Sony PEG-TH55 - Personal Entertainment Organizer User manual

Picsel Viewer
for Sony CLIÉ
User Guide
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Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ
User Guide
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Document number PICSEL-EUG-0007-S
December 2003
Picsel EMEA Office
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Contents
Introduction 4
Getting Started 5
Panning and Zooming a document 6
Opening Documents 7
Using Picsel Viewer 8
Document View 8
Folder View 11
Document Format Restrictions 13
History View 15
Bookmark View 16
Other Options 17
Configuring Picsel Viewer 18
Acknowledgements 21
Questions and Answers 23

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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 stylus 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 stylus 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
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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.
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.
Home
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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. 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
stylus. This gives you time to start another stroke. This inertia can be
used to save time while you pan around the document.
You can change the size of the document, so that more or less of it is
visible at a different size. Simply tap on the “+” magnifying glass icon
in the top right corner to zoom in, or on the “-” to zoom out. You can
also zoom in or out with a stylus movement; the tap-and-stroke gesture
for this is to tap your stylus briefly near the middle of the screen then tap
and hold it again in the same place. Now stroke your stylus up to zoom
in or down to zoom out. Release your stylus 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-
Pan (Scroll):
1.
Zoom:
1. 2.
2.
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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. When you release your stylus, 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.
Opening Documents
You can create documents on your desktop PC and copy them to
storage 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 storage media, tap the Picsel Viewer carousel
icon and then tap the Folder View icon, from where you can select
documents to view. Tap your stylus 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 stylus gestures you learnt earlier.
Picsel Viewer
carousel icon
Folder View icon

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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. 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. If you tap and hold your stylus 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
Preferences 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 stylus over the page in the direction you want it to move.
Document
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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. 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.
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 stylus 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
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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 stylus 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
stylus, should you wish to.
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
or Left*
Previous pageAll views including
Document, History,
Bookmark and
Folder Views Page Down
or Right*
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* 1. Open Carousel
2. Exit Picsel Viewer
Turn Jog Dial Change selected document
History, Bookmarks,
Folder Views
Push Jog Dial Open document
*Your device may not have all of these buttons. The same features are
available on-screen.

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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.
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
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
Folder View icon
Up-Folder icon

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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. When the list is too long to fit on the screen, you
can use the scroll bar on the right to move through the list.
You can also sort the order of documents listed, either by name or by
document type, by opening the carousel and tapping one of the sort
icons as shown.
You can select documents by turning the Jog Dial Navigator, on the side
of your CLIÉ, and open (view) the documents by pressing it. To return to
the folder above the current level, turn the Jog Dial Navigator up past
the first document to select the ‘Up Folder’ icon. You can also use the
Page Up and Page Down buttons (or Left and Right on some CLIÉ
models) to move through a long list of files.
Icon list Name list
Sort by Type
icon
Sort by
Name icon

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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. Western text can be displayed in
standard fonts including bold and italic once the English language
pack has been installed.
•With respect to the font format, only the font size and character
color can be changed using the installed Japanese font.
•Background colours and patterns are not fully supported.
•When documents of other formats are inserted in Microsoft Office
documents, the inserted data may not be displayed.
•The resolution of images in a document may be reduced to
conserve internal memory.
•Large document files may not be opened, depending on the
memory limits of the device and compression used within the
document. It is recommended that you keep more than 500Kb of
free internal memory on your CLIÉ.
•Characters in Shift_JIS and Latin1 fonts are supported, but
documents may contain unsupported characters.
Microsoft Word restrictions
•Documents created in Word 97/2000/2002 can normally be
displayed, excluding "Word 97-2000&95"
•Certain types of pictures are not supported (3-D Style, WordArt,
AutoShape Connectors and Callouts, bitmap background patterns,
etc). Text Box is also not supported.
•Figures created using Word 95 may not be displayed.
•Columns created with the Columns command under the Format
menu may not be displayed correctly.
•Equations, including Japanese “Ruby” are not supported.
•Page headers and footers may not appear correctly on all pages.
•Asian-language numbered lists and localisations are unsupported.

