Picsel ePAGE Word file format support
Picsel Word 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 Word 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 Word 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 Word File Format Support Feature Support Notes Supports Word 97 documents Yes The format employed in Word 97 is the MS Word 8.0 format Supports Word 2000 documents Fonts supported Makes use of outline Truetype fonts installed in the device Yes Yes Additional fonts Yes Font matching Yes Font switching (fallback) Yes Line breaking Yes International Language support Yes Font Size. All font sizes are supported.
Page 6 Picsel Word File Format Support Feature Support Text alignment: Left Centre Right Indentation: First line Hanging Negative Text line height spacing absolute size size relative to text size additional leading Columns of text. Yes Tabstops Partial Tables. Tables with Indentation, Bullets, Numbering.
Page 7 Picsel Word File Format Support Feature Support Notes Page dimensions Yes Supports different page sizes of sections within same document Page margins and borders Headers and Footers Page Break Page Number Supports “Next Page” section breaks in Word documents (where the new section starts on the next page) Cross References Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Index, Contents and Tables. Yes Bookmark Yes Document Views Partial Yes Cross references are displayed, but are not navigable.
Picsel Word File Format Support GB 2312 Big 5 Windows codepage 874 Windows codepage 936 Windows codepage 949 Windows codepage 950 Windows codepage 1250 Windows codepage 1251 Windows codepage 1252 Windows codepage 1253 Windows codepage 1254 Windows codepage 1255 Windows codepage 1256 Windows codepage 1257 Windows codepage 1258 Page 8 Chinese Chinese Thai Simplified Chinese GBK Korean EUC-KR Chinese traditional Big5 Eastern European Cyrillic Latin Greek Turkish Hebrew Arabic Baltic Vietnamese Future Suppo
