Patent ID: 8923651

Claim:
A method, comprising: translating a plurality of image objects in a document written in a vector-based computer-readable language into a corresponding plurality of image objects in a document written in a bitmap-based computer-readable language, the translating including: detecting a plurality of object identifiers associated with a like plurality of respective objects in the vector-based document; generating respective bitmaps of the plurality of objects corresponding to the detected plurality of object identifiers, wherein information about a position of each object along an axis perpendicular to a plane of the document is retained as coordinates, and the information includes an order of objects in the vector-based document that determines the objects' positions along the axis; and layering the respective bitmaps atop one another based on the order of objects in the vector-based document as derived from the retained coordinates, and a transparency attribute of one or more of the respective bitmaps.