Abstract: An electronic publication and methods and components thereof including a user interface. The electronic publication can be provided by e-mail or similar transmission add contains its own executable file for presentation of the publication without a user requiring a preloaded application software. The electronic publication addresses the processor for calculation and the operating system for increased functionality to minimize the size of the executable file and the publication as a whole. The publication contains a user interface incorporating a page-turn and provides a non-linear travel of the free edge of the tog page across a revealing page so as to imitate a substantially constant rotation of the page. The animation sequence throughout the page-turn is performed on the basis of actual elapsed time since commencement of the animation rather than at predetermined intervals so as to make the individual steps throughout the animation independent of the processor speed.

Abstract: This invention provides a realistic 3-dimensional graphical representation of a publication on a display means such as a computer monitor or virtual reality goggles in which the publication includes a smooth fluid page-turn. The user interface to provide the publication on the display allows a user to request a subsequent page and produce a sequence of animated frames of the publication with the page progressively turned and recalculates the rotation of the page with respect to the publication and the orientation of the publication with respect to the user for each frame. In this manner the user can move around the publication in 3D space while the page is turning and still obtain an accurate view of the publication from each new angle assumed by the user.

Abstract: This invention relates to a 3-dimensional font-engine for redrawing characters onto a display screen to represent characters on a page. A user may continuously change orientation with respect to that page in 3-dimensional space and the characters themselves are rotated and redrawn to the display means after each change of orientation. The text layout on the page is not considered as a single image but instead the basic font information in terms of characteristic control points defining the curves of the characters are rotated prior to the image being redrawn to the display screen.

Abstract: This invention relates to an electronic publication and methods and components thereof including a user interface. The electronic publication can be provided by e-mail or similar transmission add contains its own executable file for presentation of the publication without a user requiring a preloaded application software. The electronic publication addresses the processor for calculation and the operating system for increased functionality to minimize the size of the executable file and the publication as a whole. The publication contains a user interface incorporating a page-turn and provides a non-linear travel of the free edge of the tog page across a revealing page so as to imitate a substantially constant rotation of the page. The animation sequence throughout the page-turn is performed on the basis of actual elapsed time since commencement of the animation rather than at predetermined intervals so as to make the individual steps throughout the animation independent of the processor speed.

Abstract: This invention relates to systems and methods for producing or providing electronic publications. A client wanting an electronic publication and obtain access to server across the Internet to request the compilation of an electronic publication. The client may provide the source files in the form of standard format files such as .PDF files and these may be used to generate an electronic publication, preferably in assembly language, incorporating additional technology such as a compiled multi-page document with a page-turn. Rather than supply software to the client for the client to produce their own publications, the client may pay as they go with a transaction taking place with each new file compiled. This also reduces the need to support distributed software and makes incrementally developing features of the software available to all clients upon introduction of the features into a group of selectable features for inclusion in the executable program forming the publication.

Abstract: This invention relates to the provision of a realistic 3-dimensional graphical representation of a publication on a display means such as a computer monitor or virtual reality goggles in which the publication includes a smooth fluid page-turn. The user interface to provide the publication on the display allows a user to request a subsequent page and produce a sequence of animated frames of the publication with the page progressively turned and recalculates the rotation of the page with respect to the publication and the orientation of the publication with respect to the user for each frame. In this manner the user can move around the publication in 3D space while the page is turning and still obtain an accurate view of the publication from each new angle assumed by the user.

Abstract: This invention relates to a 3-dimensional font-engine for redrawing characters onto a display screen to represent characters on a page. A user may continuously change orientation with respect to that page in 3-dimensional space and the characters themselves are rotated and redrawn to the display means after each change of orientation. The text layout on the page is not considered as a single image but instead the basic font information in terms of characteristic control points defining the curves of the characters are rotated prior to the image being redrawn to the display screen.