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Altering a view of a document on a display of a computing device

  • US 9,063,637 B2
  • Filed: 09/23/2011
  • Issued: 06/23/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method that alters a view of a document comprising:

  • providing on a display of a computer processing device an editing view of a document at a zoom level such that input from a user can be received to edit content of the document;

    receiving a first input from the user requesting to zoom-out the editing view of the document from the zoom level;

    testing whether a resulting zoom level of the document is less than a threshold zoom level;

    altering the view of the document to provide a semantic zoom view of the document in response to determining the resulting zoom level is less than the threshold zoom level, wherein the semantic view of the document provides a plurality of thumbnails pages on the display and a heading pane comprising a plurality of headings contained in one or more pages of the document;

    receiving a second input from the user indicating a selection of one of the plurality of headings in the heading pane; and

    providing on the display of the computer processing device a subset of the plurality of thumbnail pages in the thumbnail pane in response to receiving the second input,wherein the subset of the plurality of thumbnail pages comprises a thumbnail page corresponding to the selection of one of the plurality of headings in the heading pane and a plurality of and preceeding and succeeding thumbnail pages to the thumbnail page.

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