Print control method and apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji Nakagiri, Satoshi Nishikawa, Yasuo Mori
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Abstract
A spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file, and when a stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs and previews of print images upon which a job including the selected page or a page included in the selected job is identifiably displayed in correspondence with the page or job.
Claims15
A print control method of storing a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and controlling a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, comprising:
- a combining step of combining the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a first displaying step of displaying a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated in said combining step in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a second area;
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- a second displaying step of, when an image object is designated among the image objects displayed in the second area in the first displaying step, displaying a document to be printed which includes a page corresponding to the designated object identifiably from the other documents.
A print control apparatus for storing a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and controlling a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, comprising:
- a combining unit, arranged to combine the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a first displaying unit, arranged to display a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated by said combining unit in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a second area;
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- a second displaying unit, arranged to, when an image object is designated among the image objects displayed in the a document to be printed which includes a page corresponding to the designated object identifiably from the other documents in the first area.
A computer program for making a computer store a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and control a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, said program including:
- a first program code for combining the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a second program code for displaying a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated by said first program code in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a first area;
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- a third program code for, when an image object is designated among the image objects displayed in the first area by the second program code for displaying the preview images, displaying a document to be printed which includes a page corresponding to the designated object identifiably from the other documents.
A print control method for storing a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and controlling a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, comprising:
- a combining step of combining the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a first displaying step of displaying a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated in said combining step in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a second area;
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- a second displaying step of, when a document is designated among the plurality of documents to be printed included in the print job displayed in the first area in the first displaying step, displaying an image object of a page corresponding to the designated document identifiably from the other image objects in the second area.
A print control apparatus for storing a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and controlling a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, comprising:
- a combining unit for combining the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a first displaying unit, arranged to display a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated by said combining unit in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a second area;
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- a second displaying unit, arranged to, when a document is designated among the plurality of documents to be printed included in the print job displayed in the first area by said first display unit, displaying an image object of a page corresponding to the designated document identifiably from the other image objects in the second area.
A computer program for making a computer store a plurality of documents to be printed in a spooler and control a print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed, said program including:
- a first program code for combining the plurality of documents to be printed to generate a print job;
- a second program code for displaying a structure of the plurality of documents included in the print job generated by said first program code in a first area and preview images of pages corresponding to the print job consisting of the plurality of documents to be printed as image objects in a second area;
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- a third program code for, when a document is designated among the plurality of documents to be printed included in the print job displayed in the first area by said second program code, displaying an image object of a page corresponding to the designated document identifiably from the other image objects in the second area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.