Sony PEG-TH55 - Personal Entertainment Organizer, PEG-TJ37 - Personal Entertainment Organizer User Manual

Picsel Viewer

for Sony CLIÉ
User Guide

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PICSEL-EUG-0007-S

December 2003

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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 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’s patented ePAGE

TM

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
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.

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
icon

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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.

4.

3.

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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 re­processing.

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
View icon