Picsel ePAGE Excel file format support
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Picsel Excel File Format Support Page 3 Introduction On handheld computers, traditional applications typically rely on synchronization with a PC to convert content from the original document format into a simpler format used by the device. This creates at least three problems. Firstly, some visual integrity is inevitably lost in the conversion process from a rich format to a simpler one, resulting in documents that do not look exactly like the original.
Page 4 Picsel Excel File Format Support ePAGE supports the most popular global file formats. The formats interpreted by ePAGE are richly expressive, containing not just text but sophisticated layout and rendering features, rich fonts, colour, images, tables, graphics and many other document features. Picsel is continuously developing its file format support to eventually cover every feature of the native file.
Page 5 Picsel Excel File Format Support Feature Support Retains “frozen titles” for rows and columns when scrolling Displays variable column width and row height Supports merged cells Displays page breaks within a worksheet (both horizontal and vertical breaks) Yes Supports background image on worksheets Supports cell border positioning on top, bottom, right, left of cells Supports cell border thickness and double line borders Supports cell background colours and shading Supports cell background fill
Page 6 Picsel Excel File Format Support Feature Support Notes Supports all function types: • Financial • Date & Time • Math & Trig • Statistical • Lookup & Reference • Database • Text • Logical • Information Supports array formulas Text with styling.
Page 7 Picsel Excel File Format Support Feature Displays screen tips associated with hyperlinks Diagrams and Pictures WMF (Windows MetaFile) EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) Clip Art OLE objects and documents Supports the following chart types: Column, Line charts Supports the following chart features: Chart title, Titles on X axes, Gridlines, Chart legend in original position Displays embedded charts within worksheet in original position Displays chart sheet as a separate page Supports native JPEG images containe
Page 8 Picsel Excel File Format Support Feature Support Displays contents of protected worksheets and cells Displays lists according to any filters that are applied Supports pivot tables Displays worksheets created as forms (templates) including form data Displays form controls (buttons, check boxes etc) Runs macros or scripts associated with form controls Displays phonetic guides for Japanese text: • Hiragana • Full width katakana • Half width katakana Supports right to left languages Yes Notes No N
Page 9 Picsel Excel File Format Support Windows codepage 1252 Windows codepage 1253 Windows codepage 1254 Windows codepage 1255 Windows codepage 1256 Windows codepage 1257 Windows codepage 1258 Latin Greek Turkish Hebrew Arabic Baltic Vietnamese Future Support Picsel continuously strives to enhance the feature set of its software. In addition to the supported Excel features described above, the following features are planned to be incorporated in future versions of the Picsel software.
