5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a page description language reading application, when accessing the page description language file including the compressed archive, processes the compressed files by: reading the index portion of the page description language file to locate each compressed file page description language object definition; reading data of the compressed file identified by the page description language object definition until the page description language end of object marker is located; and sending the data of the read compressed file to an application on a computing device configured to open compressed files.
1. A method comprising: receiving a compressed archive to add to a page description language file, the compressed archive including one or more compressed files; copying the compressed archive into the page description language file; adding a page description language object definition to each compressed file within the copied compressed archive; adding a reference to the page description language file to each page description language object definition added to each compressed file; inserting a page description language end of object marker following an end of each compressed file within the copied compressed archive; and storing the page description language file on a data storage device.