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Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual Contents Introduction Getting Started Panning and Zooming a document Opening Documents Using Picsel Viewer Document View Folder View Document Format Restrictions History View Bookmark View Other Options Configuring Picsel Viewer Acknowledgements Questions and Answers 4 5 5 7 8 8 10 12 14 14 15 16 18 19 Page 3
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual 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 for CLIÉ User Manual 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 for CLIÉ User Manual pen off the screen. You can do this repeatedly so that you can view any size of document. Further, you can ‘throw’ the document across the screen, and it will continue moving after you have released the pen. This gives you time to start another stroke. This inertia can be used to save time while you pan around the document. You can also zoom the size of the document, so that more or less of it is visible at a different size.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual Opening Documents You can create documents on your desktop PC and copy them to Memory Stick media. Picsel Viewer can read your favourite document formats such as HTML, PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint without any re-processing. To look at files on your Memory Stick media or internal media, tap the Picsel Viewer carousel icon and then tap the Folder View icon, from where you can select documents to view.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual 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). 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 for CLIÉ User Manual While you are zooming or panning, the document will appear less clearly and will then ‘sharpen up’ when you release the pen. This is perfectly normal, and the clarity and speed with which the document moves are part of the unique power of Picsel’s ePAGE technology. There are three ways to move to a different page in a document.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual Keys As well as tapping icons on the screen to perform actions in Picsel Viewer, you can also press certain physical buttons, as follows: Context All views including Document, History, Bookmark and Folder Views Document View History, Bookmarks, Folder Views Button Page Up Page Down Action Previous page Next page Turn Jog Dial Push Jog Dial Pan vertically or horizontally Change between horizontal and vertical panning Zoom in or out Push and Turn Jog Dial Back (multip
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual colours, depending on their type. You can tap a folder icon to see its contents, or tap a document icon to open it with Picsel Viewer. The following document formats are supported: Document Type Icon HTML Adobe PDF Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Excel Plain Text Pictures In the Folder View you can only access documents on the Memory Stick or internal media, including any folders you may have created on them.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual 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 for CLIÉ User Manual • • • • Dashed lines, dotted lines and borders may not be displayed as specified. Formulas are not supported. Some cell formats, including some date and accounting formats, are not supported. Text boxes do not support formatted or vertical text. Microsoft PowerPoint restrictions • Documents created in PowerPoint 97/2000/2002 can normally be displayed, but not always "PowerPoint 97-2000&95".
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual History View History View icon If you’ve looked at a lot of documents, you may want to return to one you saw earlier. The ‘History View’ shows your previously visited documents. A thumbnail image is shown for documents visited in this session of using Picsel Viewer, and a document-type icon is shown for those visited earlier. It also shows the document’s name (file name or title), location, and the date of your viewing.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual The first time you look at the bookmarks, the page will probably be empty. To add the current page (from the Document View) to the bookmarks, you can use the ‘Add Bookmark’ icon, shown here. If you wish to delete one of your bookmarks, tap the small icon image of the page, then tap on the dustbin icon in the corner. Add bookmark icon Dustbin icon Bookmark View The Jog Dial Navigator can also be used to select documents in the Bookmark View.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual 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 for CLIÉ User Manual other tasks. If it is hidden, the entire screen is dedicated to viewing your document, but you can still tap in the corner to see the carousel. ‘Page Flick gesture’ allows you to move between pages in a document by flicking your pen across the bottom of the screen. To move to the next page, touch your pen at the middle bottom of the screen, then draw a stroke to the left. To return to the previous page, draw a stroke to the right.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual Encoding Preferences Text documents that you open may contain writing in a range of possible ‘character encodings’ which your CLIÉ must identify. This can be controlled in the third page of preferences. ‘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.
Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ User Manual 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 for CLIÉ User Manual 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. How can I get the most out of using Picsel Viewer? Practice the gestures for panning and zooming, as well as the page flick to other pages, in order to get where you want quickly and accurately. Use the panning inertia to move around documents quickly.
