Newton Press
User’s Guide
For Windows
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Newton Press
About Newton Press
What is Newton Press? vii |
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What is a Newton book? |
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How do I create a book? |
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Reading the book on a Newton PDA xii |
1 Getting Started |
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System requirements |
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Connecting your Newton PDA to your computer 3 |
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Attaching the cable |
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Installing Newton Press |
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Installation troubleshooting 6 |
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Starting Newton Press |
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Getting your computer ready |
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Creating a book |
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Getting your Newton PDA ready |
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Locating the new book |
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Problems? |
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Exiting Newton Press 14
2 Creating a Book |
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Dragging and dropping a book onto a Newton PDA |
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Creating a new book |
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Navigating your document |
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Copying and pasting |
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Bringing documents into a book |
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Adding a new document 20 |
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Dragging and dropping a document for editing |
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Adding multiple documents into a book file |
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Bringing graphics into a book |
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Naming and identifying a book |
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Saving and opening your work in progress |
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Saving your work in progress |
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Opening your work in progress |
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3 Formatting Your Newton Book |
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About the Newton Press application window |
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Inserting a page break 31 |
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Removing a page break 32 |
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Creating a header |
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Using fonts |
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Adding documents that use different fonts |
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Aligning text |
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Using tabs |
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Creating tables |
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Creating borders |
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Inverting text |
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4 Creating a Table of Contents |
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Using the Table of Contents window |
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Adding topics to the table of contents |
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Viewing topic markers in a book |
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Adding topics automatically |
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Editing topics in the Table of Contents window |
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Deleting topics from the Table of Contents window |
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5 Linking |
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Creating link s |
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Breaking links |
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Checking links |
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6 Saving and Installing Book Packages |
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Creating a book package |
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Installing a package on a Newton PDA |
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Preparing the computer |
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Preparing the Newton PDA 55 |
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7 Setting Preferences |
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Selecting preference settings |
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Text preferences |
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Import preferences |
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Install preferences |
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Location for saved packages |
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8 Viewing Your Book on a Newton PDA |
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Opening a book on a Newton PDA |
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Viewing pages 65 |
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Using a table of contents |
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Using Newton Book Reader controls |
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Going to a specific page |
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Copying parts of a book |
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Annotating books |
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Printing and faxing a |
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Closing a Newton Book |
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9 Troubleshooting |
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Problems installing the software 75 |
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Problems editing and formatting a book |
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Problems adding documents to a book |
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Problems installing a |
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General questions |
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Appendix A Setting up Windows 3.1 for Newton Press |
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Index |
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vi Contents
About Newton Press
What is Newton Press?
Newton Press is an ideal application for creating and distributing electronic documents as Newton books that can be reviewed and annotated on a Newton PDA. With Newton Press, you can create read-only electronic documents, complete with text and graphics, that anyone with a Newton PDA can use.
You can quickly create Newton books by combining text and graphics from other applications into your Newton Press documents. You can also type and edit text as you create a Newton book and easily format it to match the screen-size and display characteristics of Newton PDAs.
After creating an electronic document on your computer, you can save it as a book package and install it on Newton PDAs. You can use the Newton Press application or use other Newton applications, such as the Newton Backup Utility to install your packages on Newton PDAs. In fact, Newton Press provides ways to quickly create books and install them on a Newton PDA automatically without typing or formatting documents yourself. So if you just want to move information from your computer onto your Newton PDA, you can do so in a few easy steps.
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What is a Newton book?
A Newton book is an electronic document created for viewing on a Newton PDA. With Newton Press, you can create and publish a variety of documents such as business reports, reference materials, price sheets, product listings and tables for display on Newton PDAs.
You can create company reports and documents that someone with a Newton PDA can keep for easy reference. You can also distribute Newton books to employees with reference tables of prices, products, or other lists of information.
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You can create company directories and other lists that Newton PDA users can refer to on the job or in the field, taking advantage of the portability of the Newton PDA.
And you can create documents with graphics and charts that provide Newton PDA users with effective and persuasive visual tools for communicating information.
Getting Started |
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Newton Press enables you to create a wide variety of books that can effectively convey your information.
How do I create a book?
Creating a book is roughly a four-step process:
mYou first open the Newton Press application and type or add the content of your book. You can then format the book to look the way you want it.
mYou can create a table of contents that readers can use to move about the different topics of a book.
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