Efficient creation of documents

A method for defining a template document for use by a user to create a document by adding content to the template document, the method comprising:

• defining a body layer of the template document for receiving body-layer content that is not occludable by other body layer content;
• defining a floating layer of the template document for receiving content about which the body-layer content will arrange whenever the floating content is moved to a location of the body-layer content;
• within the template document, defining a first region that is associated with the body layer, said first region changing appearance when content is dragged over a part of the first region, in order to provide visual feedback that dropping the content in the first region will insert the content into the body layer;
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• within the template document, defining a second region that is associated with the floating layer, said second region changing appearance when content is dragged over a part of the second region, in order to provide visual feedback that dropping the content in the second region will insert the content into the floating layer.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor places content in a document created based on a template, said computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

• receiving a selection of a template page comprising (i) a body layer for holding in-line content and (ii) a floating layer for holding floating content that is moveable to a location of the in-line content so that the in-line content at the location re-arranges around the floating content;
• adding the template page to the document, wherein the added template page comprises placeholder content in at least one of the body layer and the floating layer;
• displaying the template page with the placeholder content;
• in response to movement of a cursor over the placeholder content, displaying a message indicating to a user that the content is placeholder content that is part of the added template page and not content generated by the user.

A method for inserting content into a document, said method comprising:

• displaying a page of the document, the page comprising (i) a first layer containing in-line text content and (ii) a second layer containing floating content;
• performing a drag operation on the floating content to move the floating content from a first location to a second location over the text content;
• while the floating content moves over the text content, adjusting the text content to wrap around the floating content in real time, in order to provide feedback regarding positioning of the text content around the floating content;
• receiving input to drop the floating content at the second location;
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• inserting the floating content into the floating layer at the second location and wrapping the text content around the floating content at the second location.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor inserts content into a document, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

• displaying a page of the document, the page comprising (i) a first layer containing in-line text content and (ii) a second layer containing floating content;
• performing a drag operation on the floating content to move the floating content from a first location to a second location over the text content;
• while the floating content moves over the text content, adjusting the text content to wrap around the floating content in real time, in order to provide feedback regarding positioning of the text content around the floating content;
• receiving input to drop the floating content at the second location;
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• inserting the floating content into the floating layer at the second location and wrapping the text content around the floating content at the second location.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor places content in a document created based on a template comprising a plurality of template pages, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

• receiving a selection of a template page comprising (i) a body layer for holding in-line content and (ii) a floating layer for holding floating content that is moveable to a location of the in-line content so that the in-line content at the location re-arranges around the floating content, the body layer comprising a first set of fields and the floating layer comprising a second set of fields;
• adding the template page to the document, wherein the added template page comprises a placeholder in-line content in a first field of the first set of fields of the body layer and a placeholder floating content in a second field of the second set of fields of the floating layer;
• in response to a first drag-and-drop operation that drags a first content and drops the first content over the first field of the body layer without selecting the placeholder in-line content in the first field, replacing the entire placeholder in-line content in the first field with the first content;
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• in response to a second drag-and-drop operation that drags a second content and drops the second content over the second field of the floating layer without selecting the placeholder floating content in the second field, replacing the entire placeholder floating content in the second field with the second content.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed places content in a document created based on a template, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

• displaying a page of the document comprising body and floating layers for holding content, wherein content in the body layer is in-line content that cannot be occluded by other content in the body or floating layer, while content in the floating layer is content that is occludable by other content in the floating layer, the body layer comprising at least one field that holds in-line text, the field having a particular size;
• receiving user input to insert an image into the field;
• inserting the image into the field by replacing said in-line text in the field with the image;
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• upon replacement of the in-line text with the inserted image, automatically modifying the size of the field to fit the inserted image.

A method for defining a document template for use by a user to create a document by adding content to the document template, the method comprising:

• defining a body layer of the document template for receiving content that is not occludable by other body-layer content;
• defining a floating layer of the document template for receiving floating content about which the body-layer content will arrange whenever the floating content is moved to a location of the body-layer content;
• associating a border of a page of said document template with the floating layer;
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• defining a visual indication to provide when content is dragged from a display area outside the document over the border of the page, in order to indicate that dropping the content on the page border will insert the content into the floating layer of the document.