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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. Pie charts are not
supported.
•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".
•Certain types of pictures are not supported (3-D Style, WordArt,
AutoShape Connectors and Callouts, etc).
•Animation effects, buttons and links are not supported.
•Some background patterns are not supported.
Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF) restrictions
•With respect to the table border styles, only single solid line and
double solid line are supported.
•Document and page information is not supported.
•Some embedded fonts cannot be displayed.
HTML restrictions
•HTML 3.2 and 4.0 are supported.
•With respect to the table border styles, only single solid line and
double solid line are supported.
•Superscripts, subscripts and scrolling texts are not supported.
Plain text restrictions
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•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.
Adobe® and Acrobat® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Company names and product names in this document are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders. The trademark symbol
(TM) and registered trademark symbol (®) are omitted in this document.
Please refer to the manual for more detailed support contact information.
History View
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. To see this view, click on
the history view icon in the carousel, as shown.
History View
To return to any of the documents from the history view, tap the
thumbnail picture of that page twice. After one tap the thumbnail will
animate to indicate that you have selected it.
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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. At the bottom of the carousel are icons to sort by date
visited, by file name, and by document name (title) alphabetically. The
thumbnail icons for the files are not stored between sessions.
The Jog Dial Navigator can also be used to select previous documents in
the History View. Turn it up or down to highlight a thumbnail image,
then press it to return to that document.
The date format used to display the time when the document was last
viewed is set in the Palm OS “Formats” preferences, so you can choose
between a range of national and international date formats.
Bookmark View
For your favourite documents, you can keep a list in the ‘Bookmark
View’. This looks similar to the history view but includes only those
pages you have explicitly added. For each document, it shows a page
icon and the title, file name and the date it was added. As before, tap
the Bookmark View icon to see the bookmarks, then to return to one of
the documents, tap its icon twice.
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.
Bookmark View
Sort by URL Sort by Date
Bookmark
View icon
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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. You can scroll the text up and
down using the scroll bar on the right, or change to another page using
the drop-down menu at the top.
To exit from Picsel Viewer, tap on the Home icon at the bottom of your
screen, which will return you to the Application Launcher. If the
carousel is open, you can also press the Back button on your CLIÉ (if it
has one) to exit from Picsel Viewer. As the same button opens the
carousel from other views, pressing ‘Back’ two or three times is a
convenient way to finish (see the table on page 10 for details of keys to
press).
Home
icon
The ‘silk screen’ area, including the Home
icon
You can close the carousel and return to the page you were previously
viewing by tapping your stylus in the grey area where there are no icons.
The ‘silk screen’ area at the bottom of the screen can be hidden to make
more space for your document viewing by tapping the small down-
arrow at the very bottom. Tap the arrow again to reveal the silk screen
area.
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Configuring
Picsel
Viewer
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. To make the best use of the shape of your CLIÉ, Picsel
Viewer can rotate its display by 90°when you click on the screen
orientation icon as shown. When you do this, the document and other
views are rotated, but not dialogue boxes or any other software running
on your CLIÉ. You can tap the orientation icon again to rotate the
screen back to its original form.
There are also a number of further options for Picsel Viewer which can
be set using dialogue boxes. To see these, choose the Preferences icon,
as shown. There are three pages. To move between these, use the
‘settings’ drop-down menu in the top-right corner.
Screen
orientation icon
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‘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. If it is visible, you are reminded that you can
zoom, open the carousel and perform 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 stylus across the bottom of the screen. To move to the
next page, touch your stylus 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.
‘Inertial Scroll’ affects documents as you pan them around the screen.
When enabled, you can ‘throw’ documents across the screen and they
will continue to move after you lift your stylus. This gives you time to
move your stylus to another point, ready to continue panning. If you
find this disconcerting, you can disable it here.
‘Show Pictures’ saves memory in your CLIÉ by not displaying images in
your HTML and PDF documents. This may be useful for very large
documents.
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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.
‘Home’ section of the
preferences
Home Page Preferences
If you now select ‘Home’ from the drop-down menu, you will see
another page of choices. This defines what document Picsel Viewer
will display when you first start it from application launcher. The
default, when you first install it, is to go to the help pages. You can also
choose a blank screen which will do nothing until you open a
document in the Folder View. Thirdly, you can return to the same
document you were viewing the last time you used Picsel Viewer.
Finally, you can return to the document which is currently open at the
time that you select the ‘This Page’ option. The fifth ‘Current Preference’
is displayed for your information.
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.