Picsel ePAGE PowerPoint file format support
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Picsel PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint File Format Support Feature Support Notes Supports slide colour scheme Yes Supports slide layout Yes Master Slides.
Page 6 Picsel PowerPoint File Format Support Feature Support Vertical Text alignment: Top Middle Bottom Indentation Variable line height absolute size relative to font size additional leading Bullets Numbered lists Charts created in MS Excel format, embedded as OLE objects.
Page 7 Picsel PowerPoint File Format Support Feature Support Autoshapes • Block arrows Autoshapes • Flowchart symbols Autoshapes • Stars and banners Autoshapes • Action buttons Supports tables (native Powerpoint) Supports the following table features: Table border, Background fill colour Headers and footers. Most Notes Most Most Most Yes Yes Yes Character Sets ePAGE can work with all characters in the Unicode specification.
Page 8 Picsel PowerPoint File Format Support Windows codepage 1256 Windows codepage 1257 Windows codepage 1258 Arabic Baltic Vietnamese Future Support Picsel continuously strives to enhance the feature set of its software. In addition to the above Powerpoint features supported in Version 1.0, the following features are planned to be incorporated in future versions of the Picsel software. (The ordering in the list does not imply any measure of priority among the items.