Information Processing Apparatus, Image Forming Apparatus and Method, and Storage Medium Readable by Computer Therefor

A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for image data processing, the function, comprising:

• inputting a command in accordance with an external operation;
• acquiring print image data from an application;
• displaying a print preview image of an acquired print image data on a display unit;
• selecting a predetermined region of a print preview image displayed on the display unit;
• displaying the predetermined selected region so as to be identified on the display unit, on a basis of a command in accordance with an external operation input by an input unit;
• performing an image processing process for processing the print preview image in a unit of an image in the selected region displayed on the display unit;
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• instructing a print unit to print the print preview image.

An information processing method, comprising:

• inputting a command in accordance with an external operation;
• acquiring print image data from an application;
• displaying a first print preview image of the print image data;
• selecting a predetermined region of the displayed first print preview image;
• displaying the predetermined region so as to be identified, on the basis of the command in accordance with the input external operation;
• processing the first print preview image in a unit of an image in the displayed predetermined region displayed;
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• instructing a print unit to print the first print preview image.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a first conversion unit converting a document specified by an external command into two-dimensional image data with which an image forming apparatus can form an image;
• a size determination unit that determines whether or not a horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data is less than or equal to a horizontal width predetermined in accordance with a capability of the image forming apparatus;
• a determination unit that determines a first region within the specified document;
• a second conversion unit that, if the size determination unit determines that the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data is not less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width, reduces in a horizontal direction, prior to the first region, a second region within the specified document excluding the first region, and converts the specified document into two-dimensional image data having a horizontal width less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width;
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• an output unit that outputs the two-dimensional image data generated by the first conversion unit as input data to the image forming apparatus if the size determination unit determines that the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted by the first conversion unit is less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width, and outputs the two-dimensional image data generated by the second conversion unit as input data to the image forming apparatus if the size determination unit determines that the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted by the first conversion unit is not less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a first conversion unit that converts a document specified by an external command into two-dimensional image data with which an image forming apparatus is configured to form an image;
• a necessity determination unit that determines whether or not a reduction process is necessary on the basis of a vertical width of the two-dimensional image data converted by the first conversion unit;
• a determination unit that determines a first region within the specified document;
• a second conversion unit that reduces in a vertical direction, prior to the first region, a second region excluding the first region within the specified document and converts the specified document into two-dimensional image data in which a vertical width is less than or equal to a vertical width predetermined in accordance with a capability of the image forming apparatus if the necessity determination unit determines that the reduction process is necessary;
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• an output unit that outputs the two-dimensional image data generated by the first conversion unit as input data to the image forming apparatus if the necessity determination unit determines that the reduction process is not necessary, and outputs the two-dimensional image data generated by the second conversion unit as input data to the image forming apparatus if the necessity determination unit determines that the reduction process is necessary.

A method of outputting two-dimensional image data, comprising:

• (A) converting a document specified by an external command into two-dimensional image data with which an image forming apparatus is configured to form an image;
• (B) determining whether or not a horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted by step (A) is less than or equal to a horizontal width predetermined in accordance with a capability of the image forming apparatus;
• (C) determining a first region within the specified document;
• (D) executing a reduction process for a region excluding the first region determined in step (C) in the specified document in a horizontal direction prior to the first region, and converting the specified document into two-dimensional image data having a horizontal width less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width if the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted in step (A) is determined to be not less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width;
• (E) outputting the two-dimensional image data generated in step (D) as input data to the image forming apparatus if the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted in step (A) is determined to be less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width;
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• (F) outputting the two-dimensional image data generated in step (A) as input data to the image forming apparatus if the horizontal width of the two-dimensional image data converted in step (A) is determined to be not less than or equal to the predetermined horizontal width.

A method of outputting two-dimensional image data, comprising:

• (A) converting a document specified by an external command into two-dimensional image data with which an image forming apparatus can form an image;
• (B) determining whether or not a reduction process is necessary on the basis of a vertical width of the two-dimensional image data converted by the first conversion unit;
• (C) determining an first region within the specified document;
• (D) executing a reduction process for a region excluding the first region determined in step (C) in the specified document in a vertical direction prior to the first region, and converting the specified document into two-dimensional image data in which a vertical width is less than or equal to a vertical width predetermined in accordance with a capability of the image forming apparatus in a case where it is determined that the reduction process is necessary in step (B);
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• (E) outputting the two-dimensional image data generated in step (A) as input data to the image forming apparatus if the reduction process is not determined to be necessary in step (B), and
• (F) outputting the two-dimensional image data generated in step (D) as input data to the image forming apparatus if the reduction process is determined to be necessary in step (B).