Panasonic Projector Pt L780ntu Operating Instructions

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Installation of Image Creator 1.0
Install the Image Creator 1.0 onto your PC.
The software is contained in the supplied CD-ROM.
Before installationThe software does not run on the computer that does not operate with Windows98SE/Me/2000/XP.
Procedure of installation
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Insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
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Open the IMAGE CREATOR folder in the CD-ROM.
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Double-click and run Setup.exe.
Go on installation operation following the instructions shown on the screen.
Operation of Image Creator 1.0
Starting/ending Image Creator 1.0
To start Image Creator 1.0, go to the Start
menu at the bottom left of the screen, and
choose Program. This operation will start
IMAGE CREATOR Ver.1.0.
To quit Image Creator, press the Exit button on
the control screen.
Functions on the main screenWhen you launch Image Creator, the main screen will appear as shown in the
diagram on the right.
The functions on the main screen are as follows:
1. File menuCapture slides, Capture an image,
Convert and save and Exit are
available in this menu.
2. Settings menuThis menu allows you to use change of
JPEG conversion format (saving in DCF
format, making thumbnails) and adjust of
JPEG quality (low-quality or high-
quality).
3. Version informationYou can check the version of Image Creator 1.0 software.
4. Capture slides buttonPresentation files created with Microsoft PowerPoint are captured into Image
Creator 1.0.
5. Capture images buttonImage files created with other applications (either in JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG
format) are captured into Image Creator 1.0.
6. SD card/Other folder selectionHere select the destination of captured image files.
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7. Convert and save buttonFiles will be converted into the specified format (automatic, JPEG or PNG
conversion) and size, and saved into the destination selected in (6).
8. Launch Wireless Manager buttonWireless Manager 2.0 will be started.
(Once it is started, it will be minimized on the
task bar. To operate the function, right-clicking the icon with the mouse.)
If the images have been stored using Image Creator 1.0 in advance, an image list
window appears after the start of Wireless Manager 2.0, followed by the
thumbnail display of images stored using Image Creator 1.0.
9. Thumbnail displayThe images captured into Image Creator 1.0 are displayed in reduced size. They
can be sorted or deleted by right clicking with the mouse.
10.Exit buttonQuits Image Creator 1.0.
11 .Close buttonQuits Image Creator 1.0.
Converting and saving captured imagesWhen you press the Convert and save button on the Image Creator main screen, a
setting window will appear as shown in the diagram on the right.
1. Slide buttonThis button switches the display of image
files captured into Image Creator.
2. Compression format settingSpecify the compression format in which the files
are saved (AUTO, JPEG and PNG are available).
If AUTO is selected, the file is automatically
converted into either JPEG or PNG format.
Note:•If the file would be more compact in PNG
format, this format will be selected for saving.
3. Convert and screen size settingSpecify the screen size of the file to be saved.
4. Current image buttonCurrently selected image file will be saved in the specified compression format
and screen size onto the SD card or into other folders. The name of the saved file
will be generated automatically.
5. All image buttonAll image files captured into Image Creator are saved in the specified
compression format and screen size onto the SD card or into other folders. The
name of the saved file will be generated automatically.
6. Slide displayThe currently selected image file will be displayed.
7. Stop/Exit buttonThis button stops converting and saving process and closes the screen. If you
press this button when converting or saving is in progress, the remaining process
will be stopped and the screen will be closed.
8. Close buttonThis button stops converting and saving process and closes the screen. If you
press this button when converting or saving is in progress, the remaining process
will be stopped and the screen will be closed.
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Capturing presentation files created with Microsoft
PowerPoint97/2000/2002
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Press the Capture slides button and select the presentation
files you want to capture.
An Open screen will appear as shown in the
diagram. Using File locations menu and folder
icons, move to the location where you can find
the desired presentation files for conversion.
Select the desired files and press Open
button.
Thumbnails will be displayed when the files are
captured.
