library is sorted by name, you can select a document
            by entering the first couple of characters. (Alexander Pruss)

          * The parser when using the Python Imaging Library will now
            automatically reduce the depth of black-and-white images to
            1-bit, thereby decreasing file size. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Drop-in transliteration module support added, and built-in
            transliterations removed. (Alexander Pruss)

          * Full support for DIA on Handera, Sony and PalmOS 5.2+ units,
            including landscape if the hardware supports it. (Alexander
            Pruss)

          * Full support for Dana AlphaSmart wide and tall modes.
            (Alexander Pruss)


        Development stuff

          * Support for unit test using PalmCUnit Nordström)

        If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please
        visit our donate page to find out how to contribute to help support
        Plucker's development and maturity.


        The Plucker Team
        plucker-dev@plkr.org
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