Inserting linked text fragments in a document

• US 10,210,142 B1
• Filed: 11/29/2017
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Inventors: Jain, Sanyam, Singh, Ramnik, Kandari, Pragya, Kumar, Nitin, Gour, Manohar Singh, Bhargava, Gaurav, Jain, Anshul, Raj, Abhishek, Agarwal, Abhinav
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie A
• Application Number:
  US15/825,395
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment includes at least one computing device. Systems and techniques are described herein for inserting linked text fragments in a document layout of a document. By supporting multiple linked text fragments within a text frame, of both constant content and variable content, content of an asset is inserted into a text fragment while preserving the styling attributes of the text frame. Thus, manual efforts associated with reapplying styling attributes are avoided, unlike systems that do not distinguish between text fragments with constant content and text fragments with variable content within a text frame. Furthermore, a user interface is generated that exposes metadata of assets and a document layout. Content of an asset exposed via the user interface, once selected, is inserted into the document layout and exposed as a tagged text fragment, indicating the content is linked.

Claims

1. In a digital medium environment to typeset documents, a method implemented by a computing device having a typography application, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, an indication of a position in a text frame in a layout of a document;

obtaining, by the computing device, text of an asset;

inserting, by the computing device, the text as a text fragment into the text frame at the position;

creating, by the computing device, a node for the text in a logical structure for the document;

generating, by the computing device, a link for the text fragment by binding information of the node to a location of the asset;

requesting, by the computing device, a status of the link; and

displaying, by the computing device, the link with a respective status indicator for one of missing, modified, or up-to-date statuses based on the requesting.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the receiving the indication of the position includes receiving a range of selected text.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the indication of the position denotes where to create a new text frame in the layout and the text frame is newly created responsive to the receiving.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the inserting the text includes applying attributes of the location to the text.

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the inserting the text includes tagging the text with a representation indicating boundaries of the text fragment.

6. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the text is included in a field of the asset and the node is named according to the field.

7. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the link includes a filename of the asset.

8. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising displaying an option to update the link when the status is missing or modified.

9. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising displaying, responsive to receiving a request to use the document outside the typography application, a warning when the status is missing or modified.

10. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising exporting the logical structure for the document to another document.

11. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the text frame includes a plurality of linked text fragments and a plurality of constant text fragments.

12. In a digital medium environment to typeset documents, a system comprising:

a text acquisition module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to obtain a selection of text of an asset;

a typography module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to receive an indicator of a location in a document;

a text placement module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to place the text in a text fragment of a text frame of the document by;

when the location is indicated inside the text frame, placing the text at the location; and

when the location is indicated outside all text frames of the document, generating the text frame at the location and placing the text at the location;

an attribute module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to apply attributes associated with the indicator of the location to the text in the text fragment;

a link module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to create a link for the text fragment by binding a representation of the text and a path of the asset;

an update module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to;

update the text fragment with different text obtained from the asset based on the link; and

determine a status of the link including one of modified, missing, or up-to-date; and

a display module implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device to display the status.

13. The system as described in claim 12, wherein the text is included in a metadata field of the asset and the display module is further configured to display the link among a plurality of links representing a respective metadata field, and, responsive to a user selection of one of the plurality of links, display metadata corresponding to the respective metadata field.

14. The system as described in claim 12, wherein the text frame includes a plurality of text fragments, each of the plurality of text fragments associated with a respective link that binds a respective representation of text and a respective asset location.

15. The system as described in claim 12, wherein the display module is configured to display a warning when the status is missing or modified.

16. The system as described in claim 15, wherein the warning includes an option to update the link.

17. In a digital medium environment to typeset documents, a method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

a step for displaying a logical structure of a document, the logical structure having a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to a respective text fragment of a text frame of the document;

a step for receiving a modification to information in one of the nodes;

a step for obtaining, responsive to the receiving, text of an asset, the text linked in the one of the nodes to a location of the asset by a link that binds a representation of the text to the location;

a step for determining a status of the link including one of modified, missing, or up-to-date;

a step for displaying the status; and

a step for updating the document by inserting the text into the respective text fragment of the one of the nodes.

18. The method as described in claim 17, wherein the step for receiving the modification includes receiving the modification as a user edit to the logical structure.

19. The method as described in claim 17, further comprising:

displaying a layout of the document; and

obtaining a user edit in the layout of the document, wherein receiving the modification is responsive to the obtaining the user edit.

20. The method as described in claim 17, wherein the text is included in a metadata field of the asset, and the one of the nodes links the metadata field to the location of the asset.