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Version: V7.2
Release: September, 2010

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  • Page 1 Penpower RF Jr. User Manual Version: V7.2 Release: September, 2010...
  • 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

    Chapter 3 Hardware Operation ............3-1 3.1 Calibration ...................3-1 3.2 RF Jr. Pad Operation ..............3-2 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode ............4-1 4.1 Run Penpower RF Jr. Handwriting System .........4-1 4.2 Switching Modes .................4-2 4.3 New Pen/Mouse Mode ..............4-3 4.3.1 New Pen Mode Toolbar ............4-3 4.3.2 Full Screen Handwriting Mode .........4-5...
  • Page 5 4.8.1 Switch Version ..............4-32 4.8.2 Gesture ................4-33 4.8.3 Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing ......4-33 4.8.4 Using Penpower RF Jr. in MSN Messenger ....4-34 4.9 Presenter Mode ................4-36 Chapter 5 Traditional Mode ..............5-1 5.1 Run Penpower RF Jr. Handwriting System .........5-1 5.2 Writing Mode ................5-1...
  • Page 6 5.6.4 Settings................5-9 5.6.5 Switch Version ..............5-10 5.6.6 Gesture ................5-10 5.6.7 Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing ......5-10 5.6.8 Using Penpower RF Jr. in MSN Messenger ....5-10 5.7 Presenter Mode ................5-10 Chapter 6 Assistant Tools ...............6-1 6.1 Penpower VoiceReader ..............6-2 6.1.1 Use Penpower VoiceReader ..........6-2 6.1.2 Reading Setting ..............6-3...
  • Page 7 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 Input Tool ..............6-9 6.3.1 Phonetic Input Tool ............6-9 6.3.2 Keyboard Input Tool ............6-10 6.3.3 Dictionary Input Tool ............6-11 6.3.4 Symbol Input Tool ............6-11 Chapter 7 Fast User Switching .............7-1...

  • Page 8: Chapter 1 Product Overview

    Chapter 1 Product Overview Chapter 1 Product Overview 1.1 Hardware 1.1.1 Hardware Specification * Dimensions(mm): 98(length) x 60(width) x 10(height) * Weight: 56g * Active Pad Area(mm): 57(length) x 43(width) * Transmission Distance: 3m * Continuous Battery Consumption: 8 hrs/battery 1.1.2 Hardware Functions Battery Cover Power Switch...
  • Page 9 Active Pad Area RF Dongle Left mouse button Right mouse button Pen/Mouse mode button 1. Left mouse button: In the Handwriting mode, it works as a candidate switch. Click it, the recognized character will be change to next candidate. In the Presentation mode, click it to show next page. 2.

  • Page 10: Features

    Chapter 1 Product Overview 1.2 Features Unicode recognition kernel Support unicode system to input Traditional and Simplifi ed Chinese easily. All in one recognition kernel of Big5 and GB The character set can be recognized including more than 23000 Chinese words, 4818 HongKong words, alphabet,numeric, symbol, Hiragana, and Katakana.
  • Page 11 Smart Handwriting/Mouse Mode This brand new Penpower mouse is more intuitive and easier to use. Additional symbols and symbol shortcuts are also provided for your convenience. Other auxiliary function provide many usefully functions, such as related phrase, related character, special symbol table, homophone,dictionary, learning string, color inking and sound effect...etc, to make input easier.

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Installation

    1. Intel Pentium processor or compatible 2. 128MB RAM 3. 150MB disk space 4. Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 5. USB Port 2.2 Software Installation 1. Please insert CD-ROM disc into the CD-ROM drive and the system will automatically launch setup.exe. Select “Setup Penpower RF Jr.”.
  • Page 13 2. Please close all Penpower applications to ensure that the install/repair process will run properly. Select the installation language and then click “Next”. 3. Click “Next” to continue.
  • Page 14 Chapter 2 Installation 4. Choose the destination location and click “Next”. 5. Select the setup type.
  • Page 15 6. Penpower Jr. offers two handwriting modes: Traditional and New pen/Mouse. We recommend that you choose the New pen/Mouse mode. If you are an existing Penpower Jr. user and prefer to use the Traditional mode then you may choose the Traditional mode instead. Both modes have the same functions, the only deference between them is the inter- face.
  • Page 16 Chapter 2 Installation 8. Select a program folder and click “Next”. 9. Select the user interface language of Penpower RF Jr. and click “Next”.
  • Page 17 10.Click “Automatically load Penpower RF Jr.” if you wish to load it auto- matically when the Windows starts. And then click “Next”. 11.Click “Finish“ to finish to installation.
  • Page 18 Chapter 2 Installation 12. Penpower RF Jr. offers various Chinese fonts. You can install DYNA Fonts from the main installation menu. Select the fonts you desire to install, then follow the instruction to install.

