Digital document editing method, digital document editing program and digital document editing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Abstract
The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.
Claims17
A digital document editing method comprising:
- an editing area display step of displaying image data to be positioned in a page of a digital document, in an editing area;
- an image selecting step of selecting one or more image data from the image data displayed in the editing area;
- a deletion instructing step of instructing a deletion of selected image data from the page;
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- a display control step of executing a display control, in response to the deletion instruction, to display the selected image data in an evacuation area and not to display in the editing area.
A digital document editing apparatus comprising:
- an editing area display unit for displaying image data to be positioned in a page of a digital document, in an editing area;
- an image selecting unit for selecting one or more image data from the image data displayed in the editing area;
- a deletion instructing unit for instructing a deletion of selected image data from the page;
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- a display control unit for executing a display control, in response to the deletion instruction, to display the selected image data in an evacuation area and not to display in the editing area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.