Note:•Only presentation files saved in PPT format (with a .ppt extension) can be
captured. A file saved in other format (e.g. a file with a .pps extension) should be
opened with PowerPoint and saved in PPT format.
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Press Convert and save button
to save the captured image files
onto the SD card or other folders.
To capture all slides in a presentation file,
press the Capture all button. To capture
individual slides you like one by one, press
Previous slide or Next slide button to
display the slide you want to capture and
press the Capture button. When the capture
is completed, press the Stop/Exit button.
Note:¡Press the Stop/Exit button if you want to stop the process of Capture all.
¡The aspect ratio of captured slides will be converted to 4 to 3. It is not
recommended to capture the slides whose ratio is not 4 to 3 because they will not
be reproduced correctly.
¡Some slides created with PowerPoint97 may cause an error during their
converting process. If this occurs, you can solve the problem by converting the
slides with the PC that has PowerPoint2000 installed.
Capturing JPEG, BMP, TIFF or PNG files created
with other applications
Press the Capture images button and select the images
or folders you want to capture.
A file search screen will appear as shown in the
diagram. Select the image files you want to convert
and press the Open button.
If you press Capture all button, all image files in
the folder currently opened will be captured.
Images not to be capturedThe following images cannot be read even if they
are in JPEG, BMP, or TIFF format:
•Images with more than 10,000 dots vertically or horizontally.
•BMP images compressed in RLE format
•TIFF images compressed in LZW format
•JPEG or TIFF images in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black).     
						

							134Capturing files by drag-and-drop operation
Image Creator 1.0 supports drag-and-drop operation. When you choose a file or a
folder to be converted and drag and drop it on the shortcut icon or the window of the
application, Image Creator 1.0 starts automatically and the file(s) are captured.
Sorting imagesDrag the desired image to move and drop it in the desired
location.
A green bold line is shown vertically between images.
Release the mouse button on the desired location, and the
image will move there.
Note:•You can also move images on the Sort images setup screen. To display the
screen, right-click to display the sub-menu and choose Sort... .
Deleting images
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Select images foe deletion
If you click on images while depressing the
CTRL button, multiple images will be
selected. If you click on different images
while depressing the SHIFT button, all
images between the two images will be
selected.
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Right-click to display the sub-
menu and select Delete from the
list.
If you choose Delete all images from the
list, all captured images will be deleted.
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Click Yes when a confirmation window is displayed.
The images will be deleted from the thumbnail display.
Note:•The original images will not be deleted even captured
images are deleted.
Setting how to convert images when savingYou can specify how to convert images when saving images
onto the SD card or into other folders on the Setup screen
displayed by choosing Setup from the Setup menu or on
the JPEG quality adjustment slide bar on the main screen.
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JPEG conversion format
If you select this check box with  , the file and directory names will be converted
into DCF format upon saving. If the   mark is not given, files will be saved in the
name shown under each image on the thumbnail screen.
For details of DCF standard, refer to DCF standard on page 136.
Note:•When a file is saved onto the SD card, it is forcefully converted into D\
CF format.
Create a thumbnail check box
If you select this check box with  , a reduced image
(i.e., a thumbnail) will be created in JPEG format and
embedded into the image file upon saving.
Note:•When a file is saved onto the SD card, a thumbnail is
forcefully created.
JPEG quality adjustment slide barYou can adjust the quality (compression ratio) of a
JPEG image to be saved using Save to the SD card or
Save to the other folder button.
If you choose higher quality, a file becomes larger; if you
choose lower quality, a file becomes smaller. (The size
of the lowest quality file is about one fifth of that of the
highest quality.)
Note:•The JPEG format is suitable for natural pictures such as photographs. Fo\
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presentations created with PowerPoint and illustrations made with graphi\
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software, there may be significant loss of picture quality even if you c\
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higher quality.
Saving to other folder (directory)With the Save to other folder button, you can save captured images ont\
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disk of your PC or onto MO disk or others.
Choose Save to other folder on the main screen of the Image
Creator and select a destination folder.
