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Model:PDC
Version: V7.1
Release: October, 2009

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  • Page 1 PENPOWER Presenter Pen User Manual Model:PDC Version: V7.1 Release: October, 2009...
  • Page 2 Penpower Technology Ltd., Software User License Agreement You are licensed to legally use this software program (“the Software”) by Penpower Technology Ltd (“Penpower”) under this license agreement (“The Agreement”). If you do not agree with any of the provisions in this Agreement, please do not install, copy or use the Software.
  • Page 3 Software, including but not limited to loss of profits, damage to business reputation, ces- sation of work, hardware malfunction or damage, or any other commercial damage or loss arising from commercial use of the Software. 7. Limitation of Liability and Damages The maximum amount of compensation payable by Penpower, in respect of any dam- age incurred by you for any reason under this Agreement, is limited to the amount you have already paid to Penpower in respect of the Software.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Product Overview ................... 1-1 1.1 Product Features ..................... 1-1 1.2 Hardware Introduction ................... 1-2 1.2.1 Hardware Specification ....................1-2 1.2.2 Hardware Function Introduction ...................1-2 Chapter 2 Installation and Settings .................. 2-1 2.1 System Requirements ..................... 2-1 2.2 Handwriting Software Installation ................. 2-1 2.3 Hardware Connection .....................
  • Page 5 3.6 Settings ......................... 3-21 3.6.1 Recognition Setting .....................3-21 3.6.2 General Setting......................3-23 3.6.3 Writing Setting ......................3-24 3.7 Writing Application ....................3-25 3.7.1 Switch Version ......................3-25 3.7.2 Gesture ........................3-26 3.7.3 Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing ..............3-26 3.7.4 Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger ..............3-27 Chapter 4 Traditional Mode .....................
  • Page 6 6.2.1 English Words .......................6-4 6.2.2 Chinese Characters ......................6-5 6.2.3 English Chinese Sentence Translation ................6-5 6.2.4 Chinese English Sentence Translation ................6-6 6.2.5 Button Functions ......................6-6 6.3 Penpower Input Tool ....................6-8 6.3.1 Phonetic Input Tool .......................6-8 6.3.2 Keyboard Input Tool .....................6-9 6.3.3 Dictionary Input Tool ....................6-9 6.3.4 Symbol Input Tool ......................6-9 Chapter 7 Fast User Switching ..................
  • Page 7 NCC Warning Statement Article 12 Without permission, any company, firm or user shall not alter the frequency, increase the power, or change the characteristics and functions of the original design of the certified lower power frequency electric machinery. Article 14 The application of low power frequency electric machineries shall not affect the navigation safety nor interfere a legal communication, if an interference is found, the service will be suspended until improvement is made and the...

  • Page 8: Chapter 1 Product Overview

    Chapter 1 Product Overview Chapter 1 Product Overview 1.1 Product Features <<Presentation Function>> • Compatible with PowerPoint: The presenter function is compatible with MS Power- Point. • Built-in slideshow controls: Next/Previous slide buttons and black screen functions help make your presentation more professional. •...

  • Page 9: Hardware Introduction

    Presenter Pen 1.2 Hardware Introduction 1.2.1 Hardware Specification 1. Dimensions: 118mm x62mm x 16mm 2. Weight: 58g 3. Writing Area: 56mm x43mm 4. Radio Frequency: 2.4G 5. Transmission Distance: 10m 6. Continuous Battery Consumption: Up to 8 hours writing time 1.2.2 Hardware Function Introduction Left Side Front Side...
  • Page 10 Chapter 1 Product Overview Presenter mode: In the Presenter mode, the left button acts as the page up function to show the previous page. 3. Right button: Handwriting mode: It provides 7 Frequently Used punctuation symbols such as ，。 、：；？！. When press the right button, the system will input the first symbol. Press again, replace to the next symbol and so on.
  • Page 11 Presenter Pen 12. [Pen/Mouse mode] switch/Black screen button: Handwriting Mode: If you installed the [New Pen/Mouse Mode], press this button to switch between the [New pen mode], [Penpower mouse mode] and [Mouse mode]. If you installed the [Traditional Mode], press this button to switch between the [Pen mode] and [Mouse mode].

