Visually distinct text formatting

• US 20130124962A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Mitchell, Ashley A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,640,024 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

Techniques for visually distinct text formatting are described, including receiving an input, the input indicating presenting text visually distinct based on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text, evaluating a document including the text, the text being formatted according to one or more font attributes, the one or more differences being associated with the one or more font attributes, and identifying the one or more differences, wherein the one or more differences are displayed in the document by applying one or more backgrounds associated with each of the one or more font attributes to the text.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

performing, by a computer;

displaying a first text portion in a first font format and a second text portion in a second font format,

wherein the first and second text portions are within a same document;

determining a difference between the first font format and the second font format,

wherein a first background is associated with the first font format and a second background is associated with the second font format, the first background and the second background being generated based on the difference; and

applying the first background to the first text portion and the second background to the second text portion in response to an input indicating application of the first background and the second background, the first background and the second background being visually distinct.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first text portion is substantially adjacent to the second text portion.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first background and the second background being visually distinct further comprises the first background and the second background being substantially different from each other.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first font format has a first font attribute and the second font format has a second font attribute, the first font attribute and the second font attribute being substantially different from each other.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first background is a first color and the second background is a second color, the first color and the second color being substantially different from each other.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first background is a first pattern and the second background is a second pattern, the first pattern and the second pattern being substantially different from each other.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving another input indicating suppression of the first background and the second background; and

displaying the first text portion without the first background and the second text portion without the second background in response to the another input.

8. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store data associated with a first text portion and a second text portion,

wherein the first and second text portions are within a same document; and

a processor configured to display the first text portion in a first font format and the second text portion in a second font format, to determine a difference between the first font format and the second font format, wherein a first background is associated with the first font format and a second background is associated with the second font format, the first background and the second background being generated based on the difference, and to apply the first background to the first text portion and the second background to the second text portion in response to an input indicating application of the first background and the second background, the first background and the second background being visually distinct.

9. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

displaying a first text portion in a first font format and a second text portion in a second font format,

wherein the first and second text portions are within a same document;

determining a difference between the first font format and the second font format, wherein a first background is associated with the first font format and a second background is associated with the second font format, the first background and the second background being generated based on the difference; and

applying the first background to the first text portion and the second background to the second text portion in response to an input indicating application of the first background and the second background, the first background and the second background being visually distinct.

10. A method, comprising:

performing, by a computer;

receiving an input, the input indicating presenting text visually distinct based on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text,

wherein all the text with on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text is within a same document;

evaluating the document, the text being formatted according to one or more font attributes, the one or more differences being associated with the one or more font attributes; and

identifying the one or more differences, wherein the one or more differences are displayed in the document by applying one or more backgrounds associated with each of the one or more font attributes to the text.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising presenting the one or more backgrounds substantially within a portion of the document.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving another input indicating identification of a portion of the document, the portion of the document being evaluated for the one or more differences.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more font attributes comprises a font format.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving an input further comprises receiving the input from a control associated with a graphical user interface.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more differences comprises two or more portions of the text being formatted using substantially different font formats.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more backgrounds comprises a color.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more backgrounds comprises a substantially different color.

18. A computer program product embodied in a non- transitory computer-readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an input, the input indicating presenting text visually distinct based on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text,

wherein all the text with on one or more differences in formatting associated with the text is within a same document;

evaluating the document, the text being formatted according to one or more font attributes, the one or more differences being associated with the one or more font attributes; and

identifying the one or more differences, wherein the one or more differences are displayed in the document by applying one or more backgrounds associated with each of the one or more font attributes to the text.