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[[Image:PHP Manual in Plucker format.jpg|thumb|PHP Manual in Plucker format (Landscape on a Palm Tungsten T3 device)]]
[[Image:Odg 01.jpg|thumb|Online Dating Guide in Plucker format]]
'''Plucker''' is an offline Web and free [[eBook reader]] for [[Palm OS]] based handheld devices, [[Windows Mobile]] (PocketPC) devices and other handheld PDAs.
Plucker contains [[POSIX]] tools, scripts and "conduits" which work on [[UNIX]], [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Mac OS X]].
Web pages can be processed, compressed, and transferred to the PDA for viewing by the Plucker viewer.
Plucker supports many advanced features, including:
* Clickable images (with pan and zoom)
* Italic and narrow support
* [http://projects.plkr.org/custom-anti-aliased-fonts/ High-resolution fonts]
* Multiple concurrent documents (more than one copy of the same material)
* Configurable display options (rotation, configurable toolbars)
* Advanced stylus options (gestures and hardware button navigation)
* [http://www.zlib.net ZLib] and DOC compression (in native and [http://www.copera.com/zlib-armlet ARM] optimized versions)
* [[Python (programming language)|Python]], C++ and [[Perl]] distillers and scripts
* A Microsoft Windows [http://desktop.plkr.org/ fully-integrated graphical installer]
Through the use of intelligent "distillers" written in many common languages (currently [[Python (programming language)|Python]], C++ and [[Perl]] with third-party versions written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]]), content can be created for Plucker from many sources, including [[RSS]], [[RDF]], text files, HTML, [[PDF]], and many other file formats.
[[Image:PostgreSQL-screenshot 03.jpg|PostgreSQL Manual in Plucker format]]
Plucker is licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]] and is [[Free Software]].
== See also ==
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*[[Wikipedia:Snapshots]] - Subset of 2000 wikipedia articles available in Plucker format
*[[FBReader]] - a free software FictionBook ebook reader which can also view Plucker and HTML files.
*[http://plkr.org/samples Sample Plucker documents] for dozens of different ebooks and other works.
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.plkr.org/ Plucker website]
*[http://projects.plkr.org/ Plucker Projects], aka "Plucker Workshop"
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sunrisexp Sunrise Desktop]
*[http://vade-mecum.sourceforge.net/ Vade-Mecum], Plucker viewer for [[Pocket PC]].
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