DOCUMENT EDITING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT EDITING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120166937A1
• Filed: 12/15/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kaneda, Kitahiro, Hasegawa, Kunihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/326,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166937A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/243
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/163 Handling of whitespace
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A document editing apparatus includes an extraction unit, an adjustment unit, and a control unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract a layout variable used for acquiring an evaluation value for a plurality of layout evaluation items used to evaluate a layout of a document, if any layout evaluation item among the plurality of layout evaluation values exists that does not satisfy a layout evaluation reference value. The adjustment unit is configured to adjust a value of the layout variable to satisfy the layout evaluation reference value. The control unit is configured to display the document whose layout has been adjusted by the adjustment unit.

Claims

1. A document editing apparatus, comprising:

an extraction unit configured to extract a layout variable used for acquiring an evaluation value for a plurality of layout evaluation items used to evaluate a layout of a document, if any layout evaluation item among the plurality of layout evaluation values exists that does not satisfy a layout evaluation reference value;

an adjustment unit configured to adjust a value of the layout variable to satisfy the layout evaluation reference value; and

a control unit configured to display the document whose layout has been adjusted by the adjustment unit.

2. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit includes a selection unit configured to select the layout variable to be adjusted according to a number of layout evaluation items that do not satisfy the layout evaluation reference value.

3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit includes a coefficient changing unit configured to adjust a coefficient used for acquiring the evaluation value for the plurality of layout evaluation items if no layout variable is extracted by the extraction unit.

4. A document editing method, comprising:

extracting a layout variable used for acquiring an evaluation value for a plurality of layout evaluation items used to evaluate a layout of a document, if any layout evaluation item among the plurality of layout evaluation values exists that does not satisfy a layout evaluation reference value;

adjusting a value of the layout variable to satisfy the layout evaluation reference value; and

displaying the document whose layout has been adjusted by adjusting the value of the layout variable.

5. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

extracting a layout variable used for acquiring an evaluation value for a plurality of layout evaluation items used to evaluate a layout of a document, if any layout evaluation item among the plurality of layout evaluation values exists that does not satisfy a layout evaluation reference value;

adjusting a value of the layout variable to satisfy the layout evaluation reference value; and

displaying the document whose layout has been adjusted by adjusting the value of the layout variable.