Automated page make-up: How it works?
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How it works?
•The software opens, one by one, the pages that belong to the same APM category, or - as an alternative - it handles already opened pages or only the current page. The assigning of APM categories to the pages is to be carried out in the ads plan, or any time later but anyway before the APM session.
•The software analyses the empty space on the first editorial layer of each page and identifies the dimensions and the positions of the editorial holes.
•Considered the size of the empty space, the software finds the suitable object library, designed for such hole. locates the shapes that will fit in the content hole, searching in the pre-prepared libraries of objects. Libraries are supposed to contain a huge set of shapes, practically the most frequently used good page layouts, corresponding to the variety of available holes.
•Finding a shape, software puts it on the page, respecting its usage: if the randomize functionality is turned on, it picks a random unused shape. If the shape is already used, it picks the first unused shape.
•The shapes are “content-marked”. It means that some shapes are marked as “lead story”, others as “side story”, and so on. The software creates on the fly the list of all unlinked candidates, residing in the specific folder, and having the same content marker.
•Moreover, the shapes are metered, that means measured for capacity. The software “knows” how many characters of the given typeface, size and leading can fit into headline, body and photo caption. So it uses this info to locate the “best fitting article” among the candidates for that content marker, e.g. lead story.
•When the article is found, it gets linked to the shape and takes the formatting from the shape, and applies styles.
•The last step is fitting. The fitting can be typographical, with the slight changes of letter spacing, word spacing and similar. Moreover, software is able to scale the article image without distorting it, of course, to make more space for the text, or to cover more area with the image, if the text is too short.
•Finally, the software displays the report so the user can tell how long the pagination took, how many articles were paginated, and on which pages the content is still to be adjusted, because not fitting.
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