Alexander J. Macdonald
ABSTRACT
With the development of variable-data-driven digital presses where each document printed is potentially unique there is a need for pre-press optimization to identify material that is invariant from document to document. In this way rasterisation can be confined solely to those areas which change between successive documents thereby alleviating a potential performance bottleneck.Given a template document specified in terms of layout functions, where actual data is bound at the last possible moment before printing, we look at deriving and exploiting the invariant properties of layout functions from their formal specifications. We propose future work on generic extraction of invariance from such properties for certain classes of layout functions.
- John Lumley, Roger Gimson, and Owen Rees. A Framework for Structure, Layout and Function in Documents. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering, pages 32--41. ACM Press, November 2005. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- John Lumley, Roger Gimson, and Owen Rees. Extensible Layout in Functional Documents. In SPIE/EI 2006 Digital Publishing Conference, January 2006.Google Scholar
- Alexander J. Macdonald, David F. Brailsford, and Steven R. Bagley. Encapsulating and Manipulating Component Object Graphics (COGs) using SVG. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering, pages 61--63. ACM Press, November 2005. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Steven R. Bagley and David F. Brailsford. Page Composition using PPML as a Link-editing Script. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Document engineering, pages 134--136. ACM Press, 2004. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Evaluating invariances in document layout functions
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