Print is undergoing a revolution as significant as the invention of the printing press. The emergence of ePaper
is a major disruption for the printing industry; defining a new medium with the potential to redefine publishing
in a way that is as different to today's Web, as the Web is to traditional print. In this new eBook ecosystem we
don't just see users as consumers of eBooks, but as active prosumers able to collaboratively create, customize
and publish their own eBooks. We describe a transclusive, collaborative publishing framework for the web.
Page breaking algorithms are responsible for the task of splitting the content of a document (text, images, footnotes, ...) into pages, respecting a set of rules stating where page breaks are allowed and where they should be avoided. In doing this, these algorithms should also guarantee that the content placed into each page fits the available area without leaving any unexpected space, but this desirable feature is not implemented in existing pagination applications, forcing users to manually adjust some properties (such as word spacing, letter spacing, etc.) to locally valid values page by page. We describe an algorithm that, on the contrary, works automatically and globally on the whole document, building a set of
page breaks that require a minimal set of adjustments in order to fill perfectly the available space. Users can guide the algorithm by setting a list of properties that can be modified; the list also specifies the priority order in the adjustment of these properties. The algorithm has been implemented into Apache FOP; the list of properties and the request for an optimized set of page breaks are set directly into the input files as extensions to the XSL-FO standard.
KEYWORDS: Visualization, Raster graphics, Chemical elements, Internet, Operating systems, MS office, Transform theory, Data conversion, Polishing, Computing systems
Vector graphics is increasingly gaining importance within the Word Wide Web community, because it allows users to create images that are easily manageable, modifiable and understandable. Two formats play a leading role among the languages for vector graphics: SVG and VML. Achieving a complete interoperability between these two languages means providing users a complete support for vector images across implementations, operating systems and media. In this paper we describe VectorConverter, a tool that allows easy, automatic and reasonably good conversion between two vector graphic formats, SVG and VML, and one raster format, GIF. This tool makes good translations between languages with very different functionalities and expressivity, by applying translation rules, approximation and heuristics. A high-level discussion about implementation details, open issues and future developments of VectorConverter is provided as well.
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16 January 2006 | San Jose, California, United States
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