User Interface for Page View Zooming

A multifunction peripheral, including a processor and associated memory, the multifunction peripheral including software that when executed by the processor causes the multifunction peripheral to:

• generate a visual representation of an electronic document on a user interface generated on a touchscreen display, the electronic document shown in a default magnification level;
• receive touchdown data indicating that a touch has been received from a user on the touchscreen display over the electronic document and hold data indicating that the user has held the touch for a predetermined period of time over the electronic document;
• alter the visual representation in response to the touchdown data and the hold data such that a current magnification level of the electronic document is increased for the duration of the touch, the current magnification level centered on a portion of the electronic document over which the touch is positioned;
• receive release data indicating that the user has released the touch;
• halt increase of the current magnification level in response to the release data;
• and
• regenerate the visual representation to show a zoomed portion of the electronic document on the user interface, the zoomed portion being the visual representation of the portion of the electronic document at the current magnification level.

Apparatus comprising a storage medium storing a program having instructions which when executed by a processor will cause the processor to:

• generate a visual representation of an electronic document on a user interface generated on a touchscreen display, the electronic document shown in a default magnification level;
• receive touchdown data indicating that a touch has been received from a user on the touchscreen display over the electronic document and hold data indicating that the user has held the touch for a predetermined period of time over the electronic document;
• alter the visual representation in response to the touchdown data and the hold data such that a current magnification level of the electronic document is increased for the duration of the touch, the current magnification level centered on a portion of the electronic document over which the touch is positioned;
• receive release data indicating that the user has released the touch;
• halt increase of the current magnification level in response to the release data;
• and
• regenerate the visual representation to show a zoomed portion of the electronic document on the user interface, the zoomed portion being the visual representation of the portion of the electronic document at the current magnification level.