Patent ID: 6631007
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A data processing system with facilities for instructing a presentation device to present multiple sheetlets on a surface of a physical sheet while presenting multiple logical pages within said multiple sheetlets, said data processing system comprising:an input facility that receives presentation content and presentation instructions specifying that said presentation content is to be presented as at least first, second, and third logical pages; a presentation manager that generates at least one N-up instruction specifying that said first and second logical pages are to be presented within a first sidemap and that said third logical page is to be presented within a second sidemap, and that generates at least one emulation instruction specifying that said first sidemap is to be presented within a first sheetlet on a surface of a physical medium and that said second sidemap is to be presented within a second sheetlet on said surface; and an output facility that transmits said at least one N-up instruction, said at least one emulation instruction, and said presentation content to a presentation device, such that said presentation device presents said first sheetlet on a first area of said surface and said second sheetlet on a second area of said surface in accordance with said at least one emulation instruction, and presents said first and second logical pages within said first sheetlet and said third logical page within said second sheetlet in accordance with said at least one N-up instruction.