PRODUCING DOCUMENT TEMPLATES HAVING SECURITY FEATURES

A method for producing an electronic document template for a value document or security document comprises the following steps: providing (301) a database (DB), in which different types of optical security features are each assigned one or more channels for optical sensing of the security feature in question by means of an optical reading device, the optical reading device being designed for separation of the channels, selecting (302) a plurality of types of the optical security features from the database and instantiating the selected types by placing and scaling security features of the selected types on an electronic representation of a document substrate layer of the value document or security document in order to produce a layout draft, checking (303) the layout draft, wherein, for spatially overlapping or mutually adjoining instantiated types of security features, it is checked whether these types occupy a common channel, and if this is the case, a signal is output and a correction (304) of the layout draft is input as a response to the signal, and storing (305) the resulting corrected layout draft as the electronic document template.