Abstract: The method comprises a first determining step 104, a measuring step 110, a second determining step 112, and a re-ordering step 114. In the first determining step 104, the method determines a line between adjacent center points of the original images. In the measuring step 110, the method measures, for each line, the shortest distance from the insertion point of the new image inserted on the page to said line. In the second determining step 112, the method determines the minimum of the shortest distances. Finally, in the re-ordering step 114, the method re-orders the one-dimensional list by inserting the new image in the list of original images at that position in the list corresponding to the line having the minimum shortest distance.

Abstract: The artwork is defined by a tree structure having leaf nodes comprising objects and parent nodes comprising graphical operators. Each node has fields storing values indicative of horizontal and vertical alteration rules applicable to that node or its sub-tree. The method comprises a selection step, a traversal step and two application steps. In the selection step (300) a target area is selected for fitting the artwork. In the traversal step, the method traverses the nodes of the tree structure (318,342,336,338) traversing one or more of the said nodes. In the first application step, the method applies, for each one of the traversed nodes that is a leaf node, a horizontal alteration rule (344). The horizontal rule re-positions each point within the object comprising the leaf node to another point within a target area, whereby altering the shape of the artwork in a horizontal direction.