Presentation of files packaged within a page description language document

• US 8,677,229 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: McAfee, Robert K., Swineford, Randy L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rutledge, Amelia
• Application Number:
  US11/864,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20090089656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,363 Days
• Field of Search: 715/200
• US Class Current: 715/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines

Abstract

Various embodiments herein provide one or more systems, methods, software, and data structures for presentation of files packaged within a page description language document, such as a Portable Document Format (“PDF”) document. Some embodiments include a packaged file presentation shell that may be instantiated within a user interface of a page description language reader application to provide a view of files packaged within a page description language file. Some such views may be interactive or adaptive within the user interface.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processing unit and at least one memory device;

a page description language document in the at least one memory device, the page description language document including;

one or more packaged files;

a packaged file presentation shell including a presentation node for each of the one or more packaged files; and

metadata describing each of the one or more packaged files and associating each of the one or more packaged files to a presentation node of the presentation shell; and

a page description language reader application in the at least one memory device and operable on the at least one processing unit to present a view of at least a portion of the page description language document as a function of the metadata and the packaged file presentation shell, wherein the package file presentation shell, when instantiated within a page description language document reader application, invokes one or more methods of a system plug-in operable within the page description language document reader application to present at least one of audio, moving images, and videos included in at least one of the packaged files.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the packaged file presentation shell is responsive to actions of a user when instantiated within a user interface of the page description language reader application.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the actions of a user include gestures made within the user interface with a pointing device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the packaged file presentation shell, in response to a user action, causes one or more packaged file representations to be displayed.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein a packaged file representation includes at least a portion of the metadata associated describing a packaged file.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the packaged file presentation shell further includes a packaged file presentation header to be presented with a packaged file when selected within the page description language reader application to be displayed.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the page description language reader application includes one or more default packaged file presentation modules capable of displaying at least a portion of metadata of any page description language document including one or more packaged files.

8. A method comprising:

instantiating a packaged file presentation shell within a page description language document reader application, the packaged file presentation shell including one or more packaged file presentation nodes, the packaged file presentation shell, when instantiated, invoking at least one application plug-in thereby providing an interactive presentation of packaged files including at least one of audio, moving images, and videos included in at least one of the packaged files;

extracting, from a page description language document, descriptive metadata describing each of one or more packaged files and associative metadata associating one or more packaged files to at least one of the packaged file presentation nodes;

writing descriptive metadata to description portions of the packaged file presentation nodes for each packaged file, the file presentation node of each packaged file identified as a function of the associative metadata; and

generating and displaying a visual representation of the package file presentation shell populated with metadata and one or more selectable links to view one or more of the packaged files.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

extracting the packaged file presentation shell from the page description language document.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the metadata describing at least one of the packaged files of the page description language document includes an image to be presented within a packaged file presentation node when displayed.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the page description language document is a Portable Document Format (“

PDF”

) document.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein a file presentation node is a data structure within a packaged file presentation shell capable of holding data needed to instantiate a visual representation of the file presentation node, the data including one or more of:

linking metadata identifying a parent file presentation node;

associative metadata associating the file presentation node to one or more packaged file within the page description language document;

descriptive metadata describing each of the one or more packaged files associated to the file presentation node.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the linking metadata of a file presentation node, when not present, indicates that the file presentation node is at a highest level of a node hierarchy.