Patent ID: 7145674

Claim:
A method for determining a location of an image referenced within a stream of document data of a first system, the method comprising: prescanning the publication data for verifying the image exists at the location; the prescanning step comprising: automatically initiating a scan, by the print controller, of the incoming publication data to search for references to image files which are not locally accessible, and verifying that those references are correct; if the image does not exist at the location, manually entering a location of the image; and verifying that the manually entered location of the image is correct; finding a comment within the publication data; determining a location of the image, stored using a second system different from the first, as a function of the comment; gathering the image at a local location; retrieving the image based on the verified pathname and inserting the image into the publication data; and outputting the publication data to the output medium via the output device.