Resolution independent effects in a graphics application

• US 8,847,993 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Duggal, Ashish, Shivrastava, Ajay, Agarwal, Pushp Parag
• Primary Examiner(s): Martello, Edward
• Application Number:
  US12/637,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20130141465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,750 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/203 Drawing of straight lines or curves

Abstract

Methods and apparatus provide for a Resolution Parameter Modifier. The Resolution Parameter Modifier detects a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution. The Resolution Parameter Modifier identifies a resolution dependent parameter(s) associated with a graphical effect(s) applied upon a graphical object(s) in a document, where the graphical object was previously converted from a vector-based object to a raster-based object. The resolution dependent parameter is defined to scale a visual result of the graphical effect with respect to a given document resolution. The Resolution Parameter Modifier updates the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution. As the document is rendered at the second resolution, the Resolution Parameter Modifier re-executes the graphical effect on the graphical object in accordance with an updated resolution dependent parameter(s).

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

detecting, by a computing device, a modification of a resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution;

identifying a resolution dependent parameter associated with a user-created raster-based graphical effect, the resolution dependent parameter defined to scale a visual result of the user-created raster-based graphical effect with respect to a given resolution, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect includes user-generated content and is executable on a graphical object;

in response to receiving a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object when the graphical object is in a vector-based form, executing the raster-based graphical effect by implicitly converting the graphical object into the raster-based form prior to applying the raster-based graphical effect without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object;

updating, by the computing device, the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution; and

re-executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object to render the graphical object as a raster-based object in accordance with the updated resolution dependent parameter.

2. The computer-implemented method as in claim 1, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect is re-executed on the graphical object prior to rendering the graphical object as the raster-based object.

3. The computer-implemented method as in claim 1, wherein identifying the resolution dependent parameter includes identifying the graphical object in a document, and wherein the request to apply the raster-based graphical effect includes an explicit user request to convert the graphical object from the vector-based form to a raster-based form.

4. The computer-implemented method as in claim 3, wherein updating the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution includes updating a resolution dependent parameter associated with a preceding raster-based graphical effect, the preceding raster-based graphical effect applied to the graphical object before receipt of the explicit user request.

5. The computer-implemented method as in claim 4, wherein executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object comprises executing the preceding raster-based graphical effect utilizing the updated resolution dependent parameter associated with the preceding raster-based graphical effect.

6. The computer-implemented method as in claim 4, wherein executing the updated raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object includes:

executing a plurality of raster-based graphical effects on the graphical object according to a sequence, the sequence comprising an order in which corresponding preceding raster-based graphical effects were applied prior to receiving the explicit user request.

7. The computer-implemented method as in claim 1, wherein:

detecting a modification of the resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution includes detecting a request to drag the graphical object from a first displayed document to a second displayed document, the first displayed document set at the first resolution, the second displayed document set at the second resolution;

updating the resolution dependent parameter includes updating the resolution dependent parameter associated with the raster-based graphical effect applied to the graphical object in response to a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object when it was in the vector-based form;

and

re-executing the graphical effect on the graphical object includes executing an updated raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object as the graphical object is placed within the second document, wherein the updated raster-based graphical effect utilizes the resolution dependent parameter updated in accordance with the second resolution.

8. The computer-implemented method as in claim 1, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect is re-executed on the graphical object as the graphical object is rendered at the second resolution by the computing device.

9. The computer-implemented method as in claim 1, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect includes one or more functionalities of a software application executing on the computing device.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon, that if executed by a computerized device, cause the computerized device to perform processing, the instructions comprising:

instructions for detecting a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution;

instructions for identifying a resolution dependent parameter associated with a user-created raster-based graphical effect, the resolution dependent parameter defined to scale a visual result of the user-created raster-based graphical effect with respect to a given resolution, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect includes user-generated content and is executable on a graphical object;

in response to receiving a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object when the graphical object is in a vector-based form, instructions for executing the raster-based graphical effect by implicitly converting the graphical object into the raster-based form prior to applying the raster-based graphical effect without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object;

instructions for updating the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution;

instructions for re-executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object to render the graphical object as a raster-based object in accordance with the updated resolution dependent parameter.

11. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 10, wherein the instructions for re-executing the user-created raster-based graphical effect comprise instructions for re-executing the user-created raster-based graphical effect prior to rendering the graphical object as the raster-based object.

12. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 11, wherein the instructions for identifying the resolution dependent parameter include instructions for identifying the graphical object in a document, and wherein the request to apply the raster-based graphical effect includes an explicit user request to convert the graphical object from the vector-based form to a raster-based form.

13. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 12, wherein the instructions for updating the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution include:

instructions for updating a resolution dependent parameter associated with a preceding raster-based graphical effect, the preceding raster-based graphical effect applied to the graphical object before receipt of the explicit user request.

14. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 13, wherein the instructions for re-executing the raster-based graphical effect include:

instructions for executing an updated raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object as the document is rendered at the second resolution, wherein the updated raster-based graphical effect comprises the preceding raster-based graphical effect utilizing the updated resolution dependent parameter associated with the preceding raster-based graphical effect.

15. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 13, wherein the instructions for re-executing the raster-based graphical effect include:

instructions for executing a plurality of updated raster-based graphical effects on the graphical object according to a sequence, the sequence comprising an order in which corresponding preceding raster-based graphical effects were applied prior to receiving the explicit user request.

16. The computer readable storage medium as in claim 10, wherein:

the instructions for detecting a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution include instructions for detecting a request to drag the graphical object from a first displayed document to a second displayed document, the first displayed document set at the first resolution, the second displayed document set at the second resolution;

the instructions for updating the resolution dependent parameter include instructions for updating the resolution dependent parameter associated with the raster-based graphical effect applied to the graphical object in response to a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object when it was in the vector-based form; and

the instructions for re-executing the graphical effect and executing the raster-based graphical effect include instructions for implicitly converting the graphical object into the raster-based form without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object, as the graphical object is placed within the second document.

17. A computer system comprising:

a processor;

a memory unit that stores instructions associated with an application executable by the processor; and

an interconnect coupling the processor and the memory unit, the interconnect enabling the computer system to execute the application and perform operations of;

detecting a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution;

identifying a resolution dependent parameter associated with a user-created raster-based graphical effect, the resolution dependent parameter defined to scale a visual result of the user-created raster-based graphical effect with respect to a given document resolution, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect includes user-generated content and is executed on a graphical object in response to a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object, wherein the request is received when the graphical object was in a vector-based form, and wherein executing the raster-based graphical effect includes implicitly converting the graphical object into the raster-based form prior to applying the raster-based graphical effect without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object;

updating the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution; and

re-executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object to render the graphical object as a raster-based object, the re-executing utilizing the updated resolution dependent parameter.

18. The computer system as in claim 17, wherein:

detecting a modification of a document resolution setting from a first resolution to a second resolution includes detecting a request to drag the graphical object from a first displayed document to a second displayed document, the first displayed document set at the first resolution, the second displayed document set at the second resolution;

application of the raster-based graphical effect includes implicitly converting the graphical object from the vector-based form to the raster-based form without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object; and

re-executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object is performed as the graphical object is placed within the second document.

19. A method comprising:

receiving a request to change a resolution of a document from a first resolution to a second resolution, the document comprising a graphical object having a vector-based form;

identifying a graphical effect applied upon the graphical object;

identifying a user-created raster-based graphical effect including user-generated content and to be applied to the graphical object in response to a request to apply the user-created raster-based graphical effect to the graphical object;

in response to receiving a request to apply the raster-based graphical effect when the graphical object is in a vector-based form, executing the raster-based graphical effect by implicitly converting the graphical object into the raster-based form prior to applying the raster-based graphical effect without receiving an explicit request to convert the graphical object;

identifying a resolution dependent parameter associated with the graphical effect and the raster-based graphical effect, the resolution dependent parameter defined to scale a visual result of the graphical effect and the raster-based graphical effect with respect to a given resolution;

updating the resolution dependent parameter in accordance with the second resolution; and

re-executing, using the updated resolution dependent parameter, the graphical effect on the graphical object and executing the raster-based graphical effect on the graphical object to render the graphical object in a raster-based form.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the user-created raster-based graphical effect is re-executed on the graphical object as the document is rendered on a display of a computing device at the second resolution.