PhatPad Overview

"Whether a new user or an existing PhatPad owner, 2.0 is a worthwhile purchase and upgrade and should be a must-have application for every Pocket PC owner. It is well written and performs beyond expectations, something that has become a trademark for all of PhatWare?s products."
-- From PhatPad review by Clinton Fitch of Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!

"Over the past week of testing and reviewing I have found PhatPad indispensable, its ease of use and rich feature set have given me a reason to leave the legal pad at home. After a few hours learning the interface, I found that PhatPad 2 worked so well that I drafted this review using the application."
-- From PhatPad review by John Pope of pocketnow.com!

Handango Champion Award winner - Best Pocket PC Productivity Application 2004

PhatPad is an award-winning notes organizer for Microsoft Windows. It allows you to draw pictures, jot text notes, put a mixture of pictures and text, or create animations on a virtual scratch pad. The program uses new digital ink technology, which provides a very smooth ink flow, so it feels like you're writing on a piece of paper. While working with the note editor, PhatPad offers standard editing commands, such as Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste; 25%-200% zoom and special Fit to Screen mode; Draw, Select, Drag, Change, and Erase modes; 39-color pen palette; variable pen width; and variable page size. You can export your notes and drawings as bitmap or JPEG images. In addition, PhatPad allows you to store up to 1,000 handwritten pages per single file and add an optional text note. PhatPad also includes a basic shape recognition engine that allows you to draw smooth geometrical shapes, such as rectangles, circles, triangles and straight lines.

If you have CalliGrapher handwriting recognition software installed on your Pocket PC and/or PenOffice software on your Desktop or Tablet PC, you may use it to recognize your handwritten notes and convert them to plain text. You can also search your handwritten notes for specific text. PhatPad is also compatible with PenOffice's 2.x and CalliGrapher 6.x ScratchPad files (.ink).

PhatPad Tutorials

New Feature Highlights

• Improves digital ink algorithm that makes writing feel even smoother
• New Animation Mode allows users to animate drawings/notes by "flipping" note pages at the specified rate
• Includes application for Desktop/Tablet PC that allows viewing, modifying and printing of PhatPad files
• Supports customizable vertical and horizontal auto scrolling while you write
• Supports printing (desktop PC)
• Allows to load background images/templates
• Allows toolbar customization
• Supports handwriting recognition (PenOffice and/or CalliGrapher software is required, sold separately)
• Allows customization of page size
• Includes new bring to front/send to back commands
• Allows changing color and width of the existing strokes
• Includes spell checker for Desktop PC
• Allows changing page order in the PhatPad document

Benefits and Features

• Standard editing commands: copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, clear, select all.
• Zoom and special fit to screen mode
• Draw, drag, select, and erase modes
• View, Modify and Print your notes on the Desktop PC
• Load background images to mark points of interest
• Export your notes and drawings as bitmap or jpeg images
• Email your notes as file attachments and transfer them between Pocket PCs via infrared
• Add user reminders on Pocket PC (alarms)
• Draw smooth geometrical shapes. PhatPad recognizes and corrects the following basic geometrical
• shapes: triangle, rectangle, circle, and straight line
• Store up to 1000 handwritten pages per file
• Add an optional text note to each file
• Recognize your handwritten notes and convert them to plain text *
• Search your handwritten notes for a specific text *

* CalliGrapher and/or PenOffice handwriting recognition software is required, sold separately.

System Requirements

Desktop PC

• Personal or Multimedia computer with Pentium III 1GHz processor or higher. Windows 2000 or Windows 98SE2 or later.
• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.7 or later is required for installation and files synchronization.
• 10MB of free disk space for full installation, an additional 5MB required for temporary files during installation.
• 64 MB of memory to use on Windows 95/98/ME (128 or more recommended).
• 128 MB of memory to use on Windows 2000/XP (256 or more recommended).
• Super VGA, 16-bit (64K colors) or better video adapter.
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device (a touch screen monitor or a graphic tables is strongly recommended, but not required).
• Internet Browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 is recommended to retrieve the latest product information from PhatWare's web site.

Pocket PC

• Microsoft Windows powered Pocket PC 2000/2002/2003/2003SE or Pocket PC 2002/2003/2003SE Phone Edition or later with SH3, MIPS, ARM or XScale CPU*.
• Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 or later.
• Approximately 650KB of free storage space depending on the device model.