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US 9,430,446 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, method and storage medium including a function for establishing exceptions applied to print settings when specified conditions are met
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasanari Toda
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus, method and storage medium having a feature for establishing exceptions applied to print settings when specified conditions are met. A user is permitted to enter exceptions to the general print settings for a document. The exceptions apply only to specified objects in the document and only under certain conditions specified by the user. The exceptions and the general print settings are saved into a template.
Claims9
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- an acceptance unit configured to accept selection of a page contained in a document file;
- an extraction unit configured to extract, in a case where a selected page includes a print setting value different from a print setting value included in another page, the print setting value from the document file;
- a display unit configured to display a setting screen for registering content of an exception setting and application conditions of the content of the exception setting as a template, wherein the setting screen is capable of setting the print setting value extracted by the extraction unit as the application conditions;
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- an application unit configured to apply, in a case where the template is selected to be applied to a loaded document file, the exception setting to a page which satisfies the application conditions.
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A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- accepting selection of a page contained in a document file;
- extracting, in a case where a selected page includes a print setting value different from a print setting value included in another page, the print setting value from the document file;
- displaying a setting screen for registering content of an exception setting and application conditions of the content of the exception setting as a template, wherein the setting screen is capable of setting the print setting extracted by the extraction unit as the application conditions;
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- applying, in a case where the template is selected to be applied to a loaded document file, the exception setting to a page which satisfies the application conditions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.