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Chapter 6 Assistant Tools

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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.

Summary of Contents for Junior Crystal Touch

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

Page 2: ...other machines other than the said single computer 3 Authority to Copy 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 You may not sell lease dissemble reverse engineer copy translate adapt or derive the So...

Page 3: ...r damage or any other commercial damage or loss arising from commercial use of the Soft ware 7 Limitation of Liability and Damages The maximum amount of compensation payable by Penpower in respect of any damage 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 Under no circumstances will Penpower be held liable...

Page 4: ...writing 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 4 3 4 How to quickly fix errors enter phrases and symbols 4 6 4 4 Balloon UI 4 7 4 5 Result Correction 4 8 4 5 1 By Artificial Intelligence 4 8 4 5 2 By related word 4 10 4 5 3 Merge 4 11 4 5 4 Split 4 12 4 5 5 Phrase Correct...

Page 5: ... 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 5 4 1 Write Input Tool 5 3 5 4 2 Phonetic Input Tool 5 4 5 4 3 Keyboard Input Tool 5 4 5 4 4 Dictionary Input Tool 5 5 5 4 5 Symbol Input Tool 5 5 5 5 Phrase 5 6 5 5 1 Use Phurase to input words 5 6 5 5 2 Update Phrase Database 5 7...

Page 6: ... 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 Chapter 7 Fast User Switching 7 1 ...

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Page 8: ...se the model most appropriate to your personal requirements 1 1 Penpower Junior Series Overview 1 1 1 Penpower Jr Crystal Touch Equipped with a message alert function it flashes and plays music to notify the user that there is an incoming message The cute design makes it suitable for young MSN users Active Pad Area 2x1 5 Handwriting Mouse mode button Left mouse button Incoming Message Indicator Li...

Page 9: ... 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 Left mouse button Right mouse button Handwriting Mouse mode button Incoming Message Indicator Light ...

Page 10: ...s 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 Active Pad Area 2x1 5 Left mouse button Right mouse button Handwriting Mouse mode button Incoming Message Indicator Light ...

Page 11: ...ch 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 Left mouse button Right mouse button Handwriting Mouse mode button ...

Page 12: ...utton switches between the handwriting and mouse mode in traditional mode clicking on this button switches between full screen and writing pad handwriting modes Shortcut Buttons From left to right these are used for Insert Space Delete Previous Char acter New Line and Delete Next Character Frequently Used Symbols Left mouse button Right mouse button Handwriting Mouse mode button Mode Switching But...

Page 13: ...ill modify its recognition database to adapt your personal writing style This would improve the recognition rate for yourself Full screen multi words free writing It is allowed to handwrite multiple words before recognition at one time based on the advanced character segmentation technology Free writing recognition kernel Not only the stroke order is free but even though the careless or illegible ...

Page 14: ...hinese 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 Or insert your signature into IE Netscape and Eudora e mails and send it to other people...

Page 15: ... 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 Fast User Switching Windows XP Vista fast user switching supported so every user can have access to their personal settings ...

Page 16: ...tel 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: ...anguage 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 When installation is com plete please restart your computer ...

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Page 20: ... 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 If you are an existing Penpower Junior user and prefer to use the Traditional mode then you may choose to install the Traditional mode instead The two modes only differ in their interface but have the same set of fun...

Page 21: ...2 2 3 USB Human Interface Device Installation Connect the touch pad with USB port on computer ...

Page 22: ...ote is not centered on screen you need to calibrate your touch pad to remap the active area 1 If you chose to install the New Handwriting Mouse mode please choose the Calibration option from the Mouse menu to launch the touch pad calibration program if you chose to install the Traditional mode please choose the Calibration option from the Full Screen or Writing Pad menu to launch the touch pad s c...

Page 23: ...recognized result would be replaced with the next candidate word It lets you correct the result quickly without switching to mouse mode 3 2 Touch Pad Operation 1 Moving Put the pen on the touch pad and then move it on the panel gently TIP The three buttons are not on a line for some touch pad The alone one is the middle button TIP You can click the mode button on the window to switch mouse mode an...

Page 24: ...Chapter 4 New Handwriting Mouse Mode 4 Chapter 4 New Handwriting Mouse Mode 4 1 Run Penpower Jr Handwriting System Run Start All Programs PenpowerJr Penpower Jr ...

Page 25: ...or right mouse click on the toolbar to open the options menu Select Penpower mouse mode to switch to the mouse mode In mouse mode click on the Switch button to switch back to the handwriting mode TIP The middle function button on the Penpower Junior touch pad allows fast switching between the handwriting and mouse modes Handwriting mode Mouse mode ...

Page 26: ...spend 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 Vertical Swicth Horizontal Swicth Suspend ...

Page 27: ...would be displayed on the center of screen All the strokes written on the same side would be considered as part of one word When a new stroke is crossed to the other side it means that the last word is finished and the next word start to write Free writing You can handwrite multiple characters before recognition at one time Forty one characters at most is allowed It permits left to right or top to...