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Installation And Settings

    Chapter 2 Installation and Settings Chapter 2 Installation and Settings 2.1 System Requirements 1. Intel Pentium II 300 CPU or above 2. 256MB RAM 3. 250MB of available hard disk space 4. Windows 7/Vista/XP 5. USB Port 2.2 Handwriting Software Installation 1.
  • Page 13 Presenter Pen 2. Please exit all of the Penpower applications to ensure that the install/repair process will run properly. Select the language version you wish to install then click “Next”. 3. Select the installation folder and type. Typical installation is recommended. Besides, Penpower Jr.
  • Page 14 Chapter 2 Installation and Settings Note: If you choose custom installation type, you can check every single function to install, except the functions in grey color. 4. Click Next to use the default folder name. 5. Click Automatically load Penpower Jr. if you wish to automactically run Penpower Jr. when the computer starts.

  • Page 15: Hardware Connection

    Presenter Pen 6. Click “Finish“ to complete the installation. 7. Penpower Jr. offers various Chinese fonts. You can install DYNA Fonts from the main in- stallation menu. Select the fonts you desire to install, then follow the instruction to install. 2.3 Hardware Connection 1.

  • Page 16: Registration

    Chapter 2 Installation and Settings 2.5 Registration A register reminder window will pop up when you launch Penpower Jr. for the first time . It reminds you registering your product at http://www.penpower.net/reg.html for ensuring the warranty service. Click [Register now] to register. If you click [Register later], you may go to [About/Register] when you need.

  • Page 17: Mouse Mode Operation

    Presenter Pen 2. Press the [ID matching] button on the back side of the Presenter Pen. 3. An [ID-matching is successful] window appears when the ID matching is done. 2.8 Mouse Mode Operation 1. Moving: Put the pen on the Presenter Pen, and then move it on the panel gently. 2.

  • Page 18: Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode

    Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System If you installed [New Pen/Mouse Mode] and run [Start/All Programs/Penpower Jr/Pen- power Jr.], you will see the window as following: Note: Please make sure that you have switched the [Presenter/Handwriting mode] switch down to the [Handwriting mode].

  • Page 19: Switching Modes

    Presenter Pen 3.2 Switching Modes [New Pen/Mouse Mode] provides New Pen and Penpower Mouse modes. The [New Pen mode] provides writing and recognition functions. You can select the candidates, related words, phrases and symbols via mouse. In the [Penpower Mouse mode], you can use the Presenter Pen and the stylus as the mouse to select the candidates, related words, phrases and symbols.

  • Page 20: New Pen Mode

    Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.3 New Pen Mode When you run Penpower Jr., the vertical [New Pen mode] toolbar will appear. You can write words on the Presenter Pen to input words. Right click the mouse on the or click menu to open the menu.

  • Page 21: Full Screen Writing

    Presenter Pen The candidate area of the [New Pen mode] provides you to promptly correct the recog- nized words, for example when you wrote ‘ 蒙 ’, and it recognized to ‘ 豪 ’, you can select ‘ 蒙 ’from the candidate area via the mouse. Click the symbols table button via the mouse to open the symbols table and enter the corresponding punctuation symbol.

  • Page 22: How To Write

    Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.3.2 How to Write It would be better to keep strokes of the same word closed, and do not overlap between words when you write. You need to finish writing every strokes of one word. Right example Write three words of 『明日月』...

  • Page 23: How To Quickly Correct, Enter Phrases And Symbols

    Presenter Pen 3.3.3 How to Quickly Correct, Enter Phrases and Symbols When writing, candidate words based on the previous input will be displayed on the [New Pen mode] toolbar. Each press of the left function button on the Penpower Jr. will move the candidate words forward by one and also correct the results.

  • Page 24: Balloon Ui

    Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.4 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application. The visual user interface is hidden transpar- ently. When you want to correct some word, just hover your mouse over this word for a few seconds.

  • Page 25: Phrase Correction

    Presenter Pen 3.4.1 Phrase Correction If you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom, and you are not sure of how to write one of the characters you can substitute a similar sounding character instead. If you are not sure of the character’s pronunciation either, choose any at random.

  • Page 26: Artificial Intelligence

    Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.4.2 Artificial Intelligence When you use candidate word or AI button to correct result, the system will modify its recognition database to adapt your personal writing style to improve the recognition rate. 1. Write some words. The result would be sent to your cursor location. 2.

