Plucker server on gutenberg.org
The first experimental PG plucker server is up. The goal is to convert ebooks to the plucker format on-the-fly. Plucker: see: www.plkr.org Find the no. of the ebook you want and then call this url: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/17000.plucker (replace 17000 with the ebook no.) Building the file may take some time when the servers are busy. But the second download should come much faster, out of the cache. If something awful happens, like if no suitable source file was found, you should get an error page. The source file will be HTML if available, else TXT. TXT files are parsed by a custom plucker parser, which works well enough on modern files but gets worse when applied to older ones. Get the "plucker 1.8 viewer package" for PalmOS from http://www.plkr.org/dl You don't need the plucker 'distiller' to view books you get from the PG plucker server. But with the distiller you can also plucker any other web site you like. For PocketPC go here: http://vade-mecum.sourceforge.net/ -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
This is really excellent Marcello - are there plans to have the HTML versions incorporate images? If there's interest in adding other formats I'd be glad to assist. -Matt On Nov 6, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
The first experimental PG plucker server is up. The goal is to convert ebooks to the plucker format on-the-fly. Plucker: see: www.plkr.org
Find the no. of the ebook you want and then call this url:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/17000.plucker
(replace 17000 with the ebook no.)
Building the file may take some time when the servers are busy. But the second download should come much faster, out of the cache.
If something awful happens, like if no suitable source file was found, you should get an error page.
The source file will be HTML if available, else TXT. TXT files are parsed by a custom plucker parser, which works well enough on modern files but gets worse when applied to older ones.
Whoops, sorry - I meant "are there plans to have the plucker versions incorporate the images from the HTML documents?". On Nov 6, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Matthew McClintock wrote:
are there plans to have the HTML versions incorporate images?
Matthew McClintock wrote:
Whoops, sorry - I meant "are there plans to have the plucker versions incorporate the images from the HTML documents?".
We easily could ... its just the flip of a switch on the plucker distiller. The problem is, once we start including images, people with old hardware will complain about the size of the files. Also we don't have any records about which ebooks contain essential images and which only decorative images. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Sounds great, Marcello :) I had a Palm for a while but i lost it purely by accident, so I'm hoping to get another one for christmas. Being able to read the ebooks i want on a Palm while retaining the majority of the formatting is a great thing. I hope to be able to try this out sooner or later. Jared Marcello Perathoner wrote on 06/11/2005, 9:30 AM:
The first experimental PG plucker server is up. The goal is to convert ebooks to the plucker format on-the-fly. Plucker: see: www.plkr.org
Find the no. of the ebook you want and then call this url:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/17000.plucker
(replace 17000 with the ebook no.)
Building the file may take some time when the servers are busy. But the second download should come much faster, out of the cache.
If something awful happens, like if no suitable source file was found, you should get an error page.
The source file will be HTML if available, else TXT. TXT files are parsed by a custom plucker parser, which works well enough on modern files but gets worse when applied to older ones.
Get the "plucker 1.8 viewer package" for PalmOS from
You don't need the plucker 'distiller' to view books you get from the PG plucker server. But with the distiller you can also plucker any other web site you like.
For PocketPC go here:
http://vade-mecum.sourceforge.net/
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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