Adobe, Inc.

Roey Horns

Oliver Isaac Goldman

Julian R Wixson

Stanley J Switzer

David E Williamson

Daniel J Clark

Habib Khalfallah

Clement Faydi

Kenneth Philbrick

David J Pond

Michael Vitrano

Steve L Flenniken

Michael Burbidge

The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved digital asset management and synchronization of a digital asset stored either within a component database or a packaged file. For example, the digital asset synchronization system enables a set of components that makes up a digital asset to appear as a singular packaged file, while also maintaining the benefits of having the digital asset made up of the components. In this manner, the digital asset synchronization system provides a bridge between a digital asset stored in a packaged file format and conventional file formats. In addition, the digital asset synchronization system also provides digital asset management and improved synchronization between a client device and a cloud storage system.

Managing digital assets stored as components and packaged files

The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved local and remote synchronization of digital assets. In particular, the digital asset synchronization system manages digital assets by separating each digital asset into multiple components stored as a set of distributed individual files. Employing individual components for a digital asset rather than single monolithic file enables the digital asset synchronization system to provide safe concurrent access to the digital asset from multiple applications on the same device and across different devices. In addition, using components for a digital asset provides the digital asset synchronization system with the ability to efficiently store and synchronize multiple versions of the digital asset, both locally and remotely.

Synchronization of components of digital assets during live co-editing

Component-based synchronization of digital assets

The present disclosure relates to a digital asset conflict resolution system that provides conflict resolution of composite-part-based synchronized digital assets. In particular, the digital asset conflict resolution system detects conflicts within composite-part-based digital assets and resolves the conflicts at a composite-part level (i.e., composite-part level) within the digital asset based on format-specific rules. In various embodiments, the digital asset conflict resolution system utilizes format-specific rules and rule sets to automatically resolve conflicts at the composite-part level within a digital asset without duplicating the digital asset and without requiring immediate user involvement.

Conflict resolution within synchronized composite-part-based digital assets

Two different representations of content are maintained, at least one of which is a composite representation of the content. The composite representation is multiple different components, each component stored as a separate file and each component including some of the data of the content. The composite representation also includes a manifest that identifies the various components. Different devices can edit the content, and access to the content is coordinated via a synchronization system. The synchronization system manages generation of one or more representations of the content. The synchronization system also manages synchronization of the different representations of the content, allowing changes made on various different computing devices to be reflected in the different representations of the content, and managing situations in which different computing devices may attempt to change the content concurrently.

Synchronizing different representations of content

In embodiments of document layer extraction for mobile devices, an image service can receive a request from a mobile device for a multi-layered image, and the image service generates a layer extraction as a full-resolution image of each of the layers of the multi-layered image. The image service can then generate a component representation of the layer extractions that correspond to selected layers of the multi-layered image, where the layer extractions are independently editable in the component representation. The image service can then communicate the component representation of the layer extractions that are independently editable and correspond to the selected layers of the multi-layered image to the mobile device for use with an image editing application on the mobile device, and the image service receives image edit changes made to one or more of the selected layers in the component representation of the multi-layered image from the mobile device.

Document layer extraction for mobile devices

In embodiments of document layer extraction for mobile devices, a cloud-based image service can receive a request from a mobile file browser for a multi-layered image, and the image service communicates an image preview and image layer previews of multiple layers of the multi-layered image to the mobile device for display. The image service generates a layer extraction that is a full-resolution image of each of the multiple layers of the multi-layered image. The image service can receive identifiers of layers that correspond to user selections of one or more image layer previews from the mobile device. The image service can then generate a component representation of the layer extractions that correspond to the identified layers of the multi-layered image, and then communicate the component representation of the identified layers to the mobile device.

Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the cursor movements. Determining may include searching a data structure, separate from the bitmap image, which includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image. A portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined selected text elements may be highlighted.

Text image review process

Techniques and structures that facilitate text operations in a bitmap-based document are described. In some embodiments, a bitmap image, as well as one or more data structures that may include text code data and text coordinate data, may be generated from an original document. Text coordinate data may relate a location of the text code data to a location in the bitmap image. In some embodiments, a bitmap representation of text and one or more data structures, that may include a set of coordinates of the bitmap representation of text and text code data corresponding to the set of coordinates and the bitmap image may be received. Text operations may be performed on the bitmap representation of text.

Text operations in a bitmap-based document

Systems and techniques manage commands generated through user interface dialogs. In general, in one implementation, commands resulting from interaction with controls of a dialog are received, and first and second commands are distinguished. The first command is held upon receipt to be performed later, and the second command is passed through the dialog to be performed upon receipt. Both of the commands are retained in a command sequence managed by a cancel control of the dialog. The dialog can include a preview control operable to specify whether effects of interaction with the controls are to be previewed. The first command can be subject to the preview control, while the second command is not subject to the preview control. Distinguishing between the commands can involve performing the second command but not the first command when the preview control specifies the effects of interaction are not to be previewed.

Management of commands generated through user interface dialogs

Processing electronic documents includes retrieving a first electronic document located in a reference directory specified by a first path and searching for a second electronic document purported to be specified by a second path. If the second electronic document is not located at the second path, continue searching in a directory higher than the reference directory.

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