  • Page 27: Split

    3-10 Presenter Pen 3.4.3 Split When two words are written too close, they may be recognized as a single word. You can use split function to separate it into two words. 1. For example, when you write four words 『日月星辰』 . 2.

  • Page 28: Homophone

    3-11 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.4.5 Homophone If you forget how to write some words, or the words are too complicated to write, you can write down some other easy homophone to get the word that you would like to input. e.g. If you want to input the word 『豫』...

  • Page 29: Related Word

    3-12 Presenter Pen 3.4.6 Related word For any two contiguous words, the first one is the pre-related word of the second one. The second one is the post-related word of the first one. e.g. 『科技』 , 『科』 is the pre-related word of 『技』 , and 『技』 is the post-related word of 『科』...

  • Page 30: Penpower Mouse Mode

    3-13 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.5 Penpower Mouse Mode The following will introduce the function buttons of the [Penpower Mouse mode], such as Artificial Intelligence, learning tool, phrase, signature, on-line translator and settings. 3.5.1 Artificial Intelligence When writing a word in the [New Pen mode], you can push the middle button for switch- ing to the Penpower Mouse mode.
  • Page 31 3-14 Presenter Pen 3. Write your symbol twice according to the instructions. 4. Click the [Manage DB] tag. You can browse though the animated symbols for strings or any of the strings you have assigned a symbol to.

  • Page 32: Update Phrase Database

    3-15 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.5.3 Update Phrase Database There are thousands upon thousands default phrases that you can use in the Penpower handwriting recognition. It also allows you to customize the phrase database to meet your needs. 1. In [Penpower Mouse mode] press the [Phrase] button.
  • Page 33 3-16 Presenter Pen 3. Selet on phrase from the list, and then click [Modify] to update the phonetics of this phrase. Click [Delete] to delete this phrase from database. 4. In [Search string] field, you can only input part of a phrase to find this phrase quickly. 5.

  • Page 34: Signature

    3-17 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.5.4 Signature 1. Move the cursor to where the signature will be. 2. Open the [Penpower Mouse mode] and press the [Signature] button. The [Signature tool- bar] screen will be shown. 3. In signature mode, the left button is defined to change color. : Select the color of inking.

  • Page 35: Online Translator

    3-18 Presenter Pen Note: You can use the transparent signature in the latest version of Word and Excel, but Office 2007 does not support this function. You may make notes and commentary by using the transparent signature feature. 3.5.5 Online Translator 1.
  • Page 36 3-19 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode The [Online translator] is used in the balloon interface. When you want to look up a char- acter’s translation, select button from the candidate window.

  • Page 37: Input Words By Related Phrase

    3-20 Presenter Pen 3.5.6 Input Words by Related Phrase Phrase function provides the related phrases for inputting phrases quickly. 1. Write down the first word of one phrase. e.g. If you want to input the phrase 『一年四季』 , just write the first word 『一』 . 2.

  • Page 38: Settings

    3-21 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.6 Settings In [Penpower Mouse mode] click on the [Setting] button or in [New Pen mode] choose the [Setting…] from the menu to open the settings page. You can configure the recognition engine, output format or writing inkings here. 3.6.1 Recognition Setting Mode The recognition mode of Chinese, English, Numeral, Symbol and Japanese could be...
  • Page 39 3-22 Presenter Pen Unusual character The system will recognize some unusual words only when you turn on [Unusual charac- ter] option. Running Hand Select this option to recognize run-on cursive. Hongkong Character This recognition mode is available only when the Penpower Jr. set to [BIG5] or [BIG5+HK].

  • Page 40: General Setting

    3-23 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.6.2 General Setting Half shape/Full shape To decide whether the handwriting result of alphanumeric is recognized as one-byte ASCII code or double-bytes code. Auto load Start Penpower Jr. when Windows starts. Direction You can select the orientation of the Presenter Pen as Horizontal or Vertical. The Hori- zontal provides right-handed and left-handed choices.

  • Page 41: Writing Setting

    3-24 Presenter Pen 3.6.3 Writing Setting Ink color Select the color of inking. You can ad- just the smoothness of color gradation when selecting [Multiple]. Ink width Select the thickness of inking. Ink sound Select the sound effect while writing. Pen style Select the pen style.

  • Page 42: Writing Application

    3-25 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.7 Writing Application The following will introduce the function of Writing Application, such as Switch Version, Gesture, Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing, and Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messen- ger. 3.7.1 Switch Version 1. In [Penpower Mouse mode], click Penpower Junior options, then click [Version…]. 2.

