Patent ID: 8982383
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a data processing apparatus for generating a Job Description Format, JDF, job ticket for printing one or more documents by a JDF compatible printing device having device capabilities connectable to the data processing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of: a. obtaining device capabilities information of the JDF compatible printing device, the device capabilities information containing a plurality of attributes, at least some of the attributes are designated as required, and at least some of the attributes are designated as having default values and at least some of the attributes are designated as having no available default values, and checking whether the device capabilities information of the JDF compatible printing device include any attributes that are designated as being required and having no available default values; b. creating a baseline JDF job ticket based on the device capabilities information of the JDF compatible printing device, the baseline JDF job ticket including all of the attributes that are designated as required in the device capabilities information, and marking the attributes of the device capabilities information that are designated in the device capabilities information as being required but having no available default values, to modify a user that default values for the marked attributes of the device capabilities information must be provided before the JDF job ticket can be generated; c. providing a graphical user interface, GUI, to provide a field for user input of a default value for a marked device capability attribute that has no available default value, and to allow the user to modify the baseline JDF job ticket interactively, wherein a value for any marked device capability in the baseline JDF job ticket must be provided by the user while a value of any device capability not marked may be optionally modified or added by the user; and d. generating the JDF job ticket which is syntactically and semantically correct and compatible with the device capabilities of the JDF compatible printing device.