IMPOSITION IN A RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOR

A method and apparatus for rendering one or more page description language descriptions of pages to be printed by a printing device on a sheet. The apparatus includes an assembler, an interpreter and a rendering engine. The assembler receives as an input a job ticket including layout and page identifier information. The assembler operates to generate an ordered list of objects to be printed by the printing device on the sheet. The interpreter receives the page description language input and the ordered list and generates display list objects for each object in the ordered list. The display list objects may be stored in a display list memory. The rendering engine receives the display list objects renders the objects. The rendered objects may be printed by a print engine onto the sheet.