Aesthetic measures for automated document layout

  • Authors:
  • Steven J. Harrington;J. Fernando Naveda;Rhys Price Jones;Paul Roetling;Nishant Thakkar

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY;Roetling Consulting;Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A measure of aesthetics that has been used in automated layout is described. The approach combines heuristic measures of attributes that degrade the aesthetic quality. The combination is nonlinear so that one bad aesthetic feature can harm the overall score. Example heuristic measures are described for the features of alignment regularity separation balance white-space fraction white-space free flow proportion uniformity and page security.