Here you will find some of the Plucker projects I'm working on. This list is by-no-means exhaustive, and all of the projects listed here are in varying degrees of completion and complexity (with the Wikipedia project being far and away, the largest to date!).

Why are you doing these things?
"I believe in the Plucker project. I've supported it for 8-9 years now in code, CVS hosting, website hosting and other pieces where I could help. I want to be able to provide other people access to materials to read and learn from when they are WAY offline, with no power for miles and miles."
  • Cygwin and Cygwin/X FAQs in Plucker format for reading on a PalmOS handheld
  • Custom anti-aliased fonts for use with Plucker
  • encycloPlucker, the full Wikipedia in Plucker format
  • Creating XPCOM Components book in Plucker format
  • Online Dating Guide in Plucker format
  • Cygwin and Cygwin/X FAQs in Plucker format for reading on a PalmOS handheld
  • Custom anti-aliased fonts for use with Plucker
  • encycloPlucker, the full Wikipedia in Plucker format
  • Creating XPCOM Components book in Plucker format
  • Online Dating Guide in Plucker format
  • Gentoo News and Handbook in Plucker Format

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    Below are some quick screenshots of the Gentoo News RSS feed and the Gentoo Handbook (single-page version) converted for use in Plucker. If you’d like to see other examples or screenshots of this quality, let me know.

    The RSS feed was converted with a new tool I’ve written (to be launched soon as an online service) called the “Plucker Syndication Server“. It can take any rss, rdf, xml or atom feed and convert it to the beautiful rendition you see below.

    Gentoo Linux is a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme reconfigurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

    If you’d like to read this for yourself on your own Palm OS device, just download Plucker and grab any of the documents below:

    Gentoo Linux News (automatically converted every day)

    If you want Plucker versions of the Gentoo Weekly News, you can get that in this location

      x86
    sparc
    amd64
    ppc
    ppc64
    alpha
    hppa
    mips
    Brazilian Portuguese → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    Danish → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    German → pdb pdb pdb n/a pdb pdb pdb pdb
    English → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    French → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    Indonesian → pdb n/a pdb n/a n/a pdb pdb pdb
    Italian → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    Polish → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    Romanian → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb
    Spanish → pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb pdb

    I am now auto-generating Plucker versions of the the Gentoo Handbook on a monthly basis for 8 architectures and 12 languages. If you’re interested in obtaining copies, let me know.

    Gentoo News RDF converted to PluckerGentoo Handbook in Plucker formatGentoo Handbook landscape view in PluckerGentoo Handbook in Danish viewed in PluckerGentoo Handbook in Spanish with the Spanish Plucker viewer


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    1. The FreeBSD Handbook in Plucker format for reading on a PalmOS handheld
    2. Kernel Hacker’s Guide to git in Plucker format
    3. Google News in Plucker format (generated daily)
    4. Updated News on Wikipedia in Plucker Format

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