1. A print controller in a printing system, the print controller comprising: a reprogrammable page description language processor (PDL) that defines a function of a page-break indicator; and a job ticket interpreter; wherein the print controller is operable to receive a printable file from a host system, the printable file containing a plurality of page-break indicators, each page-break indicator indicating a logical page; and the print controller is operable to receive a job ticket that is associated with the printable file and that contains layout parameters; and the job ticket interpreter is operable to re-define the function of the page-break indicator of the reprogrammable PDL processor in accordance with the layout parameters in the job ticket; and the print controller is operable to print a plurality of the logical pages of the printable file after the job ticket interpreter re-defines the function of the page-break indicator.