Picsel ePAGE HTML file format support
Picsel HTML File Format Support Page 2 Copyright Copyright © Picsel 2002 Neither the whole nor any part of the information contained in, or the product described in, this document may be used, sold, transferred, adapted or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner or form or in any media except with the prior written permission of the copyright holder. The product described in this document is subject to continuous development and improvement.
Picsel HTML 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 HTML 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 HTML File Format Support Feature Deprecated / proprietary tags Paragraph alignment: - left - centre - right Vertical alignment: - top - middle - bottom Measurement units: - px - pt - en - em - in - cm - mm - % Named & measured colours Heading paragraph styles Specialised paragraph styles (address, citation, variable, etc) Inline style definitions using style attribute International character sets Bullet lists Numbered lists Definition lists Font face Font size Font colour Italic Bold Underli
Page 6 Picsel HTML File Format Support Feature Support Notes Font matching Yes Font switching (fallback) Yes Line breaking Yes International Language support Yes ePAGE automatically selects the most suitable font from those available in the system Needed in order to display characters that the current font does not include. Needed in order to break scripts written without spaces, eg Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Refer to the section on ‘Character Sets’ for more information.
Page 7 Picsel HTML File Format Support Feature Interactive Forms - check boxes - radio buttons - text entry fields - submit buttons - reset buttons - default values - submission - JavaScript behaviour Image maps (clickable locationsensitive graphics) - rectangular areas - circular areas - polygon areas CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Support Yes Notes Yes Partial Character Sets ePAGE can work with all characters in the Unicode specification.
Page 8 Picsel HTML File Format Support Windows codepage 1253 Windows codepage 1254 Windows codepage 1255 Windows codepage 1256 Windows codepage 1257 Windows codepage 1258 Greek Turkish Hebrew Arabic Baltic Vietnamese Future Support Picsel continuously strives to enhance the feature set of its software. In addition to the above features supported in Version 1.0, the following features are planned to be incorporated in future versions of the Picsel software.
