Patent ID: 6993709

Claim:
A layout editing system for arranging page structural elements in an electronic document, comprising: a display device; a first supply device to provide an electronic document having a plurality of first attraction points arranged on a grid to the display device; a second supply device to provide a page structural element on the electronic document, the page structural element having a plurality of second attraction points to adjust a position of the page structural element; a movement device to move said page structural element without deformation to a desired location in said electronic document in response to a manual user operation; and an attraction state control to control attraction of the plurality of second attraction points that can be activated so that only a single one of the plurality of second attraction points is set as attractive to snap the page structural element to a first attraction point while said page structural element is being moved by said movement device and the remaining second attraction points of the plurality of second attraction points are set as non-attractive.