Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Koji Nakagiri

Yasuo Mori

Satoshi Nishikawa

Yasuhiro Kujirai

Junko Sato

Makoto Tomita

Wataru Kanaya

Michiko Kanaya, Legal Representative

Takuya Miyazato

Shigeo Nara

Hirokazu Kawamoto

Upon designating bookbinding print, preview images are displayed in a layout after bookbinding. When 'store' of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler () stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file (). When the stored job is selected, a previewer () displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this case, upon setting bookbinding print, pages are displayed in a spread state and order after bookbinding. Also, the open direction (right or left open), and the bookbinding unit are also expressed on preview images.

Print control method and apparatus

According to a document processing method for a document processing apparatus which lays out page data that form a document by a plurality of pages on one print medium, and sets the print form of the document, set attribute information is acquired as the print form of the document. When cut edge position designation for cutting, after printing, the print medium on which pages are laid out has been set in the acquired attribute information, layout control is executed in which the head/tail orientation of the second page corresponding to the latter half of the document is reversely rotated with respect to the first page corresponding to the former half of the document and the second page is imposed on the print medium.

Document processing apparatus, document processing method, and document processing program

When a document is to be edited and the edited document is to be output to a printing apparatus, a printing apparatus to be used is designated. Either of the first mode in which all predetermined setting items stored in a storage medium in advance are selected, and the second mode in which, of the predetermined setting items, setting items controllable by the designated printing apparatus are selected is set. Setting items to be selected are determined based on the designated printing apparatus and/or set mode. The document is so controlled as to enable editing it on the basis of contents set in the selected setting items.

Information processing apparatus and method

According to this invention, bookbinding data containing pages created by respective applications can be constructed regardless of the type of application. Even when one or more desired pages contained in bookbinding data are selected, image editing is designated, but a non-image page exists in the selected pages, the non-image page can be excluded from editing targets, and the process can shift to image editing. For this purpose, when a plurality of pages are selected and image editing is designated, whether each selected page is an editable image page is determined. An editable page is temporarily stored. After all the selected pages are determined, an image editing application is activated to edit stored editable image pages.

Document processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program

Upon designating bookbinding print, preview images are displayed in a layout after bookbinding. When 'store' of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler () stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file (). When the stored job is selected, a previewer () displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this case, upon setting bookbinding print, pages are displayed in a spread state, and order after bookbinding. Also, the open direction (right or left open), and the bookbinding unit are also expressed on preview images.

Defect-free printing is achieved by previewing on a display prior to printing, device functions and print specifications. Preview of double-sided faces is concurrently provided when double-sided printing is specified. Display is performed by generation of data which allows print preview that reflects consideration of device information and document data. Data is generated for perspective-reverse-face preview when page-specification information is set for double-sided faces.

Information processing apparatus and method for displaying a preview image

An information processing apparatus for making a bookbinding setup for a document includes a cover page determination unit for determining pages to be imposed on a cover from input data of a plurality of pages, a cover imposing processing unit for executing an imposing process of cover pages on the basis of data of the pages determined by the cover page determination unit, and a bookbinding imposing processing unit for executing an imposing process of running text pages on the basis of data of the remaining pages which are not imposed on the cover pages by the cover imposing processing unit, thus allowing an information process for making a bookbinding setup that the user wants.

Information processing apparatus and method for generating print data for a book with a cover sheet

When a user sets, from a user interface window using a bookbinding application, instructions of dividing a document into a plurality of parts and stapling each part of the document, a printer driver generates one job in which the staple attribute of a binder corresponding to each part is set to 'ON' or 'OFF', and issues the job for a printer. With this operation, the user can perform staple designation to an arbitrary part of the document, and can realize a plurality of staple processes in one print job.

Document processing system, information processing apparatus, and setting methods therefor

This invention relates to a document processing apparatus. The document processing apparatus capable of editing the output format of document data formed from a document page includes a page repeat layout setting save unit which saves page repeat layout setting information designated by the user, a document generator which, when a page repeat layout is set by the page repeat layout setting information, generates output document data containing a page repeat printing page prepared by laying out a basic page by a plurality of number of times on one print page in accordance with the page repeat layout setting information by defining as the basic page one print page used when no page repeat layout is set, and a display controller which displays the document data in a print form in a display window on the basis of the output document data.

Document processing apparatus and method

Defect-free printing is achieved by previewing on a display prior to printing, device functions and print specifications. Preview of double-sided faces is concurrently provided when double-sided printing is specified. A preview image is displayed indicating a first printing face on which a plurality of pages have been placed based on a layout attribute, a double-sided printing attribute and document data. The preview image is further modified based on whether or not specified pages of the document data have or have not been deleted.

Double-sided print layout previewing

An information processing apparatus for forming print data to be print-processed by a printer is constructed by: designation receiving means for receiving designation of a duplex printing, discriminating means for discriminating the number of pages in the case where data to be printed has been arranged on a recording paper, and command adding means for receiving the designation of the duplex printing by the designation receiving means and, in the case where it is determined by the discriminating means that the number of pages of the recording paper on which the data to be printed has been arranged is equal to an odd number, adding a command to urge a forced paper ejection in the printer lest a blank page of the last page is logically counted in the printer. A print data forming method and a print control program for realizing such an apparatus and a memory medium which stores such a program are provided. When the last page is printed as a blank page in the printer in a duplex printing mode, the print data is formed lest the last blank page is counted up by a counter.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Koji Nakagiri