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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kimimori Eguchi, Kashiwa, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives outline information representing an outline of a character, a generation unit that generates, using the outline information, a bitmap including pixels corresponding to the character, the pixels being associated with a graphic attribute, a changing unit that refers an attribute associated with a pixel adjacent to one of the pixels corresponding to the character, and changes a density value of the adjacent pixel associated with the referred attribute being different from a graphic attribute and a character attribute to a density which is based on a density value of the one pixel, and a printing unit that prints an image based on the bitmap after the change.