Plucker excels at gathering and distilling news content for reading on the go, but how many out there are still carrying around that daily newspaper for the comics? Come on, hands up. Well, now, thanks to pluck-comics, you don't have to. This utility will allow you to grab comic strips from the net and prepare them for pluckering.

Since version 1.1, the full distribution of Plucker has included the pluck-comics tool, however, many users may not know that this program exists because it has no graphical interface. This short tutorial will show you how to install andconfigure this program under Windows.

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Because pluck-comics doesn't directly interact with Plucker-Desktop or any of the distillers, it is not distributed in these packages, but mus ...

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With Plucker, you can read any news or web pages you want on your Palm, at any time, simply by downloading the news from the Internet or your local system, converting it with Plucker, and sending it to your Palm with our Plucker desktop software or your normal Palm tools.

Now you can easily access RoadLingua dictionaries directly from within Plucker - with a single stylus tap!

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When invoked from Plucker, RoadLingua dictionary viewer always works in REGISTERED mode (without any feature limitations/nag screens). You have to download the latest development version of Plucker viewer to obtain this functionality. It will be included in future stable releases.

To Configure Plucker for RoadLingua Lookups

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The maintainer/author of JPluck, Laurens M. Fridael, is no longer going to be adding code to the JPluck project, and it looks like he's giving up on it. Why? Read below for more details (copied from his announcement here):

January 07, 2004
State of JPluck...

The bad news: I will not develop JPluck beyond the 2.0.x branch.

There, I've said it.

Is this the end of JPluck? No. I will continue to add bugfixes and minor changes to the 2.0.x branch over the next few months. If someone wants to take over and develop JPluck further that's fine with me. Be aware that the code is a mess at this point. (Some of it is truly em ...

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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 ...

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Not even a month later, we have another Plucker version!

Plucker 1.6.1 follows closely on the tails of Plucker 1.6, and closes a lot of open issues reported by users and other developers working with Plucker and Plucker projects.

Most of the changes in 1.6.1 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.