Patent Document ID: 6078403
Application ID: 08732768

Base Claim:
1. A method of processing a document within a data processing system including a user application, said method comprising: in response to a selected input, creating a base document utilizing said user application, wherein said base document is defined by a data set stored within said data processing system; in response to identification of a portion of said base document as a variable data area in which different data will be presented for at least two presentation copies of said document, building, within said data set, at least one comment statement of a page description language, wherein said at least one comment statement is associated with said variable data area; and encoding format parameters of said variable data area within said at least one comment statement.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1, and further comprising: in response to an output request, obtaining said format parameters of said variable data area from said at least one comment statement within said data set defining said base document; and outputting said base document and said format parameters such that selected variable data can subsequently be presented within said variable data area of said base document in a format indicated by said format parameters.