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US 6,547,831 B1Granted
Method of generating documents having variable data fields
OwnerTodd Kuenyinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of converting documents described by a stream of lexographic language statements to allow the use of variable data fields and variable symantic attributes, where the data used to control the contents and appearance of variable graphic elements of which the document is comprised may be stored external to the descriptive stream of language statements. This method can be used to create template documents described by the lexographic language stream.
Claims14
A method comprising the steps of:
- reading a sequential stream of language statements used to produce a graphical image comprising a plurality of graphical elements;
- creating a graphic state containing a set of variables when one of said language statements specifies a new value for one or more of said variables, said variables being used to specify the appearance of said graphical elements;
- saving said created graphic state;
- mapping each of said graphical elements to one of said graphic states;
- and
- maintaining a link between each of said graphic states and one or more of said language statements, such that said links can be used to modify said language statements.
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