Full column layouts in a content-driven template-based layout approach

Mobile devices are elemental part of our daily life, we use them to reach and consume digital data. A reasonable part of online documents have a fixed layout, like Adobe´s Portable Document Format (PDF). This inflexibility leads to a poor online reading experience, since the size and resolution of monitors and mobile devices require readers to scroll around in order to read a page. The challenge is to automatically adapt the whole digital magazine content, text and graphics, in order to articles look as good on tablet displays of any size as they do in printed media. We present a content-driven template-based layout approach that provides easy to use and understand language to define dynamically adapting layouts, a layout authoring environment and algorithms to render final magazine layouts. The approach targets online magazines and tabled devices. We believe that documents can look as good on a screen as they do in print, furthermore, because of the additional features, like navigation, interactivity, or animation, the on-screen reading experience will exceed paper-based reading.