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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2000
Kaoru Shimamura, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An unprintable area on a label sheet is at first obtained so that a print is not overlapped with the unprintable area on the sheet when laying out print items in cells of a tack sheet etc. It is judged whether or not address data is printed in the unprintable area, and, if a print position of the address data is overlapped with the unprintable area, a print of a fragment of data extending to within the unprintable area is so controlled as to be reduced and moved. Only the fragment of data is set as an object for the control of the reduction, and movement, and hence a well-laid-out print can be attained while making attributes (a size of a character font etc) of the original data reflected therein. In the print control, data that should not be reduced (the size should ne be changed) as in the case of a bar code may be excluded from the object for control.