1. A method of processing a document within a data processing system including a user application, said method comprising: in response to a selected input, creating a base document utilizing said user application, wherein said base document is defined by a data set stored within said data processing system; in response to identification of a portion of said base document as a variable data area in which different data will be presented for at least two presentation copies of said document, building, within said data set, at least one comment statement of a page description language, wherein said at least one comment statement is associated with said variable data area; and encoding format parameters of said variable data area within said at least one comment statement.
1. A method of processing a document within a data processing system including a user application, said method comprising: in response to a selected input, creating a base document utilizing said user application, wherein said base document is defined by a data set stored within said data processing system; in response to identification of a portion of said base document as a variable data area in which different data will be presented for at least two presentation copies of said document, building, within said data set, at least one comment statement of a page description language, wherein said at least one comment statement is associated with said variable data area; and encoding format parameters of said variable data area within said at least one comment statement. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein said variable data area is associated with data within said data set that specifies a content of said variable data area, said method further including the step of discarding data from said data set that specifies said content of said variable data area.