US 10,102,459 B2Granted

Print control apparatus, method and program outputs XPS drawing instructions from an application to change resolution of tile image

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHitoshi Nagasaka

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Abstract

In a case where a tile image drawing instruction is included in a Graphics Device Interface (GDI) drawing instruction output from a GDI application, there is a difference between a result of drawing the drawing instruction with a GDI printer driver and a result of drawing the drawing instruction with a V4 printer driver in some cases. In a case where an application of an output source of an XML Paper Specification (XPS) drawing instruction is a GDI application and a tile image drawing instruction is included in the XPS drawing instruction, the aspect of the embodiments performs modification of the tile image drawing instruction so that resolution of a tile image with which pattern drawing is performed in accordance with the tile image drawing instruction is changed.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A print control apparatus, comprising:

a memory for storing a printer driver;
and
a processor for executing the printer driver to perform:
receiving an XML Paper Specification (XPS) drawing instruction;
determining whether an application of an output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a Graphics Device Interface (GDI) application;
determining whether a tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction, wherein the tile image drawing instruction instructs performing a pattern drawing for drawing repeatedly with a tile image in a designated region;
performing modification of the tile image drawing instruction in the received XPS drawing instruction so that resolution of the tile image with which the pattern drawing is performed in accordance with the tile image drawing instruction is changed, in a case where it is determined that the application of the output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a GDI application and it is determined that the tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction;
and
outputting, to a printer, a print command generated from the XPS drawing instruction that includes the modified tile image drawing instruction.

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A print control method performed using a printer driver, the method comprising:

receiving an XML Paper Specification (XPS) drawing instruction;
determining whether an application of an output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a Graphics Device Interface (GDI) application;
determining whether a tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction, wherein the tile image drawing instruction instructs performing a pattern drawing for drawing repeatedly with a tile image in a designated region;
performing modification of the tile image drawing instruction in the received XPS drawing instruction so that resolution of the tile image with which the pattern drawing is performed in accordance with the tile image drawing instruction is changed, in a case where it is determined that the application of the output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a GDI application and it is determined that the tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction;
and
outputting, to a printer, a print command generated from the modified tile image drawing instruction.

3 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a printer driver program that causes a computer to perform:

receiving an XML Paper Specification (XPS) drawing instruction;
determining whether an application of an output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a Graphics Device Interface (GDI) application;
determining whether a tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction, wherein the tile image drawing instruction instructs performing a pattern drawing for drawing repeatedly with a tile image in a designated region;
performing modification of the tile image drawing instruction in the received XPS drawing instruction so that resolution of the tile image with which the pattern drawing is performed in accordance with the tile image drawing instruction is changed, in a case where it is determined that the application of the output source of the received XPS drawing instruction is a GDI application and it is determined that the tile image drawing instruction is included in the received XPS drawing instruction;
and
outputting, to a printer, a print command generated from the modified tile image drawing instruction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/362,500Filed 28 Nov 2016
Priority: JP 2015-2350171 Dec 2015
Published: US 2017/0154251 A11 Jun 2017
Granted: 16 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06K 15/1843
Geometric transformations, e.g. on raster data: changing size or raster resolution
G06F 3/1208
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours,…
G06F 3/1225
Client or server resources management: software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
G06F 3/1246
Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding: by handling markup languages, e.g. XSL, XML, HTML