MINT Interactive User s Guide MINT Interactive is very powerful board software including rich functions and gallery software, which are very useful for lecture environment. It will be continuously upgraded and distributed thru our webpage. As MINT Interactive is placed on the top layer with full transparency for any application run on your computer, you can put annotation or draw pictures without limitation. 1. Preparation In order to use MINT Interactive, proper devices (Table pen station) shoud be firstly connected and configured by your computer. Thus, connect USB cable of the station to USB port on your PC, and execute MINT Interactive by clicking its icon on the Windows desktop. Alternatively, you can invoke it directly from installation CD. 2. Run MINT Interactive MINT Interactive supports 2 types of screen mode (Scrapbook mode, Full screen mode).you can use scrapbook mode/full screen mode by clicking menu icon. [Scrapbook mode] 1
[Full screen mode] MINT Interactive supports 2 types of tool bar with Floating and Bar type. Each is mutually exchangeable by clicking menu icon on toolbar and can be changeable its position on the screen by dragging it with pen. 2
3. Toolbar functional description. Mode switch (Writing mode Window mode) function Window mode: Works like mouse Writing mode: Enables writing on the MINT Interactive Pen writing function Pencil Highlighter pen Brush pen Diagram drawing function. Triangle diagram Quadrangle diagram Eclipse diagram Line draw Free draw: System automatically completes pre-defined diagram which is close to the figure drawn by hand. (Supportable diagram: star, arrow, circle, quadrangle, triangle) Move your pen to sides to initialize the screen Eraser function Stroke eraser. Free style eraser (big, normal, small eraser) Selected area eraser Erase all. 3
Color Pallet function.. Black color Red color Blue color Yellow color White color Choose other color.. Thickness. Thick line (400pt, 300pt) Normal line (200pt, 100pt) Thin line (50pt, 10pt) Mode shift or Zoom-in/out.. Screen shift Mode from Scrapbook to Full screen or vice versa. Toolbar skin change (White and Black Green-tone) Toolbar shift mode from Floating to Bar type or vice versa. Zoom-out for working area Zoom-in for working area Text input function. Text insertion by Virtual keyboard Text insertion by handwritten recognition mode 4
It recognizes writings written in workspace and displays them on Text window. Click on Apply to convent writing into text. You can customize fonts, sizes and styles in Text window. 5
Screen capture function. Whole screen capture When capturing multiple pages, they re saved as File Name_Page Number Selected area capture (by mouse drag) System Setup Option.. File open (*.mit, *.jpg, *.bmp, *.xls, *.doc, *.ppt, *.pdf) Overwrite workspace to opened file (saved to.mit format) Save workspace as new file name (saved to.mit format) Close all pages and open new page Setup device option Invoke Calibration(Please see Software Installation Guide) Print workspace Setup diagram / page option Exit program 1 5 2 6 3 4 6
1. Outline: You can change outlines of a shape into solid lines, dotted lines and more. 2. Shape Filling-in: You can choose to display only the outlines of a shape or to fill in a shape with colors. 3. Transparency: You can set up transparency of a shape. 4. Display Length of lines: You can set up to display length of each lines of a shape in pixels. 5. change preference language: select language for program 6. indicate page on the screen: indicate current total number of whole pages and current page number on the top left of working area Note:.mit file extension is MINT proprietary file format. It saves all activities executed in MINT workspace as objects. Therefore, you can handle each object independently when using it later. Page management function.. Insert new page Delete selected page Redo Undo Previous page Next page Video capture function You can capture movements on the screen and save it as videos. Click Menu and Video Recorder window will pop up, where you can setup video quality and output video format. Click on the recording button to start/stop recording. To stop recording, click Menu and Video Recorder window will pop up again. 7
Tool & utility function.. Magnifier: Move your mouse to where you want to magnify. To end, press ESC key or click on right button of your mouse. Horizontal curtain hider / Vertical curtain hider: You can hide parts of screen. To resize, click hidden parts and drag. Show Screen Keyboard (Screen Keyboard provided by Windows will shown) Spotlight Function Compass Function head body leg tip 8
Compass will be shown on the screen. Move one leg of compass to adjust angles. To move, drag entire compass. Turn compass head to rotate. Click on left tip of compass to draw circle. To end compass function, click on ESC or double-click the body of compass Edit Function Edit Writing: You can move, edit, copy, delete or paste writings composed through Pen Writing function Edit Diagrams: You can move, edit, copy, delete or paste diagrams, images and videos. To start editing, click or drag Writing or Diagrams. To enable Edit Windows, double-click Writing or Diagrams or right-click your mouse. On Edit Windows, you can copy, delete, paste and other edit functions. When you press Right, Left, Up and Down keys on keyboard, selected area will move right, left, up and down by 1 pixel. When you press End, Home, Page Up and Page Down on keyboard, selected area will move right, left, up and down by 10 pixel. 9
4. Using Scrapbook It is sometimes very useful to work in scrapbook mode, especially working on multi pages or with gallery. 4.1 Viewing Multi pages Whenever you add new pages, MINT Interactive caches all pages in memory for later use. You can see all cached pages in Scrapbook mode and recall or delete selected page by clicking it directly. Also you can easily copy, paste, delete or move specific page by using menu commands located at upper-left side in the preview window. You can open preview window any time by clicking slightly ejected bar located at the left side of window during full screen mode. 10
4.2 Overview of the Gallery. The gallery is the collection of various images and multimedia files, which is useful for lecture environment or presentation. The gallery is displayed at the rightward window. The gallery supports various file formats such as image, movie, flash and office files (excel, word PowerPoint and pdf) as its contents. 11
