Method and system for propagating object properties in a desktop publishing program
US6038567A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 19, 1998 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99944
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A desktop publishing software program configured to propagate object content-defining and format-defining object properties so that user-defined object properties automatically propagate to other objects in the document. Object property propagation allows the author of the document to edit a number of linked objects by editing just one of the objects. To enable object property propagation, the desktop publishing software program includes a propagation table for each predefined layout. Each document is constructed from a number of components, and multiple instances of the same component may occur in a document. Each object has a name including an identifier and an instance code. The desktop publishing software program supports the following object property propagation rules, which may be applied to content properties and format properties separately: (1) do not propagate to any other objects; (2) propagate to objects in the same component whose identifiers belong to the same content or format group; (3) propagate to objects in the same document whose identifiers belong to the same content or format group; (4) propagate to objects in other components of the same document with the sam…
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