Table data processing apparatus for creating table data containing complete formulas

A table data processing apparatus comprising:

• an input unit that receives table data describing a table including a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells having a size;
• a cell-size changing unit that is configured to be capable of changing the size of a cell that is associated with a formula;
• a print data creating unit that, if the cell-size changing unit changes the size of the cell, creates print data for printing a cell-size changed table that includes the size changed cell in a predetermined part of a recording sheet such that the formula fits entirely within the size changed cell;
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• a formula cell judging unit that judges whether or not the table has at least one cell associated with a formula;
• wherein the print data creating unit creates information data representing information indicating that the table has no cell associated with a formula if the formula cell judging unit judges the table has no cell associated with a formula, the printing unit printing the information based on the information data on the recording sheet, and
• wherein the cell size changing unit includes:
• a judging unit that, if the formula cell judging unit determines that the table has at least one cell associated with a formula, judges whether or not to change the size of the at least one cell associated with the formula, the cell size changing unit changing the size of the at least one formula-associated cell if the judging unit determines to change the size of the at least one formula-associated cell.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a set of program instructions installed on and executed by a computer for creating print data, the program instructions comprising:

• receiving table data describing a table including a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells having a size;
• changing the size of a cell that is associated with a formula;
• creating print data for printing a cell-size changed table that includes the size changed cell in a predetermined part of a recording sheet such that the formula fits entirely within the size changed cell;
• and
• setting a magnification ratio, by which the table fits entirely within a predetermined part of the recording sheet;
• determining a size of the table by the magnification ratio;
• judging whether or not the formula associated with the cell fits entirely within the cell if the table, whose size is determined, is printed in the recording sheet and the characters constituting the formula being described in the table data;
• judging, if the entire formula fails to fit within the cell, whether or not there will be any margin in the predetermined part of the recording sheet if the table, whose size is determined, is printed in the predetermined part of the recording sheet;
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• increasing, if there will be a margin in the predetermined part of the recording sheet, the size of the cell in the table, whose size is determined, to a size that is no greater than a maximum size beyond which the table having the size-increased cell no longer fits within an entire area of the predetermined part of the recording sheet;
• and
• setting a second size of the characters constituting the formula such that the entire formula fits within the size-increased cell;
• wherein the creating creates creating table data for printing the table having the size-increased cell within which the formula constituted by the characters having the second size fits.