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Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2006
Applicants:

Benjamen E. Ross, Seattle, WA (US);

Stephen M. Blanding, Redmond, WA (US);

Zhenjun Zhu, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamen E. Ross, Seattle, WA (US);

Stephen M. Blanding, Redmond, WA (US);

Zhenjun Zhu, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for exporting a document in multiple formats. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a metafile including content associated with the document and injecting comments into the metafile. The comments may comprise semantic information corresponding to the document. Also, the metafile may be parsed to create at least one call. The at least one call may be configured to enable an export engine to render the document. Furthermore, the at least one call may be sent to the export engine configured to render the document in an output format associated with the export engine. In addition, the export engine maybe selected from a plurality of export engines based upon user input indicating the output format associated with the selected export engine.


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