System and method for identifying line breaks

Abstract

Method, system, and computer code for preparing markup language documents containing multi-line text elements for WYSIWYG printing. The document is rendered in a prepress server system by a duplicate of the browser that was used to prepare the document in the client system. User-imposed line breaks are identified by reviewing text elements for break characters. Browser-imposed line breaks are identified by comparing spatial location information from the browser for each sequential pair of characters in a text element. The collective line break information is used to ensure that the line breaks viewed by the user are maintained when the document is converted to a prepress system.

1 . A markup language document conversion system comprising
 a server configured to receive a markup language document from a remote client,   a browser program running on the server, the browser program being substantially a duplicate of the browser program used to create the document,   a conversion program, running on the server and communicating with the browser program, for identifying all user-inserted line breaks and all browser imposed line breaks in the document, and   a rendering program, running on the server and communicating with the conversion program, for receiving the document and the line break information from the conversion program and converting the document to a prepress format.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the markup language document comprises at least one multi-line text element resulting in the imposition of at least one browser imposed line break in the document.