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Penpower Jr. User Manual
Version: V7.1
Edition: Released in March, 2007

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  • Page 1 Penpower Jr. User Manual Version: V7.1 Edition: Released in March, 2007...
  • Page 2 The Software and all documents included with the Software, and copyright there- of, are property of Penpower. You are licensed to make one (1) copy of the Software for your personal backup purposes. All other acts of copying are strictly prohibited.
  • Page 3 In the event that the Software cannot be executed under conditions of normal use, due to any damage to the original disk/s, Penpower will replace the disk/s free of charge.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    2.3 USB Human Interface Device Installation.........2-6 Chapter 3 Hardware Operation..........3-1 31 Calibration..................3-1 3.2 Touch-Pad Operation..............3-2 Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode........4-1 4.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System........4-1 4.2 Switching Modes...............4-2 4.3 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode..........4-3 4.3.1 Handwriting Mode Taskbar..........4-3 4.3.2 Full Screen Handwriting Mode........4-4 4.3.3 How to Write..............4-5...
  • Page 5 4.12.1 Recognition Setting.............4-21 4.12.2 General Setting............4-24 4.12.3 Writing Setting.............4-25 4.13 Signature................4-26 4.14 On-Line Translator..............4-28 4.15 Useing Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger........4-30 Chapter 5 Traditional Mode............5-1 5.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System........5-1 5.2 Writing Mode................5-1 5.3 Full Screen Handwriting............5-2 5.3.1 Balloon UI..............5-2 5.4 Writing-Pad................5-3...
  • Page 6 6.1.2 Reading Setting...............6-3 6.2 Penpower Translator..............6-4 6.2.1 English Words..............6-4 6.2.2 Chinese Characters............6-5 6.2.3 English Chinese Article Translator........6-6 6.2.4 Chinese English Article Translator........6-6 6.3 Penpower E-mail Touchpad............6-9 6.3.1 Setting................6-9 6.3.2 Accounts Management..........6-10 6.3.3 Email Address filter............6-10 6.3.4 Connection..............6-11 6.3.5 Check email manually............6-11 6.3.6 Device Test..............6-11...
  • Page 8 Chapter 1 Product Overview Chapter 1 Product Overview Penpower Junior is available in five models: Penpower Jr. Crystal Touch, Penpower Jr. Silver/Steel, Penpower Jr. Diamond, Penpower Jr. miniCard and Carefree Pen. You may choose the model most appropriate to your personal requirements.
  • Page 9 1.1.2 Penpower Junior Silver/Steel This innovative touch pad is not only light and compact but also com- bines a metallic pad with the texture of leather. Supports incoming message alerts so when an e-mail is received it flashes. Active Pad Area: 2x1.5”...
  • Page 10 Chapter 1 Product Overview 1.1.3 Penpower Junior Diamond The eye-catching appearance makes this the new choice for the young and trendy. Available in diamond white and diamond black. Supports incoming message alerts so when an e-mail is received it plays music and flashes.
  • Page 11 1.1.4 Penpower Junior miniCard This mini touch pad is designed for use with notebooks. The size of a standard PC card (PCMCIA), it can be stored away in the notebook com- puter’s PCMICA slot when not in use. Active Pad Area: 1.7x1.3”...
  • Page 12 Chapter 1 Product Overview 1.1.5 Carefree Pen The user can change the picture card under the touch pad surface at any time. Active Pad Area: 3x2” Left mouse button Handwriting/Mouse mode button Right mouse button Mode Switching Button Shortcut Buttons Frequently Used Symbols Mode Switching Button: Under new handwriting/mouse mode clicking on this button switches...

