Adobe, Inc.

Nathaniel McCully

Marilyn Shade

Heath A Lynn

Shinji Hiramatsu

Margie Vogel

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (). A first menu () having a user-selectable first creation mode and second creation mode are displayed on the display () to create a new electronic document in accordance with a user-input control instruction. A second menu () having previously set values for grid parameters demarcating an appropriate layout grid () for the new electronic document is displayed if the user selects the first creation mode. A layout grid () is created on each page of the electronic document by receiving a user approval of the values set in the second menu (). This eliminates the necessity of separately having to calculate page margins. Furthermore, when creating a frame grid () on a layout grid (), or when changing its dimensions, the frame and grid are always automatically coordinated.

Text grid creation tools

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display device is determined. If the height of the text is larger than a specified dimension for the grid, an arrangement region that includes the current line and at least one subsequent line is demarcated. A coordination line within the arrangement region according to a selected coordination mode is set and the plurality of characters is arranged within the arrangement region while coordinating the plurality of characters with the coordination line. This provides an electronic typesetting technology that can automatically and swiftly perform forced grid line spacing without requiring complicated manual operations by the user.

Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids

Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling leading. A region including a plurality of lines in data being typeset and displayed on a display device is specified. One of the lines in the plurality of lines is selected, and a user input is received to set a new leading value (S, S). The current leading value of the selected line is determined (S). The difference between the new leading value and the current leading value is determined (S). The spacing amount of the selected line based on the difference is adjusted. A desktop publishing system for controlling leading is also described.

Determining line leading in accordance with traditional Japanese practices

Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for calculating line leading. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving a first input specifying either a forward line leading model or a backward line leading mode and calculating line leading based on the input.

Line leading from an arbitrary point

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for coordinating grid tracking and character composition. A grid defining a layout of one or more lines of grid boxes is received. Each grid box can accommodate one full-width character and has a global track amount specified in an absolute unit. One or more of the grid boxes is populated with characters and associated spaces. The characters and their associated spaces in the one or more lines of grid boxes are tracked by an amount determined as a function of the global track amount and a proportion of an em for the characters and their associated spaces.

Coordinating grid tracking and mojikumi spacing of Japanese text

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for typesetting a text line of characters with different fonts or different sizes without the presence of a preset baseline in the font. A coordination line is set for the text line to coordinate the characters. The dimensions of each character to be typeset on the text line is first determined. An embox is determined for each character, where the vertical and horizontal size of each embox are the determined dimensions for the character. The characters are compared with at least one preselected reference character of the same font, and a coordination point is determined for each character in its embox, based on the result of the comparison with the reference character. Finally the coordination point is coordinated for each of the characters with the coordination line in order to typeset the characters on the text line.

Method for calculating CJK emboxes in fonts

A method and apparatus of a layout editing system for arranging page structural elements in an electronic document. An electronic document having a grid provided with a plurality of first attraction points is displayed on a display device. A page structural element whose outline is demarcated by a frame on the electronic document is also displayed on the display device. The page structural element is provided with a plurality of attractive second attraction points to adjust its position in accordance with the plurality of first attraction points. Upon detecting that the cursor is positioned inside the frame of the page structural element and that the button of a pointing device linked to the cursor is pressed down, the page structural element is held and only the second attraction point nearest to the cursor is selected from among the plurality of second attraction points to be an attractive state. A probe point is set to keep the relative positional relationship of the second attraction point and the cursor at that time. When the pointing device is operated and the cursor is moved, the second attraction point that has been made attractive to the movement of the cursor is moved and attracted to the first attraction point nearest the probe point, and the page structural element is moved accordingly.

Smart corner move snapping

Methods and apparatus for composite font editing in a DTP system. A font file stores multiple different fonts. A composite font editor can select two or more different fonts to create a composite font. A composite font file stores the created composite font. The composite font editor can display a composite font dialog box on the screen of a display device. The composite font dialog box contains a sample window with sample text of the composite font. An icon is provided for controlling display/non-display of at least one reference line associated with the font of the sample text displayed in the sample window in response to a user input.

Composite font editing device and computer program

Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount in a DTP system. An inter-character class spacing amount setting table for use in line composition groups similar characters, forms a several character classes and sets inter-character spacing amounts between a character class of a previous character and a character class of a next character within a pair of continuous characters. A user can select a basic settings mode for setting the inter-character spacing amount using a character class relationship table defining a relationship between the character class for the previous character and the character class for the next character; or a detailed settings mode for setting the inter-character spacing amount directly without using the character class relationship table. A display device for displaying electronic text that has been line composed and an input device for receiving user input are provided.

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Nathaniel McCully