Patent ID: 7827485

Claim:
A computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable storage device for execution by a programmable processor to: receive a user input specifying requested preview information in reference to a flattening process that would convert, in accordance with flattening settings, a first document that contains transparency to a visually equivalent second document that contains no transparency, the first document having first vector objects including one or more objects with transparency, the second document having second vector objects with no transparency, where the flattening process would rasterize areas of the first document that are complex and preserve in vector form areas of the first document that are simple and where complexity is determined according to a degree of rasterization parameter; and present a display to a user before performing the flattening process to convert the first document to the second document, the display including a preview of characteristics of the flattening process as it would be performed in accordance with the flattening settings.