Method and apparatus of creating highly portable output files by combining pages from multiple input files
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsScott David Mastie, Christopher Brian Hirsch
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating a highly portable output file is described. For one embodiment of the present invention, the output file is PostScript file that includes DSC comments. Document comments are created in the output file to reflect the document framework. Page comments are created in the output file to reflect one or more pages within the document framework. Inappropriate comments are removed from one or more pages within the output file.
Claims30
A computer implemented method of creating a highly portable output file, comprising:
- (a) creating document comments to reflect a document framework;
- (b) inserting pages from input files into the document framework;
- (c) creating page comments to reflect one or more pages within the document framework;
- (d) inserting the page comments into the pages inserted into the document framework;
- (e) determining comments in the inserted pages from the input files that are not relevant in a context of the inserted page in the document framework;
- (f) modifying comments in the inserted pages that are determined to not be relevant in the context of the document framework.
A system for creating a highly portable output file, including:
- a processor;
- an application program, on a computer useable medium, capable of causing the processor to perform:
- (a) creating document comments to reflect a document framework;
- (b) inserting pages from input files into the document framework;
- (c) creating page comments to reflect one or more pages within the document framework;
- (d) inserting the page comments into the pages inserted into the document framework;
- (e) determining comments in the inserted pages from the input files that are not relevant in a context of the inserted page in the document framework;
- (f) modifying comments in the inserted pages that are determined to not be relevant in the context of the document framework.
A machine readable medium having stored thereon data representing a sequence of instructions for creating a highly portable output file, the sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform:
- (a) creating document comments to reflect a document framework;
- (b) inserting pages from input files into the document framework;
- (c) creating page comments to reflect one or more pages within the document framework;
- (d) inserting the page comments into the pages inserted into the document framework;
- (e) determining comments in the inserted pages from the input files that are not relevant in a context of the inserted page in the document framework;
- (f) modifying comments in the inserted pages that are determined to not be relevant in the context of the document framework.
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