Patent ID: 8848232
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of performing prepress operations with respect to a print job, the method comprising: receiving, by a prepress workflow system, a page description language document to be processed by a workflow, wherein the received document comprises a plurality of received pages, wherein the document comprises one or more digital representations of one or more images; automatically generating a page description language shell document corresponding to the received document, wherein the shell document comprises a plurality of shell pages, wherein each one of the plurality of shell pages comprises an external reference for identifying a corresponding one of the plurality of received pages wherein the external reference comprises one or more of the following: performing, by a processor, one or more first prepress operations on one or more of the shell pages to produce a modified page description language shell document, wherein the one or more first prepress operations comprise one or more prepress operations that are not capable of altering the one or more digital representations of one or more images in the received document; performing, by the processor, one or more second prepress operations on one or more of the received pages to produce a modified received document, wherein the one or more second prepress operations comprise one or more prepress operations that alter at least a portion of the one or more digital representations in the received document; and merging the modified received document and the modified page description language shell document to form a merged document, wherein the merging comprises, for each modified shell document page: