Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a hardware accelerator to combine data of a rasterized object;
• and
• a control section including a plurality of computing sections, each of the plurality of computing sections to perform language analyzing processing to perform language analysis on PDL data to generate a display list of objects and drawing processing to rasterize the objects of the display list, and either one of the plurality of computing sections performs managing processing to manage the performing of the language analyzing processing and the drawing processing and to allow the hardware accelerator to perform combining processing of the data of the rasterized objects, to generate printable data based on the PDL data, wherein
• each of the plurality of computing sections is set to any one of two or more resolutions for rasterizing;
• the rasterizing in the drawing processing is performed parallel in each of the computing sections at the resolutions set in each computing section;
• and
• the hardware accelerator enlarges the data of the rasterized object of a low resolution to the highest resolution and combines the data.