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User Manual
SfW Personal Communicator
28 December 2011
Contents
Introduction..................................................................................................................... 3
1. Window of the Personal Communicator.....................................................................4
1.1 Application modes................................................................................................... 4
1.2 Menu and toolbar..................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Colorbar................................................................................................................... 5
1.4 The chart................................................................................................................. 5
1.5 Vocabulary............................................................................................................... 6
2. Charts and chart settings for grid pages..................................................................10
2.1 Vocabulary Global Properties................................................................................10
2.2 Default settings for fields.......................................................................................10
2.3 Default settings for pages......................................................................................10
2.4 Default settings for speech....................................................................................11
2.5 Start page.............................................................................................................. 11
2.6 Default settings for the sentence bar.....................................................................12
2.7 Create, save and open charts................................................................................12
3. Managing pages......................................................................................................... 13
3.1 Add a page............................................................................................................ 13
3.2 Delete a page........................................................................................................ 13
3.3 Import a page........................................................................................................ 13
3.4 Export a page........................................................................................................ 14
3.5 Rename a page..................................................................................................... 14
4. Page settings.............................................................................................................. 15
4.1 Field layout............................................................................................................ 15
4.2 Page type and page layout....................................................................................15
4.3 Sentence bar options............................................................................................. 15
4.4 Speech.................................................................................................................. 16
4.5 Commands............................................................................................................ 16
4.6 Re-arrange the content of a page: move and copy fields.......................................16
5. Fields: visual content................................................................................................ 17
5.1 Placing symbols: Select Symbol dialog..................................................................17
5.2 Placing symbols: Reference Vocabulary................................................................18
5.3 Adding images from files.......................................................................................19
5.4 Opposite indicator.................................................................................................. 20
5.5 Adding text............................................................................................................. 20
5.6 Re-arrange the content of a field...........................................................................20
5.7 Text of the label..................................................................................................... 21
5.8 Fields with dynamic content...................................................................................21
6. Fields: settings........................................................................................................... 22
6.1 Layout (per field and per symbol or image)............................................................22
6.2 Sentence bar options............................................................................................. 23
6.3 Speech and sounds............................................................................................... 23
6.4 Commands............................................................................................................ 24
6.5 Links...................................................................................................................... 24
7. Free Layout................................................................................................................. 26
7.1 How to start with a free layout chart.......................................................................26
7.2 Cells...................................................................................................................... 29
7.3 Saving your chart................................................................................................... 31
8. Give the user access to symbols and files outside the chart.................................32
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