The COG Scrapbook technology is an attempt to by the authors to convert their COG technology into a usable suite of software for typical end-users, rather than Document Engineering specialists.This demonstration illustrates the four major components of ...

The Document Description Framework (DDF) [1] is a representation for variable-data documents, designed to support very high flexibility in the type and extent of variation, considerably beyond 'copy-hole' or flow-based mechanisms of existing formats and ...

Document representations can rapidly become unwieldy if they try to encapsulate all possible document properties, ranging from abstract structure to detailed rendering and layout.We present a composite document approach wherein an XML-based document ...

Recent developments of document technologies have strongly impacted the evolution of Web clients over the last fifteen years, but all Web clients have not taken the same advantage of this advance. In particular, mainstream tools have put the emphasis on ...

Fully automatic machine translation cannot produce high quality translation; Dialog-Based Machine Translation (DB-MT) is the only way to provide authors with a means of translating documents in languages they have not mastered, or do not even know. With ...

Collaboration is heavily based on sharing documents. However, most groupware toolkits do not directly support document sharing, but rather focus on supporting mechanisms such as remote concurrent access to shared objects. We propose the notion of event ...

Stylesheets and batch transformations are the most widely used techniques to transform "abstract" documents into target presentation documents. Despite the recent introduction of incremental transformations, several important features required by ...

This paper presents a new approach to text processing, based on textemes. These are atomic text units generalising the concepts of character and glyph by merging them in a common data structure, together with an arbitrary number of user-defined ...

In this paper we present an experimental content adaptation system for mobile devices. The system enables the presentation of multimedia content and considers the problem of small screen display of mobile terminals. The approach combines structural and ...

The pagination strategy of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL:FO) is based on a "break if no fit" approach that often produces one last page with only one printable object due to a lack of space on the previous page. On a batch, high volume, personalized ...

This paper proposes an extension of the XSL-FO standard which allows the specification of an unlimited number of arbitrarily shaped page regions. These extensions are built on top of XSL-FO 1.1 to enable flow content to be laid out into arbitrary shapes ...

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has an imaging model similar to that of PostScript and PDF but the XML basis of SVG allows it to participate fully, via namespaces, in generalised XML documents.There is increasing interest in using SVG as a Page ...

The Document Description Framework (DDF) is a representation for variable-data documents. It supports very high flexibility in the type and extent of variation supported, considerably beyond the 'copy-hole' or flow-based mechanisms of existing formats ...

Creating truly dynamic documents from disparate components is not an easy process, especially for untrained end users. Existing packages such as Adobe InDesign or Quark XPress are designed for graphic-arts professionals and even these are not optimised ...

In this paper, we present a method for structuring a document according to the information present in its Table of Contents. The detection of the ToC as well as the determination of the parts it refers to in the document body rely on a series of generic ...

Much of the work in engineering complex documents has been on building a path from a document model (or document abstraction) to one or more instances of that document during a publication phase. While many approaches exist to help create multiple ...