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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2007
Takuya Kotani, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunihiro Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyoshi Kusama, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Printing apparatus including a layout setting screen. The layout setting screen includes a layout selection area for displaying choices of a layout corresponding to a selected print media, a list display area for displaying a list of printing previews of a plurality of pages in accordance with the selected layout, and a preview display area for displaying the printing preview of the page selected in the list display area, on a larger scale than that in the list display area. If the choice of the layout in the layout selection area is changed while the layout setting screen is being displayed, the apparatus changes the display in each of the list display area and the preview display area to a display corresponding to the layout of the changed choice.