System and method for converting the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specfic format for electronic publishing

A system for electronic publishing to a device, comprising:

• a display-specific binary file template that is only machine readable, said template providing a static, fixed-layout page sized to match a fixed display size of the device;
• page layout and typographic settings including a body text size determined legible and readable on the fixed display size;
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• one or more computer processors configured to:
• use the page layout and typographic settings to arrange content including body and non-body text from one or more source documents in the display-specific binary file template including setting the body text to the determined body text size for the display-specific binary file template and using a ratio between a body text size of the source document and the body text size of the display-specific binary file template to set the non-body text of placed content to be legible and readable as static, fixed-layout pages in a static, fixed-layout document, said static, fixed-layout document providing the exact arrangement and appearance of the content as it will be displayed on the device;
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• convert the static, fixed-layout document to an output file to fix the exact arrangement and appearance of the content, said output file containing a complete description of the static, and fixed-layout document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and information needed to display the document on the device.

A computer program product for facilitating electronic publishing of static, fixed-layout documents to a device, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• a first executable portion configured to provide a display-specific binary file template that is only machine readable, said template providing a static, and fixed-layout page sized to match a fixed display size of the device;
• a second executable portion configured to provide page layout and typographic settings including a body text size determined to be legible and readable on the fixed display size;
• a third executable portion configured to use the page layout and typographic settings to place and arrange content including body and non-body text from one or more source documents in the display-specific binary file template including using a ratio between a body text size of the one or more source document and the body text size of the display-specific binary file template to convert the body text and non-body text of placed content to be legible and readable as static, fixed-layout pages in a static, fixed-layout document, said static, and fixed-layout document providing the exact arrangement and appearance of the content as it will be displayed on the device;
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• a fourth executable portion configured to convert the static, and fixed-layout document to an output file to fix the exact arrangement and appearance of the content, said output file containing a complete description of the static, and fixed-layout document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and information needed to display the document on the device.

A computer-implemented method embodied in a tangible medium for electronic publishing to a device, said method configured to execute the computer-implemented steps of:

• a) configuring a display-specific binary file template that is only machine readable by matching the size of a static, and fixed-layout page to a fixed display size of the device and placing temporary content in the template, determining page layout and typographic settings that are legible and readable, and deleting the temporary content;
• b) using the page layout and typographic settings to place and arrange content from one or more source documents in the binary file template to be legible and readable as static, fixed-layout pages in a static, fixed-layout document, said static, and fixed-layout document providing the exact arrangement and appearance of the content as it will be displayed on the device;
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• c) converting the static, fixed-layout document to an output file to fix the exact arrangement and appearance of the content, said output file containing a complete description of the static, and fixed-layout document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and information needed to display the document on the device.

A method of distributing electronically published documents to users of display devices, comprising:

• storing a library of electronically published one or more document, each said electronically published document stored as a device display-specific binary file template for at least one type of display device having a fixed display size, said the device display-specific file template having a format that fixes the exact arrangement and appearance of content of a static, and fixed-layout document having pages sized to match the fixed display size, said file format containing a complete description of the static, and fixed-layout document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and information needed to display each page of the one or more document to be legible and readable on the fixed display size of the display device;
• selling an electronically published of the one or more document to a user of a particular display device;
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• distributing the device display-specific file template for that electronically published the one or more document for the particular display device to the user.