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Text flow around irregular shaped graphic objects

  • US 4,829,470 A
  • Filed: 12/12/1985
  • Issued: 05/09/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a mixed data editor implemented on a computer which produces a compound document having text and graphic objects positioned on the same page of the document, said editor manipulating text and graphic object sets containing said text and graphic objects, respectively, said text object set being provided with a flow attribute which, when set on, causes text of the text object set to flow around a graphic object set, the process wherein text flows in as well as around an irregularly shaped graphic object comprising the steps of:

  • displaying said irregularly shaped graphic object in a rectangular window;

    drawing by said editor a polygon around said irregularly shaped graphic object;

    clipping by said editor said polygon with said rectangular window to produce an irregularly shaped window which conforms to the general shape of the irregularly shaped graphic object;

    determining in said editor on a line by line basis the boundaries of lines of text in text space which intersect with the defined irregularly shaped window thereby determining available text space around the irregularly shaped object; and

    placing by said editor text into available text space including both those lines of text which intersect with the defined irregularly shaped window and those lines of text which do not intersect with the defined irregularly shaped window.

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