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Penpower will provide you with the Software and support services in respect of the Soft- ware to the maximum extent permitted by law. However, Penpower does not warrant that the Software and information included in the package of the Software contain no defects or errors.
Chapter One: Product Introduction Chapter One: Product Introduction 1.1 Hardware Introduction Active area: 5” X 3” Dimension: 200×200×10 mm Resolution: 4000 lpi Report rate: 200 rps Pen Pressure: 1024 levels Proximity More Than 10 mm from Active Area surface...
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 1.2 Product Features Creative design The elegant pattern indicates the status of the unique round-shape tablet, which makes writing and drawing more leisurely. The four hot keys let you set shortcuts for convenient operation. Detachable USB cable unplugs from your tablet for easy storage.
1. Insert Penpower handwriter CD into CD-ROM, execute setup.exe if it doesn’t auto- start, then choose Penpower Handwriter 2009. Note: If you have installed other tablet drivers, please remove them before installing Penpower Handwriter 2009 for avoiding any hardware conf ict.
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Penpower Handwriter Freedom 2. Please select the language version to install then click OK. 3. The welcome window of the installation process appears. Click Next to continue. 4. Connect your table with the USB port of your computer. Check Yes, my tablet already...
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Chapter Two: System Installation 5. Please read the license agreement, select I accept the terms of the license agreement, and click Next. 6. Select the destination location. Click Next. 7. Select the program folder. Click Next.
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Penpower Handwriter Freedom 8. Select Language of Penpower Handwriter user interface. Click Next. 9. Please restart your computer. Click Finish to finish the installation.
Chapter Two: System Installation 2.3 Hardware Installation Plug the tablet into the USB slot of your computer. The tablet driver will be installed during the software installation. Note: Some computers may shut down accidentally after connection. This is due to lack of power to support several USB devices.
Tool or double click the Penpower Handwriting Tool shortcut to launch Penpower Handwriting Tool. Tip: After Penpower Handwriter 2009 is installed, every time the system starts up the system tray in the right-down corner of the computer screen will show the Penpower Start-up icon.
Instead of recognized as “明”, they are recognized as “日” and “月”. 2.6.3 Editing Symbols Penpower provides four standard editing symbols: delete, backspace, enter and space bar. These are as follows: 1. Delete: Delete the character after the cursor. 2. Backspace: Delete the character before the cursor.
5 seconds, the system will close the Hotkey information window automatically. 2.7.1 Hotkey Settings Besides the default functions, you can also define the hotkey as following: 1. Run the Hotkey Setting from the Penpower Start-up menu or Start/All Programs/ Penpower Handwriter 2009 menu.
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(1) Penpower Handwriter: Launch or close Penpower Handwriter. Note: If you set the close button of the Penpower Handwriter as Minimize to System Tray, the close Penpower Handwriter function will also follow the setting. Please refer 3.2.4 User Interface Setting.
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Penpower Handwriter Freedom 2-10 (7) Open File: It can be set as running a specific application when pressing the hotkey. (8) Open URL: It can be set as browsing a web page. (9) Disable: Disable the hotkey. 3. When the Hotkey information window is checked, the Hotkey information window will appear after pressing any hotkey.
Chapter Two: System Installation 2-11 2.8 Tablet Setting Run Start/All Programs/Penpower Handwriter 2009/Tablet Setting or the icon from the System Tray to open the Tablet Setting window. 2.8.1 Info Tab The Info tab displays the version number of the tablet driver.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 2-12 2.8.3 Scope Tab Full Area Click on the Full Area button to select the largest possible working area. Screen Ratio Click on the Screen Ration button to map the working area with the tablet’s graticule. Reserve Edges Click on the Preserve Edges button to allocate space for the tablet’s hot cells.
If you use the Windows XP English operating system, your computer may not properly display Chinese characters. Recommend setting up your operating system environment’s language encoding support before using Penpower Handwriter 2009. 1. Click the Start button, and then point to Settings.
You can write anywhere on the screen, the recognized characters are sent to the cursor location. Balloon Interface provides Toolbar and Flotation Menu, which will be explained in this chapter. 3.1 Balloon Interface Toolbar After launching Penpower Handwriting Tool, you will see the default Toolbar. Pause/Resume Related Full/Half...
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 3.1.2 Open/Close On-Line Translator Click Open On-Line Translator button to open online translation function. Click Close On-Line Translator button to close the function. When reading English or Chinese articles, if you encounter unknown characters or phrases, move the cursor over the characters, and a translation window pops up to explain them for you.
Related Phrase window will close alone. 3.1.4 Signature Penpower Handwriting Tool provides Signature function for you to sign on the MS Word, MS Excel and other applications which can contain picture and text. 1. Move the cursor to the place you want to sign in your document and click Signature to enter the Signature mode.
