Pan Newsreader for Windows

Win32 Pan Installer by Steve Davies 

Pan Newsreader for Win32 - Installer Build

This page contains a (hopefully recent, but unofficial) build of the Pan NNTP Newsreader (see http://pan.rebelbase.com) packaged in a simple windows installer. The installer includes the main executable, a handful of libraries, including the spellchecker .dll files, and the localisation/language files and puts a shortcut on the desktop.

Pre-requisites:

GTK+ runtime libraries must be installed already for Pan to work at the time of publishing, these could be downloaded here:
http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/

The latest report is that "gtk2-runtime-2.24.8-2011-12-03.exe" works reliably if the compatibility libs option is chosen during install. GTK Themes also seem to be working fine, and can be downloaded from the same site.

Dictionary support for "ispell" and "myspell" dictionaries is built-in using 'gtkspell' and 'enchant' for the best possible compatibility. Two sample dictionaries have been packaged (US and UK English) as examples.

Latest installers:

Version 0.135 has arrived - Thanks to Charles Kerr's, K.Haley, Petr Kovar and all other contributors for this release. See the main Pan website at http://pan.rebelbase.com for full details and change logs.

IMPORTANT: If you have an old copy of pan installed (using a .exe installer) please uninstall it prior to using one of the MSI installers.

  • 4 October 2011: Latest 0.135 release (GIT updates):
    0.135 
    + Enchant Spelling pan-0.135.207.msi
  • 17 June 2011: Latest official 0.135 release:
    0.135 
    + Enchant Spelling pan-0.135.206.msi
  • 12 May 2011: Latest experimental release 0.134:
    0.134 + Enchant Spelling + NZB saving pan-0.134.205.msi
  • 20 Feb 2011: Latest official beta release 0.134:
    0.134 + Enchant Spelling pan-0.134.204.msi
  • 22 Nov 2010: Latest K.Haley GIT updates and clean-up/refresh tool-chain:
    0.133 + GIT 100808 pan-0.133.203-101122.msi
  • 20 Nov 2010: Re-built, packaged and updated:
    0.133 + GIT 100309 pan-0.133.202-101120.msi
These earlier builds did not have working GTKSpell support:
  • Updated 9th March 2010 to release 0.133 + GIT 100309 (Experimental)
  • Updated 20th August 2009 to release 0.133 + GIT 090820 (Seems Stable)

Installers are now downloaded from Google Docs here as EXE files cannot be served from Google sites.

Release Notes:

Release notes are on the pan.rebelbase.com website.

Other Notes:

Dictionaries for many languages can be downloaded here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

Comments and requests to: me or to the Pan mailing list.