Plucker vs. iSilo

[tovarish]

Hi all

I have both isilo and plucker installed. but i want to get rid of one and i cannot decide. I simply love plucker's anti-aliased font (i use verdana) support and its landscape feature. Font support is acceptable in isilo and its convertor and viewer supports more html tags, so isilo documents look better but plucker reads better in my opinion.

what i would like is that others tell me which they prefer and why.

I am going to download the wikipedia encyclopedia from http://www.tommasoconforti.com/wiki/ and see if both isilo and plucker can view them well

thanks

tovarish

[Unregistered]

Plucker has much higher memory usage for the Desktop end. So you probably will run out of memory on the encyclopedia when converting.

[pipedaddy]

Depends on how you're using it. Plucker desktop (I use jPluckX--much faster) converts my list of news channels far more quickly than iSilo X ever did.

[tovarish]

its true jpluckx with its caching feature is very fast, besides i have mostly news sites so speed is not really a big problem, now to tackle the encyclopedia.

tovarish

[tnhh]

FYI there is a new beta of iSilo out - http://www.isilo.com/info/beta/index.htm

Just thought I'd make your decision harder ;-)

[TechnoCat]

I use Plucker. One reason is that even though it's already better and free, it's improving faster, and if I really want a feature, I can develop it. (Have done so several times; am on the Plucker Dev list.)

There's a lot to be said for open software.

[Guildenstern]

tovarish, how did that encyclopedia turn out? Last time I tried such a big undertaking with Jpluck it kept freezing up on me.

[tovarish]

you are right Guildensternv jpluckx froze. its quite a huge amount of data to handle. I also find isilo very slow with huge documents. I guess to have an encyclopedia i still have to wait.

but i have more or less decided on plucker. isilo doesnt want to give my nx60 a landscape mode and it doesnt have antialiasing fonts.

TechnoCat it would be really cool for plucker to have the RTA like scrolling like tibr or ReadThemAll (a freeware document reader)

[pruss]

Make a feature request for the RTA-like scrolling at bugs.plkr.org. If enough of the developers likes the idea, it'll go in eventually. Personally, I am happy with standard stuff.

Alex

[tovarish]

pruss , thanks for the suggestion.
I tried wikipeia both in jpluckx and isilo and both failed :(. guess i will have to wait for some more time to have an encyclopedia in my pda (free )

tovarish

[TechnoCat]

Originally posted by pruss
Personally, I am happy with standard stuff.
Alex
If you're the Alex Pruss on the Plucker Dev List, I think one reason I'm happy with the current stuff is your work. Doncha ever sleep? ;)

[TechnoCat]

Originally posted by tovarish
I tried wikipeia both in jpluckx and isilo and both failed :(. guess i will have to wait for some more time to have an encyclopedia in my pda I took it off after realizing I have no use for one whatsoever (and it was big), but I Pluckered (using the Python parser) one, I think it might have been called probert, but I'm not sure, by first grabbing it with pretty restrictive settings using HT-Track (a free site grabber) and tweaking a few more settings after that. I think I had to fix a bug in the Python parser too (this was two Octobers ago), which soon made it into the official tree once I sent it to a primary developer.

You might try that. Grab it using a desktop tool and very restrictive settings, and just use Plucker for converting the remanents.

I'm just guessing here (it was 17 months ago), but I think the key was to not only not grab out-of-directory links but to actually remove them so Plucker wouldn't even see them.

[pavneet]

Regarding Alex Pruss...

Not to mention the really excellent set of URW fonts that you have converted for use with Plucker. It has made my use of Plucker so much more pleasurable. My hats off to you.

And like the previous poster mentioned, don't you ever sleep ;-).

Cheers.