  • Page 43: Gesture

    3-26 Presenter Pen 3.7.2 Gesture Penpower Jr. supports four standard writing gestures. You can write these gestures to per- form certain keyboard actions. 1. Delete : simulate the DELETE key. 2. Backspace : simulate the BACKSPACE key. 3. Enter : simulate the ENTER key. 4.

  • Page 44: Using Penpower Jr. In Msn Messenger

    3-27 Chapter 3 New Pen/Mouse Mode 3.7.4 Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger Note: This required MSN Messenger version 6.1 or higher version. After you have signed in to the MSN Messenger, double-click the person’s name to display the conversation box. Below this conversation box, there are two modes for you to select: [Handwrite] and [Type] .
  • Page 45 3-28 Presenter Pen set ink width set ink color set the rubber...

  • Page 46: Chapter 4 Traditional Mode

    Chapter 4 Traditional Mode Chapter 4 Traditional Mode 4.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System If you installed [Traditional Mode] and run [Start/All Programs/PenpowerJr/Penpower Jr.], you will see the Traditional Handwriting window. Note: Please make sure that you have switched the [Presenter/Handwriting mode] switch down to the [Handwriting mode].

  • Page 47: Full Screen Handwriting

    Presenter Pen 4.3 Full Screen Handwriting There are three different options of full screen mode in the main menu, Single-word writing, Two-sides writing and Free writing. Please see Chapter 3.3.3 for more details. 4.3.1 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application. The visual user interface is hidden transparently.

  • Page 48: Writing-Pad

    Chapter 4 Traditional Mode 4.4 Writing-Pad There are five input tools in Writing-Pad: Write, Phonetic, Keyboard, Dictionary and Symbol. 4.4.1 Write Input Tool Title bar Writing Area Related Phrase Candidate Symbol You need to click the second button on the right side of the Presenter Pen or click on the writing area switching into Pen mode before you start writing.

  • Page 49: Phonetic Input Tool

    Presenter Pen 4.4.2 Phonetic Input Tool There are three types of phonetic input tool: Zhu yin, Cantonese and Han pin by default. You can create your own phonetic input tool. How to Use 1. Select one phonetic input tool of Zhu yin, Cantonese, Han pin or others. 2.

  • Page 50: Symbol Input Tool

    Chapter 4 Traditional Mode Query by stroke 4.4.5 Symbol Input Tool The special symbols are grouped into multiple pages of table. Select the suitable table and click the symbol what you want to get. It allows you to customize the symbol tables.

  • Page 51: Phrase

    Presenter Pen 4.5 Phrase 4.5.1 Use Phurase to input words 1. In both the Full Screen and Writing-Pad modes the Associations dictionary window will always be displayed. Note: In the Full Screen Handwriting mode, if the Associations dictionary is closed, select “Open Related Phrase”...

  • Page 52: Update Phrase Database

    Chapter 4 Traditional Mode 4.5.2 Update Phrase Database There are thousands upon thousands default phrases that you can use in the Penpower handwriting recognition. It also allows you to customize the phrase database to meet your needs. 1. Open the Penpower Jr. main menu and select [Open Related Phrase]. Then select [Edit Phrase] from the Phrase menu to open the [Edit Phrase] diolague to edit the dictionary.

  • Page 53: Other Functions

    Presenter Pen 4.6 Other Functions 4.6.1 Learning Tool Select the [Learning Tool] from the main menu to open the Learning Tool diolague. Please see Chapter 3.5.2 for more details. 4.6.2 Signature Move the cursor to where the signature will be. Then select [Signature] from the main menu to open the [Signature] window, and enter to the signature mode.

  • Page 54: Settings

    Chapter 4 Traditional Mode 4.6.4 Settings In Penpower Jr.’s options menu select [Settings] to open the settings page. You can con- figure the recognition engine, output format or writing tracks here. For more details on Pen- Power settings please refer to the explanation provided in Chapter 4.6. The only difference is that in Traditional mode the writing pad display can be configured here.

  • Page 55: Switch Version

    4-10 Presenter Pen 4.6.5 Switch Version Open the main menu. Select [Version...]. There are three Versions for Choose. Please see Chapter 3.7.1 for more details. 4.6.6 Gesture Penpower Jr. handwriting system supports four standard writing gesture. You can hand- writing these gestures to perform certain keyboard actions. Please see Chapter 3.7.2 for more details.

