Systems and methods for clipping images
AssigneePTI Marketing Technologies Inc.
InventorDouglas Neal Cogan
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing clipping paths for variable data publishing are disclosed. A clipping path element is part of a graphic editor that allows a user to define a clipping path in any shape including non-rectangular shapes and shapes made with curved segments. The original graphic is preserved and the clipping frame defines the portion of the image that is displayed or printed. A plurality of clipping paths can be defined and stored to a library. Rules based on nonvariable or variable data publishing data may be used to retrieve the clipping paths from the library. A new document is composed and rendered that includes a clipping path applied to a portion of an image or the text.
Claims40
A method for creating a document including a composite image, the method comprising:
- retrieving, based on a set of rules, a clipping path from a library, the clipping path having plurality of interconnected lines and vertices that defines a border;
- creating a variable data publishing template layout, the variable data publishing template layout having at least one variable data publishing field and a graphic frame wherein the set of rules are included within the variable data publishing template layout;
- generating the composite image based upon a plurality of images, the generating including clipping at least one of the plurality of images in accordance with the clipping path so that portions of the plurality of images are visible in the composite image based on the clipping path, the composite image being included within the graphic frame;
- composing a print file from a data file, the variable data template layout including the composite image, and composition options;
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- rendering a final document including the composite image and the at least one variable data publishing field.
A system for creating a document including a composite image, comprising:
- a composition subsystem, the composition subsystem configured for
- retrieving, based on a set of rules, a clipping path from a library, the clipping path having plurality of interconnected lines and vertices that defines a border;
- creating a variable data publishing template layout, the variable data publishing template layout having at least one variable data publishing field and a graphic frame wherein the set of rules are included within the variable data publishing template layout;
- generating the composite image based upon a plurality of images, the generating including clipping at least one of the plurality of images in accordance with the clipping path so that portions of the plurality of images are visible in the composite image based on the clipping path, the composite image being included within the graphic frame;
- composing a print file from a data file, the variable data template layout including the composite image, and composition options, the print file including one or more pre-rasterized objects;
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- a raster image processor configured for rasterizing the one or more pre-rasterized objects;
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- a printing subsystem configured for
- rendering a final document including the composite image and the at least one variable data publishing field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.