13. The decomposer of claim 11, further comprising an apparatus, associated with said preparsing apparatus, for storing each of the image related components in the memory section.
11. An apparatus for decomposing a job having a plurality of electronic pages, each of the electronic pages being written in a page description language, and said decomposing apparatus communicating with a memory section, comprising: a preparsing apparatus, receiving the electronic pages of the job, for generating data structures representative of each electronic page of the job, said preparsing apparatus including, a first preparse system for dividing each electronic page of the job into a first set of information and a second set of information, each of the first sets of information including a data structure for an associated one of the electronic pages and each of the second sets of information including one or more executable data structures respectively relating to one or more image related components for an associated one of the electronic pages, each of the data structures of the first sets of information being stored in the memory section, and a second preparse system coupled with said first preparse system; said first preparse system passing the second set of information for each of the electronic pages of job to said second preparse system; and said second preparse system executing the one or more executable data structures of each of the second sets of information for storage in the memory section.