  • Page 19: Hardware Installation

    1. Switch on the RF Jr. pad. 2. Run “Start/All Programs/Penpower RF Jr/Penpower RF Jr.”. 3. When runnning Penpower RF Jr. for the first time, a register reminder window will remind you to register your product at www.penpower.net/ reg.html for ensuring the warranty service. Click “Register now” to reg- ister.
  • Page 20 Chapter 2 Installation 4. When first time running Pen- power RF Jr., please click on the “Menu“ button or right click from the toolbar, and select “Change Channel Mode“ to search channel. Note: If the Calibration window pops up, please close it and run Change Channel Mode first.
  • Page 21 2-10...

  • Page 22: Chapter 3 Hardware Operation

    After changing channel, 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 Penpower RF Jr. pad to remap the active area. 1. Click Penpower RF Jr. icon and select Calibration from the menu.

  • Page 23: Rf Jr. Pad Operation

    3.2 RF Jr. Pad Operation 1. Moving: Put the pen on the RF Jr. pad, and then move it on the panel gently. 2. Click: Hit the RF Jr. pad once. 3. Dragging: Hit the RF Jr. pad twice quickly, and move the pen on the pad after second pen down.

  • Page 24: Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode

    Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.1 Run Penpower RF Jr. Handwriting System If you installed “New Pen/Mouse Mode“ and run “Start/All Programs/ Penpower RF Jr/Penpower RF Jr.”, you will see the New Pen window as following:...

  • Page 25: Switching Modes

    AI, learning tool, phrase, signature and on-line translator. When Penpower RF Jr. is launched for the first time it will start in the New Pen mode. Left mouse click on the “Menu” button...

  • Page 26: New Pen/Mouse Mode

    Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.3 New Pen/Mouse Mode Penpower RF Jr. has the New Pen and New Mouse modes. The follow- ing will explain the New Pen mode and the Balloon UI. 4.3.1 New Pen Mode Toolbar When run Penpower RF Jr., the vertical New Pen mode toolbar will ap- pear.
  • Page 27 The New Pen mode provides vertical and horizontal layout of the tool- bar. Click ‘menu’ button to select the layout of the toolbar. The candidate area of the Pen mode provides you to promptly correct the recognized characters, for example when you wrote ‘ 蒙 ’, and it recog- nized to ‘...

  • Page 28: Full Screen Handwriting Mode

    Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse 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 allows handwriting one character only at one time, handwrite the next character when the recognition result of current character is finished. Two-sides writing After the first stroke is written, one vertical line would be displayed on the center of screen.

  • Page 29: 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 30: Correction, Phrases And Symbols

    Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.3.4 Correction, Phrases and Symbols When writing, the candidate characters based on the previous input will be displayed on the Writing toolbar. Each press of the left mouse button on the RF Jr. pad will move the candidate characters forward by one and also correct the results.

  • Page 31: Balloon Ui

    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 characters, just move the cursor po- sition on this character for a while. The function toolbar will be popped up there where the cursor is.

  • Page 32: Phrase Correction

    Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.4.1 Phrase Correction In Full Screen mode if you wish to enter a common phrase such as an idiom, if 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 33: Artificial Intelligence

    4-10 4.4.2 Artificial Intelligence When you use candidate character 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. 1. Handwrite some characters. The result would be sent in the caret. 2.
  • Page 34 4-11 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode Tip: You can also press the RF Jr. pad’s middle button to switch to the mouse mode. If the correct character appears among the candidate characters, simply click on it to make the change. If the correct character is not among the candidate characters, press the “Pen- power AI”...

  • Page 35: Split

    4-12 4.4.3 Split When two characters are written too close, they may be recognized as single character. You can use split function to separate it into two charac- ters. 1. Handwrite four characters 『日 月星辰』 by free writing. The result would be sent in the caret. 2.

  • Page 36: Merge

    4-13 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.4.4 Merge When some strokes of one character are written far away from each other, they may be recognized as several characters. You can use merge function to combined them into one character. 1. Handwrite two characters 『棟 樑』...

  • Page 37: Homophone

    4-14 4.4.5 Homophone If you forget how to write some characters, or they are too complicated to write, you can write down some other easy homophones to get the char- acters that you would like to input. e.g. If you want to input the character 『豫』...

