METHOD FOR FORMATTING TEXT FOR DISPLAY ON AN E-READER

摘要

A method and system for laying out a text for displaying on an e-Reader is described, the method and system including receiving a laid out version of the text, the laid out version being laid out for printing, the laid out version including articles to be printed on a first page of text, the first page of text including a plurality of articles, each one of the plurality articles being one of fully displayed on the first page of text, and continued on a second page of text, preparing a first e-Reader page view and a second e-Reader page view for displaying on the e-Reader the first e-Reader page view including any of truncated and full versions of the plurality of articles, and the second e-Reader page view corresponding to the first e-Reader page view, the second e-Reader page view including full versions of the plurality of articles, the preparing including a) proportionally shrinking the laid out version of the text whereby the laid out version of the text is made to fit on a display of the e-Reader, b) identifying a first group of articles, the first group of articles including articles that fall below a predetermined minimum text size on the display of the e-Reader, c) changing the identified first group of articles so that the identified first group of articles exceed the predetermined minimum text size on the display of the e-Reader, d) truncating the changed identified first group of articles in the first e-Reader page view, maintaining a complete version of the truncated first group of articles in the second e-Reader page view, f) identifying a second group of articles, the second group of articles including articles including column text that falls beneath a minimum threshold column width, g) reducing the number of columns in any article among the second group of articles identified as including column text that falls beneath the minimum threshold column width, h) truncating the changed identified articles among the second group of articles in the first e-Reader page view, i) maintaining a complete version of the truncated articles among the second group of articles in the second e-Reader page view, j) iteratively repeating steps f - i until the first e- Reader page view and the corresponding second e-Reader page view are completely laid out, k) producing a first file including the text in the first e-Reader page view and a second file including the text in the second e-Reader page view, wherein the second e-Reader page view includes a vertical expansion of the first e-Reader page view. Related apparatus, systems and methods are also described.