Patent ID: 7747947
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of creating a document in a computer system, the document having an allocated area in which information is placed, the method comprising: i. providing a set of content-items for the document, each content-item containing information to be displayed by the computer system in the allocated area of the document, and each content-item having one or more sides; ii. selecting two of the content-items of the document to be combined with sides of common length in the computer system; iii. adjusting dimensions of at least one of the two selected content-items of the document in the computer system to provide the two selected content-items with the sides of common length, including adjusting a length of at least one of the sides of the at least one of the two selected content-items and resizing the information contained in the at least one of the two selected content-items, while keeping the aspect-ratio of the information contained in the at least one of the two selected content-items substantially constant; iv. combining in the computer system the two selected content-items of the document along the sides of common length to reduce the number of content-items in the set by one; v. repeating steps ii., iii., and iv. in the computer system until one content-item remains that is a composition of the set of content-items for the document; vi. placing the composition of the set of content-items for the document into the allocated area of the document; and vii. causing the computer system to activate a printing means to print the document.