Appeal No. 1998-1389 Page 18
Application No. 08/553232
no persuasive reason has been advanced by the examiner, to
have provided the output sink node (output viewable image) or
passive viewer window (Figure 2) with image attributes that
are capable of forming the representation, as advanced by the
examiner. The examiner asserts (answer, page 6) that the
proposed modification "allows one to create an image or
plurality of images that are layout driven." In Smith, the
document production system is either content-driven, layout-
driven, or both. As stated, supra, in Smith's description of
a layout driven document, Smith discloses (col. 7, lines 50-
54) that "[w]hen the format has been satisfactorily
determined, the user could enter text directly into the
allowed layout spaces, lengthening, shortening or altering the
fonts as necessary to accomodate the layout." From this
teaching of Smith, we find that the user is inputting both the
content and the attributes of the content into the allowed
layout space. From this teaching of Smith, we infer that if
an image were to be added to the allotted layout space, the
user would also be setting the attributes for the image, such
as color, density, cropping, rotation, etc. Thus, in our
view, the user is setting both content and attributes for the
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