Patent Document ID: 5493634
Application ID: 07898761

Base Claim:
1. A decomposing apparatus for use in a printing system of a type having a font storage section and being adapted to receive a first set of information and a second set of information, each of the first and second sets of information being written in a printer page description language, comprising: an apparatus for parsing each of the first set of information and the second set of information into a first set of image related components and a second set of image related components, respectively, said parsing apparatus designating each of the image related components with an image identifier, at least one of the image identifiers comprising a font name for a corresponding font; said parsing apparatus parsing the first set of information during a first time interval and the second set of information during a second time interval, the first time interval preceding the second time interval, and said decomposing apparatus generating a printable format based on the first set of information; a coalescing apparatus for performing image related operations on one or more selected components of the first set of image related components or the second set of image related components; and prior to generating the printable format based on the first set of information and during the second time interval, said coalescing apparatus determining whether the corresponding font for the font name is available in the font storage area.

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Claim 4:
4. The decomposing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the corresponding font is loaded into the printing machine when it is determined, with said coalescing apparatus, that the corresponding font is unavailable in the font storage area.