Patent ID: 8122347

Claim:
A document editing support device comprising: a processor; and a memory operably connected to the processor and configured to store a predetermined split ratio, wherein the processor is configured to obtain at least one object as data representing at least one of a text and an image included in a document as a target to be edited; the processor is further configured to extract two lines from at least one of a circumscribed polygon and a boundary and to set the extracted lines as reference lines, the circumscribed polygon being of an object other than a target object, a location of which is to be determined relative to at least one obtained object, and the boundary being of a layout area where objects are to be located in the document; the processor is configured to generate a virtual line that splits an interval between the two reference lines set at a split ratio stored in the memory; and the processor is further configured to determine a location of the target object, the location of which is to be determined, along the generated virtual line within the layout area.