Retrieving Documents Transitively Linked To An Initial Document

• US 20080252912A1
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Sweet, Richard Eric, Rowe, Edward Royce Warren
• Granted Patent: US 7,937,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/114 Pagination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/959 Network
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method for converting a semantic markup representation of a document into a physical markup representation of the document calculates a logical minimum width equal to the minimum width required to display all screen objects within the document at their normal size, creates a physical markup representation of the document, the physical markup representation having a width at least as wide as the logical minimum width, and conforms the physical markup representation to a target size, including a target width by scaling the width of the physical markup representation by a scaling factor derived from the ratio of an element of the target size to the logical minimum width.

Claims

1. A method for converting a semantic markup representation of a document into a physical markup representation of the document, comprising:

calculating a logical minimum width equal to the minimum width required to display all screen objects within the document at their normal size;

creating a physical markup representation of the document, the physical markup representation having a width at least as wide as the logical minimum width; and

conforming the physical markup representation to a target size, including a target width, conforming the physical markup representation comprising;

scaling the width of the physical markup representation by a scaling factor derived from the ratio of an element of the target size to the logical minimum width.

2. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

incorporating the physical markup representation into a newly created document.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

incorporating the physical markup representation into an existing document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the element of the target size is the target width.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical markup representation is a paginated representation including pages each having a respective physical width and a respective physical height.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the target size includes a target height.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the target size is a standard paper size.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the standard paper size is one of 8.5×

11 inches, 8.5×

14 inches, A4, A5, and 11×

17 inches.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the pages of the physical markup representation have the same aspect ratio as the target size.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of conforming the physical markup representation further comprises:

scaling the height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein scaling the height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor comprises:

scaling the page height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the element of the target size is the target height.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein conforming the physical markup further comprises:

rotating the pages of the physical markup representation by plus or minus 90°

.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein conforming the physical markup representation to the target width further comprises:

testing whether the ratio of the target width to the logical minimum width is less than a specified threshold.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the document is a frame set specifying a plurality of frames.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the document contains at least one hypertext link, the method further comprising:

displaying the physical markup representation in a viewer; and

accessing an external document when a hypertext link is selected by a user from the displayed markup.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the hypertext link is a server-side image map.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the semantic markup representation is HTML.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the physical markup representation is PDF.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after conforming the physical markup representation to the target size, scaling the physical markup representation by the inverse of scaling factor; and

displaying the result in a viewer.

21. A computer program, residing on a computer-readable medium, for converting a semantic markup representation of a document into a physical markup representation of the document, comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

calculate a logical minimum width equal to the minimum width required to display all screen objects within the document at their normal size;

create a physical markup representation of the document, the physical markup representation having a width at least as wide as the logical minimum width; and

conform the physical markup representation to a target size, including a target width, the instructions for causing a computer to conform the physical markup representation comprising instructions for causing a computer to;

scale the width of the physical markup representation by a scaling factor derived from the ratio of an element of the target size to the logical minimum width.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, the computer program product further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

incorporate the physical markup representation into a newly created document.

23. The computer program product of claim 21, the computer program product further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

incorporate the physical markup representation into an existing document.

24. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the element of the target size is the target width.

25. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the physical markup representation is a paginated representation including pages each having a respective physical width and a respective physical height.

26. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein the target size includes a target height.

27. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the target size is a standard paper size.

28. The computer program product of claim 27, wherein the standard paper size is one of 8.5×

11 inches, 8.5×

14 inches, A4, A5, and 11×

17 inches.

29. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the pages of the physical markup representation have the same aspect ratio as the target size.

30. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein the instructions for causing a computer to conform the physical markup representation comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

scale the height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor.

31. The computer program product of claim 30, wherein the instructions for causing a computer to scale the height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

scale the page height of the physical markup representation by the scaling factor.

32. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the element of the target size is the target height.

33. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the instructions for causing a computer to conform the physical markup comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

rotate the pages of the physical markup representation by plus or minus 90°

.

34. The computer program product of claim 33, wherein the instructions for causing a computer to conform the physical markup representation to the target width comprise instructions for causing a computer to:

test whether the ratio of the target width to the logical minimum width is less than a specified threshold.

35. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the document is a frame set specifying a plurality of frames.

36. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the document contains at least one hypertext link, the computer program product further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

display the physical markup representation in a viewer; and

access an external document when a hypertext link is selected by a user from the displayed markup.

37. The computer program product of claim 36, wherein the hypertext link is a server-side image map.

38. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the semantic markup representation is HTML.

39. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the physical markup representation is PDF.

40. The computer program product of claim 21, further comprising instructions for causing a computer to:

after conforming the physical markup representation to the target size, scale the physical markup representation by the inverse of scaling factor; and

display the result in a viewer.