We demonstrate a system supporting intention-driven multimedia document series production. We present mechanisms which build specifications of genre-compliant document series and which produce documents conforming to those specifications from existing finely indexed multimedia data sources.

Genre, like layout, is an important factor in effective communication, and automated tools which assist in genre compliance are thus of considerable value. Genres are reusable meta-structures, which exist independently of specific documents. This paper focuses on that part of the document production process which involves genre, and discusses a specific example in order to present the design rationale of mechanisms which assist in producing documents compliant with specific genre rules.

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This paper presents PageJokey, an object-oriented system for incrementally sketching multimedia templates, The goal is to provide designers with experimental feedback about the ultimate document, beginning from the earliest stages of design.Designers can use existing multimedia objects to create prototype templates, and incrementally generate and test draft versions of the final product using both bottom-up and top=down design approaches, PageJokey supports modular development, using the concepts of' reuse, abstraction and genericity for generating hypermedia documents.