  • Page 13: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Not only the stroke order is free, but even though the careless or illegible continuous free writing could be recognized correctly. Smart Handwriting/Mouse Mode: This brand new Penpower mouse is more intuitive and easier to use. Ad- ditional symbols and symbol shortcuts are also provided for your conve- nience.
  • Page 14 Chinese-English Translation: Online dictionary with real-time translation between Chinese and English with 139,000 English to Chinese and 76,000 Chinese to English entries. Penpower VoiceReader Integrate the Text-to-Speech technology to read aloud the Chinese article content within any window. Transparent signature Directly super-impose your signature at the desired area in a Word or Excel document without disrupting the document layout.
  • Page 15 Mail account management (Only supported by Crystal Touch, Silver/Steel and Diamond) Support account filter and multi-account management. Inking on MSN Messenger If you have MSN Messenger 6.1 or above installed, you will be able to transmit handwriting and hand-drawn graphics through MSN Messenger for that extra personal touch.

  • Page 16: Chapter 2 Installation

    1. Intel Pentium processor or compatible 2. 64MB RAM 3. 150MB disk space 4. Windows 2000/XP/Vista 5. USB Port 2.2 Handwriting Software Installation 1. Please insert CD-ROM disc into the CD-ROM drive and the system will automatically launch setup.exe. Select the “Install Penpower Jr.” option.
  • Page 17 2. Please select your Penpower Junior model then press the “Confirm” but- ton. 3. Please select the language version you wish to install then press “Con- firm”. Please close all Penpower applications to ensure that the install/ repair process will run properly. Follow the instructions on screen and carry out the installation process as directed.
  • Page 18 Chapter 2 Installation...
  • Page 20 Note: You can select the language of handwriting recognition kernel. Note: Enable to auto-load the handwriting software when the windows starts. Note: Penpower Junior offers two handwriting modes: Traditional and New Handwriting/Mouse. We recommend that you choose to install the New Handwriting/Mouse mode.

  • Page 21: Usb Human Interface Device Installation

    2.3 USB Human Interface Device Installation Connect the touch-pad with USB port on computer.

  • Page 22: Chapter 3 Hardware Operation

    Chapter 3 Hardware Operation Chapter 3 Hardware Operation 3.1 Calibration After finishing installation, you should be able to hand write right away. If you found that the inking you wrote is not centered on screen, you need to calibrate your touch-pad to remap the active area. 1.

  • Page 23: Touch-Pad Operation

    TIP : After calibration, the new configuration would take effect immediately. You do not need reboot or reload Penpower Jr. handwriting system. Note: When calibrating the Penpower miniCard please orient the touch pad so it’s in landscape mode. 3.2 Touch-Pad Operation 1.

  • Page 24: Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode

    Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System Run “Start/All Programs/PenpowerJr/Penpower Jr.”...

  • Page 25: Switching Modes

    4.2 Switching Modes When Penpower Junior is launched for the first time it will start in the handwriting mode. Left mouse click on the “Menu” button or right mouse click on the toolbar to open the options menu. Select “Penpower mouse mode”...

  • Page 26: New Handwriting/Mouse Mode

    Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.3 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.3.1 Handwriting Mode Taskbar * Suspend: Temporarily close the toolbar. To reopen the toolbar go to the Suspend and click on “Writing Mode”. TIP: You can also minimize the handwriting mode toolbar by double clicking * Horizontal/Vertical Swicth: Switch between a horizontal or vertica layout of the toolbar.

  • Page 27: Full Screen Handwriting Mode

    4.3.2 Full Screen Handwriting Mode There are three different options of full screen mode in the main menu. Single-word writing It is allowed to handwrite one word only at one time.You can not hand- write the next word until the recognition result of current word has been finished.

  • Page 28: How To Write

    For example, when you continuously write 『天下太 平』 (peace on the earth) four characters, but the character 『天』 is incor- rectly written as 『夫』 , so they become 『夫下太平』 . Penpower uses its internal phrase dictionary to correctly recognize your intended result 『天...

  • Page 29: How To Quickly Fix Errors, Enter Phrases And Symbols

    4.3.4 How to quickly fix errors, enter phrases and symbols When writing, candidate words based on the previous input will be displayed on the handwriting toolbar. Each press of the left function button on the touch pad will move the candidate words forward by one and also correct the results, allowing errors to be quickly fixed;...

