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This Read Me file contains important late-breaking information for Newton Press for Windows 1.1. The information covers the following areas:
DISCUSSION Introduction -------------- Welcome to Newton Press. Until recently, only programmers could make Newton Books. Now with Newton Press, you can publish Newton Books as well. Newton Press provides you with a quick and easy method for moving information from your desktop computer to your Newton handheld computer. Whether you want to create electronic documents to distribute to a wide audience or whether you simply want to carry a set of personal files with you on a trip, Newton Press makes the transferring of documents to your Newton handheld computer a snap. Communications ------------------ In the manual and application, we refer to the application on the Newton device which you must activate to start package downloading. On the MessagePad 130 and previous Newton devices, it was called 'Connection'. On newer Newton devices, it is called 'Dock'. In either case, the application has a similar interface and is used in the same manner. Compatibility -------------- Newton Books created with Newton Press 1.1 are compatible with all Newton devices using the 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 versions of the Newton OS. Translators --------------- Newton Press for Windows uses translators to read various file formats. If you drop a file on Newton Press and you receive an error message, you may not have a translator for that type of file. Most word processors and graphics programs allow you to save files in more than one format. Try saving your files in a format that can be read by your existing translators. You'll find translators, including those for the most common file format, in the Newton Press folder. Press provides the following translators: * Ami Professional (versions 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0) * Microsoft RTF * Microsoft Word for Windows (versions 1.x, 2.0, 6.0 and 7.0) * WordPerfect for Windows (versions 5.1, 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1) * FrameMaker (versions 3.0-4.0) (MIF) * PC Paintbrush (PCX) * Windows Bitmap (BMP) * Microsoft Windows Write (version 3.x) * Ami Pro Draw SWD * WPGI (WordPerfect Vector) * WPG2 * ASCII Warning! Some programs have their own graphics and text formats. If you import a file into Newton Press and your graphics do not appear, it is most likely because the program is using a custom format for which Newton Press does not have a corresponding translator. Most programs allow you to specify the format for graphics as well as text. We recommend to only use a graphic format that appears in the list. Note: After importing a word processing document that contains graphics, you may notice that there is an extra line in Newton Press. This is because word processors allow you to mix text and graphics on the same line. Newton Press will move any text, including carriage returns, down to the next line in this instance. Things to watch out for and known problems ----------------------------------------- If you have an IBM ThinkPad computer, be aware of the following when downloading files. IBM ThinkPad computers have two COM1 ports. The physical serial port and the IR port. Both of these can be COM1. If you are unable to download books, check that the correct port is selected. You can check your port connection using the Control Panel. If you are using multiple-line paragraphs of large italic text, download the book to the Newton and check the layout of the text, if the layout of the paragraph is critical to your book. When you delete links or Table of Contents entries, the indicators may not be updated until you switch pages. Newton Press works best if you make editing changes before you create links and add Table of Content topics. Once Newton Press is running, you will not be able to drag and drop files onto the application icon. You can drop files onto the icon before Newton Press is launched as well as drop files onto the application window at any time. You may have problems dropping a file onto the Newton Press icon or double-clicking on a file if the file name contains a space. Newton Press will try to interpret the file name as two separate files and will fail twice when trying to open them. This will not be a problem if you drop the file onto the application window or use the File menu commands. Newton Press keeps all the information for your book in memory at all times. Your book may use up a good deal of memory when you are creating large books. When using a computer that lacks adequate memory, you may see performance degradation as you use large files. For instance, dropping several large files onto the application may be slow. When setting a date for the year 2000, don't enter 00 in the Title dialog box. Use the number 2000. If you enter 00 and open the Title dialog box again, you will see Newton Press has interpreted the date as 101. Enter the year in four-digit format (2000) and click OK and the proper year will be set in the Newton Book. If you paste in enough text to make the insertion point appear on a later page, the insertion point may not be located at the end of the pasted text. You may have to page up or down to locate the page that you are working on. Note: Users of 1.x Newton handheld computers will see an option in their Connection slip titled "DOS or Windows PC". Do not choose this type of connection to download your package. Newton 1.x OS users should instead use the "Macintosh Serial" option in the Connection slip. Newton Press is not designed to display font sizes smaller than 9 point. On the Newton Press screen, smaller fonts appear in 9 point size, but on a Newton handheld computer, the smaller font appears in its original size. This size difference may cause differences in book layout between Newton Press and the Newton handheld computer. For convenience, you'll find a Return to Link command that you can select to return to a link's source as you work on your book. However, this feature only remembers the information for the last link you made, and once you change the book, the command becomes unavailable. For more information, see the manual, which describes "Content Linking". Text may sometimes disappear or is cut off when mixing text with very large and very small font sizes. This will occur in the Newton Press preview but usually clears up on the Newton Device. After choosing "Select All" you will not be able to Copy, Paste, or Delete. In order to edit large portions of a document you will need to use the mouse to first highlight these sections and then make your edits. You will be limited to one page at a time. The same text appears at the bottom of the page and at the top of the next page. This problem will occur if there are 4 or more borders on the same page. This problem occurs only in the Press Preview window and not on the Newton device. After choosing "Cancel" during an import, the import does not stop for several minutes. It will take several minutes to cancel an import of a large file and it will appear that the importing was not canceled. You will frequently be unable to choose "New Topic" when trying to place a "New Topic" within a paragraph or section. The "New Topic" feature is meant to be used at a new paragraph or section. Newton Press does not support a Microsoft Office 97 Word document import. In order to Add the document you must first save it as a Word 6 document. Large font sizes will frequently look different on the Newton device than they do in the Newton Press preview. Spaces added after a Right Align may not show up in the Newton Press preview, but will appear correctly on the Newton device. When you use 3rd party applications that modify the size or location of the Button Bar on your MessagePad and you open a Book in a different mode (landscape, portrait etc.) than the Book was created in, you may receive an error message indicating that your Newton is in the wrong orientation and to rotate your screen. |
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| Sub Category: | General Topics |
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