Method and apparatus of creating highly portable output files by combining pages from multiple input files

Patent 6182096 Issued on January 30, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 30, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 107333 filed on 06/30/1998

US Classes:

715/517, Layout715/513, Structured document (e.g., HTML, SGML, ODA, CDA)715/522Format information in separate file

Examiners

Primary: Hong, Stephen S.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 017/21

Abstract

A method and apparatus for creating a highly portable output file is described. For one embodiment of the present invention, the output file is PostScript file that includes DSC comments. Document comments are created in the output file to reflect the document framework. Page comments are created in the output file to reflect one or more pages within the document framework. Inappropriate comments are removed from one or more pages within the output file.