System and method to automatically scale preformatted text within an electronic document for printing

Abstract

A method, a computer readable medium, a system and an apparatus for reducing clipping in a print job. In the method, a length of a line of text within a print job is determined. Additionally, a width of a print medium is determined. Furthermore, a clipping condition is determined to be present in response to the length of the line of text exceeding the width of the print medium. Moreover, the line of text is scaled in response to determining the clipping condition is present. The above mentioned method is further executed by computer instructions embedded within the computer readable medium. The system is configured to perform the above mentioned method utilizing a preformat detector configured to detect a clipping condition within a print job and a scaler configured to scale a line of text within the print job in response to the clipping condition being detected. The apparatus includes a printing device operable to perform the above mentioned method. In this regard, the apparatus receives a print job in markup language format from at least one of an application and an Internet appliance. A processing system within the printing device is configured to detect a clipping condition and modify the print job in response to detecting the clipping condition.

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