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Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Guide Copyright © Picsel 2003 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.
Contents Introduction 4 Getting Started Panning and Zooming a document Opening Documents 5 6 7 Using Picsel Viewer Document View Folder View Document Format Restrictions History View Bookmark View Other Options 8 8 11 13 15 16 17 Configuring Picsel Viewer Acknowledgements 18 21 Questions and Answers 23
Picsel Viewer User Guide Introduction Picsel Viewer is a revolutionary product for document browsing on thinclient computing platforms. Its leading edge technology allows you to view documents on your CLIÉ without any file-conversion or loss of content. Powerful real-time zooming and panning of documents using intuitive gestures allows close examination and broad overviews with equal ease.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Getting Started Now that you have a Sony CLIÉ handheld powered by Picsel Viewer, you’re ready to see it in action! It is available from the CLIÉ Application Launcher screen, so to begin, tap the Home icon at the bottom of your CLIÉ’s screen. Your device may differ slightly from the pictures shown here. Please consult the “Read This First” operating instructions for details of your model.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Panning and Zooming a document The document you wish to see is normally larger than the screen space available. There are two ways to see more of it. To pan (or ‘scroll’) to a different part of the document, simply stroke your stylus across the screen in the direction you would like the page to move. To pan the page up, touch and hold your stylus somewhere near the middle of the screen and draw a line towards the top, then take your stylus off the screen.
Picsel Viewer User Guide stroke gesture as above, starting at the top-left corner of the area you would like to fill the screen. However, you should then stroke your stylus to the right instead of vertically. A coloured box will appear showing the area that will be enlarged. Move your stylus to make this cover the area of interest, and release it. While you hold your stylus down on the screen, the quality of the image may be poorer. This is to make the zooming more responsive to your movement.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Using Picsel Viewer The main place for controlling Viewer is the carousel, which you can open by tapping the Picsel logo in the bottom right corner of the screen or by pressing the ‘Back’ button on your CLIÉ twice. The table on page 10 lists keys to press. Your CLIÉ may not have a Back button. From here you can go to the Folder View, the History View or return to your document. You can also change your preferences for the way the system operates.
Picsel Viewer User Guide For example, to see what is lower down, press and hold your stylus near the middle of the screen and stroke it upwards. To zoom in, briefly tap the screen near the middle then press and hold it in the same place. Now, stroking upwards will zoom in and stroking downwards will zoom out. While you are zooming or panning, the document will appear less clearly and will then ‘sharpen up’ when you release the stylus.
Picsel Viewer User Guide You can also return to the previous document you viewed by tapping on the ‘previous document’ thumbnail or page icon on the left of the carousel, and after that, can move forward again to the ‘next document’ if you wish. You can go back several steps by tapping on the ‘previous document’ repeatedly as it changes, although you may find the History View more helpful. These thumbnails are displayed as page icons if you move very quickly between documents.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Folder View You can look at documents stored on storage media using the ‘Folder View’. To see it, click on the Folder View icon as shown. Initially, you will see an icon for your storage media card. Simply tap with your stylus on the icons to explore the files stored on each card.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Excel Plain Text Pictures In the Folder View you can only access documents on the storage media, including any folders you may have created on them. If you have a lot of documents, or have documents with long names, you may wish to fit more on the screen by having smaller icons. If you open the carousel, you will see icons for displaying the smaller ‘name’ list or larger ‘icon’ list.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Document Format Restrictions Picsel Viewer can display documents with a high level of accuracy, however, some features may not be displayed in certain document formats. Overall restrictions • • • • • • • Bold, italic font and font changes are not supported in Japanese text because there is only one Japanese font installed. Characters are displayed in the standard font.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Microsoft Excel restrictions • • • • • • • • Documents created in Excel 97/2000/2002 can normally be displayed, but not always "Excel 97-2000&95". Certain types of pictures and autoshapes are not supported (3-D Style, WordArt, AutoShape Connectors and Callouts, etc). With respect to the chart function, only column and, line charts are supported. Some features of charts, including those created in Excel 95 may not be displayed. Some line chart features are not fully supported.
Picsel Viewer User Guide • The wrap display function is not supported, thus text is displayed on one line until a line feed is encountered. Image format restrictions • • JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP are supported. JPEG 2000 and thumbnail images are not supported. Microsoft and related products for Windows (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint) are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Once you have visited a large number of pages, the history will record more than it can display on screen. You can pan through the history view using the scroll bar on the right, as in the Folder View. Documents will remain on the history list until a certain number of days have passed. You can control this period in the preferences (between 0 and 28 days), as described later. You can sort the order of entries in the history view.
Picsel Viewer User Guide The Jog Dial Navigator can also be used to select documents in the Bookmark View. Turn it up or down to highlight a thumbnail image, then press it to return to that document. As with the History View, the formatting of the date when you last viewed each document can be set in the “Formats” section of your Palm OS preferences. Other Options The Help icon, at the top of the carousel, takes you to a document explaining how to use Picsel Viewer.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Configuring Picsel Viewer Screen orientation icon There are a number of choices you can make about the way Picsel Viewer works, to make your viewing experience more pleasant. First among these is the screen orientation. Your may prefer to read lines of text across the screen more clearly, or you may wish to view a whole page at one time.
Picsel Viewer User Guide ‘Preferences’ dialogue box To select any of the options in the dialogue boxes, tap your stylus in the square or enter text and numbers by tapping on one of the dotted lines and writing with the Graffiti system at the bottom of the screen. When you are finished, tap the ‘OK’ button. General Preferences ‘Hide Carousel menu icon’ allows you to choose whether or not to see the carousel and zoom magnifying glass icons at all times in the corners of the Document View.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Each entry occupies part of CLIÉ’s limited memory, but also allows you to see what you were looking at not just earlier today, but some time ago. To edit the text here, tap in the box then open the on-screen keyboard and type your new number. If you reduce the period, old documents will be removed from the history immediately if appropriate. The value must be between 0 and 28 days. The ‘Clear History’ button deletes all memory of recently visited documents from your CLIÉ.
Picsel Viewer User Guide ‘Home’ section of the preferences Picsel Viewer can attempt to ‘Auto-select’ the character encoding, finding one which is compatible with and seems to be relevant for the document you are opening. This is normally correct, and so should normally be enabled. Most document formats contain encoding information directly, and are not affected by these preferences.
Picsel Viewer User Guide no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Fonts: European character fonts are based upon the typefaces owned by the Electronic Font Foundry Ltd. They are distributed under licence to Picsel Technologies Ltd. The fonts are only for use within Picsel Viewer. You may not modify, reverse engineer or redistribute them in any way.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Questions and Answers We hope that your experience with Picsel Viewer is painless and pleasant. However, a number of questions may arise that have simple solutions, such as the following. Why is there no document on screen? Picsel Viewer may have failed to open a document (perhaps because the file had been corrupted), and left you with a blank screen.
Picsel Viewer User Guide Why can’t I access any Internet Web sites? Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ has no Internet access capability. Why are some characters not appearing in my document? Picsel Viewer comes with a broad range of font characters as standard, but it may not include certain symbols that you may use. Why do the fonts look different from my PC? Picsel Viewer includes a range of fonts, but not all of those you have on your PC, so it has to substitute them for the nearest it has.
