Methods and Systems for Document-Based Publishing Channels

• US 20140143660A1
• Filed: 09/09/2009
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Stoeckmann, Jan
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,190 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/157 using dictionaries or tables

Abstract

An editing application can support publishing channels that are embedded in a document being edited. A publishing channel can include one or more publishing parameters usable to control how some or all of the content is exported by the editing application. A method can comprise loading a document in an editing environment provided by an editing application, receiving data identifying at least a portion of the document, receiving data defining a publishing channel to use in exporting the identified portion of the document, and storing data defining the instance of the publishing channel in the document alongside data defining the document. The document may comprise a plurality of objects and storing data can comprise storing data defining the instance of the publishing channel with respect to one or more of the objects included in the document.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

loading a document in an editing environment provided by an editing application;

receiving data identifying at least a portion of the document;

receiving data defining an instance of a publishing channel to use in exporting the identified portion of the document, the publishing channel comprising a publishing parameter specifying how the identified portion of the document is to be exported, the publishing parameter further specifying an export setting value for use in the exporting; and

storing data defining the instance of the publishing channel comprising the publishing parameter specifying the export setting value as an object embedded in the document alongside data defining the document, the data defining the instance of the publishing channel referencing the identified portion of the document and a value for the export setting value.

2. The method set forth in claim 1,

wherein the document comprises a plurality of objects.

3. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein storing data comprises storing data defining an instance of a first publishing channel type with respect to a first object included in the document and an instance of a second publishing channel type with respect to a second object included in the document, the first and second publishing channel types being different from one another.

4. The method set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an export command identifying at least a portion of the document and specifying at least one publishing channel instance; and

exporting the identified portion of the document using the publishing parameter values comprised in the specified publishing channel instance.

5. The method set forth in claim 1,

wherein the instance of the publishing channel comprises a publishing parameter value defined with respect to each of a subset of a plurality of objects comprising the document, and

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving an export command to export the subset; and

exporting each of the plurality of objects of the subset using the respective publishing parameter value for the object.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the exporting setting value comprises a value related to at least one of a file type, a file quality, and a file location.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the export setting value comprises at least one of a transparency value, a pixel depth value, and a color profile.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the export setting value comprises at least one of a file transfer protocol (FTP) server address, a FTP username, and a FTP password.

6. A computing system comprising a processor with access to a computer-readable medium embodying program components, the program components comprising:

a user interface module that configures the computing system to provide an interface to receive input data and to generate a visual representation of content of a document, the content of the document stored in a file accessible by the computing system;

a channel management module that configures the computing system to access an instance of a publishing channel embedded in the file and comprising a publishing parameter value embedded in the file specifying an export setting value for exporting at least a portion of the document; and

an export module configured to automatically export data representing the at least a portion of the document based on the publishing parameter value embedded in the file.

7. The computing system set forth in claim 6, wherein the program components further comprise:

an editing module configured to change the content of the document in response to the input data.

8. The computing system set forth in claim 6,

wherein the user interface module configures the computing system to provide a selection interface identifying a plurality of publishing channel instances and adapted to receive selection of a publishing channel instance, and

wherein the export module is configured to export data representing at least a portion of the document based on the publishing parameter associated with the selected publishing channel instance.

9. The computing system set forth in claim 6,

wherein the user interface module configures the computing system to provide a publishing channel definition interface, the publishing channel definition interface configured to receive user input specifying a selected type of publishing channel and a publishing parameter value to define publishing channel instance, and

wherein the channel management module is configured to store the specified publishing parameter value as an object embedded in the document.

10. The computing system set forth in claim 6, wherein the publishing parameter comprises a file type characteristic to use in exporting or a location characteristic to use in exporting.

11. The computing system set forth in claim 6, wherein the publishing parameter is specified with respect to the entire document.

12. The computing system set forth in claim 6, wherein the publishing parameter is specified with respect to a logical portion of the document.

13. The computing system set forth in claim 12, wherein the logical portion of the document comprises an object of the document.

14. A computer program product comprising program code embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the program code comprising:

program code for accessing a document file, the document file comprising data identifying a plurality of logical units of the document;

program code for identifying a type of an instance of a publishing channel stored in the document file and a publishing parameter value included in the instance, wherein the publishing parameter is embedded in the document file and specifies an export setting value;

program code for automatically exporting at least one logical unit of the document based on the type and the publishing parameter value embedded in the document file,

wherein exporting comprises providing data representing the at least one logical unit of the document by using the type to determine an export operation to use and by using the export setting value indicated by the publishing parameter embedded in the document file to determine at least one of a data format, a layout, or a desired location for the provided data.

15. The computer program product set forth in claim 14, wherein the logical unit comprises an object comprising a graphical or textual element of the document.

16. The computer program product set forth in claim 15, wherein the logical unit comprises a selected portion of an object in the document.

17. The computer program product set forth in claim 14, wherein exporting comprises using the publishing parameter to determine a formatting characteristic to use in printing at least a portion of the document.

18. The computer program product set forth in claim 14, wherein exporting comprises using the publishing parameter to determine an image file type to use in saving a file representing at least a portion of the document.

19. The computer program product set forth in claim 14, wherein exporting comprises using the publishing parameter to identify a subset of a plurality of objects included in the document.

20. The computer program product set forth in claim 19, wherein exporting further comprises using a publishing parameter associated with each object of the subset to determine how the object is to be exported.