  • Page 38: Related Character

    4-15 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.4.6 Related Character For any two contiguous characters, the first one is the pre-related char- acter of the second one. The second one is the post-related character of the first one. e.g. 『科技』 , 『科』 is the pre-related character of 『技』 , and 『技』 is the post-related character of 『科』...

  • Page 39: New Mouse Mode

    4-16 4.5 New Mouse Mode The following will introduce the function buttons of New Mouse mode, such as Artificial Intelligence, Learning Tool, Phrase, Signature, On-line Translator and Settings. 4.5.1 Artificial Intelligence When writing a character in the New Pen mode, you can push the middle button for switching to the Mouse mode.
  • Page 40 4-17 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 2. Input the string you want to learn, then click on “Start”. 3. Write down your inking twice according to the hint.
  • Page 41 4-18 4. Click “Manage DB” tag, You can browse the dynamical inking or modi- fy the string you have ever learned here.

  • Page 42: Update Phrase Database

    4.5.3 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 Mouse mode press the “Phrase” button .
  • Page 43 4-20 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 200 characters. In fact, the phonetics is only for VoiceReader to read text with right sound of phonetics.

  • Page 44: 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 45 4-22 5. Click button to insert your signature in the caret. 6. Click button to overlap your transparent signature with MS Word or MS Excel document. Note: You can use the transparent signature in the latest MS Word and Excel, but MS Office 2007 not support this function. You may make notes and commentary by using transparent signature function.

  • Page 46: On-Line Translator

    4-23 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.5.5 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 47 4-24 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 48: Input Characters By Related Phrase

    4-25 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.5.6 Input Characters by Related Phrase Phrase function provides the related phrases for inputting phrases quickly. 1. Write down the first character of one phrase. e.g. If you want to input the phrase 『一年四季』 , just write the first character 『一』 . 2.

  • Page 49: Penpower Input Tool

    Dictionary and Symbol. Left click on the “Menu” button right click on the toolbar open the options menu. Select [ Open Penpower Input Tool ] to open [ Penpower Input Tool ]. Title bar Candidate Please see Chapter 6.3 for more details.

  • Page 50: Settings

    4-27 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.7 Settings In New Mouse mode click on the “Settings” button or in New Pen mode choose the “Setting…” from the menu to open the Settings page. You can set the recognition mode, output character or writing inkings here. 4.7.1 Recognition Setting Mode The recognition mode of Chinese, English, Numeral, Symbol and Japa-...
  • Page 51 Check this option to have the software recognize run-on cursive. Hongkong Character This recognition mode is only available when the Penpower RF Jr. is set to the Traditional Chinese or Traditional Chinese (Hongkong) recognition. You can connect to http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hkscs/chinese/ to check...

  • Page 52: General Setting

    ASCII code or double-bytes code. Auto Load Auto execute Penpower RF Jr. handwriting system when the Win- dows starts. Pad Direction Set the orientation of the RF Jr. pad as Vertical, Horizontal (Right-Hand) or Horizontal (Left-Hand).

  • Page 53: Writing Setting

    4-30 4.7.3 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. Speed There are several levels of writing speed you can set.

  • Page 54: Update Method Setting

    4-31 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.7.4 Update Method Setting Auto Update You are recommended to set the update method as Auto Update to let the system automatically check for and download updates. You can dertermine the check interval as daily, weekly, biweekly, or month- Manual Update You can also set the update...

  • Page 55: Writing Application

    Using Penpower RF Jr. in MSN Messenger. 4.8.1 Switch Version 1. In Mouse mode, right click on the Penpower RF Jr. options and then se- lect “Version…” to open version options . 2. Select the BIG5 (Traditional Chinese), BIG5+HK (Traditional Chinese + Hong Kong characters) or GBK (Simplified Chinese).

  • Page 56: Gesture

    4-33 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode 4.8.2 Gesture Penpower RF Jr. handwriting system supports four standard inking ges- ture. You can handwriting these gestures to simulate keyboard input. 1. Delete : simulate DELETE key. 2. Backspace : simulate BACKSPACE key.

  • Page 57: Using Penpower Rf Jr. In Msn Messenger

    4-34 4.8.4 Using Penpower RF Jr. in MSN Messenger After you have logged in to the MSN Messenger v6.1 or higher version, 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 58 4-35 Chapter 4 New Pen/Mouse Mode Set ink width Set ink color Set the rubber...

