Document creation system and related methods
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorHelen Balinsky
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Abstract
A method of creating a document having a displayable area on which information is placed, the method comprising providing a plurality of content-items which contain information that it is possible to display on the displayable area, dividing the displayable area into a set of sub-areas each capable of receiving one or more of the content-items, generating at least one set of proposed arrangements in which the content-items have been arranged within the set of sub-areas, selecting at least one of the proposed arrangements, according to predetermine criteria, as the layout of the content-items within the sub-areas of the displayable area to create the document; and causing a printing means to print the created document.
Claims23
A method of creating a document having a displayable area on which information is placed, the method comprising:
- a. providing a plurality of content-items which contain information that it is possible to display on the displayable area;
- b. dividing the displayable area into a set of sub-areas each capable of receiving one or more of the content-items;
- c. generating at least one set of proposed arrangements in which the content-items have been arranged within the set of sub-areas;
- d. selecting at least one of the proposed arrangements, according to predetermined criteria, as the layout of the content-items within the sub-areas of the displayable area to create the document;
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- e. causing a printing means to print the created document.
A document creation system arranged to create a document from displayable information, the system comprising a content-item supply means arranged to provide content items containing displayable information, a sub-area generation means arranged to divide a displayable area of the document into one or more sub-areas each capable of containing one or more content items to be displayed, a sub-area filling means arranged to place information within a sub-area to generate a plurality of proto-documents and a selection means arranged to select a proto-document as the layout for the document being created.
A program arranged to cause a computer to create a document from displayable information accessible thereby, the program being arranged to cause the computer to access a supply of content items containing displayable information, to generate a plurality of sub-areas from a displayable area, each of the sub-areas being capable of containing one or more content items, to place information within a sub area to generate a plurality of proto-documents and subsequently to cause the computer to select, according to predetermined criteria, a proto-document as the layout for the document being created.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.