Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsushi Mizukami

Takahiro Nakagawa

Toshio Abe

Masaru Kageura

Naoki Nakanishi

Hiroyuki Namiki

Kenichi Inaho

Reiko Horikawa

Yutaka Ban

Masatoshi Ikkatai

Mitsuru Sakurai

Minoru Aoyama

Ryoichi Takahashi

Information that is required for laying out character string data is entered, as are character string data. The printing attributes for the data are then edited, and are employed to extract contour information. Thereafter, the extracted contour information is employed to determine the information that is to be used as a reference when laying out the character string data, and a layout position is specified. Then, the various data that are obtained are stored as printing data, and the character string data are laid out in a drawing area. Therefore, the printing data can be precisely and easily prepared, without the work efficiency of a user being deteriorated.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for determining character layout

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Toner container for photo-copier

Copying machine

Growing community of inventors

Kawasaki, Japan

Atsushi Mizukami