System and method for efficient production of dynamic documents
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1. A method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list comprising the steps of:
- selecting a next record from said recipients list;
generating a document instance from said dynamic document for said selected record from said recipients list;
generating a rendering specifications section for said generated document instance;
concatenating said rendering specifications section into said VIPDL output stream; and
repeating said steps of selecting, said step of generating a document instance, said step of generating a rendering specifications section, and said step of concatenating until said recipients list has been exhausted.
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Abstract
A production system and method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list including a data iterator for iterating through the recipients list one record at a time and computing values for each dynamic object in the dynamic document for the record, a document instantiator for creating an instance document for the record, an output generator operating in tandem with the document instantiator for generating code specifying the rendering of the document instance, and a merge component for generating the VIPDL output stream from output of the output generator.
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1. A method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list comprising the steps of:
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selecting a next record from said recipients list; generating a document instance from said dynamic document for said selected record from said recipients list; generating a rendering specifications section for said generated document instance; concatenating said rendering specifications section into said VIPDL output stream; and repeating said steps of selecting, said step of generating a document instance, said step of generating a rendering specifications section, and said step of concatenating until said recipients list has been exhausted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list comprising the steps of:
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receiving a recipient list; dividing said recipients list into a plurality of distinct parts; performing parallel processing to merge said dynamic documents independently with each of said parts; and merging a plurality of definition dictionaries and a plurality of rendering specifications sections created in said step of performing into one VIPDL output stream corresponding to said entire recipients list, wherein said step of performing is performed by pipeline processing. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for producing a VIPDL output stream from a dynamic document and a recipients list comprising the steps of:
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receiving a recipient list; dividing said recipients list into a plurality of distinct parts; performing parallel processing to merge said dynamic documents independently with each of said parts, wherein said step of performing further comprises the steps of; selecting a next record from said recipients list; generating a document instance from said dynamic document for said selected record from said recipients list; generating entries in a definition dictionary corresponding to dynamic content objects in said dynamic document; generating a rendering specifications section for said generated document instance; concatenating said rendering specifications section into said VIPDL output stream; repeating said step of selecting, said step of generating a document instance;
said step of generating entries in a definition dictionary, said step of generating a rendering specifications section, said step of concatenating until said recipients list has been exhausted; andgenerating an elements definition section from the information in said definitions dictionary and pre-pending said elements definition section at the head of said VIPDL output stream. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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