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Yes, Plucker is free and I still have Plucker running myself to see how it develops. But so far I must say that it has some deficits that make me use iSilo instead. Compared to iSilo,
- Plucker doesn't support cut&paste (something I also miss in Avantgo)
- Plucker is slower (especially for pages with image content)
- Plucker's autoscroll is choppy making it almost unbearable to read text
- Plucker's output is not as nice (no table/multi-column support, frames are screwed up)
- Plucker is buggier, especially the hi-res version crashes quite often
- Plucker doesn't support smaller fonts in OS5
- Plucker has a 60K uncompressed limit on images
- Plucker needs a long time to load large documents
- Plucker chunks single documents into 32Kbyte files (let's say that you have an HTML document that's 200Kb. When you parse it it splits it up into 6 pages in the viewer (~32k each, etc etc). To view just one of those pages there is a load time of 10 seconds until you can actually begin to read and scrolldown on that one page).
When I have more time, I will make a comprehensive comparison between iSilo, Avantgo, Plucker and Handstory.
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