US2015082154A1PendingUtilityA1

Method and system for dynamic flowing data to an arbitrary path defined by a page description language

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Individually held — no corporate assignee on recordPriority: Nov 9, 1998Filed: Nov 20, 2014Published: Mar 19, 2015
Est. expiryNov 9, 2018(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:James Robert Walker
G06F 3/0483G06F 17/212G06T 11/60G06F 40/106
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Abstract

Improvements to a method for flowing variable data, such as text data, image data, bar code data, and the like, into a path of a template defined by a PDL specification in a high-speed printing operation.

Claims

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         16 . A method for generating a multi-page representation of text, comprising:
 receiving a page description file, the page description file defining at least a boundary;   receiving text data;   receiving an attribute corresponding to the page description file, the attribute, when applied, defining an aspect of the appearance of the text data;   generating a representation of the text data and, during the generating step, applying the attribute to the text data;   flowing a first portion of the representation of the text data into a first instance of the boundary according to at least one flow rule; and   flowing a second portion of the representation of the text data into a second instance of the boundary.   
     
     
         17 . The method according to  claim 16 , wherein the second portion is a subset of the first portion. 
     
     
         18 . The method according to  claim 16 , wherein the first instance is on a first page, and wherein the second instance is on a second page. 
     
     
         19 . The method according to  claim 16 , wherein the text data is external to the page description file. 
     
     
         20 . The method according to  claim 16 , comprising:
 associating at least the boundary with the text data.   
     
     
         21 . The method according to  claim 16 , wherein the flowing of the first portion of the representation of the text data into the first instance of the boundary according to the at least one flow rule is part of creating a first page of a book. 
     
     
         22 . The method according to  claim 21 , wherein the flowing of the second portion of the representation of the text data into the second instance of the boundary is part of creating a second page of the book. 
     
     
         23 . The method according to  claim 22 , wherein the second page is the next page after the first page of the book.

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