RDO-TO-PDF CONVERSION TOOL

摘要

A process and apparatus for analyzing the binary RDO file structure, extracting all relevant data needed to reproduce the content, and generation of output in the PDF format is disclosed. The conversion process to PDF takes the following steps: In the first step, the binary RDO file is read and analyzed. In the second step, the data contained within the RDO file describing the arrangement of pages in the final document is extracted. Once all of these data are gathered, the output can be generated by placing one or more TIFF bitmap files for each page onto the output page and adding the optional text messages for header, footer and page number. When all pages have been processed in this way, the final PDF file is self-contained and stored on disk.