Printing control apparatus, recording medium having recorded thereon printing control program, and printing control method

A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a printing control program, when executed using a memory by a CPU of a computer for performing preflight check on manuscript data made up of a plurality of pages in variable printing, causing the CPU to perform:

• a use information obtainment step of obtaining first use information indicating pages in which a reusable part in the manuscript data is used, the reusable parts being each an image or a form, and second use information indicating pages having the same resource content in the manuscript data;
• an object page determination step of determining object pages to be subjected to the preflight check from the plurality of pages, based on the first use information and the second use information;
• an object page check step of performing the preflight check on the object pages;
• and
• an output step of outputting a result of the preflight check.

A printing control method for performing preflight check on manuscript data made up of a plurality of pages in variable printing, the method comprising:

• a use information obtainment step of obtaining first use information indicating pages in which a reusable part in the manuscript data is used, the reusable parts being each an image or a form, and second use information indicating pages having the same resource content in the manuscript data;
• an object page determination step of determining object pages to be subjected to the preflight check from the plurality of pages, based on the first use information and the second use information;
• an object page check step of performing the preflight check on the object pages;
• and
• an output step of outputting a result of the preflight check.