Electronic replacement of pre-printed forms
View Patent ↗A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef), determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef and generating an output print job file by inserting a forms overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef.
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef);
determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef;
generating an output print job file by inserting a Page Modification Control (PMC) overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef; and
generating the output print job file by inserting a page overlay into the input print job file as the pre-printed form if the formdef is not an N-up formdef.
2. The non-statutory machine-readable medium of claim 1 comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, further cause the machine to perform operations comprising normalizing the input print job file upon receiving the input print job file.
3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein normalizing the input print job file comprises converting medium overlays in the input print job file to page PMC overlays.
4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein medium overlays are confined to a single partition.
5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein normalizing the input print job file further comprises moving existing PMC overlays to pages ensure correct order and layering of pre-existing overlays.
6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the forms overlay appears first in a page presentation space.
7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the input and output print job files are Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) files.
8. A printing system comprising a controller to receive an input print job file including a form definition (formdef), determine whether the formdef is an N-up formdef, generate an output print job file by inserting a Page Modification Control (PMC) overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef and generate the output print job file by inserting a page overlay into the input print job file as the pre-printed form if the formdef is not an N-up formdef.
9. The printing system of claim 8 wherein the controller further normalizes the input print job file upon receiving the input print job file.
10. The printing system of claim 9 , wherein normalizing the input print job file comprises converting medium overlays in the input print job file to PMC overlays.
11. The printing system of claim 10 , wherein medium overlays are confined to a single partition.
12. The printing system of claim 10 , wherein normalizing the input print job file further comprises moving existing PMC overlays to pages to ensure correct order and layering of pre-existing overlays.
13. The printing system of claim 8 , wherein the forms overlay appears first in a page presentation space.
14. The printing system of claim 8 , wherein the input and output print job files are Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) files.
15. A method comprising:
receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef);
determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef;
generating an output print job file by inserting a Page Modification Control (PMC) overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef; and
generating the output print job file by inserting a page overlay into the input print job file as the pre-printed form if the formdef is not an N-up formdef.
16. The method of claim 15 further comprising normalizing the input print job file upon receiving the input print job file.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein normalizing the input print job file comprises converting medium overlays in the input print job file to PMC overlays.
18. The method of claim 16 , wherein normalizing the input print job file further comprises moving existing PMC overlays to pages to ensure correct order and layering of pre-existing overlays.