RE: What Am I Missing?

Not that I'm an expert on this or anything, but I remember
when I downloaded
a bunch of Baen books a few years ago, in Palm format, there
were a few that
had the html coding throughout, just like you have found.  I
didn't read
them with Plucker, I read them with eReader, so I know it
wasn't a Plucker
issue.

Jennifer.

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Bob Cherny
Sent: February 9, 2008 10:30 AM
To: General Plucker discussion
Subject: Re: What Am I Missing?

Dennis and David,

The files I am trying  to convert come from Baen Books free
library.

They are available for download in several format. I have
previously 
downloaded them in rtf and doc format for the laptop and now
want to convert

them to the Plucker for the Palm TX. I do have a card reader
and can copy 
the files directly to the expansion card.

Baen offers many of its books in the "Palm" prc
format. I downloaded one to 
try it. The Palm software happily treated it like it was
supposed to, but 
when we read it on the Palm, it included html coding on
every page.

Since the Gutenberg books downloaded in Palm format and the
Gutenberg books 
converted with the Plucker software to Plucker format work
properly and the 
Baen books don't, it would seem to me that the issue is in
the conversion 
and not the viewer and transfer software.

Since my original post, I have tried having Word save the
files as MS DOS 
and Unicode text files. Neither of these options seemed to
work.

I do not have Perl, so the demoronizer program is not an
option.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dmccunney" <dennis.mccunneygmail.com>
To: "General Plucker discussion"
<plucker-listplkr.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: What Am I Missing?

> On Feb 8, 2008 9:49 PM, Bob Cherny <bbchernyembarqmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The files are landing in the launcher
subdirectory.
>
> I use /Palm/Programs/Plucker, and drop the files there
with a USB card
> reader.  I *don't* like the habit of everything winding
up be default
> in /Palm/Launcher.  (And I have 3,210 Plucker files on
my device, so I
> damn well want them in their own directory.)
>
> If you don't have a card reader, look at PInstall from
Envicon.de.
> It's a freeware replacement for the Palm Install Tool
and Quick
> Install programs.  It doesn't use Hotsync (and it shuts
down Hotsync
> Manager if it's running and restarts it when it's
done.)  And it
> doesn't care about Hotsync ID.  It simply sends
selected files out the
> selected port to the connected device.  I can install
to RAM or to a
> specified directory on a card.
>
> http:/
/www.envicon.de/e/pinstall/pinstall.html
>
>> Upon further experimentation I have discovered that
files I downloaded 
>> from
>> Gutenberg as text files (as opposed to rtf or doc
files) convert properly
>> and work as they should.
>
> PG doesn't offer RTF or doc files, so I'm not sure how
you are getting
> those.  I grabbed the zipped HTML, which converts
readily.
>
>> The files that are not working properly are those
converted from rtf or 
>> doc
>> files. Therefore it would seem that there is
something wrong in one of 
>> the
>> settings I am using to make the conversion. What
settings should I use 
>> when
>> I save the file to txt to make them compatible?
>
> Since you run Windows, take a look at Rafael Setzer's
PDA Converter:
> http://www.jakewalk.de/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=MySoftw
are.PdaConverter
>
> PDA Converter is a GUI shell for the Plucker parser
that does the
> conversion.  IT provides a friendly way to specify the
desired
> options, then calls the Plucker parser as a background
task to convert
> the file(s).
>
>> Thanks!
>> Bob
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