Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Michael Warwick Chipman

Joseph Leigh Belbin

Vincent Groarke

Edward James Iskenderian

Ian Geoffrey Combes

A method () is disclosed of generating a representation of a page () to be rendered to a raster image () of pixels. The page () comprises one or more graphical objects (and), arranged in a rendering order. Each the object (and) comprises one or more object edges and an associated fill. The method () comprises decomposing the objects (and) into a plurality of fillmap edges (, and) defining disjoint regions (, and) of the page. The method () further comprises setting a reference from at least one fillmap edge (, and) to a sequence comprising a plurality of fills to be composited to generate the values for all pixels within the defined region (, and).

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Michael Warwick Chipman