An automatic pagination method for editorial material clearly seems to be necessary for on-line publishing where interactive pagination is too slow or expensive. The desired quality of the results naturally determines how heavy an approach should be used. If the minimization of empty space is not as important as just roughly deciding which articles to put on which page, and if a rough layout is sufficient, a simple heuristic method is probably the wisest choice. The same holds if the pagination must be carried out run-time as part of a user interface on computer screen. In fax newspapers, where the criterion of empty space minimization is stricter and more time may be spent per page, the simulated annealing approach of the last case study, SA2, might be used, enhanced with some of the advanced features of the VIPÊ . The future versions of SA2 might include at least controlling the distances between horizontal article borders and implementation of the user controllike implemented in VIPÊ . The implementation of such goals and constraints in the cost function is straightforward, and the balance between different goals is easily adjustable, unlike in the heuristic search approach, where each heuristic must be implemented and carefully tested to ensure that goal states can still be found.