Patent ID: 8902456
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling use of PDL metadata to drive printing outcomes, the method comprising: receiving at a graphic user interface a selection for a previously created file in a Portable Document Format file for exchange of variable and transactional printing (“PDF/VT”) including a previously generated JDF job ticket; extracting variable information merged in the document; displaying fixed attribute contained in metadata on a graphic user interface, each fixed attribute relating to the variable information merged in the document; simultaneously displaying on the graphic user interface printer attributes of a printer rendering device that is operatively associated with the system and is adapted to provide particular print-rendering operations; after the displaying and in response to receiving directional inputs from a user, assigning a set of print operations to at least one attribute, each print operation being based on a value associated with the at least one fixed attribute; generating by the processor a modified job ticket for interpreting the attributes and values extracted from the file; comparing at least one value included in the extract variable information to the print condition encoded in the modified job ticket for the fixed attribute relating to the at least one value; in response to a capability of the printer rendering device not being compatible with the print condition required in the modified job ticket for rendering a printout of the document, reconciling the modified job ticket with a printer device attributes from printer device queue settings.