Say "page", not "sheet", everywhere a user sees it
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### The page
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The page is an A4 sheet lying on its side, shown so that it fits the
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The page is A4 in size, lying on its side, shown so that it fits the
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window. Write
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anywhere on it. When your writing comes near an edge, the sheet grows in
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anywhere on it. When your writing comes near an edge, the page grows in
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that direction, in small steps, so there is always room, and the view
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keeps its scale and extends beyond the window; scroll to reach the rest.
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An image the host puts on the page lies at the top, or below the images
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@@ -147,20 +147,19 @@ extends beyond the window and you scroll to the rest. Three buttons and
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two gestures change the view, and none of them changes the page:
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* **Fit** shows the whole page in the window.
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* **A4** shows the page at the scale a new page has, one A4 sheet
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* **A4** shows the page at the scale a new page has, a full A4 page
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filling the window, so that a page shrunk to a small exercise is seen
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at its size on the sheet rather than enlarged to fill the window.
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at its own size rather than enlarged to fill the window.
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* When the host presses **Fit** or **A4**, every participant's view
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follows, each in their own window. Your own Fit and A4 change only
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your screen.
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* **Expand**, which only the host and co-hosts have, makes the page
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itself fill the window, for everyone, at the present zoom, in both
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directions. The sheet grows equally on every side, so nothing on the
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page moves and nothing is rescaled; there is simply more room around
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it.
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directions. The page grows equally on every side, so nothing on it
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moves and nothing is rescaled; there is simply more room around it.
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* **Shrink**, also for the host and co-hosts, makes the page, for everyone, just large enough for what is on it,
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with the usual margin around. Nothing on it moves either.
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* **Extend** is a box, ticked to begin with. Ticked, the sheet grows
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* **Extend** is a box, ticked to begin with. Ticked, the page grows
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when your writing comes near an edge, so there is always room.
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Unticked, your writing stops short of the edge; a stroke that leaves
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the page resumes when the pen comes back. Images always get the room
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@@ -222,7 +221,7 @@ doing anything. Where it is saved depends on how you joined.
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and small pictures of the pages kept in them, wherever they are kept.
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Rest the pointer on a page for a second and its facts appear: the first
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text on it, when it was last changed, who wrote on it, what is on it
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and the size of the sheet; on a notebook, how many pages it keeps and
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and the size of the page; on a notebook, how many pages it keeps and
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from when, when it was last written in, and where it is.
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There you can delete pages and notebooks you no longer want: mark them
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with the × at their left, then press **Delete** twice. In the browser
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## Starting a session
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On the start screen, enter your name and the notebook for this session,
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and press **Start a session**. You are on page 1, a blank sheet, and
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and press **Start a session**. You are on page 1, blank, and
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**Session** in the toolbar shows the invitation.
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### The notebook
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@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ page's width, at its natural size, in front of the images already
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there. Natural size is the size the file records: a scan arrives at
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the size of the paper it came from. A photo from a phone or camera
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records no useful size and arrives at a tenth of a millimetre per
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pixel. An image wider than the page widens the page on both sides to
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hold it. From there you move and scale it by hand, as described next;
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pixel. An image wider than the page widens it on both sides, and one
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taller than the page lengthens it downward, so the whole image has room.
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From there you move and scale it by hand, as described next;
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there is no other setting to choose. PNG and JPEG files are shared as
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they are unless very large; other formats, and images over 2400 pixels
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on a side or 1.5 MB, are converted to JPEG and reduced first, which
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@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ afterwards. Only you and co-hosts can move images.
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For a page that begins with an image, press **New** and then **Image**.
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For a series of exercises, keep pressing **Image** on the same page: the
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sheet grows downward and everyone scrolls through them. A new image does
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page grows downward and everyone scrolls through them. A new image does
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not change anyone's zoom; it appears below, to be scrolled to.
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A tap of the eraser on an image removes it, whoever added it and
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@@ -227,8 +228,8 @@ beside yours. Only its owner can type in a box, as with any text.
