HandStory Suite 2.3 fully supports Palm OS 5 devices such as Palm Tungsten T and Sony Clie NX series.
If you have a Palm Tungsten T, you can use the 5-Way Navigator to browse files in HandStory without a stylus. In the list view, press the Select button on the center of the navigator to highlight a record on the list. Browse records with the Up/Down button and press Select to view a record. In the record view, press Right or Left on the navigator to view the previous or next record/page respectively. Press Select again to go back to the list view.
HandStory Suite 2.3 supports the Hi-Res screen of the Sony Clie NX series with Palm OS 5. Also, you can use the full 320x480 pixel screen with HandStory when you hide the virtual graffiti area.
Now HandStory can display Docs and Books in small or tiny fonts in Hi-Res/Hi-Res+ devices. Using small or tiny fonts, you can view more content on one screen, which can help you view content more quickly. To change the font size, go to menu -> Options -> Doc Font and select the font size that you want.
Documents are loaded faster with an improved document loading mechanism, the Incremental Loading technology, in Doc and Book views. You can start reading a long document right away while HandStory loads the document in the background. Also, even if you exit the document before the loading finishes, the background loading continues from where it was stopped when the file is next opened, which allows document loading to be completed even faster.
If a Clip page is long or contains many image files, the page will open faster now with the new background loading support in Clip view.
In Book view, the bookmark icon has been replaced with a new contents icon (
).
You can easily access the list of contents in HandStory eBooks using this
icon. No list is displayed if there no list of contents exists in
the eBook. This list of contents information cannot be edited by the user.
User bookmarks can be accessed at menu -> Marks -> Edit Bookmarks.
You can make Custom Direct Clips from HTML files stored on your computer's hard disk. Now you can periodically update Clips from HTML files that are stored on your computer.
The Convert Images to 256 Colors option has been added to the Images setting in the Clip Settings dialog box, enabling smaller file sizes. This option is useful for those who are conscious of the memory space in the handheld.
HandStory Suite 2.3 supports converting text files in the Unicode format to Palm memo or Doc format.
Now, Web pages with file extensions such as *.story, *.png, *.tiff, *.nsf can also be converted to Direct Clips.
New commands have been added to HandStory Clip Script. The new Clip Script commands include commands for clipping Web pages where an article is divided into more than two pages. For more information on the new Clip Script commands, please refer to the HandStory Clip Editor manual.
The clipping speed of Script Clips which contain a large number of images has been improved.
HandStory can convert images in PNG (*.png) and TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff) formats and save them to Palm. The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is a recently-introduced image format designed to replace older GIF format for Web and image-editing use. The Tag Image File Format (TIFF) is one of the most popular and flexible of the current public domain raster image formats. Right-click on a PNG or TIFF file in Windows Explorer to save it to your Palm.
You can easily add a note to the image when converting with HandStory Converter. For example, when saving the image of a map to your Palm with HandStory Converter, you can add directions with this Image Note feature. You can also leave the image description in the image note for later use. On the handheld, you can view or edit the note by tapping the new note icon (
)
on the toolbar.
You can download and view commercial HandStory Clip/eBook contents from the HandStory Clip Service Web site or from other HandStory Clip/eBook distributors.