  • Page 59: Presenter Mode

    4-36 4.9 Presenter Mode In the New Pen mode, click on the “Menu” button or right click on the toolbar to open the options menu. In the New Mouse mode, click the menu. Select “Presenter mode” to switch to the Presenter mode. The Writing toolbar or Mouse pad will shrink to the taskbar.

  • Page 60: Chapter 5 Traditional Mode

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.1 Run Penpower RF Jr. Handwriting System If you installed “Traditional Mode“ and run “Start/All Programs/Pen- power RF Jr/Penpower RF Jr.”, you will see the Traditional Handwriting window. 5.2 Writing Mode There are two kind of writing modes. One is “Full Screen” mode, the other one is “Writing Pad”...

  • Page 61: Full Screen Mode

    5.3 Full Screen Mode 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 4.3.3 for details. 5.3.1 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application.

  • Page 62: Writing Pad Mode

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.4 Writing Pad Mode There are five input tools in Writing pad: Write, Phonetic, Keyboard, Dictionary and Symbol. 5.4.1 Writing 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 63: Phonetic Tool

    5.4.2 Phonetic Tool There are three types of phonetic 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 64: Dictionary Input Tool

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.4.4 Dictionary Input Tool Query by stroke For example, when you want to input the character 『明』 , you can 1. Choose the total strokes of 『明』 : 8. 2. Select your target character: 『明』 . Query by radical For example, when you want to input the character 『明』...

  • Page 65: Phrase

    5.5 Phrase 5.5.1 Input Phurases 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 66: Update Phrase Database

    Penpower handwriting recognition. It also allows you to customize the phrase database to meet your needs. 1. Open the Penpower RF Jr. main menu and select “Open Related Phrase”. Then select “Edit Phrase” from the Phrase menu to open the “Edit Phrase”...

  • Page 67: Other Functions

    5.6.2 Signature Move the caret to where the signature will be. Then select “Signature” from the main menu to open the “Welcom to Penpower Signature Tool” screen, and enter in signature mode. Please refer to Chapter 4.4.4 for de- tails.

  • Page 68: Settings

    Chapter 5 Traditional Mode 5.6.4 Settings In Penpower RF Jr. menu select “Settings” to open the settings 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 4.7.

  • Page 69: Switch Version

    5.6.8 Using Penpower RF Jr. in MSN Messenger In the MSN Messenger 6.1 or higher version, you can use Penpower RF Jr. to input or draw in MSN. Please refer to Chapter 4.8.4 for details. 5.7 Presenter Mode Click the menu and select “Presenter mode”...

  • Page 70: 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 Penpower VoiceReader, Penpower Translator and Penpower Input Tool. In the Custom type, you could select the functions to install.

  • Page 71: 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 Ju- nior first or the system will prompt you to do so. 2. After VoiceReader is executed,...

  • Page 72: Reading Setting

    Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.1.2 Reading Setting 1. Click , select “Setting” to open the setting dialog. Speech Speed : Adjust the speed of reading. Speech Pitch : Adjust the tone of reading. Speech Volume : Adjust the volume of reading.

  • Page 73: 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 74: 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 75: 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 76 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 77 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 78: Penpower Input Tool

    There are four input tools in Writing-Pad: Phonetic, Keyboard, Diction- ary and Symbol. Run “Start/All Programs/PenpowerJr/Penpower Input Tool.” Note: You need to run the Penpower RF Jr. before run the Penpower In- put Tool. 6.3.1 Phonetic Input Tool There are three types of phonetic input tool, Zhu yin, Yue pin and Han pin by default.

  • Page 79: Keyboard Input Tool

    6-10 Tip: The writing-pad adopts shrink-expand user interface. It would ex- pand into normal size when the cursor move on it. Otherwise it will shrink as an small icon to avoid occupying the screen. 6.3.2 Keyboard Input Tool Keyboard Simulated software keyboard. Inner Code For example, the inner code of [ ☆...

  • Page 80: Dictionary Input Tool

    6-11 Chapter 6 Assistant Tools 6.3.3 Dictionary Input Tool Query by stroke For example, when you want to input the character 『明』 , you can 1. Coose the stroke of the radical: 4. 2. Select the radical 『日』 from the candidates.
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  • Page 82: Chapter 7 Fast User Switching

    Chapter 7 Fast User Switching Penpower RF Jr. supports Fast User Switching capability when you have more than one user account in the PC with Windows OS. Penpower RF Jr. allows all the users can use it without reinstalling in each account.
  • Page 84 Penpower RF Jr. V7.2 User Manual Penpower Technology LTD. Release: September, 2010...

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