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Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4. You can select the pen color, pen width and pen style. And then sign your signature on the Signature area. Signature area Preview area 5. The actual size of the signature will be displayed under the Sign here! area.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3.1.5 Basic Symbols Balloon Interface provides 7 basic symbols in half shape and full shape. Click Input basic symbols button , the basic symbols appear. Click a symbol, the symbol will be sent to the cursor location. If you do not find the symbol you want, click to see more symbols.
Writing Speed Adjustment After handwriting, the system will begin to recognition your handwriting. Penpower provides ten speed scales (1~10), the small the number, the shorter the time for the recognition engine to kick off. Use bigger number if your handwriting is slow.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface English application Press backspace one time in Chinese software, it will automatically delete backward two bytes (one character in Chinese) while it will only delete one byte (half Chinese) in some English software. Please select this option when you use English software to avoid mistakes of candidate character correction.
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Check this option to recognize other extremely rare Chinese characters. When you do not need to recognize unusual characters, uncheck this function to have higher recognition rate. Note: This recognition mode is only available when the Penpower is set to the Simplified Chinese version. Running Hand Check this option to recognize run-on cursive.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3.2.3 Inking Setting Click Inking tag to set inking color, width, pen sound and pen style. Ink Color Set font color. In “Multiple” selection, adjust color change smoothness. Ink Width Set the line’s levels of thickness. Pen Sound Set sound effect as you write.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 3-10 3.2.4 User Interface Setting Click User Interface tag to switch display interface and styles. Switch Display Interface Penpower Handwriting Tool provides Balloon and Window user interface. Balloon UI You can select Vertical or Horizontal styles. Horizontal Style...
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3-11 3.2.5 Button Options Click Button Options tag to set the pen button. When you select On, it will works as right-clicking mouse.
3-12 3.3 Flotation Menu Penpower employs a unique fotation interface. After character recognition, the result will be directly outputted to the cursor position. You can edit, insert, or delete any character. The fotation user interface is completely hidden so that only when you need to use the function window, the fotation interface will automatically show up.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3-13 3.3.1 Candidates Flotation Menu provides 5 candidates. You can select a candidate to correct the incorrect recognition. 3.3.2 Phrase Correction If you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom, and you are not sure how to write one of the characters.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 3-14 3.3.3 Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligent helps you to correct incorrect recognition character. It also learns your handwriting style to improve the recognition rate. 1. If you see the any incorrect recognition character for example『恬』is wrongly recognized as『恰』.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3-15 Press button to hear the Mandarin tone pronunciation while the homophonic characters display on the right, in Chuying. Press button to hear the Cantonese ton pronunciation while the Cantonese homophonic characters display on the right, in Cantonese pinyin. Press button to hear the Mandarin ton pronunciation while the Mandarin homophonic characters display on the right, in Pinyin.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 3-16 3.3.6 Merge If you write the left and right parts of a character too far apart, they might be recognized as two characters. You can use the merge function to unite them into one character. 1. Write『棟樑』.
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3-17 3.3.8 Punctuation Symbol 1. Write a few characters. 2. Move the pen/mouse over the character you want to add a symbol for a couple of seconds for the Flotation Menu to show up. 3. Move the pen/mouse over the Symbol button to open the symbol menu and select and input ordinary punctuation in full or half shape.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 3-18 3.3.10 Previous Character For any two character phrase, the first character is the Previous Character of the second character, and the second character is the Related Character of the first character. For example『科技』 (science technology), 『科』 (science) is Previous Character of 『技』...
Chapter Three: Balloon Interface 3-19 3.3.12 Translation Translate the words or phrases. E.g. write 『手寫輸入』 four words, and want to know the translation of『寫』. 1. Write 『手寫輸入』. 2. Move the pen/mouse over the character『寫』, and wait for the Flotation Menu to pop up.
Chapter Four: Window User Interface Chapter Four: Window User Interface Window User Interface provides full screen writing and writing pad environment. When you select the Window UI from "Setting/Interface", you will see the user interface below. You can write anywhere on the screen directly, the recognized characters are sent to the cursor location.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4.2 Candidates Provide some candidates for the last recognized character or the selected character for revising easily. Click a candidate to correct the recognized character. Tips: If you write more than one character at once, you can click any recognized character from the Editing Area.
Chapter Four: Window User Interface 4.4 Function Buttons Provide Pen/Mouse/Mix Mode Pen/Mouse/Mix Mode Toggle Related Phrase Setting Toggle, Open/Close On-Line Translator, Related Phrase, Signature and Setting function button. 4.4.1 Pen/Mouse/Mix Mode Toggle When writing on the full screen, you Open/Close On- Signature can choose Pen Mode , Mouse Mode...
