Method and apparatus for determining a location of data in an open specification environment
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorKatherine E. Hayes
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Abstract
A comment is compared to path mappings within a network for identifying a potential pathname of output data for an object within the publication data. If the output data is does not exist at the potential pathname, the comment is compared to search paths within the network to identify the potential pathname of the output data within the publication data. The potential pathname is substituted for the comment in the publication data. The publication data is prescanned. Optionally, the output data is gathered at a local disk. The publication data is output to an output medium via an output device.
Claims21
A method for determining a location of an image referenced within a stream of document data, the method comprising:
- finding a comment within the data stream;
- and
- determining a location of the image as a function of the comment.
A method for outputting publication data to an output medium via an output device, the method comprising:
- at least one of:
- comparing a comment within the publication data to path mappings to identify a potential pathname of data for an object within the publication data;
- and
- comparing the comment to search paths to identify the potential pathname of the object data within the publication data;
- prescanning the publication data for verifying the potential pathname;
- substituting the verified pathname for the comment in the publication data;
- retrieving the data based on the verified pathname and inserting the object data into the publication data;
- and
- outputting the publication data to the output medium via the output device.
A system for outputting a high-resolution version of an image on a medium, comprising:
- a processing device for identifying, as a function of at least one of a) a mapping and b) a search path and as a function of a comment representing a low-resolution version of the image, a storage location within a processing network, data corresponding to a high-resolution version of the image being saved at the storage location;
- and
- an output device, communicating with the processing device, for producing the high-resolution version of the image on the medium as a function of the data saved at the storage location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.