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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1998
Tim H. Roth, Issaquah, WA (US);
Paul Holland, Issaquah, WA (US);
Adobe Systems, Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for printing to a selected destination in a computer system. A centralized print manager provides the implementation and control of operation for print services, such as tile printing or color separations. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes: generating print events to provide a specific print service to a client application, where the print events request information from the client application according to the specific print service; and receiving responses to the print events from the client application, where at least one response includes print data to be printed to a destination.