I have been trying different Plucker books in the viewer on the Nokia 770, which I received a week ago. At first I was simply trying it with e-books I made using Plucker distiller, and I know that the Windows version of that is way out of date. So when I had problems I thought it was with my files. Yesterday I tried some books made elsewhere, longer books, and I had the same problem -- although the pdb file seems to be full and complete, only a certain number of pages or lines are displayed in the Plucker Viewer. I make it as about 49 pages in the 770 screen size. This occurs even when the only application I have open is the Plucker Viewer, even after resetting the 770. If it is a memory issue, it doesn't seem to be coming from the 770 but from Plucker. Is this something others have experienced? For instance, I tried reading the Project Gutenberg-generated version of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha (downloadable at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2500 ). The last thing I can see in this text is the end of the paragraph beginning, "This myth, this rumour, this legend resounded." In the online version of Siddhartha at http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=2304&pageno=1 , this point appears midway on page 11. The PG text itself extends to page 79. The last word I can read in the text is the 28,595th character in the book. In a different book (in html), the last word is the 31,292nd character; removing the markup, the last character is the 28,815th character. If this is simply something I can and should adjust in the Viewer on the 770, anyone please advise. If not, perhaps the GTK+ or the ported version has a restriction on how long a single page can be. To explore this issue further, I experimented by taking PG's text, converting it to HTML and breaking it into 12 files, linking each chapter to the preceding and following chapter and to a Table of Contents (itself linked to all the chapters, of course). This created no problems whatsoever. I also opened the CIA World Factbook with high-res color illustrations from memoware (http://memoware.com/?screen=doc_detail&doc_id=15510&back=main ). At 7.7 mb, it is more than 85 times larger than the original Siddhartha pdb file. It has some 225 separate pages, one for each country and dependency/special-sovereignty-area, all connected to a TOC. Again no problems. I do not own a Palm so I can't check these texts in the canonical Plucker Viewer, but since so many pdb files seem constructed from a single long text (at least: 'longer than 11 pages') I don't think this is a Plucker issue per se. Additionally, when I make Plucker pdb files using a Windows distiller, any special character -- dash, bullet, true-quote -- shows up as garbage characters or unrecognized characters, no matter what encoding I use for the text or for the output. Instead of Windows-1252, what encoding do Linux devices like? One more thing: as others have noted, after adding a book to the library, I must first exit Plucker and relaunch to see the title. To delete a title from the library I must also delete the file from the MMC card or else its entry persists. Thank you, Roger Sperberg PS: I am using ver 40-18 on the 770. -- firstinitial lastname at gmail.com <http://gmail.com> Internet Tablet Users blog (Nokia 770: http://www.internettablettalk.com/blog/ ) Teleread (e-books: http://teleread.org/blog/) Electric Forest (digital libraries: http://altheim.com/ef/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20051118/e957fef9/attachment.htm