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location menu and folder icons, move to the folder where you can find t\
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file to save, and open the folder and press the Save button.
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DCF standardDCF standard has the following requirements:
Directory (folder) nameDirectories must be created under a DCIM directory.
•Data located in directories other than DCIM directory is not recognized.
A directory name must be made of a three-digit number (directory number) + 5
alphabets (e.g. 100abcde).
•Numbers between 100 and 999 can be used for a three-digit number and 37
different characters can be used for 5 alphabets including 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, _(under bar). (The
name is not case sensitive. Double-byte characters cannot be used.)
Multiple directories with the same three-digit number (directory number) cannot be
created.
Layering of directories is not supported.
File nameA file name must be made of 4 alphabets + a four-digit number (file number) + .jpg
(extension) (e.g. abcd0001.jpg)
•37 different characters, including 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k,
l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, _(under bar) can be used for 4 alphabets and
numbers between 0001 and 9999 can be used for a four-digit number. (The name
is not case sensitive. Double-byte characters cannot be used.)
Multiple files with the same four-digit number (file number) cannot be created in the
same directory.
File formatOnly Exif2.1-compliant JPEG image is supported.  
						

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Before placing an repair order
Please make sure of the following:
Symptom Please check:
The computer does
not recognize the SD
card.
Writing cannot be
performed.
The image from the
PC is not displayed.
The PC does not
recognize the
wireless card.
Transfer rate has
become lower.
Projector search of
the Wireless Manager
2.0 does not detect
the projector.• Is the PC card adapter inserted into the PC card slot of the PC until it
reaches the end?
• Is the SD card inserted into the SD card slot of the PC card adapter
until it reaches the end?
• Is the driver installed?
• Are there sufficient IRQ (interrupting signal) numbers? (Refer to the
online help of Windows.)
• Is the write-protect switch of the SD card set to LOCK?
• Is the external video output of the notebook computer properly
selected? (In some cases, the setting of the output is changed if Fn
and F3 buttons are pressed simultaneously. Since this depends on
the model, refer to the instruction manual supplied with your PC.)
• Is the wireless card inserted into the PC card slot of the PC until it
reaches the end?
• Is the driver installed?
• Are there sufficient IRQ (interrupting signal) numbers? (Refer to the
online help of Windows.)
• If WEP is enabled, transfer operation takes a longer time because
the image data needs to be converted.
• If another wireless device uses the same channel, the transfer rate
may become lower. Select other channel for setting.
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Immediately after the projector is turned on, it is on the way to establish
the network communication. Perform the search again after a while.
• Check whether the distance is too far between the PC and the projector,
or if any obstacle between is making the radio waves unstable.
• Make sure that the IP address and the subnet mask are correctly
assigned.
• Is TCP/IP installed in your personal computer?
• Does the WEP setting correspond with that of the projector?
Communication with the projector cannot be established if the WEP
function was enabled when a third-party wireless card was used or
the access point was used. Disable the WEP function.
• In the Ad Hoc mode, use the same channel setting for the projector
and the PC.
• In the Infrastructure mode, use the same setting for the projector and
the PC as the access point SSID. Alphanumeric characters (case
sensitive) can be used for an SSID. Make sure that the user is not
using the function for controlling PCs that can communicate with the
access point.
• In the PEER-TO-PEER mode, use the same setting for channel and
SSID of the projector and the PC.
• Is any network device other than the wireless card enabled? Check
with the device manager of Windows.
• Is any proxy-client software operating? Disable it when
communicating with the projector.
• When a projector LAN card is used, ensure that the projector and the
PC are directly connected with a cross cable.
If connection is made between the projector and the PC through a
hub or other relaying device, follow the connection method of the
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• Right-click the space on the desktop and choose Properties. On the
Display Properties, open the Settings tab and set Colors to
High Color [16 bit] or higher.
Although an image is
displayed on the
Image list screen of
the Wireless Manager
2.0, an error message
appears saying that
this image cannot be
displayed.
