Print application

A print engine comprising:

• a discovery module operable to determine the capabilities of a printer for which a print job is to be generated, wherein said capabilities define file and instruction formats which can be printed by the printer;
• and
• a content formatter operable to process a document defining data for which a print job is to be generated by:
• analyzing the document to determine whether the document is in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer and if so passing the unprocessed document to the printer;
• if the document is not in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer, determining whether the document can be modified to remove incompatibilities between the format of the document and a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer without removing content from the document and if so making the determined modifications and passing the processed document to the printer;
• and
• if a document is not in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer and cannot be modified without changing the content of the document to become compatible with the capabilities of the printer, processing the document to generate print instructions compatible with the printer for representing the document and passing the generated instructions to the printer.

A computer readable medium storing computer interpretable instructions which when interpreted by a programmable computer cause the computer to :

• determine the capabilities of a printer for which a print job is to be generated, wherein said capabilities define file and instruction formats which can be printed by the printer;
• and
• pre-processing a document defining data for which a print job is to be generated by:
• analyzing the document to determine whether the document is in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer and if so passing the unprocessed document to the printer;
• if the document is not in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer, determining whether the document can be modified to remove incompatibilities between the format of the document and a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer without removing content from the document and if so making the determined modifications and passing the processed document to the printer;
• and
• if a document is not in a format compatible with the capabilities of the printer and cannot be modified without changing the content of the document to become compatible with the capabilities of the printer, processing the document to generate print instructions compatible with the printer for representing the document and passing the generated instructions to the printer.