Sony CLIE PEG-UX40 User manual

Picsel Viewer
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User Guide
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June 2003
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Contents
Introduction 4
Getting Started 5
Panning and Zooming a document 5
Opening Documents 7
Using Picsel Viewer 8
Document View 8
Folder View 10
Document Format Restrictions 12
History View 14
Bookmark View 14
Other Options 15
Configuring Picsel Viewer 16
Acknowledgements 18
Questions and Answers 19

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Introduction
Picsel Viewer is a revolutionary product for document browsing on thin-
client 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’s patented ePAGETM document display environment is the core
technology which brings new levels of satisfaction to your experience.
It allows you to view almost all documents in almost all permutations.
Central to its appeal is ePAGE’s ability to read files from desktop
environments in their native form. No conversion from the original
format or compromise is required.
Picsel Viewer’s intuitive user interface makes navigating documents
easier than ever. Simply by touching the pen to the device’s screen, you
can pan (scroll) your document sideways or vertically to view larger
pages on a smaller screen. With a gesture of the pen you can zoom in
or out to view intricate details or overviews. Moving to the next page is
as simple as turning a leaf in a book and a sophisticated yet attractive
menu is available with a tap on the icon in the corner of the screen.
Picsel Viewer supports HTML and all significant image formats (JPEG,
GIF, PNG, BMP, etc.), as well as most popular document types
including PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. These prove the package
as a leading-edge multimedia and document environment

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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.
Home icon
CLIÉ application launcher showing Picsel
Viewer
Tap the ‘Picsel Viewer’ icon in the application launcher. This will
launch the application, briefly showing its starting screen. After
launching, you should open a document using the Folder View,
described later in this 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 pen across the screen in the direction you would like the page to
move. To pan the page up, touch and hold your pen somewhere near
the middle of the screen and draw a line towards the top, then take your
Pan (Scroll):
1.
Zoom:
1. 2.
2.
4.
3.

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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. The tap-and-stroke gesture for this is to tap
your pen briefly near the middle of the screen then tap and hold it again
in the same place. Now stroke your pen up to zoom in or down to
zoom out. Release your pen when you reach the scale you like. Using
this, you can view small print details on diagrams or get an overview of
a whole page.
The zoom box, showing in pink the area that will be
expanded using the horizontal tap-and-stroke gesture.
A further method for zooming into a specific area of the document is
available in Picsel Viewer, called ‘Zoom Box’. Use the same tap-and-
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 pen
to the right instead of vertically. A coloured box will appear showing
the area that will be enlarged. Move your pen to make this cover the
area of interest, and release it.
While you hold your pen down on the screen, the quality of the image
may be poorer. This is to make the zooming more responsive to your
movement. When you release your pen, the quality will improve.
You can also pan the document up and down using the Jog Dial
Navigator on your CLIÉ. If you briefly press and release the Jog Dial, you
will then be able to pan horizontally by turning it again. Press it once
more to return to vertical panning. You can also zoom in and out by
pressing and holding the Jog Dial in and turning it at the same time.

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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. Tap your pen on any of the
files and after a moment it will appear on screen. You can move it
around, and zoom in or out, using the pen gestures you learnt earlier.
Picsel Viewer
carousel icon
Folder View ico
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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. If you tap and hold your
pen on any of the options, a tool-tip will appear to explain its purpose.
The carousel will close after an option has been selected.
Document View
Rotate Screen
Add Bookmark
Pre fer en ces
Refresh page
History View
Folder View
Bookmark View
Help
The carousel
Document View
Most of the time, you are looking at the ‘Document View’, in which
you see the content of your chosen document. There are, however, four
different views in Picsel Viewer. If you want to return to the document
view when you are in a different mode, you can choose the document
view icon on the carousel, as shown.
While in this view, you can pan (scroll) around the page simply by
stroking your pen over the page in the direction you want it to move.
For example, to see what is lower down, press and hold your pen 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.
Document
View icon

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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. You
can draw a ‘page flick’ stroke across the bottom of the screen, as if you
were holding a page of a book (start in the middle at the bottom, then
stroke to the left to reach the next page, or the right to return to the
previous page). Alternatively, you can click on the carousel and use the
thumbnail copies of pages or the scroll bar along the bottom to find the
page you want. You can also press the “page up” and “page down”
buttons, as described in the “Keys” section, below.
Previous
document
Previous page Current
page
Next
document
Next
page
Visible part of
current page
Zoom
scroll
bar
Fit page
Fit width
First page Last page
Page scroll bar
The navigation controls which appear around the carousel
The tools around the side of the carousel offer more features. The scroll
bar along the bottom of the screen moves between pages and can be
moved by stroking your pen over the box to move through the
thumbnails for all of the pages of the current document. The arrows at
the end of the scroll bar move directly to the first and last pages of the
document, respectively. The page scroll bar is only useful for multi-page
documents, which do not include HTML pages or pictures.
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.
The zoom scroll bar, to the left of the carousel, allows you to enlarge or
reduce the document without using the tap-and-drag gesture. Simply
stroke your pen up or down over the box in the scroll bar. Picsel Viewer
can also scale the document automatically to fit on the screen with the
‘fit page’ icon, or to fit the width of the document into the width of the
screen using the ‘fit width’ icon.
The visible part of the current page is shown on the current page
thumbnail as a red area which you can also move around with your
pen, should you wish to.

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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 Button Action
Page Up Previous pageAll views including
Document, History,
Bookmark and
Folder Views
Page Down Next page
Turn Jog Dial Pan vertically or horizontally
Push Jog Dial Change between horizontal
and vertical panning
Push and
Turn Jog Dial
Zoom in or out
Document View
Back
(multiple
presses)
1. Zoom to fit width
2. Open Carousel
3. Exit Picsel Viewer
Back
(multiple
presses)
1. Open Carousel
2. Exit Picsel Viewer
Turn Jog Dial Change selected document
History, Bookmarks,
Folder Views
Push Jog Dial Open document
Folder View
You can look at documents stored on Memory Stick media or internal
media using the ‘Folder View’. To see it, click on the Folder View icon
as shown.
Initially, you will see a choice of Memory Stick media or internal media,
according to which you have inserted. Simply tap with your pen on the
icons to explore the files stored on each card.
The name of the current folder’s path location is shown at the top of the
screen and you can go to the folder above that in the folder structure by
tapping the ‘Up-Folder’ icon in the corner. You can also move to a
higher folder by clicking on the name at the top of the screen.
Folder View
The folders, which contain further documents, are shown in yellow with
tabs in the corners. Documents look like sheets of paper in various other
Folder View ico
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Up-Folder icon