Colors are not
displayed properly
with Wireless
Manager 2.0 and it is
hard to read
characters.
Symptom Please check:
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 There are several different formats in JPEG and PNG images and
some of them cannot be displayed.
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Explanation of terms
LANAbbreviation of Local Area Network, including wired LAN and wireless LAN; a
relatively small-range network developed in a company or in a building.
TCP/IPAbbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The standard
protocol for the Internet.
A protocol is a set of specifications and agreements which allow two computers to
communicate with each other.
IP AddressAn Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for the transmission of data, and the IP
address is the address of the destination where the data is being sent to. Identical IP
addresses cannot be used for two different devices within the one LAN.
Subnet MaskLimits the range of IP addresses that can be assigned to a computer when using a
TCP/IP connection, in order to allow a network to be divided into several sub-
sections. The parameters which divide the sub-network in this way are called the
subnet mask.
GatewayA junction point where different types of networks are connected to each other.
It is used to refer to the hardware and software which is used when connecting a
particular network to another network which has been set up under different network
specifications. It makes adjustments for differences in the protocols used by the two
networks and makes it possible to connect to other networks.
DHCPAbbreviation for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A function which automatically
assigns IP addresses to each computer that is connected to a network. If a device
which functions as a DHCP server is located within a LAN, this device automatically
assigns IP addresses to computers which are connected to the LAN. Not available
with this product.
Ad Hoc ModeA mode for direct communication between the projector and a computer with an
optional wireless card.
Infrastructure Mode
A mode for communication via an access point which is connected to a wired LAN.
A computer without an optional wireless card can still be used to send images to the
projector via an access point.
PEER-TO-PEER ModeA mode that allows direct communication between the projector and a wireless LAN-
incorporated personal computer produced by some manufacturers or a wireless LAN
card. If communication is not available in ad hoc mode, try to use this peer-to-peer
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Access PointA point of connection between a wired LAN and a wireless LAN.
ChannelIf several access points which use the same frequency band are located near each
other, radio transmission interference between these access point can occur when
they are being used, and this can in turn result in drops in transmission speeds. In
order to reduce this problem when using wireless LANs, the frequency band can be
divided into 11 channels for communication purposes. (The number of channels
varies depending on the country.) However, because interference between adjacent
channels can occur, the channels available for use are normally spaced 2 or 3
channels apart from each other.
SSIDAbbreviation for Service Set ID. Wireless LANs that utilise access points require the
setting of SSID identification codes in order to distinguish between devices which are
a part of the LAN and devices which are not.
Wireless LAN cards of some manufacturers use the name of “ESSID” or “Network
name” instead of SSID.
WEPAbbreviation for Wired Equivalent Privacy. A method of encrypting transmitted data.
An encryption key is generated and is given only to the person who will be using the
transmitted data, in order to prevent third parties from decoding the transmitted data.
Not available with this product.
JPEGAbbreviation for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is the name of an
international organisation which was jointly established by the ISO and the ITU-TS
(formerly the CCIT), but the term is normally used to refer to the specifications for the
still picture compression algorithm which was formulated by the JPEG. This algorithm
allows still images such as photographs, single frames of moving images and
scanned images to be compressed to up to 1/100th of their original sizes. However,
images which are compressed in this way cannot be fully restored to their original
quality (some deterioration in quality occurs), so that compression rates of 1/5 to 1/30
are normally used. Because of differences in color separation, two format sub-types
are used: RGB (red, green and blue) and CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).
The projector and the Image Creator 1.0 software do not support the CMYK sub-type
of JPEG file.
BMPAbbreviation for BitMaP. This is the standard image format for the bitmapped files
(image files consisting of a collection of dots) which are handled by Windows.
Color levels of monochrome, 16 colors, 256 colors and 16.7 million colors are
supported.
PNG Abbreviation for Portable Network Graphics.
A high compression rate file format that provides restorable compression for line
raster images.
Because it uses restorable compression, it does not result in any loss of image
resolution unlike JPEG.