48. A computer system for enabling data collection, comprising: a paper design component for creating an electronic document file of a predetermined format, wherein the electronic document file comprises a set of document pages; a paper activation component for: adding to the electronic document file at least one pattern license file including addresses corresponding to a set of pattern pages having a given ordering, the at least one pattern license file further including a starting page address and a license parameter identifying at least one property of the at least one pattern license file, each of the addresses in the at least one pattern license file identifying at least one pattern page included in the set of pattern pages, wherein each of the pattern pages is a unique part of a position-coding pattern, and the at least one pattern license file associates the set of pattern pages with the position-coding pattern before and independent of an action of printing copies of the position-coded product; activating the electronic document file for a number of product copies, wherein each product copy contains the set of document pages, and wherein the document pages are implicitly associated, in copy for copy order, with the pattern pages identified by the at least one pattern license file; and a paper print component for printing a second number of the activated product copies by deriving the document pages and the associated pattern pages based on the electronic document file and indicating the activated product copies thus-printed in the electronic document file.
48. A computer system for enabling data collection, comprising: a paper design component for creating an electronic document file of a predetermined format, wherein the electronic document file comprises a set of document pages; a paper activation component for: adding to the electronic document file at least one pattern license file including addresses corresponding to a set of pattern pages having a given ordering, the at least one pattern license file further including a starting page address and a license parameter identifying at least one property of the at least one pattern license file, each of the addresses in the at least one pattern license file identifying at least one pattern page included in the set of pattern pages, wherein each of the pattern pages is a unique part of a position-coding pattern, and the at least one pattern license file associates the set of pattern pages with the position-coding pattern before and independent of an action of printing copies of the position-coded product; activating the electronic document file for a number of product copies, wherein each product copy contains the set of document pages, and wherein the document pages are implicitly associated, in copy for copy order, with the pattern pages identified by the at least one pattern license file; and a paper print component for printing a second number of the activated product copies by deriving the document pages and the associated pattern pages based on the electronic document file and indicating the activated product copies thus-printed in the electronic document file. 49. The computer system according to claim 48 , further comprising a digital pen for outputting position data recorded from a printout of one of the activated product copies.