10. The method of claim 9 wherein one or more of the color regions include existing trap areas that were generated prior to determining the resultant trap area for the color region of interest and further including the step of producing a trapped output file including the existing trap areas, with the resultant and existing trap areas being expressed in the page description language format.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein the format suitable for detection and analysis of color intersections between color regions is in a vector list format.