CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for 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 Page 3...
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
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.
Picsel Viewer for 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.
Picsel Viewer for 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.
Picsel Viewer for 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).
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
Picsel Viewer for Folder View You can look at documents stored on Memory Stick media or CF cards 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 CF card, according to which you have inserted.
Icon list Name list Sort by Type Sort by icon Name icon CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Excel Plain Text Pictures In the Folder View you can only access documents on the Memory Stick media or CF cards, including any folders you may have created on them.
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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. •...
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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). •...
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual Home icon The ‘silk screen’ area, including the Home You can close the carousel and return to the page you were previously viewing by tapping your pen in the grey area where there are no icons. The ‘silk screen’...
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual ‘Preferences’ dialogue box To select any of the options in the dialogue boxes, tap your pen 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’...
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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.
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual 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. Most document formats contain encoding information directly, and are not affected by these preferences.
CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual Questions 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.
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CLIÉ Picsel Viewer for User Manual Why can’t I access any Internet Web sites? Picsel Viewer for CLIÉ has no Internet access capability. Why are some characters not appearing in my document? Picsel Viewer comes with a broad range of font characters as standard, but it may not include certain symbols that you may use.