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**Expand**, among the view buttons, makes the page fill your window for
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everyone, at your present zoom, in both directions: the quickest way to
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more room for writing around an exercise. The sheet grows equally on
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every side, so nothing on the page moves. The page keeps the new size
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more room for writing around an exercise. The page grows equally on
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every side, so nothing on it moves. The page keeps the new size
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in everyone's notebook. **Shrink** is its opposite: the page becomes
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just large enough for everything on it, images and writing, with the
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margin of 5 mm around, which trims a page down to its exercise before you keep
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## Pages
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Page coordinates are in units of 0.1 mm. A blank page is an A4 sheet
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in landscape, 2970 by 2100 units. "Expand" makes the sheet fill the
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Page coordinates are in units of 0.1 mm. A blank page is A4
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in landscape, 2970 by 2100 units. "Expand" makes the page fill the
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window in both directions, and
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"Shrink" makes it the bounding box of everything on the page plus the
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greater of the two margins, exactly, on every side; both are changes to the page like adding
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an image, carried in the page descriptor (its `left` and `top` edges and
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its size) with the images' revision raised. Writing within 5 mm of an edge grows the page by
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5 mm on that side, counted from the sheet's edge. An image is placed at its natural size, taken from
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5 mm on that side, counted from the page's edge. An image is placed at its natural size, taken from
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the resolution recorded in the file, or 0.1 mm per pixel when there is
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none (the nominal 72 and 96 dpi that cameras and screenshots write count
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as none), centred across the page, 5 mm from the top or from the image
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above, the sheet widened equally on both sides if it is wider than the
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page; only one wider than a page can be, 2 m, is scaled down. A page holds at most 12 images and 24 MB of image data.
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above, the page widened equally on both sides if the image is wider
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than it and lengthened downward if the image is taller; only one wider
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than a page can be, 2 m, is scaled down. A page holds at most 12 images and 24 MB of image data.
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An image file over 2400 pixels on a side or 1.5 MB, or not PNG or JPEG,
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is redrawn at most 2400 pixels and stored as JPEG before it is shared;
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smaller PNG and JPEG files are shared byte for byte.
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Kokkoja lets people at different computers write together on a shared
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*page*. Everyone in a session sees the same page. Anyone can write on it
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by hand or type on it, and what one person writes appears on the others'
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screens as it is written. A page can begin blank, or it can begin with an
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image, such as a scanned sheet or a photograph, which everyone then writes
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image, such as a scanned document or a photograph, which everyone then writes
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on. Every page is saved automatically to a *notebook* on each person's
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own computer, so that after the session each participant keeps a complete
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copy of everything that was written.
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@@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ layer of its own. You can erase your own writing and nothing else; nobody
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else can erase yours. Any layer can be hidden on your own screen without
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affecting anyone else's view.
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**A page that grows.** A page is an A4 sheet, lying on its side. When writing approaches an
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edge, the sheet grows in that direction, so you are never short of room.
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An image is placed at its natural size; one wider than the sheet is
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scaled down to fit, and the sheet grows downward to hold further images.
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**A page that grows.** A page is A4 in size, lying on its side. When writing approaches an
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edge, the page grows in that direction, so you are never short of room.
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An image is placed at its natural size; one wider than the page is
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scaled down to fit, and the page grows to hold an image taller than it
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or further images below.
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**Saved without a save command.** The page you are on is written to your
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notebook continuously, as it changes. Nothing is lost if a connection
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Kokkoja is a general tool for working on a page together at a distance:
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going through a document with a colleague, sketching a diagram while
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talking it over, correcting a draft, teaching anything that is done on
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paper. Wherever two people would otherwise lean over one sheet, Kokkoja
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puts the sheet between their computers.
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paper. Wherever two people would otherwise lean over one sheet of
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paper, Kokkoja puts that page between their computers.
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Its ideal use, and the one it was made for first, is teaching a foreign
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language over a video call. The teacher puts a scanned exercise on the
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