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2. A wide selection of devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, compact
audio and video players, and so forth would be available for interact-
ing with such digitally enhanced printed media.
Rather than exploring different technologies and methods for document
enhancing, in the following sections we will focus on the design and devel-
opment of a more general, code independent, newsputer software environ-
ment for composition, management, deployment and utilization of digitally
enhanced printed materials. Our target is to create an experimental software
environment that we could use for tests and evaluations in the course of
our newsputer-related research project. The developed newsputer soft-
ware, however, will also play an important role in the envisaged newsputer
infrastructure.
9.4 The Newsputer Software Environment
Our newsputer software environment is meant to support both publishers
and readers and should therefore provide at least two separately adjustable
frames of access to the related digitally enhanced document content. The
publisher's frame of access is mainly dedicated to the digital code attachment
and management process and is maintained by the Code Attachment System
(CAS). The reader's frame of access on the other hand enables users to get
instant feedback with targeted digital content and is maintained by the
Reader Support System (RSS). In addition to the two main frames of access
we also provide a maintainer's frame of access handled by the Maintainer
Support System (MSS).
9.4.1 Code attachment System (CaS)
Within the publisher's frame of access, CAS exposes the following
functionality:
1. Importing and initial setup of digital page content for printed
pages
2. Definition of code related domains and matching to document
layouts by
Employing code data templates
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Manual adjustment of code domains
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Link attachment and editing