  • Page 30: Balloon Ui

    Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.4 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application. The visual user interface is hidden transparently. When you want to correct some word, just move the cursor posi- tion on this word for a while.

  • Page 31: Result Correction

    4.5 Result Correction When you use candidate word or AI button to correct result, the system will modify its recognition database to adapt your personal writing style. The may improve the recognition rate. 4.5.1 By Artificial Intelligence 1. Handwrite some words. The result would be sent in the caret. 2.
  • Page 32 If the correct word appears among the candidate words, simply click on it to make the change. If the correct word is not among the candidate words, press the “Penpower AI” button to open the AI dialogue field to...

  • Page 33: By Related Word

    4-0 4.5.2 By 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 34: Merge

    4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.5.3 Merge When some strokes of one word are written far away from each other, they may be recognized as several words. You can use merge function to combined them into one word. 1. Handwrite two words 『棟樑』 by free writing.

  • Page 35: Split

    4- 4.5.4 Split When two words are written too close, they may be recognized as single word. You can use split function to separate it into two words. 1. Handwrite four words 『日月星 辰』 by free writing. The result would be sent in the caret. 2.

  • Page 36: Phrase Correction

    4-13 Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.5.5 Phrase Correction In Full Screen mode if you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom, if you aren’t 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 37: Homophone

    4-4 4.6 Homophone If you forget how to write some words, or they 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』 : 1.

  • Page 38: Related Phrase

    4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.7 Related Phrase 4.7.1 Input words by Related Phrase 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 39: Update Phrase Database

    4.7.2 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. In Mouse mode press the “Phrase” button .
  • Page 40 4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode You need to update the phonetics on the right side. Click but- ton to hear their pronunciation and check if the one you choose is right. Note : The maximum length of one phrase is 00 word. In fact, the phonetics is only for VoiceReader to read text with right sound of phonetics.

  • Page 41: Learning String

    4- 4.8 Learning String A string is represented by an inking of symbol. So, you can handwrite the symbol anytime and the recognition engine will recognize it as the expanded string. It prevents you from redundant writing. 1. In Mouse mode, press the “Learning Tool” button to open the Learning Too Window.
  • Page 42 4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 3. Write down your inking twice according to the hint. 4. Click “Manage DB” tag, You can browse the dynamical inking or modify the string you have ever learned here.

  • Page 43: Gesture

    4-0 4.9 Gesture Penpower Jr. handwriting system support four standard inking gesture. You can handwriting these gestures to simulate keyboard input. 1. Delete : simulate DELETE key. 2. Backspace : simulate BACKSPACE key. 3. Enter : simulate ENTER key. 4. Space : simulate SPACE key.

  • Page 44: Switch Version

    4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.11 Switch Version 1. In Mouse mode, open the Penpower Junior options then select “Version …”. 2. Under the Win2000/XP/Vista System for Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) or Simplified Chinese the output of the handwrit- ing recognition will always be encoded using Unicode.

  • Page 45: Setting

    4- 4.12 Setting In Mouse mode click on the “Setting” button or in Handwriting mode choose the “Setting…” from the menu to open the settings page. You can configure the recognition engine, output format or writing inkings here. 4.12.1 Recognition Setting Mode: The recognition mode of Chinese, English, Numeral, Symbol and Japa- nese could be turned on/off individually.
  • Page 46 Check this option to have the software recognize run-on cursive. Hongkong Character: This recognition mode is only available when the Penpower Junior is set to the Traditional Chinese (BIG5) or Traditional Chinese (Hongkong) (BIG5+HK) version. You can connect to Http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hk-...

  • Page 47: General Setting

    Sound: Pronounce the character in Mandarin or Cantonese immediately after recognition. Touch Pad Direction: If you are using Penpower Junior miniCard, you can use this feature to set the orientation of the touch pad as Horizontal or Vertical. By default the touch pad is set to...

