Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for editing a document to be rendered independently of one or more computer software application program/s used to generate the original document. One or more computer files, representative of the document to be rendered, are generated for describing at least a portion of the document. At least one of the representative computer files is generated in a device-independent page description language. Subsequently, one or more data fields of one or more of the representative computer file/s may be edited independently of the creator software application program/s and in accordance with predetermined rules.