Patent ID: 8587611

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of printed document verification comprising: obtaining content data relating to the content of a document to be printed; obtaining imposition data relating to at least one imposition signature which includes data which describes the at least one imposition signature for the document to be printed; obtaining finishing data which has been associated in advance with the obtained imposition data, the finishing data comprising geometric data which is necessary to construct a virtual model of the document to be printed, finishing operation data which represents a plurality of finishing operations to be applied in creating the imposition signature, and sequence data which represents a sequence by which the plurality of finishing operations are applied; generating a three-dimensional parametric model of a printed imposition sheet at which imposition of the document to be printed is performed using the obtained content data, the obtained imposition data, the geometric data which is extracted from the obtained finishing data, the finishing operation data which is extracted from the obtained finishing data, and the sequence data which is extracted from the obtained finishing data; and generating a plurality of three-dimensional objects, which represent each of a plurality of processing operations which are to be applied in creating the imposition signature of the document to be printed, based on the three-dimensional parametric model, and displaying the generated plurality of three-dimensional objects as a three-dimensional electronic output representation in accordance with the sequence represented by the sequence data.