Document edit system which concurrently displays and edits documents at the page unit level
First Claim
1. A document edit system for editing a document having pages displayed on a display screen in offset overlapped relation in page units, said system comprising:
- storage means for storing display control data including page overlap order data, page display position data, and page number per document data, said storage means further storing actual data defining the contents of each page, said display control data and said actual data being related to each other for each document;
input means for entering an edit command indicating a document edit function while specifying a page to be edited in said document displayed in offset overlapped relation in page units;
edit processing means for performing predetermined edit operations on the data stored in said storage means in response to the entered edit command;
display processing means for displaying an image of the document with the pages thereof displayed in offset overlapped relation on the display screen based on the page overlap order data stored in said storage means; and
displayed page change means for changing the page overlap order data stored in said storage means in response to an instruction for changing a page to be displayed on the top of the document so that the current top page is displayed behind the current end page in said offset overlapped image of said document.
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Abstract
A document edit system that performs page unit editing. The pages of a selected document are displayed in a stacked reduced offset overlapped position and are available for immediate editing independent of the page unit'"'"'s location within the document stack. Display control data and actual data are stored for each page in internal memory and are changed in response to an edit command. Edit commands include page move and page copy within a single document, or from one document to another, and for creating a new document. The page move command may also be used to discard any selected page in the displayed document.
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1. A document edit system for editing a document having pages displayed on a display screen in offset overlapped relation in page units, said system comprising:
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storage means for storing display control data including page overlap order data, page display position data, and page number per document data, said storage means further storing actual data defining the contents of each page, said display control data and said actual data being related to each other for each document; input means for entering an edit command indicating a document edit function while specifying a page to be edited in said document displayed in offset overlapped relation in page units; edit processing means for performing predetermined edit operations on the data stored in said storage means in response to the entered edit command; display processing means for displaying an image of the document with the pages thereof displayed in offset overlapped relation on the display screen based on the page overlap order data stored in said storage means; and displayed page change means for changing the page overlap order data stored in said storage means in response to an instruction for changing a page to be displayed on the top of the document so that the current top page is displayed behind the current end page in said offset overlapped image of said document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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