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US 8,145,996 B2Granted
Systems and methods for pagination and co-pagination
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSujal S. Parikh, Grzegorz Zygmunt
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for controlling pagination in computer software applications. Abstract classes and methods are provided with programming interfaces to improve the ease with which developers can create applications that allow for co-pagination with arbitrary object types, and can create arbitrary object types that can co-paginate with arbitrary applications.
Claims4
A method for formatting a page for presentation in a computer system, the method comprising:
- receiving a page of a document, the page being defined by a document page object;
- receiving a constraint defining a size of a parent page available for content;
- obtaining from the document page object a page descriptor, wherein the page descriptor is associated only with the received page of the document and includes a page size representing a size of the page to be formatted and a page break parameter defining an end of a previous page and a start of the received page to be formatted;
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- causing a page measuring function to present a page formatted according to the constraint and the page descriptor associated only with the received page including the page size and the page break parameter.
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