Electronic publication and methods and components thereof
First Claim
1. An electronic publication comprising:
- an executable application; and
a document for publication having a plurality of pages;
wherein the application and publication comprise a unitary file in assembly code to address a compatible processor directly and containing a plurality of commands to address sub-routines in a compatible operating system to provide a graphical output of the publication on a display screen.
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Abstract
An electronic publication and methods and components thereof including a user interface. The electronic publication can be provided by e-mail or similar transmission add contains its own executable file for presentation of the publication without a user requiring a preloaded application software. The electronic publication addresses the processor for calculation and the operating system for increased functionality to minimize the size of the executable file and the publication as a whole. The publication contains a user interface incorporating a page-turn and provides a non-linear travel of the free edge of the tog page across a revealing page so as to imitate a substantially constant rotation of the page. The animation sequence throughout the page-turn is performed on the basis of actual elapsed time since commencement of the animation rather than at predetermined intervals so as to make the individual steps throughout the animation independent of the processor speed. The page-turn also incorporates a 3-dimensional representation by increasingly stretching the vertical axis of the rotating edge of the page as it approaches the central axis of rotation of the page.
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10 Claims
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1. An electronic publication comprising:
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an executable application; and a document for publication having a plurality of pages; wherein the application and publication comprise a unitary file in assembly code to address a compatible processor directly and containing a plurality of commands to address sub-routines in a compatible operating system to provide a graphical output of the publication on a display screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10)
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3. An electronic publication as claimed in claim 3, wherein said hardware processor comprises a PC compatible microprocessor.
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9. A method of providing an electronic publication comprising:
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producing an executable application; producing a document for publication containing a plurality of pages; and distributing said electronic publication as a unitary file comprising both said application and said document for publication; wherein said application presents said electronic publication as a graphical output on a display screen including a page transition effect between a first page and a subsequent page in the form of an animation of a turning page.
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