Page 28: ...e strokes may be recognized as one word Wrong example 2 The two parts of one word are written far away from each other All the strokes may be segmented into two words Auto Phrase Correction The system automatically proofreads on your writing content to improve the recognition rate For example when you continuously write 天下太 平 peace on the earth four characters but the character 天 is incor rectly w...

Page 29: ...ouse to open the symbols table and enter the corresponding punctuation symbol You can also press the middle function button on the touch pad to switch to the mouse mode In mouse mode select the candidate word for the candidate words post related word phrase or select symbol input For example In handwriting mode the input 蒙恬科技 had the character 技 misread as 投 Here you can press the middle function ...

Page 30: ... tool bar click candidate words AI button homo phone pre related word post related word or phrase correc tion to correct the result click button to see the raw inking Click button to see the tutor Click button to input punctuation symbol Click button to split one word Click button to merge the word with next word The button is for the Chinese English translation func tion Details are provided furt...

Page 31: ... You will see the wrong result 恰 is already updated as 恬 Your personal writing style of inking has also been learned 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...

Page 32: ...pad s middle button to switch to the mouse mode 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 train the software ...

Page 33: ...st related phrases If the correct phrase 科技 is in the list click it to update the result 6 You will see the wrong result 蒙恰料技 is already updated as 蒙恬科技 at last 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 1...

Page 34: ...on to combined them into one word 1 Handwrite two words 棟樑 by free writing The result would be sent in the caret 2 If 木 and 東 is written far away from each other you may wrongly get three words of result 木東樑 3 Move the cursor on the first word 木 for a while to pop up the function tool bar 4 Click button to merge 木 and 東 into 棟 Note Only two continuous words could be merged at one time ...

Page 35: ...tion 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 If 日 and 月 is written too close you may wrongly get three words of result 明星辰 3 Move the cursor on the word 明 for a while to pop up the function tool bar 4 Click button to separate 明 into 日 and 月 ...

Page 36: ...e change 1 When entering an idiom in Full Screen mode such as 拔苗助長 if you are not sure of how to write the character 拔 you can enter the character 一 instead to input 一苗助長 2 Move the mouse over the character 一 and pause for a moment to bring up the Candidate Characters Window Click the phrase correc tion button and the 一 character will be changed to 拔 3 If the phrase correction function came up wit...

Page 37: ...e to input e g If you want to input the word 豫 1 Write any one homophone of 豫 e g 玉 The result would be sent in the caret 2 Move the cursor on the first word 玉 for a while to pop up the function tool bar 3 Click button to open the window of homophone words 4 You can Click button to toggle other BoPoMo homo phone Cantonese homophone Beijing homophone 5 Click 豫 to replace 玉 ...

Page 38: ...ne phrase e g If you want to input the phrase 一年四季 just write the first word 一 2 Press the middle button on the touch pad to swicth to the Mouse mode All the phrases beginning with this word 一 will be listed on the phrase area of the Mouse mode 3 Click the phrase or memorized word that you want to send it into the caret e g 一年四季 ...

Page 39: ...lso allows you to customize the phrase database to meet your needs 1 In Mouse mode press the Phrase button Or in Handwriting mode select Edit Phrase from the Associations Dictionary and open the phrase dialogue 2 Click insert to open the Phrase Input dialog You can input a new phrase here e g If you want to insert 一不做二不休 as a phrase input 一不做二不休 ...

Page 40: ...ist and then click Modify to update the pho netics 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 You can use New Open Save Save As function to manage your phrase database yib Note Although you can create several phrase database you can only choose one at one time 6 Import file Click Import ...

Page 41: ... 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 Select Learn String to open the Learning Tool screen 2 Input the string you want to learn then click on Start ...

Page 42: ...Chapter 4 New Handwriting Mouse Mode 4 19 4 Click Manage DB tag You can browse the dynamical inking or modify the string you have ever learned here 3 Write down your inking twice according to the hint ...

Page 43: ...y 2 Backspace simulate BACKSPACE key 3 Enter simulate ENTER key or 4 Space simulate SPACE key 4 10 Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing Whatever you wrote choose different recognition engine to decide the results being traditional or simplified words Please see 4 12 1 for more details You can mix writing traditional and simplified Chinese words e g Handwrite two words 書寫 ...

Page 44: ...tional Chinese Hong Kong or Simplified Chinese the output of the handwrit ing recognition will always be encoded using Unicode After switch ing version if you can not see the message displayed correctly on the bottom it means that your Windows system may not support this version you chose 3 Check Use English Message option to display all the messages of Penpower Jr handwriting system in English ...

Page 45: ...ied words If you do not know how to write traditional words you can turn off Traditional to Simplified option to disable the traditional writing Note Traditional to Simplified option is available only when you switch to simplified version 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 re...

Page 46: ...al character The system will recognize some unusual words only when you turn on Unusual character option Running Hand 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: ...wer Jr handwriting system when windows start up 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 Horizontal Right Hand but you can use this setting to change it to portrait ...

Page 48: ...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 After you stop writing the less the relative value is the shorter the timeout waiting for recognition is ...

