System and method for editing computer-generated documents independently of the creator software application

摘要

A computer system for editing a document to be rendered comprises a memory for storing data and instructions to be performed by a processing unit and a processing unit coupled to the memory. The processing unit is programmed to: generating a first representative computer file comprising instructions in a page description language for describing at least a portion of said document; generating one or more secondary representative computer files wherein at least one of the secondary computer files comprise one or more data fields which correspond to one or more data fields in the first representative computer file and obtaining editing changes made to one or more data fields of at least one of secondary representative computer files in accordance with predetermined rules wherein the editing changes are made independent of one or more computer software application programs used to create the original document.