Patent ID: 7296224

Claim:
A method for assigning a total quantity of graphical images in an image list to a total quantity of pages, comprising: receiving user input including the graphical images and the total quantity of pages; allocating a first quantity of graphical images to each page of a first quantity of pages, wherein the allocating a first quantity of graphical images includes determining a number of graphical images per page by dividing the total quantity of graphical images by the total quantity of pages input by the user and rounding down; and determining a remainder of the first quantity of graphical images by determining an integer value equal to the total quantity of graphical images minus the number of graphical images per page multiplied by the total quantity of pages and allocating the first quantity of graphical images to the first quantity of pages, wherein the first quantity of pages is equal to the total quantity of pages minus the integer value; and allocating a second quantity of graphical images, the second quantity of graphical images being one more image than the first quantity of graphical images, to each page of a second quantity of pages, such that the remainder of the first quantity of graphical images are automatically distributed to the second quantity of pages in response to a user providing only the graphical images and the total quantity of pages as input.