Introduction (top)

RepliGo™ represents a breakthrough in document conversion technology and mobility. In a matter of seconds, virtually any document you have on your PC can be transferred to your handheld device while maintaining the document’s original look and feel. This includes Microsoft® Office documents, Adobe® PDF files, Web pages and hundreds of other formats. Once on your device, documents can easily be viewed, printed, and shared with others using the supplied RepliGo Viewer.

RepliGo offers two methods of converting your documents.

Once the document has been converted on your desktop computer, it can then be synchronized with your handheld device and viewed using the RepliGo Viewer.

What's New for 2.0 (top)

Getting Started (top)

The following steps can help you start using RepliGo immediately with existing Microsoft® Office documents on your desktop computer.

Registration (top)

Registering RepliGo is a simple process. You must register the product on the desktop computer. Once the 14-day trial period has expired, registration is required to continue to use the product. Follow the steps below to register RepliGo on the desktop computer. Click here for upgrade information.

Upgrading to 2.0 from a previous version of RepliGo (top)

To upgrade RepliGo from a previous version:

1) Download the latest version of RepliGo.
2) Run the self-extracting installer by double-clicking the setup icon.
3) Enter the upgrade registration code when prompted.
3) Use your Registration Code obtained with your previous purchase of RepliGo to validate that you are a registered user. (See Figure 5) Enter the new registration code in the space provided. This is only required if you have uninstalled RepliGo or your copy is currently in trial mode.

Figure 5: The registration code for 1.X verification dialog

The RepliGo Desktop (top)

The RepliGo Desktop is installed on your desktop computer and is launched at the end of the installation if the Open RepliGo Desktop checkbox is left checked. It can also be started by clicking Start > Programs (or All Programs under Windows® XP) > RepliGo Desktop. There will also be a shortcut to it on your desktop if you chose to add the shortcut during installation. (See Figure 6). The RepliGo Desktop serves as a quick reference point to important information, online resources, and support options. Note: RepliGo Desktop requires the Flash player plugin version 6 or above.

Figure 6: The RepliGo Desktop Window

Converting Microsoft® Office documents

RepliGo is tuned to convert Microsoft® Office documents in an intelligent and innovative manner. To make working with and reading these documents a pleasant experience on handheld devices, RepliGo provides toolbar button add-in for Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® which not only simplifies the conversion process, but allows it to optimize the document translation from these applications. For Office 2000, XP, and 2003, the toolbar allows such features as hyperlinks and bookmarks to be recognized in the original document and translated to the RepliGo version.

Supported Features using the RepliGo integrated toolbar inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

After installing RepliGo and choosing to include the Microsoft® Office Integration during the installation, you must agree to accept the RepliGo Add-in to allow for the application integration. (See Figure 7). This dialog is displayed the next time you start Microsoft® Word, Excel, or PowerPoint® depending on your macro security settings.

Figure 7: The Macro Security Warning dialog

Click the Always trust macros from this source checkbox and then click Enable Macros. This screen verifies that you are trusting the source of the macro and it can be installed on your desktop computer. You will not see this dialog again once you have enabled the macro.

By choosing to include the Microsoft® Office Integration during the installation and enabling the RepliGo macro, the installer also inserts the RepliGo menu (See Figure 8) into Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint® if those applications are present on the desktop computer.

Figure 8: The RepliGo Menu inside Microsoft® Office applications

Additionally, the RepliGo toolbar (See Figure 9) is installed for quick conversion of your document with the current settings. A convenient button launches the RepliGo Desktop Window for access to important information, program settings, links to technical support, documentation, demos, uninstall, and the ReadMe file. (Some links require a live Internet connection to access).

Figure 9: The RepliGo toolbar inside Microsoft® Office applications

Conversion steps

Converting Web pages from Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or above

RepliGo installs the Microsoft® Internet Explorer integrated toolbar button if the checkbox for that option is checked during installation. The button is added to the toolbar inside Internet Explorer and gives you quick and easy access to converting web pages, conversion settings, and a conversion preview. It also greatly enhances the accuracy of the conversion over using the File > Print command.

