International Business Machines Corporation

Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Roger Lee Buis

Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee

Jamsie R Treppendahl

David Earl Stone

Susan Cheryl McElrafth

Gregory Scott Felderman

Harry Lewis

Rose Ellen Visoski

Steven Mark Gebert

Alan Lee Middendorf

David R Tanigawa

Nancy Elizabeth Wood

Brian E Haan

A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving Final Form presentation document data and inserting one or more alternate Mark-Up formats at each of one or more document components identified in the document data.

Autonomous document formatting mechanism

A printing system and method for printing XML files directly using a formatting template is disclosed. The formatting template includes an XML Descriptor (XMD) associated with each XML data element in a tree structure of the XML document. XML Descriptors (XMDs) are identified by an associated qualified tag. The qualified tag includes a concatenation of a plurality of XML start tags representing start tags hierarchically traversed in the tree structure of the XML document to reach the XML data element associated therewith. The XMDs provide formatting to content associated with the XML data element. A printer prints the rendered XML document according to the template using the XMDs.

Method and apparatus for printing XML directly using a formatting template

A method and apparatus for formatting a computer-generated document for output, such as printing, is provided. Information necessary to generate a document is extracted from a database. The extraction program assigns a layout identifier to each data record retrieved from the database based on the type of information contained within the data record and how the information is to be formatted in the document. A layout program assigns specific layout parameters to each layout identifier, which specify the placement of an associated print data record within a document. Next, a formatting program applies the set of layout parameters to a data stream containing a plurality of data records to create a formatted document. The various elements of the invention such as the data extraction program, the database, the layout program and the formatter, may be integrated into a single software program, co-resident on a single computer system, or distributed across various computer systems on a network. It is also contemplated that the one or more of the various elements of the invention such as the formatter, the extraction program, or the layout program could be embodied as hardware instead of software.

Formatting computer generated documents for output

A registry is established in document presentation architecture that provides a unique numeric identifier for the most commonly used media types. Logic checks a print job and the accompanying form definition for a numeric identifier, a media name and a bin number in that order. Use of a numeric identifier eliminates ambiguity, caused by character matching that is utilized when using a media name identifier, between a request and printer media availability. Logic then attempts to find a matching numeric media identifier, a matching media name or a matching media bin in that order. If no matching identifier or name is found, the print server directs the media request to the default bin of the printer.

Method and system for media selection in a printer

A method and document presentation system utilize at least one N-up instruction together with at least one emulation instruction to cause multiple sheetlets to be presented on a surface of a physical sheet while multiple logical pages are presented within the multiple sheetlets. The at-least-one N-up instruction specifies that first and second logical pages are to be presented within a first sidemap and that a third logical page is to be presented within a second sidemap. The at-least-one emulation instruction specifies that said first sidemap is to be presented within a sheetlet on first area of a surface of a physical medium and that the second sidemap is to be presented within a second sheetlet on a second area of that surface.

System and method for presenting multiple sheetlets on a medium surface while presenting multiple logical pages within the sheetlets

A method and apparatus for displaying, on a display device, a selected page from a print document inserts formatting parameters at the beginning of each page in the data stream representing the print document. The apparatus and method further locate a specified page in the print document, and then display the specified page utilizing the formatting parameters at the beginning of the page. There is no need to process the entire document in a manner similar to that used for printing since each page includes the formatting parameters.

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Roger Lee Buis