Page 49: ...re now in the signature mode 3 In signature mode the right button is defined to toggle pen mode and mouse mode You must switch to pen mode before start to sign your signature The left button is defined to change color Change the color of inking Change the thickness of inking There three kind of pen style to change Clear all Undo one stroke redo one stroke 4 Click button to cancel signature ...

Page 50: ... 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 You may make notes and commentary by using transparent signature function ...

Page 51: ...e 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 When you move the cursor outside the interactive scope the window will disappear In the window you can press the play button or character or phrase explanation buttons ...

Page 52: ...Chapter 4 New Handwriting Mouse Mode 4 29 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: ... you like Note If you can t activate the handwriting mode please visit the Microsoft website and install the necessary handwriting components In the Handwrite mode you can select the font size and font color from the scroll bar menu provided After the setting has been done you can write on the tablet and the words will appear as what you have previously set If you want to clear the words you have ...

Page 54: ...Chapter 4 New Handwriting Mouse Mode 4 31 set ink width set ink color set the rubber ...

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Page 56: ...e 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: ...l Screen Handwriting 5 3 1 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 position on this word for a while The function tool bar will be popped up there where the cursor is Please refer to Chapter 4 4 4 6 for more details ...

Page 58: ...ord It lets you correct the result quickly without switching to mouse mode Click the middle button or click on the writing area again to switch into mouse mode The color of writing area will change from yellow into gray TIP The writing pad adopts shrink expand user interface It would expand into normal size when the cursor move on it Otherwise it will shrink as an small icon to avoid occupying the...

Page 59: ...Use 1 Select one phonetic input tool of BoPoMo Cantonese Beijing or others 2 Click the phonetic button one by one in order 3 The converted candidate character would be listed in the text buffer 5 4 3 Keyboard Input Tool Keyboard Simulated software keyboard Inner Code e g The inner code of in hexidecimal is A1EE Click A 1 E E button one by one in order and then get ...

Page 60: ...nput 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 5 4 4 Dictionary Input Tool Query by stroke Query by radical ...

Page 61: ...en right following this word 一 will be listed on the bottom 5 Click the phrase or memorized word that you want to send it into the caret e g 一方面 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 Phra...

Page 62: ...ion 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 Then select Edit Phrase from the Phrase menu to open the Edit Phrase diolague to edit the dictionary 2 Click Insert to open the phrase input dialog You can input a new phrase here Please see Chapter 4 7 2 for more details ...

Page 63: ... 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 Whatever you wrote choose different recognition engine to decide the results being traditional or simplified words Please see Chapter 4 10 for more details ...

Page 64: ...aditional mode the writing pad display can be configured here Please switch to the General setting page and in the Display area you can choose whether to display the window title and the buffer area Title bar Show hide the caption of writing pad Buffer Show hide the text buffer of Writing pad If the buffer is displayed all the recognition result would be put here After the buffer is full the first...

Page 65: ... for more details On Line Translator Select On Line Translat from the main menu to open the On Line Translat function Select again to close the function Please refer to Chapter 4 14 for more details 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...

Page 66: ...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: ... right top corner of any application 3 If you select one paragraph of text first then click and select 開始 停止朗讀 The selected text will be read aloud You can choose Mandarin or Cantonese tone pronunciation from the menu 6 1 Penpower VoiceReader Integrate the Text to Speech TTS technology to read aloud the Chinese article content within any window 6 1 1 Use Penpower VoiceReader 1 Run Start All Progra...

Page 68: ...lect 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 朗讀速度 Adjust the speed of reading 朗讀音高 Adjust the tone of reading 朗讀音量 Adjust the volume of reading ...

Page 69: ...power 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 Click the button En Ch on the left 2 In the input frame on the upper left corner enter an English word hit Enter to see all the Chinese explanation 3 Choose different tabs to look up English word Define Variation Idiom and Analysis ...

Page 70: ...tton 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 C Ch En translation option ...

Page 71: ...ticle make sure there s a period mark at the end of each sentence It will increase the accuracy of translation 6 2 4 Chinese English Article Translator 1 Click the button Sentence S Ch En translation on the left 2 In the top input frame input an Chinese article click the button to start translation The translation result is shown in the lower input frame Tip If the Chinese sentence you wish to loo...

Page 72: ...xt look up the definitions for nearby words Cut cut the selected content Only available when translating an entire sentence Copy copy the selected content Paste paste the cut or copied content Only available when translating an entire sentence Delete delete all input and translation content Only available when translating an entire sentence Save press this button to open the Save as dialogue windo...

Page 73: ...g 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: ...er 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 Double click the icon or right click the icon to open the menu and then select setting It will invoke the setting ...

Page 75: ...nts 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: ...riod time to check email If your system is offline after dial up and check email it will be discon nected automatically 6 3 5 Check email manually If you want to check email manually right click the email icon to open the menu and then select Check Email now 6 3 6 Device Test You can click LED Indicator button to test if the LED of touch pad is normal ...

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Page 78: ...se Penpower Jr without reinstalling in each account Settings Open user account manager page from Start Settings Control Panel 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 woul...

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