Systems and methods for creating a document having an allocated area in which information is placed are disclosed. Embodiments include providing a set of content-items which contain information to be displayed in the allocated area, and each having a one or more sides; selecting two content-items to be combined; combining the two selected content-items by a side of common length to reduce the number of content-items in the set by one; repeating steps ii. and iii. until one content-item remains that is a composition of the set of content-items; and causing the created document to be printed.