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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1996
Nobuhisa Yoda, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a print apparatus which prints a plurality of pieces of linked document information of those that are distributed to and stored in a plurality of external document servers. The apparatus includes an extraction unit for extracting link information indicating second document information, which is linked to first document information, from the first document information received from the corresponding document server, a second reception unit for receiving the second document information indicated by the extracted link information from the corresponding document server, a print unit for assigning serial page numbers to the first document information and the second document information, and printing the first document information and the second document information, and a recurring information detection unit for detecting that the already printed second document information is linked again to the first document information. Hypermedia documents are printed in the form that it is easy for the user to use.