Image processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for print control using metadata
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiro Yoshimura, Yutaka Myoki
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a specification unit configured to specify a layer of a record level from print data of a hierarchical structure having metadata, a display control unit configured to display the metadata contained in the layer specified by the specification unit, a receiving unit configured to receive selection of specific metadata for filter printing from the metadata displayed by the display control unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a record in which the specific metadata received by the receiving unit is set to be a print target.
Claims9
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a specification unit configured to specify record level from a hierarchical structure of page description language (PDL) data, wherein nodes in layers of the hierarchical structure have metadata, and wherein the record level is a layer level for performing iterative processing in variable printing;
- a display control unit configured to display, as options, a first metadata group and a second metadata group which are contained in a layer of the layer level specified by the specification unit;
- a receiving unit configured to receive, based on a user's input, selection of first metadata selected from the first metadata group and second metadata selected from the second metadata group which are displayed by the display control unit;
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- a determination unit configured to determine a record in which the first metadata and the second metadata received by the receiving unit are set to be as a print target.
A control method comprising:
- specifying a record level from a hierarchical structure of PDL data, wherein nodes in layers of the hierarchical structure have metadata, and wherein the record level is a layer level for performing iterative processing in variable printing;
- displaying, as options, a first metadata group and a second metadata group which are contained in a layer of the specified layer level;
- receiving, based on a user's input selection of the first metadata selected from the first metadata group and second metadata selected from the second metadata displayed;
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- determining a record in which the received first metadata and the second metadata are set to be as a print target.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for instructing a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:
- specifying a record level from a hierarchical structure of PDL data, wherein nodes in layers of the hierarchical structure have metadata, and wherein the record level is a layer level for performing iterative processing in variable printing;
- displaying, as options, a first metadata group and a second metadata group which are contained in a layer of the specified layer level;
- receiving, based on a user's input selection of the first metadata selected from the first metadata group and second metadata selected from the second metadata displayed;
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- determining a record in which the received first metadata and the second metadata are set to be as a print target.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.