Seiko Epson Corporation

Azusa Iwai

Kazuhisa Saka

During print operation, it sometimes happened that an intermediate file of print data becomes so huge in gigabytes as to make printing impossible. The present invention is constituted to permit a computer: a print data acquisition step Pto acquire print data; an intermediate file creation step Pto divide the acquired print data into parts while keeping the file size of each parts within certain bounds and thereby create a plurality of intermediate files, and an actual-data-for-printing creation step Pto read the created intermediate files into the memory for pre-determined conversions, and thereby create actual-data-for-printing. The effect is that the intermediate file size does not become so huge as to make printing impossible, and therefore printing can certainly be done even if a huge amount of print data is created.

Medium having print-control program, apparatus and method for print control

Simultaneous display of a page preview and an enlarged view of a spot on the page was so far impossible. Supplied data for print is converted to bitmap data from which a previewersimultaneously displays preview images in the page view display areacomposite view display areaand zoomed-in view display areaThus, the user can view a plurality of parallel, different-scale views of an object image to print at a time. To check different-scale views of an object image to print in the similar prior-art method, the user must change the displayed preview. However, the user need not to do that in the method of the present invention; that is, the operability can be enhanced. While displaying the preview images in the page view display areacomposite view display areaand zoomed-in view display areaby keeping the images parallel one another, that is, an image corresponding to a spot or portion selected on another image changes when another spot or portion is selected, the operability can be further enhanced.

Apparatus and method for displaying preview images to print and a computer-readable medium having a program for displaying preview images to print recorded thereon

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Azusa Iwai