Showing papers on "Page layout published in 1976"
07 Jun 1976
TL;DR: The AIDUS system is a hardware/software configuration which reads printed aircraft maintenance manuals, provides computer text-editing facilities for their update, and automatically republishes them onto microfilm, allowing the update of technical manuals at about one sixth the cost, and with a fraction of the turnaround time, of previously used cut-and-paste methods.
Abstract: The AIDUS system is a hardware/software configuration which reads printed aircraft maintenance manuals, provides computer text-editing facilities for their update, and automatically republishes them onto microfilm Page layout information is entered by a human operator at a digitizer tablet This information is used to guide an OCR system in the capture of the text The layout data is merged into the text output file, resulting in a computer readable file containing all the information from the original manuals except for the illustrations The latter are captured photographically on a roll of 105mm film, which is keyed to the text/page-layout information file by means of bar codes on each frame Updating of any aspect of the text or layout of the manual may be performed at CRT terminals using text editor programs Illustrations may be modified by re-drawing, re-photographing, and splicing the resulting frames of film into the 105mm illustration film at the appropriate locations After revision, the data file and 105mm illustration film are presented to the photocomposition portion of the system, which automatically produces a revised version of the manual, complete with optically merged illustrations and an index accommodating the revised pagination This system, in use in an actual working environment, allows the update of technical manuals at about one sixth the cost, and with a fraction of the turnaround time, of previously used cut-and-paste methods
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