  • Page 48: Writing Setting

    4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 4.12.3 Writing Setting Ink color : Change the color of inking. You can adjust the smoothness of color degree for “Multiple” option. Ink width : Change the thickness of inking. Ink sound : Change the sound effect while writing. Pen style : There three kind of pen style to choose.

  • Page 49: Signature

    1. Move the caret to where the signature will be. 2. Open the Mouse mode and press the “Signature” button. The “Welcome to Penpower Signature Tool” screen will be shown and you are now in the signature mode. 3. In signature mode, the right button is defined to toggle pen mode and mouse mode.
  • Page 50 4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode 5. Click button to insert your signature in the caret. 6. Click button to overlap your transparent signature with WORD or EXCEL document. Note: You can use the transparent signature in the latest Word and Excel, but Of- fice 2007 not support this function.

  • Page 51: On-Line Translator

    4- 4.14 On-Line Translator 1. Open the Mouse mode and press the “On-Line Translator” button to open the On-Line Translator function. Press the button again 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.
  • Page 52 4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode The online translation is used in the balloon interface. When you want to look up a character’s translation, select button from the candidate window.

  • Page 53: Useing Penpower Jr. In Msn Messenger

    4-0 4.15 Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger Note: You have to install MSN Messenger version . or higher. After you have signed in to the MSN Messenger, double click on the person’s name to begin the conversation box. Below this conversation box, there are two modes for you to select, including “Handwrite”...
  • Page 54 4- Chapter 4 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode set ink width set ink color set the rubber...
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  • Page 56: Chapter 5 Traditional Mode

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.1 Run Penpower Jr. Handwriting System Run “Start/All Programs/Penpower Jr/Penpower Jr.”. 5.2 Writing Mode There are two kind of writing modes. One is “Full-Screen” mode, the other one is “Writing-Pad” mode. You can click the button to toggle these two writing mode.

  • Page 57: Full Screen Handwriting

    5.3 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 4.3 for more details. 5.3.1 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application.

  • Page 58: Writing-Pad

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.4 Writing-Pad There are five input tools in Writing-Pad: Write, Phonetic, Keyboard, Dictionary and Symbol. 5.4.1 Write Input Tool Title bar Writing Area Related Phrase Candidate Symbol You need to click the middle button or click on the writing area switching into pen mode before you start writing.

  • Page 59: Phonetic Input Tool

    5.4.2 Phonetic Input Tool There are three types of phonetic input tool, BoPoMo, Cantonese and Beijing by default. You can create your own phonetic input tool. How to Use 1. Select one phonetic input tool of BoPoMo, Cantonese, Beijing or others. 2.

  • Page 60: Dictionary Input Tool

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.4.4 Dictionary Input Tool Query by stroke : Query by radical : 5.4.5 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 61: Phrase

    5.5 Phrase 5.5.1 Use Phurase to input words 1. In both the Full Screen and Writing-Pad modes the Associations diction- ary window will always be displayed. Note: In Full Screen Handwriting mode, if the Associations dictionary is closed, select “Open Related Phrase” from the menu to reopen it. 2.

  • Page 62: Update Phrase Database

    5.5.2 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 Junior main menu and select “Open Related Phrase”.

  • Page 63: Other Functions

    Tool diolague. Please see Chapter 4.8 for more details. Gesture Penpower Jr. handwriting system support four standard inking gesture. You can handwriting these gestures to simulate keyboard input. Please see Chapter 4.9 for more details. Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing You can mix writing traditional and simplified Chinese words.
  • Page 64 In PenPower Junior’s options menu select “Settings” to open the set- tings page. You can configure the recognition engine, output format or writing tracks here. For more details on PenPower settings please refer to the explanation provided in Chapter 4.12. The only difference is that in Traditional mode the writing pad display can be configured here.
  • Page 65 Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger If you have to install MSN Messenger version 6.1 or higher and Pen- power Jr., you can use Penpower Jr. touch pad to input or draw in MSN. Please refer to Chapter 4.15 for more details.

