Image forming apparatus and print control method

Abstract

Provided are an image forming apparatus and a print control method. Even through pinting data, configured with specific file format, of objects in specified pages are not directly printed, printing resultd according to users' intentions can also be obtained. An image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section receiving the printing data, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze the printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and enable the display section to display different print setup screesn thereon, where the print setup screens depends on whether the printing data have the specific file format. The analyzing section is configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed according to printing setup of the printing setup screens and convert the printing data into an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the intermediate language to generate an image to be printed.

Description

Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and a printing control method, and more particularly to an image forming apparatus capable of direct printing and a printing control method for controlling the setting of direct printing. Background technique [0002] Office suite applications capable of processing documents such as document generation or table calculations are commonly used in all scenarios such as office work, education, and home. As representative office suite applications, Microsoft (registered trademark, omitted below), Word (registered trademark, omitted below), Excel (registered trademark, omitted below), and PowerPoint (registered trademark, omitted below) can be cited. In addition, multiple applications with the same functions such as Apache OpenOffice are also circulating. The above-mentioned Microsoft Excel or Open Source Apache OpenOffice is standardized by the standardization body, and the specifications of the format...

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[0016] Therefore, in a document described in a conventional printing language, when reduction designation or offset designation is performed, the entire page drawn in the determined layout can be reduced or shifted uniformly, even if the print result is not previewed. It is also possible to perform print settings according to the intention, but in the case of OOXML-based documents, if the printing conditions change, the layout will also be affected, so it is difficult to perform print settings according to the intention without previewing the print results

[0017] That is, there is a problem that in direct printing of print data in a specific file format such as OOXML that does not specify the arrangement of objects in a page, it is impossible to perform print settings according to the user's intention, and it is not possible to obtain the print data according to the user's intention. The situation of printing results

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