Patent ID: 8812952

Claim:
A method for determining an effective aspect ratio for a selected project that provides for project pages, a page orientation and an aspect ratio group of two or more available page sizes having different aspect ratios, and displaying a project page at the effective aspect ratio in an executable graphical user interface (GUI) during editing, said method being carried out by a system for creating and editing image- and/or text-based projects, wherein the system has access to a digital storage medium containing the executable GUI, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining, for each page size in a respective aspect ratio group, a viewable area of a respective page size; (b) calculating aspect ratio values from viewable aspect ratios of all the viewable areas in the aspect ratio group of two or more available page sizes; (c) calculating an error value for a total amount of error present for the aspect ratio values from the viewable aspect ratios of all the viewable areas in the aspect ratio group relative to a given aspect ratio value; (d) repeating step (c) for at least one additional given aspect ratio value and determining the effective aspect ratio that produces a smallest error value for the total amount of error, and (e) displaying a respective project page at the determined effective aspect ratio that produces the smallest error value for the aspect ratio values.