Patent ID: 7672010
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a document template of a document for a print job, comprising the steps of: providing a computer at which a first computer program is loaded which provides a generation unit for generating document templates and a second computer program is loaded which provides a resource administration unit; providing a storage within said computer; generating the document template which is a general layout of the document by said generation unit using static resource data which comprises unchanging elements of the document for the document template that are combined into addressable computerized resource data sets; storing said resource data in a storage area of said storage; registering the document template by said resource administration unit; generating a resource list by the resource administration unit in which resource data sets of said static resource data used by the document template are listed; marking at least one of said resource data sets in the resource administration unit as being external when it is not to be transmitted to a print server device; using the resource list, transferring with the resource administration unit those resource data sets used by the document template and not marked as being external from said storage area of said computer to said print server device where they are stored; transferring a print command for the document to the print server device; supplying variable data independent from the resource data sets to the print server device; and then with the print server device controlling printing of the document for the print job by using the locally stored resource data sets of said document template, supplemented with said variable data, said variable data being data which changes from document to document within the print job while the static resource data remains the same from document to document within the print job.