Automatically conforming printed labels

摘要

Printer devices occasionally cause electronic documents to be automatically contracted prior to printing, in order to ensure that all of the content to be printed will fit within the dimensions of a page. Where the electronic document includes information having close tolerances, such as information to be printed on an address label or other defined region on a sheet, the automatic contraction may cause the information to be misaligned with respect to the label or other defined region. Automatically expanding the information within the electronic document prior to printing may counter this effect, and increase the likelihood that the information will be printed within the label or other defined region for which it is intended.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving information to be included in a frame of an electronic document from a user, wherein the information comprises at least one of an image or a set of text; identifying, using a computer processor, a dimension of the information; identifying, using the computer processor, a dimension associated with the frame of the electronic document; determining, using the computer processor, an anticipated contraction of the electronic document by a printing application associated with a printer device; increasing, using the computer processor, the dimension of the information based at least in part on at least one of the dimension associated with the frame of the electronic document or the anticipated contraction of the electronic document; and storing the electronic document in a data store, wherein the electronic document comprises the information having the increased dimension associated with the frame of the electronic document.