Happy Anniversary Plucker... 6 years and counting!
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Happy 6th Anniversary Plucker!
Can you belive Plucker is 6 years old today? Its come a long way from that little hobbyist project from Mark Lillywhite in Australia to a project adopted by thousands of users, dozens of companies, and hundreds of other projects around the world!
Plucker 0.01 was pretty rough, but it worked! It only handled text, and it required sed and awk to work properly. There was no GUI or "desktop" components. It only worked on Linux and Unix. The early versions of Plucker didn't have a lot of fancy bells and whistles, but what it did, it did well. There were probably less than 5 users of Plucker 0.01 total back in late 1998/early 1999, worldwide, and I was one of them (as was Mike Nordström and Alexander Wagner). This is what it looked like back in 1998:
A LOT of work has been put into Plucker over the last 6 years, by dozens upon dozens of contributors. Plucker now works on EVERY platform including Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, Amiga and others, through the use of various tools provided and contributed by other community people.
There are graphical desktop applications that can create custom Plucker content for you, quite a few commercial applications that produce Plucker content.
The Palm-side application has gone from English-only in the beginning, to German, French, and onward through the years to a total of 16 current translations in 2004!
Plucker has even been ported to the Windows PocketPC platform, so even Windows users can continue to use it on their Microsoft Windows-based handheld PDA. Dozens of interesting projects use Plucker as their base handheld distribution format, including hospitals, educational institutions, and publishing companies. Many ebooks are beginning to be released exclusively in Plucker format, and many more are coming.
We know of at least 2-dozen commercial companies utilizing Plucker in their products or internal company. Many doctors, students, and other professionals use Plucker to keep ready-made information on-hand (pun intended) when they need it.
Here is what Plucker looks like today. What a long way we've come... and we're not done yet! Lots of new features are planned for Plucker 2.0. Come join us!
You can read more about the history of Plucker in our History of Plucker section of the website.
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Latest Plucker News
Thursday December 19th 2002
Added JTidy parser. JTidy is specifically geared towards fixing invalid HTML, so it might do a better job than the default NekoHTML parser. ...
PalmFontConv 1.30 alpha released
Tuesday May 25th 2004
People have been asking for FontBucket support in Plucker. I did the next best (but easier) thing. I added FontBucket support to the PalmFontCon ...
What would you do for a Plucker? Plucker 1.8 is out!
Saturday May 22nd 2004
If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please visit our donate page to find out how ...
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