Patent ID: 8572512

Claim:
A system for displaying an electronic document to a user of a computer system, the electronic document comprising an electronic representation of a document to be printed, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to execute a design tool, the design tool configured to display on a display a first display area having a portion of the electronic document displayed therein, and a second display area, displayed simultaneously with the first display area, the second display area having simultaneously displayed therein a representation of the printed product to be produced from the electronic document the representation including an outline indicating boundaries of the printed product, a location indicator and a position indicator simultaneously displayed over the second display area, the location indicator and the position indicator having a width and height that is scaled to match the portion of the electronic document displayed in the first display area, the location indicator located over an area of the printed product representation displayed in the second display area and indicating the location in the printed product of the portion of the electronic document currently displayed in the first display area, and the position indicator displayed when a cursor is present within the boundaries of the printed product representation, wherein the position indicator operates in a first state upon occurrence of a first event to dynamically follow movement of the cursor within the boundaries of the printed product representation while the position of the location indicator and the portion of the electronic document displayed in the first display area remain unchanged, and wherein the position indicator operates in a second state upon occurrence of a second event to reposition the location indicator to the location of the position indicator and to update the content of the first display area to display the portion of the electronic document indicated by the repositioned location indicator.