Providing a network-based personalized newspaper with personalized content and layout

A medium readable by a device and conveying one or more programs of instructions for execution by the device to perform a method for providing a personalized presentation of news and information to a recipient, wherein the method comprises:

• obtaining preferences of the recipient, wherein the preferences include an indication of one or more preferred categories of subject matter content, an indication of dictionary-word choice, a preferred presentation layout including an indication of a relative amount text and graphic content to be included in the representation of articles and an indication of a destination;
• searching for a plurality of documents each having content deemed to satisfy one or more criteria with respect to the one or more preferred categories of subject matter content;
• obtaining content information that represents at least part of the content of the plurality of documents, wherein the content information includes text and graphic content;
• generating an encrypted representation of articles including the content information such that a presentation of the representation by a device in a specified set of printing devices conforms to the preferred presentation layout by controlling relative size of the graphic content to achieve the relative amount of text and graphic content in the representation of articles, wherein the content information for at least one article is in a first language, and generating a dictionary in a second language for words selected from the content information, wherein words are selected for the dictionary according to the indication of dictionary-word choice;
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• sending the representation of articles by electronic transmission to the destination.

An apparatus for providing a personalized presentation of news and information to a recipient comprising:

• means for obtaining preferences of the recipient, wherein the preferences include an indication of one or more preferred categories of subject matter content, an indication of dictionary-word choice, a preferred presentation layout including an indication of a relative amount text and graphic content to be included in the representation of articles and an indication of a destination;
• means for searching for a plurality of documents each having content deemed to satisfy one or more criteria with respect to the one or more preferred categories of subject matter content;
• means for obtaining content information that represents at least part of the content of the plurality of documents, wherein the content information includes text and graphic content;
• means for generating an encrypted representation of articles including the content information such that a presentation of the representation by a device in a specified set of printing devices conforms to the preferred presentation layout by controlling relative size of the graphic content to achieve the relative amount of text and graphic content in the representation of articles, wherein the content information for at least one article is in a first language, and generating a dictionary in a second language for words selected from the content information, wherein words are selected for the dictionary according to the indication of dictionary-word choice;
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• means for sending the representation of articles by electronic transmission to the destination.