Follow these simple steps to convert a Web page to a RepliGo document.

RepliGo will now have a “snapshot” of the Web page that was converted. You can view the Web page as you would any other document type. Note: Hyperlinks are kept active when using the RepliGo toolbar button or menu. When clicked, RepliGo Viewer will attempt to connect via the default browser.

Figure 14: The RepliGo integrated toolbar button

Figure 15: The Internet Explorer Conversion Setup dialog

Figure 16: The RepliGo Printer

Your files will now be converted for viewing on your handheld device. Once synchronized with your desktop, the new files will be accessible in the RepliGo Viewer.

RepliGo List View

When you start RepliGo Viewer it shows your converted documents in a list view. (See Figure 17).

In most cases, RepliGo can identify what application the document originated from and show the corresponding document icon. For example, if you convert a Microsoft Word document, the document icon in the list view will show a small Word icon next to the document name. Documents converted from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Publisher, Internet Explorer, as well as, PDF, and Text files will have a their corresponding icon. For documents converted from all other applications, RepliGo Viewer substitutes its own document icon.

If the document resides on the memory card, you will also see a small memory card icon included in the lower right corner of the document icon.

You can choose to display only certain documents by specifiying what Category to show in the list view or you can show only the files in main memory or on the memory card or both. Set up your categories by tapping the RepliGo tab and selecting Categories... from the menu.

Figure 17: The RepliGo List View

From the list view you can:

Viewing and Working with RepliGo Documents

This section covers the following items. Click on the links to jump to each section.

Basic Navigation

There are several tools available to help navigate through a document. These tools are designed to make reading, zooming, marking up, and managing documents an easy and pleasant experience. To view RepliGo documents, simply tap on its name from the list view. RepliGo Viewer displays the document in Whole page view.

Toolbar Button Details

	Find and Find Next buttons: Find text within the document. Use the Find Next button to move to the next match. Figure 18: The Find dialog
	Bookmarks buttons: Use these buttons to display and navigate converted document bookmarks and personal bookmarks. Use the Add Bookmark to add a personal bookmarks to the document. Bookmarks added after conversion via RepliGo Viewer are listed under the Personal heading of the Bookmarks dialog, and bookmarks captured and converted over from the original document are listed under the Document heading. Figure 19: The Bookmarks dialog
	Comments buttons: Use these buttons to display and navigate various comments, highlights, and notes. Use the Add Note to add a text comments to the current page. To quickly add a comment, use the Highlighter tool and select text that you would like to be a note. The text that is selected with the Highlighter tool is added as a new note. Figure 20: The Comments dialog
	Rotate button: (available only for models equipped with 320X480 screen sizes) Tap the Rotate button to display the current page in a 90 degree rotated view. All the regular functions of RepliGo Viewer are still available in Rotated View. This view is especially helpful in viewing PowerPoint slides, reading large amounts of text, and landscape oriented pages. Simply tap the button again to return to the normal portrait oriented view. Figure 21: Rotated view in Full Screen mode
	Back and Forward Arrow buttons: Use these buttons to navigate through previous views of the page. Similar to a Web browser, these buttons allow you to move back and forward through prior zoom levels, page views, or pages of the document. Note: The back and forward buttons do not record the Hand tool movements. Thus you cannot return to prior views based on the Hand tool movements.
	Whole Page button: Use this button to show the current page in full with its original appearance intact. Figure 22: Whole page view
	Flowed button: Use this tool to switch to Flowed view and intelligently “re-wrap” the document's text to fit the screen size for easy reading. This view makes for easily readable text by resizing the text if necessary to a comfortable reading size. You can reflow the document while in either Whole page or Zoomed views. Note: Graphics and images are eliminated from Flowed view for easier reading of the document's text. TIP: Another quick way to switch to Flowed view is to simply tap an area of text that you would like to read. This will automatically reflow the text to fit the screen size. Tap images or photos on the page, and it zooms to that object. Figure 23: Flowed view
	Zoom Selection button: Use the Zoom selection button to zoom to an optimal level. The zoom levels range from 10% to 300%. Tap the button to display the percentages and choose a new zoom level. A highlight indicates the current zoom level.
	Zoom Marquee selection button: From Whole page or Zoomed views, use the stylus to draw a box around an area of the document you wish to zoom to for viewing. Press down and drag the stylus from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner of the area and release. Figure 24: Whole page view marquee selection Figure 25: Marquee selection result
	Hand tool: Tap the hand toolbar button and use the stylus to move the page in any direction. This tool is only available in Zoomed view.
	Text Select tool: Use this tool to select text from your document to paste into another application. Figure 26: The Copy Text to Clipboard function
	Text Highlighter tool: Use this tool to highlight text within the document. The highlighted text is automatically added as a new comment. Figure 27: The Text Highlighter tool
	Paging buttons: Tap the Paging button to display the page numbers in multiple page documents. A highlight indicates the current page. Tap a different page number to jump to that page. The small arrows on both sides of the Paging buttons allow you to navigate to the previous page or next page.
	Toolbar Expander button: Tap this button to show the upper toolbar for more available functionality.

