Getting started. Fujitsu PenCentra 200, 200

Getting started

Do you see a pen image on the taskbar? It would look like one of these pictures:

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The pen image indicates that CalliGrapher is already running. Note that switching your system on and off does not close CalliGrapher. CalliGrapher will produce an error message indicating that it cannot load a DLL if you didn’t reset the system when you were asked to do so by the installation program.

Start CalliGrapher (if it is not already running). To do this, find the CalliGrapher icon on your PenCentra 200 desktop. It looks like this:

Double-tap on it (or tap once and then press "Enter").

After CalliGrapher starts, you’ll see the pen and the marker images in the taskbar tray (in the bottom right corner of the screen).

Press your pen tip on either of those images and keep it pressed for a while (until you hear a "click") to activate the CalliGrapher menu.

Note: In CalliGrapher, the operations done by tapping on something and by pressing the pen and waiting for a "click" are often different.

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A check mark appears next to the "Pen" menu item. This confirms that now you can write on the screen:

If you tap on "Pen", the ability to use the pen will be turned off, and your stylus will operate as if CalliGrapher is not running.

When the pen is turned off, the pen image in the taskbar tray looks like this:

To turn the pen back on, just tap on the pen image.

The Two Icons Explained

By default, CalliGrapher displays only one icon on the taskbar - the pen icon. If you ever select the drawing mode, the second one - the marker icon - will be added. You can do it by selecting "ScreenDraw" in the CalliGrapher menu.

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Any of those may be highlighted, or none at all, like this:

Pen highlighted

(Recognition mode)

Marker highlighted

(ScreenDraw mode)

No highlight

(CalliGrapher off)

In the Recognition mode, CalliGrapher translates your handwriting into text and pastes in into the active window. This is the mode we’ll be discussing here.

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In the ScreenDraw mode, you can just draw sketches on top of the screen. This mode will be explained later.

In any mode you still can use the pen for its regular tasks. For example, double-tapping on the desktop icons or tapping on the dialog box buttons will work as usual.

You can switch between modes either by tapping on the appropriate taskbar icon or by selecting the corresponding menu item from the CalliGrapher menu.

Tapping on the icon of the currently selected mode turns CalliGrapher off. Tap on any CalliGrapher taskbar icon to turn it back to the desired mode.

You can select "Options..." from menu to set what icons are shown on a taskbar (tap on the "Icons" tab in the "Options" dialog box).

In all of the following examples we assume that the pen is turned on.

Now start an application such as Pocket Word. Your screen should look like this:

Now you are ready to use CalliGrapher’s recognition and spell-checking features.

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