Method and apparatus for determining the location of the contents of bordered areas of a generic form

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus and method are disclosed for incorporating a topological two-dimensional partitioning procedure for dynamically creating, revising storing, displaying and printing generic forms. The generic form comprises a plurality of bordered areas. Each of the bordered areas may be included within a larger bordered area, and each of the bordered areas may contain a plurality of nonoverlapping smaller bordered areas text, or graphics. The text includes none one or more lines, of characters and the smaller bordered areas are arranged either vertically or horizontally with relation to each other.