Categories

RepliGo Viewer allows you to setup an unlimited number of categories so you can better manage large amounts of documents. From the list view, select at least one document and then tap on the RepliGo tab to open the menu. Select Category... from the menu to move the selected documents to a specific category. Choose Edit Categories... to open the Edit Categories dialog. (See Figure 28).

Categories the you setup in the Viewer are also synchronized with the Windows Desktop Viewer as well. You can also manage your categories from the Windows Viewer and they will stay synchronized with the handheld's Viewer as well.

If you delete a category with document associated with that category, the documents will not be deleted. They will be moved to the Unfiled category.

Figure 28: The Edit Categories dialog

Hyperlinks

RepliGo keeps hyperlinks from web pages, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files intact. (See Figure 29). This means when you tap on a hyperlink in a RepliGo document, you will be prompted to allow for the device's default browser or email client to launch and attempt to connect to the specified URL or send email if it is an email link.

RepliGo recognizes internal or "named anchor" links within the same document and jumps to the appropriate location specified by the internal link.

*Notes:
1. Image maps (images with hyperlinks) in Word are not recognized.
2. RepliGo does not provide a live connection to the Internet.
3. You must use the RepliGo integrated toolbar button inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for hyperlinks to be converted and recognized.
4. "mailto:" links are converted and recognized as email links and the Viewer will attempt to launch the default email client.

Figure 29: Live Hyperlinks inside a converted web page

File Management

RepliGo adds some additional file management features to make renaming and moving easier than in previous versions. To rename a document (both the display name and the file's Palm database internal name) select it in the list view with a checkmark, open the menu by tapping the RepliGo tab at the top of the screen, and select Rename... which opens the Document Name dialog. (See Figure 30).

Figure 30: Changing a document's name from within RepliGo Viewer

Documents can also be moved to the memory card from main memory and vis versa. To move a document, select it in the list view with a checkmark, open the menu by tapping the RepliGo tab at the top of the screen, and select Move... which opens the Move dialog dialog. (See Figure 31). Select the location you wish to move the document to and tap OK.

*Note: You can move more than one document at a time by adding a checkmark next to all the documents in the list view you wish to move and then loading the Move dialog.

Figure 31: Changing a document's location in RepliGo Viewer

Beaming RepliGo Files (top)

RepliGo allows you to beam your documents to another Palm based device. Also, Pocket PC devices can receive beamed RepliGo documents from Palm based devices and vice versa. Since RepliG0 files are cross-platform, the files that were converted and beamed from a Palm based device can be viewed on the Pocket PC based device. To beam a document to another Palm based device follow these steps.

Notes:
The receiving handheld device must have the RepliGo Viewer installed to view the document.
Devices that support Bluetooth such as Palm's Tungsten T and the Sony Clie NZ90 can beam files to other Bluetooth enabled handheld devices. See your device's documentation.