Plucker V1.8 (stable) and V1.82 (unstable) out

[Colin Dunstan]

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More news that you even can imagine:

- i-mode support (Dave Maddock)

- The 5-way support in the library has been changed. (Michael Nordstr.m) New behaviour:
If the list of documents is only one page then the fiveway will be activated from the beginning; If the displayed list of documents includes the last accessed document then the fiveway will be activated; The select/centre button will activate the fiveway and the initially selected document will be the last accessed document or if that document isn't visible the document at the middle of the page will be selected. When the fiveway is activated the select/centre button will open the selected document; The up/down button will either scroll the list one page up/down (when the fiveway isn't activated) or select the previous/next document in the list (when the fiveway is activated); The left button will deactivate the fiveway or if the fiveway isn't activated it will exit the viewer. When the list of documents is only one page pressing left will exit the viewer instead of deactivate the fiveway; The right button will display the popup list with different actions for the selected document (when the fiveway is activated). When the fiveway isn't activated the right button will not result in any action.

- The following preferences have been removed:
"Enable dynamic scrollbar"; always disabled; "Enable visual aid"; always enabled; "Click sound for links"; always enabled (i.e. it uses the setting for "system sound").

- Faster rotation. (Alexander Pruss)
- Faster anti-aliased fonts on 68K. (Alexander Pruss)
- Support for (slow) colored anti-aliased text in 8bpp. (Alexander Pruss)
- Anti-aliased fonts now work with colored backgrounds. (Alexander Pruss)
- Support for font remapping via font package. (Alexander Pruss)
- Italic font support. (Alexander Pruss)
- Kerning for antialiased fonts. Requires version 0.70+ of PalmFontConv. (Alexander Pruss)
- Font packages can be put on VFS either in /Palm/Launcher/ or in /Palm/Programs/Plucker/Fonts/ (Alexander Pruss)
- You can now tap on a word to either put the word in the search form or to look it up in a dictionary. (Alexander Pruss)
- Added Plucker Plugin Interface (PPI) to configure the interface with third-party dictionary programs. (Chris Hawks)
- Added Catalan translation (Albert Cuesta)
- Added Norwegian translation (Geir-Tore Lindsve)
- Added option to select whether the sort by date should use only the date or if it should use both date and time (faster, but could make the list look 'unsorted'). (Michael Nordstr.m)
- The external card support will be disabled when the device detects a low power situation to avoid errors when trying to access the card through VFS. (Michael Nordstr.m)
- External bookmarks support in viewer. (Dave Maddock)
- When the library is sorted by name, you can select a document by entering the first couple of characters. (Alexander Pruss)
- The parser when using the Python Imaging Library will now automatically reduce the depth of black-and-white images to 1-bit, thereby decreasing file size. (Alexander Pruss)
- Drop-in transliteration module support added, and built-in transliterations removed. (Alexander Pruss)
- Full support for DIA on Handera, Sony and PalmOS 5.2+ units, including landscape if the hardware supports it. (Alexander Pruss)
- Full support for Dana AlphaSmart wide and tall modes. (Alexander Pruss)

This looks very promising! Only wish they would also spend more time on the desktop parser - I am not a great fan of Python, the memory-eater.