International Business Machines Corporation

Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Jeri L Sampson

Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee

David Earl Stone

James Warden Marlin

Jamsie R Treppendahl

Jeffery A Engelman

Brian G Platte

Terry S Luebbe

Jerold Russell Sampson

Karen D Walder

Melanie S Phares

A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the 'resource access table' that contains an entry for each base font resource. Each entry may include the following information on a base font resource: a native name, a file name, a unique identification, attributes, and possibly a link list used to identify any font resources that are linked to the base font resource. Since changes to the resource file such as updating a version of a font resource, changing the attributes of the font resource or changing the font resource's linked fonts, simply require an update to the resource access table, the data stream and the application program generating that data stream does not have to be changed.

Printing system that manages font resources using system independent resource references

A method and system for flexibly managing a presentation data stream which includes an ordered stream of uniquely identified data objects and associated elements which specify format and presentation parameters for those data objects for utilization within a specified application. An include object structured field is provided within the data stream which identifies a particular data object and specifies alternate presentation parameters for utilization with that data object. Thereafter, the data object reference within the include object structured field can be presented utilizing the alternate presentation parameters, which override the presentation parameters associated with the referenced data object, obviating any requirement for providing alternate versions of that object for each of multiple diverse applications. In this manner multiple versions of a single data object may be presented utilizing multiple applications or data objects of different architectures may be referenced in an open system and dynamically included in a presentation form document.

Method and system for dynamic presentation parameter override during

The user written application program (UAP) operates interactively with an application program interface (API) to produce multiple formatted documents from multiple data records without user intervention. The UAP calls the API to send set-up parameters to the API, and the API is set-up for formatting based on these parameters received from the UAP. The UAP sends page parameters to the API to establish the page environment at the API based on the page parameters. Then the UAP and the API interactively format the data records as paragraphs, tables or other page elements into a page. The interactive format process checks for errors in the format process at the API. The UAP and the API continue to format data unless a detected error is too severe. The format process is a state driven process. A hierarchy of states in the format process is defined, and the calls to the API set a current active state. Calls to a lower state may elect to override or not override default format parameters with defined parameters in the call.

Batch format processing of record data

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