US 6,389,437 B2 · System for converting scrolling display to non-scrolling columnar display

Abstract

A computer system for automatically converting a scrollable electronic document, including text, graphics, tables and combinations, from a scrollable format to a non-scrollable format, the system comprising a page-forming mechanism configured to operatively and automatically arrange the scrollable electronic information document into a plurality of non-scrollable pages, each having one or more columns wherein each of the columns has a width corresponding to a number of characters per line within a predetermined range of characters per line, a content formatter mechanism configured to be operatively responsive to embedded formatting commands, either common word-processing commands or html commands or both; a font-sizing mechanism configured to operatively permit a user to selectively alter the size of the characters comprising the non-scrollable pages; an image sizing mechanism configured either to automatically alter the widths of graphic images and tables in the electronic document to proportionately conform to the width of the columns, or to reduce the graphic images and tables to selectively expandable icons positioned in the display; a screen having a display window configured to entirely display a selected one of the non-scrollable pages; and a page-turning mechanism configured to selectively, sequentially and individually display the plurality of non-scrollable pages in the display window. A method is provided for practicing the system.

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Dependent claims

A system for generating a source in a non-scrolling format for display in a display window having a user-selectable dimension using a processor comprising:

a screen page formatting mechanism configured to form a screen page dimensioned to fit the display window, to calculate a number of columns that will fit within the screen page, each column having a width characteristic, and to format the screen page for the number of columns;
and
a display page formatting mechanism configured to format the source as a display document having a base font characteristic and a plurality of display pages each non-scrollably displayable for the screen page and to dynamically reformat the display document for a plurality of other display pages upon selection of a user selected font characteristic and the user-selected dimension each of the other display pages non-scrollably displayable for the screen page.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System for converting scrolling display to non-scrolling columnar display

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System for converting scrolling display to non-scrolling columnar display

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Abstract

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