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4.5 Editing Buttons (for Cursor Location) Provide Delete , Insert , Backspace , Enter and Send function button for editing cursor location. It can be used directly without alternating with keyboard. 4.6 Inputting Related Words and Symbols...
Chapter Four: Window User Interface 4.6.2 Previous Characters As the explanation of section 4.6.1, the first character is the Previous Character of the second character. For example『公司』(Company), 『公』 is Previous Character of『司』. 1. Write a few characters e.g. 『蒙恬司』. 2. Want to insert『公』between『恬』and『司』. 3.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4.6.4 Multiple Pronunciations If the character has multiple pronunciations e.g. 『好』 has two kinds of pronunciations. One of it has the same pronunciation as 『耗』. You can write 『好』 and look into Homophone to find 『耗』. If you do not see it, click Homophones choose the right pronunciation.
4.6.5 Memory Characters When you input Chinese characters, you may have your own habitual words. Penpower Handwriter memorizes the recent words that you were using and displays the characters in the Memory Character Area for you to choose easily. Tips: If you cannot find the character you want, you can click button to see more Related Characters.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4.7 Writing Pad Besides the full screen handwriting environment, the Windows Interface also provides Writing Pad. When clicking Open Writing Pad button, the Writing Pad will show up as following. If the Writing Pad has two grids, you can write on either grid.
Chapter Four: Window User Interface 4.7.1 Unlimited-Time Writing If you wish to practice your handwriting or you need more time to write a character, you can go to Setting/General/Speed Writing Pad choose Unlimited. Refer to Section 3.2.4 foe details. The Unlimited-Timw Writing function provides Clear , Undo , Redo Finish...
Chapter Five: Penpower Learning Tool Chapter Five: Penpower Learning Tool Penpower Learning Tool provides the function of using a simple symbol to represent a string of characters to speed up inputting speed. 1. Click Penpower Start-up icon, and select Penpower Learning Tool. It will open the Learning Tool Window.
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Penpower Handwriter Freedom 4. Draw a symbol twice to finish the learning. Note: If the symbols you draw have too big differences, the learning will be failed. Please redraw the symbol. 5. Click Manage DB on the Learnig Tool window to look up or modify the learned...
Chapter Six: Phrase Chapter Six: Phrase Penpower provides several hundred thousands default phrases for your use. You can also add your own phrases. Click Penpower Start-up icon, and select Phrase. It will open the Phrase Window. 6.1 Phrase Window 1. The Phrase Window provides Insert, Modify and Delete button for you to insert, modify or delete phrases.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 6.2 Insert Phrases 1. Click Insert button to open Phrase Input dialogue box. 2. Input a new phrase. E.g.『手寫輸入』. The right side of the box will list each Chinese build-in Chinese and Cantonese Pinyin of this phrase. Please choose the correct Pinyin of each character by clicking button and listen to it.
Click the Penpower Start-up icon to open the Penpower Start-up menu, select the Penpower User Setting, choose a user name from the list, and click Ok button to switch users. You may click Add or Delete button, add or delete users from the list. You can also choose a user, and click Backup button to save the personal handwriting artificial intelligent learning file and setting file as a file.
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 7.2 Version Setting Penpower is the all-in-1 edition with support for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Hong Kong. You can use the version settings to select the version and interface language to use. 1. Click the Penpower Start-up icon to open the Penpower Start-up menu, select the Penpower User Setting.
Chapter Eight: Application Chapter Eight: Application 8.1 Drawing in MSN Messenger When you use MSN Messenger version 6.1 or higher, after signing in to the MSN Messenger, double click a contact to begin the conversation box. In the conversation box, there are two modes for you to select, including Handwrite and Type You can switch between the input modes...
Penpower Handwriter Freedom 8.2 Office Inking Penpower Handwriting Tool can be run on any versions of Office, starting from Office 2003. A button will show up on the toolbar list. In Word 2003: It has Ink Annotations and Ink Comment function. Click from the pull-down menu select Ink Annotations, a toolbar opens.
Chapter Eight: Application Note: When you run the Penpower Handwriting Tool on Office 2007 or 2010, you have to click [Review] first, and then select [Start Inking]. Then you can start the inking function. 8.3 Inputting Tips Write an Other Character Instead If you forget how to write a Chinese character, you can write as following method: 1.
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Artificial Intelligence to train the computer for recognizing the characters. When you write in the same way next time, Penpower Handwriter will recognize correctly. Inserting Characters When writing in the Writing Pad of the Window UI, and you wish to insert some...
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