Print file preprocessing mechanism
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJustin Coulter, David Ward
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Abstract
A system is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors to receive a print job file including page content data, traverse each of a plurality of subset ranges of the page content data to generate page element metadata based on the page content data, wherein the page element metadata comprises identified page elements and the logical pages that correspond to the identified page elements, aggregate the page element metadata to generate print job structure metadata and store the print job structure metadata, wherein the print job structure metadata is stored separately from the print job file.
Claims23
A system comprising one or more processors to:
- receive a print job file including page content data;
- traverse each of a plurality of subset ranges of the page content data to generate page element metadata based on the page content data, wherein the page element metadata comprises identified page elements and logical pages that correspond to the identified page elements and page elements comprise operator and operand objects in the print job file that control line art;
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- aggregate the page element metadata to generate print job structure metadata, wherein the print job structure metadata identifies logical pages of the print job file to a RIP to enable center scan conversion or overscan conversion.
A method comprising:
- receiving a print job file including page content data;
- traversing each of a plurality of subset ranges of the page content data to generate page element metadata based on the page content data, wherein the page element metadata comprises identified page elements and logical pages that correspond to the identified page elements and page elements comprise operator and operand objects in the print job file that control line art;
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- aggregating the page element metadata to generate print job structure metadata, wherein the print job structure metadata identifies logical pages of the print job file to a RIP to enable center scan conversion or overscan conversion.
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to:
- receive a print job file including page content data;
- traverse each of a plurality of subset ranges of the page content data to generate page element metadata based on the page content data, wherein the page element metadata comprises identified page elements and logical pages that correspond to the identified page elements and page elements comprise operator and operand objects in the print job file that control line art;
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- aggregate the page element metadata to generate print job structure metadata, wherein the print job structure metadata identifies logical pages of the print job file to a RIP to enable center scan conversion or overscan conversion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.