Authoring Tool and Method for Creating an Electrical Document

Abstract

An authoring tool for creating an electronic document, a method for creating the electronic document, a data storage medium for instructing a computer to execute the method for creating the electronic document and a data storage medium for instructing a computer to display the electronic document. The authoring tool comprises; a template module for selecting a template for the electronic document, the template comprising one or more display pages; a content management module for arranging one or more media files on each display page with selected interrelationships between the media files; a generating module for creating an electronic page file for each display page, wherein the media files are embedded in the respective electronic page files based on the selected interrelationships and in a manner such that each electronic page file includes interrelationship data defining the interrelationships of the embedded media files in said each electronic page file with other media files in said each electronic page file and with other media files in other electronic page files of the electronic document; and a binding module for electronically binding the respective electronic page files so as to create the electronic document.