4.2.1 The tree structure of the Gallery Window. The gallery is composed of three tabs called MINT room, Explorer and Flickr. You can see these tabs on lower right corner of window. The role of each tab is as follows; A. MINT Room Tab It consists of Default Room and My Room. Manufacturer supplied contents are included in Default Room. If you want to include your owned contents in MINT workspace, you can do it by linking the folder containing contents to My Room. Link user folder to My Room. Select My Room in the Gallery window and click icon on the menu bar at the middle of same window. System will pop up My Room window and then enter Folder name and define folder path if you want to change it. Remove the link from My Room. Select the folder to be removed and click icon. B. Explorer Tab. When to click explorer tab, contents window will be appeared. Thru this window, you can find proper contents by entering file name and checking file extension in the combo box to be explored. C. Flickr Tab. You can also use image files provided by www.flickr.com. 4.2.2 How to use Gallery? For exporting contents in the Gallery to MINT workspace, it can be achieved by either double clicking content file or dragging it to MINT workspace directly with pen. As alternative way, you can get same results by clicking selecting one more contents in the gallery window. icon on the gallery toolbar after If you want to use its contents as the background of MINT workspace, select specific content and click icon. When to open Gallery window in the full screen mode, click the button slightly ejected on the right window. NOTE: When office document is imported into MINT workspace, MINT interactive displays the document on the screen after converting it to image format.. 4.3 How to use MINT Interactive for presentation. 12
4.3.1 Importing Office documentations into MINT Interactive workspace using Scrapbook function If you are using XP, Vista and Home basic edition, you can import documentation created by MS office into MINT Interactive workspace for annotation on it. Basically, MINT Note supports multiple pages for office document and those pages can be previewed in the preview window after importing to MINT Note workspace. MINT Note enables direct page selection or sequential page movement by using arrow icon on the page navigation toolbar for presentation. However, if you are using Vista Home Premium edition or above, you can use Ink tool on MS office menu bar by clicking view -> Ink start menu for annotation. 4.3.2 Using MINT Interactive toolbar. Without importing documentations into MINT Interactive scrapbook, you can use MINT Interactive directly for MS applications although it can be applicable to any applications. Start MINT Interactive before invoking Office applications. Then MINT Interactive toolbar will be placed on the top layer of office applications with full transparency. Here, you can put all annotation functions on office applications. 4.4 How to use Digital Ink for presentation?. You can put annotation on MS office documents without using MINT Interactive. For enabling this feature, you must use different way depending on Windows OS 4.4.1 For Window-XP, Windows Vista Home Basic. As Windows-XP and VISTA Home Basic do not support Digital Ink directly, Ink Tool software is included for enabling its function on them. This is for MS office documentations; therefore, MS Office must be installed. When you install MINT Software from installation CD, this software will be automatically installed. This function is applicable to all MS office applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook with the same way. In this manual, MS Word & Excel are used as example of Ink Tool. A. How to use Ink Tool? 13
1 invoke MS-Office 2003 or 2007 2 Ink Tool menu will be appeared below tool bar on MS office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook) 3 Click Ink Tool icon on Toolbar as shown below. 4 Then Ink tool displays the toolbar as follows B. Functional description Clear All Sign Pen 14
Highlighter Pen Eraser Color Thickness Possible to use either pre-defined thickness or values. 15
Handwriting recognizer Recognize handwriting as text and then inserting to documents Option select language or object type Insert & Quit. When completing writing, click this menu for either inserting all objects to documents or cancelling written by Ink Tool. 16
NOTE: 1. Character recognizer must be downloaded and installed for using this function. (for more information, See 5.2) 2. When using Ink Tool on MS Outlook, set to HTLM mode as shown below. 4.4.2 For Window Vista Home Premium or above / Windows7 As Window Vista Home Premium or higher version and Windows 7 directly support MS digital ink library, Ink Tool is not necessary. When installing Softwares from Installation CD, the system automatically checks Windows version and not install for those windows OS described in this section. The way to use Ink tool is very simple. When clicking review on menus of MS office applications, it automatically enables Ink start icon, located at the right-end side of the menu. Click Ink Start, then another toolbar is popped up consisting of functions necessary for annotation. Using this toolbar, you can put annotation or drawing figures without limitation. 5. Character recognition engine. MINT Interactive supports handwriting character recognition by using Microsoft engine. However, it is only available for Windows Vista / Windows 7 Home premium or above edition. If Windows-XP or Windows Vista /Windows 7 Home basic users want to use this function, they have to download MS character recognizer from Microsoft web page. 17
5.1 Pre-requisites for installing character recognizer Before installing MS character recognizer, the following pre-requites should be satisfied; Internet must be connected. Tablet PC platform SDK should be installed before installing character recognizer. Only authentic Windows OS is applicable. Minimum operating systems should be; - Windows XP Professional Edition - Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 - Windows Server 2003 - Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 5.2 Installation procedure for character recognizer. [Step 1] Visit to http://download.microsoft.com. [Step 2] Enter `recognizer pack` on Search window and stroke [ENTER]. [Step 3] Select Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack from search result. [Step 4] click [Continue] to verify genuine of your Windows OS. When requiring genuine verification related software message is appeared, install it before next step. 18
[Step 5] When verification is completed successfully, download screen will be appeared as shown below. Then click [Download]. [Step 6] In File Download window, click [Run]. [Step 7] After Step 6, please enter proper answer to subsequent questions till complete installation. 19