Information processing apparatus, pdl data conversion method, and storage medium

A PDL data conversion method comprising:

• receiving, in a reception step, a designation of the number of records from a user;
• and
• creating, in a creation step, a structure including nodes in a record layer, which correspond to records in a one-to-one relationship and are equal to the number of records, adding nodes in a lower layer of the record layer, which are linked with the nodes in the record layer, to the structure, and mapping each page included in first PDL data to each node in the lower layer of the record layer based on the relation between records and pages included in first PDL data to thereby create second PDL data which is different from the first PDL data and has a hierarchical structure with respect to pages.

A computer readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for making a computer execute a PDL data conversion method, the method comprising:

• receiving a designation of the number of records from a user;
• and
• creating a structure including nodes in a record layer, which correspond to records in a one-to-one relationship and are equal to the number of records, adding nodes in a lower layer of the record layer, which are linked with the nodes in the record layer, to the structure, and mapping each page included in first PDL data to each node in the lower layer of the record layer based on the relation between records and pages included in first PDL data to thereby create second PDL data which is different from the first PDL data and has a hierarchical structure with respect to pages.