Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyohiro Tsunekawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus which displays a preview of a relevance according to output forms between a plurality of pages upon outputting images of the plurality of pages, a control method thereof, and a program are provided. To accomplish this, this image forming apparatus analyzes a predetermined relevance according to output forms between pages based on setting information of print data, generates a preview image including a plurality of pages having the predetermined relevance as a group for a page for which the predetermined relevance is specified, generates a preview image of only a page for which the predetermined relevance is not specified, and displays the preview image including the plurality of pages as the group on a display unit.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus for executing image formation according to print data having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- a control unit configured to;
- analyze a predetermined relevance according to output forms between pages based on setting information of the print data, and
- generate a preview image including, as a group, a plurality of pages having the same predetermined relevance for a page for which the predetermined relevance is analyzed, and to generate a preview image of only a page for which the predetermined relevance is not analyzed;
- and
- a display unit configured to display, for each group, the preview image including the plurality of pages, and
- wherein a unit of page feeding in the preview image changes in synchronism with a number of pages of the group.
A control method of an image forming apparatus for executing image formation according to print data having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- analyzing to analyze a predetermined relevance according to output forms between pages based on setting information of the print data;
- generating a preview image including, as a group, a plurality of pages having the same predetermined relevance for a page for which the predetermined relevance is analyzed, and generating a preview image of only a page for which the predetermined relevance is not analyzed;
- and
- controlling a display unit to display, for each group, the preview image including the plurality of pages, and
- wherein a unit of page feeding in the preview image changes in synchronism with a number of pages of the group.
An image forming apparatus for executing image formation according to print data having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- a control unit configured to:
- analyze a relevance between pages based on setting information of print data, and
- generate a preview image so that a plurality of pages having the relevance analyzed are displayed on a single screen;
- and
- a display unit configured to display, as a group, the preview image including the plurality of pages,
- wherein a unit of page feeding in the preview image changes with synchronism with a number of pages of the group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.