Method and Device for Determining a Display Mode of Electronic Documents

A device for determining a display mode of an electronic document on a screen of an equipment, the device comprising:

• a size obtaining module configured to obtain a size of the screen and an original layout size of the electronic document;
• a layout length determining module configured to determine, from the obtained original layout size of the electronic document, a document layout length in a layout direction of the original layout of the electronic document;
• a reading length determining module configured to determine, from the obtained size of the screen, a screen reading length in a reading direction of the screen;
• and
• a mode determining module configured to compare the document layout length with the screen reading length to determine whether a fixed-layout display mode or a flow display mode to be selected to display the electronic document;
• wherein the mode determining module is configured to determine a scale factor for the original layout size of the electronic document, and determine a scaled layout size by multiplying the document layout length by the scale factor, and
• wherein the mode determining module is further configured to determine whether the scaled layout size is smaller than the screen reading length, and if yes, the fixed-layout display mode is selected to display the electronic document with the scaled layout size;
• otherwise the flow display mode is selected to display the electronic document.