  • Page 66: Chapter 6 Assistant Tools

    When you install Penpower Jr. handwriting software, you can choose custom installation to install the Assistant Tool: Penpower VoiceReader, Penpower Email Touchpad and Penpower Translator. Note: The “Penpower E-mail Function” is only available with the Crystal Touch, Silver/Steel and Diamond models.

  • Page 67: Penpower Voicereader

    6.1.1 Use Penpower VoiceReader 1. Run “Start/All Programs/Penpower Jr/Penpower VoiceReader”. Note: Before run Penpower VoiceReader, please launch Penpower Junior first or the system will prompt you to do so. 2. After VoiceReader is executed, the small icon...

  • Page 68: Reading Setting

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 5.You can click , and select “ 開始/停止朗讀 ” again to stop reading. 6.Click , select “ 結束 ” to exit the Penpower VoiceReader. 6.1.2 Reading Setting 1. Click , select “ 設置 ” to open the setting dialog.

  • Page 69: Penpower Translator

    This is a word translator of Chinese to English or English to Chinese, and sentence translator of English to Chinese. Run “Start/All Programs/Penpower Jr/Penpower Translator”. Note: Before run Penpower Translator, please launch Penpower Junior first or the system will prompt you to do so. 6.2.1 English Words 1.

  • Page 70: Chinese Characters

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.2.2 Chinese Characters 1. Click the button “S.Ch. En.” on the left. 2. In the input frame on the upper left corner, input a Chinese character or phrase, and then hit Enter to see the English explanation. Tip: If the Chinese word you wish to look up is Traditional Chinese, please select the “...

  • Page 71: English Chinese Article Translator

    6.2.3 English Chinese Article Translator 1. Click the button “Sentence En. Ch.” translation on the left. 2. In the top input frame, input an English article, click the button to start translation. The translation result is shown in the lower input frame. Tip: When you translate a whole article, make sure there’s a period mark at the end of each sentence.
  • Page 72 Chapter 6 Assistant Tools Press the Speech button. If looking up a single character or word, the system will provide its Chinese or English pronunciation. If translating the entire text, it will read all of the content in the current input window. The other buttons on the translator interface have the following func- tions: : Previous/Next: look up the definitions for nearby words.
  • Page 73 When looking up a single word you do not need to enter the entire text string. If the word you wish to look up shows up in the list, use the direc- tion keys to select that word as the input then press Enter to look up that word.

  • Page 74: Penpower E-Mail Touchpad

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.3 Penpower E-mail Touchpad Note: The Penpower E-mail function is only supported for Penpower Junior Crystal Touch, Penpower Junior Silver/Steel and Penpower Junior Diamond. 6.3.1 Setting If you have custom-installed the “Penpower Email Touchpad” com- ponent, the email icon would be displayed on the task bar when the windows start-up.

  • Page 75: Accounts Management

    6-0 6.3.2 Accounts Management You can manage multiple ac- counts to receive all the emails at once. 6.3.3 Email Address filter You can filter your unnecessary emails. Check this option to notify you only when the listed email is coming.

  • Page 76: Connection

    6- Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.3.4 Connection You can choose to check email through local area network (LAN) or dial-up internet. You can also set the period time to check email. If your system is offline, after dial-up and check email, it will be discon- nected automatically.
  • Page 77 6-...

  • Page 78: Chapter 7 Fast User Switching

    User Accounts”. Click on “Change the way users log on or off” to open the “Select logon and logoff options” page. Please select “User the Welcome screen” and “Use Fast User Switch- ing” options, then click “Apply Options”. Whatever account is used to login the functions of Penpower Jr. would work.
  • Page 80 Penpower Jr. V7.1 User Manual Penpower Technology LTD., Edition: Released in March, 2007...

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