  • Page 56: Chapter 5 Presenter Mode

    Chapter 5 Presenter Mode Chapter 5 Presenter Mode The Presenter Jr. supports MS PowerPoint presentation application to make your presen- tation more professional. You may switch the [Presenter/Handwriting mode] switch upward to the the [Presenter mode] and use the following functions to help your presentation. Front Side Right Side 1.
  • Page 57 Presenter Pen Tip: Press and hold the [Timer setting button] for a while, you can reset the timer. 6. Black screen button: During the presentation, press the black screen button to display the black screen. 7. Presenter/Handwriting mode switch: Switch upward to the the [Presenter mode]. Switch downward to the the [Handwriting mode].

  • Page 58: Chapter 6 Assistant Tools

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools Chapter 6 Assistant Tools If you selected the [Typical] or [Custom] type during the installation, you will find Pen- power VoiceReader, Penpower Translator and Penpower Input Tool. In the Custom type, you could select the functions to install.

  • Page 59: Penpower Voice Reader

    Presenter Pen 6.1 Penpower Voice Reader The Penpower Voice Reader utilizes a state of the art text-to-speech technology, it will read in fluent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles. You can use it as a tool for fast proof- reading or in teaching the correct Mandarin/Cantonese pronunciation. 6.1.1 Use Penpower Voice Reader 1.

  • Page 60: Reading Setting

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.1.2 Reading Setting 1. Click , select [Setting], the [Setting window] will appear. Speech Speed: Adjust speech speed. Speech Pitch: Adjust speech tone level. Speech Volume: Adjust speech volume.

  • Page 61: Penpower Translator

    Presenter Pen 6.2 Penpower Translator The Penpower Translator provides Chinese to English and English to Chinese word and sentence translation. Run [Start/All Programs/Penpower Jr/Penpower Translator]. Note: Before running the Penpower Input Tools, make sure the Penpower Jr. has been started. Otherwise you’ll be asked to start the Penpower Jr. first. 6.2.1 English Words 1.

  • Page 62: Chinese Characters

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.2.2 Chinese Characters 1. Click the [Simplied.Ch. -> En.] button on the left side window. 2. In the input field on the upper left corner, input a Chinese character or phrase, and then press [Enter] key to see the English translation. Tip: If the Chinese character you want to look up is Traditional Chinese, please select the [ Traditional Ch.

  • Page 63: Chinese English Sentence Translation

    Presenter Pen 6.2.4 Chinese English Sentence Translation 1. Click the [Sentence Simplied Ch. -> En.] on the left side of window. 2. In the upper input frame, input Chinese sentences or an article, click the button to translate. The translation results are shown on the lower frame. Tip: If the Chinese sentence you wish to look up is Traditional Chinese, please select the [ Sentence Traditional Ch.
  • Page 64 Chapter 6 Assistant Tools Tip: When typing a single word, a list of possibe word will show up during the typing. You can use the direction keys to select that word as the input, and then press Enter key to look up that word.

  • Page 65: Penpower Input Tool

    Presenter Pen 6.3 Penpower Input Tool The new Handwriting mode provides Penpower Input Tool. In the Traditional mode, this function includes in the Writing-Pad. It contains four input methods: Phonetic, Keyboard, Dictionary, and Symbol. Run [Start/ All Programs/Penpower Jr/Penpower Input Tool]. Note: Before running the Penpower Input Tools, make sure the Penpower Jr.

  • Page 66: Keyboard Input Tool

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.3.2 Keyboard Input Tool Keyboard Simulated software keyboard. Inner Code Select four keys of inner code to input a character or symbol. e.g. The inner code of [ ☆ ] in hexadecimal is A1B8. Click A 1 B 8 in that order in the screen to display [ ☆...

  • Page 67: Chapter 7 Fast User Switching

    Chapter 7 Fast User Switching Chapter 7 Fast User Switching The Penpower Jr. supports [Fast User Switching] when you have more than one user account in Windows OS. [Fast User Switching] allows all users to use Penpower Jr. without reinstalling on each account. For example, to activate [Fast User Switching] from Windows XP, click the [Start] button, select [Settings] then click [Control Panel].

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