User manual NAKAMICHI RX202

[. . . ] Throughout this document, the trade names and trademarks of some companies and products have been used. No such uses are intended to convey endorsement of or other affiliations with the document. Document number PICSEL-ESF-0002C April 2002 http://www. picsel. com/ Picsel Word File Format Support Page 3 Introduction On handheld computers, traditional applications typically rely on synchronization with a PC to convert content from the original document format into a simpler format used by the device. Firstly, some visual integrity is inevitably lost in the conversion process from a rich format to a simpler one, resulting in documents that do not look exactly like the original. [. . . ] Secondly, the reliance on a PC for synchronization means that direct network access is difficult, and the device is severely hampered when untethered from the PC. Thirdly, traditional applications take a monolithic approach, converting only a single format so that separate applications are needed for each different document type. Picsel's ePAGE applications present a new concept in document viewing software. Unlike traditional approaches, the viewer can access native files, so synchronisation is not necessary and files can be grabbed straight off PC filing systems, flash cards and networks/internet without the need for pre-conversion. ePAGE deals directly with the original document in its native format, and aims to faithfully represent all of the features of the original. Moreover, the novel software architecture based on Picsel's ePAGE technology enables multiple format types to be richly supported in a single application. ePAGE achieves a breakthrough in its ability to interpret and render complex file formats. Many apparently straightforward formats have in the past encountered difficulties even when used in their original application software on a different platform, for example when going from a PC to a Macintosh. Sometimes these files assume characteristics of the computer on which they are used, such as the screen size or byte order, and such assumptions have to be unravelled when using them on a different device. Needed in order to break scripts written without spaces, eg Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Although MS Word imposes upper and lower limits to a displayed font, in ePage, there is no theoretical limit. Supports Word 2000 documents Fonts supported Makes use of outline Truetype fonts installed in the device Additional fonts Yes Yes Yes Font matching Yes Font switching (fallback) Yes Line breaking Yes International Language support Yes Font Size. All font sizes are supported. Yes Text colour Bold text Italic text Underline text Supports overline and strikethrough of text with variable line thickness. Bulleting Ordered/numbered lists Lists with nested counters Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Picsel Word File Format Support Page 6 Feature Text alignment: Left Centre Right Indentation: First line Hanging Negative Text line height spacing absolute size size relative to text size additional leading Columns of text. Support Yes Notes Yes Yes Yes Tabstops Tables. Table borders Partial Yes Yes Partial Includes single spacing, 1. 5 and double line spacing, amongs others May be balanced or unbalanced, with column width and spacing specified as absolute or percentage distances. Supports left tab stops and default tab stops Table border styles Partial Table Captions Yes Tables may have borders around the whole table, groups of cells or individual cells. Supports single solid line double solid line Captions are placed next to the object they are associated with. Supports left, centre and right alignment of text within table cell. Table ­ background cell colour Table text - horizontal alignment Yes Yes Picsel Word File Format Support Page 7 Feature Page dimensions Support Yes Notes Supports different page sizes of sections within same document Page margins and borders Headers and Footers Page Break Page Number Supports "Next Page" section breaks in Word documents (where the new section starts on the next page) Cross References Index, Contents and Tables. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Cross references are displayed, but are not navigable. The TOC contents are displayed exactly as it is in the original document, even if the contents are moved. [. . . ] The TOC contents are displayed exactly as it is in the original document, even if the contents are moved. ePAGE always opens up a document in `print' view format. Bookmark Document Views Yes Partial Character Sets ePAGE can work with all characters in the Unicode specification. Many documents are encoded in other encodings, and ePAGE handles these by automatically detecting the character encoding used, and converting it to UTF-16 Unicode. The character encodings supported by ePAGE are shown in the following table. [. . . ]