SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED CREATION OF A VIRTUAL PUBLICATION

• US 20110035660A1
• Filed: 09/02/2008
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Papier Virtuel, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Papier Virtuel, Inc.
• Inventors: Lussier, Frederick, Fugere, Carl
• Application Number:
  US12/675,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/239
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

A method and system for creating a virtual publication for use with a flip page application, the virtual publication comprising an image file of each page of the virtual publication to be displayed by the flip page application, a SWF file of each page of the virtual publication to be used by the flip page application to provide a zoom functionality, a text file of each page of the virtual publication to be associated with each image file by the flip page application in order to provide a search functionality, an XML file of each page of the virtual publication indicating coordinates and links of multimedia elements to be used by the flip page application to provide clickable zones and an index file listing of all image and SWF files composing the virtual publication for indicating to the flip page application which files to use.

Claims

1. A method for creating a virtual publication for use with a flip page application, comprising:

acquiring an electronic document;

converting each page of the electronic document into an image file to be displayed by the flip page application;

converting each page of the electronic document into a SWF file to be used by the flip page application to provide a zoom functionality; and

creating an index file listing of all image and SWF files composing the virtual publication for indicating to the flip page application which files to use.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of converting each page of the electronic document into a text file to be associated with each image file by the flip page application in order to provide a search functionality.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the step of converting each page of the electronic document into a text file includes associating HTML tags to parts of the text according to font size.

4. A method according to any of claims 1 to 3, further comprising the step of converting each page of the electronic document into an XML file indicating coordinates and links of multimedia elements to be used by the flip page application to provide clickable zones.

5. A method according to any of claims 1 to 4, further comprising the step of creating a configuration file including appearance parameters of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in displaying the virtual publication.

6. A method according to any of claims 1 to 5, further comprising the step of creating a table of content file including an index table of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in navigating the virtual publication.

7. A method according to any of claims 1 to 6, wherein the image file is of the JPG format.

8. A method according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein the electronic document is of a format selected from a group consisting of the PDF format and WORD format.

9. A virtual publication for use with a flip page application, comprising:

an image file of each page of the virtual publication to be displayed by the flip page application;

a SWF file of each page of the virtual publication to be used by the flip page application to provide a zoom functionality; and

an index file listing of all image and SWF files composing the virtual publication for indicating to the flip page application which files to use.

10. A virtual publication according to claim 9, further comprising a text file of each page of the virtual publication to be associated with each image file by the flip page application in order to provide a search functionality.

11. A virtual publication according to claim 10, wherein the text file includes HTML tags to parts of the text relating to font size.

12. A virtual publication according to any of claims 9 to 11, further comprising an XML file of each page of the virtual publication indicating coordinates and links of multimedia elements to be used by the flip page application to provide clickable zones.

13. A virtual publication according to any of claims 9 to 12, further comprising a configuration file including appearance parameters of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in displaying the virtual publication.

14. A virtual publication according to any of claims 9 to 13 further comprising a table of content file including an index table of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in navigating the virtual publication.

15. A virtual publication according to any of claims 9 to 14, wherein the image file is of the JPG format.

16. A virtual publication according to any of claims 9 to 15, wherein the electronic document is of a format selected from a group consisting of the PDF format and WORD format.

17. A system for creating a virtual publication for use with a flip page application, comprising:

an input for receiving an electronic document;

an image converter for converting each page of the electronic document into an image file to be displayed by the flip page application;

a SWF converter for converting each page of the electronic document into a SWF file to be used by the flip page application to provide a zoom functionality;

an indexer for creating an index file listing of all image and SWF files composing the virtual publication for indicating to the flip page application which files to use; and

a repository for storing the image and SWF files composing the virtual publication.

18. A system according to claim 17, further comprising a text converter for converting each page of the electronic document into a text file to be associated with each image file by the flip page application in order to provide a search functionality.

19. A system according to claim 18, wherein the text converter associates HTML tags to parts of the text according to font size.

20. A system according to any of claims 17 to 19, further comprising an XML converter for converting each page of the electronic document into an XML file indicating coordinates and links of multimedia elements to be used by the flip page application to provide clickable zones.

21. A system according to claim 20, wherein the XML converter further creates a configuration file including appearance parameters of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in displaying the virtual publication.

22. A system according to either of claim 20 or 21, wherein the XML converter further creates a table of content file including an index table of the virtual publication for use by the flip page application in navigating the virtual publication.

23. A system according to any of claims 17 to 22, wherein the image file is of the JPG format.

24. A system according to any of claims 17 to 23, wherein the electronic document is of a format selected from a group consisting of the PDF format and WORD format.