Artboard Generator Transparent Rendition Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional software systems for creating digital canvases lack user control over the initial characteristics and positioning of new artboards, requiring users to resize or adjust them after creation and copy content from existing documents, which is inefficient.
Innovation Solution
An artboard generator that creates new artboards based on the characteristics of an active artboard, allowing users to select the initial position and dimensions, and providing a transparent rendition for placement, enabling alignment snapping with existing artboards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional systems create a new document according to default characteristics, then the creation process is simple and fast, but the user has no control over the initial position and characteristics of the new document
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines the placement position of the new document based on the current mouse pointer position, eliminating the need for user intervention to specify position while maintaining user control through the visual feedback of the transparent rendition
2Extent of automation
If conventional systems place the new document at a default position, then the system automatically manages document positioning, but the user cannot select the initial position of the new document with respect to other documents
Solution Approach 1:
A transparent rendition is introduced as an intermediary between the user's placement intent and the actual document creation. This transparent rendition allows the user to visually determine the placement position while the system automatically processes the placement based on the transparent rendition's position
3Productivity
If conventional systems copy an existing document to create a new document with the same characteristics, then the new document inherits all properties of the existing document, but the user must spend time deleting unwanted content from the copied document
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts only the necessary characteristics (dimensions, format properties) from the active document while deliberately excluding the content. This allows the new document to inherit the desired structural properties without copying the content, eliminating the need to delete unwanted content
4Adaptability or versatility
If the user wants the new document to have different characteristics from the existing document, then the user can specify custom characteristics, but the creation process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality settings to different aspects of document creation: by default, new documents inherit characteristics from the active document for consistency, but users can locally override specific characteristics (such as dimensions) when needed, without having to reconfigure the entire document creation process
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus provide for an artboard generator that detects a selection to create a new artboard on a digital canvas. The artboard generator provides a transparent rendition of the new artboard on the digital canvas and performs a placement operation of the new artboard. Upon completion of the placement operation, the artboard generator converts the transparent rendition of the new artboard to an opaque rendition of the new artboard. The artboard generator detects a selection to create a second new artboard. The artboard generator defines characteristics of the second new artboard in accordance with characteristics of the resized new artboard. The artboard generator provides a transparent rendition of the second new artboard and performs a placement operation of the second new artboard. Upon completion of the placement operation, the artboard generator converts the second new artboard from a transparent rendition to an opaque rendition.