INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT HAS FUNCTION OF MULTI-UP PRINTING OF DIFFERENT PRINTING JOBS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation input device; a drawing command reception circuit that receives, based on an instruction to execute a printing job, a drawing command from an application program, and converts it into an intermediate code to output it; an intermediate code storage that stores the output intermediate code; a layout determination circuit that takes out the intermediate code from the storage and corrects it by rearranging it; and a PDL generation circuit that converts the corrected intermediate code into a PDL and outputs the PDL. The layout determination circuit keeps, when there is an instruction to accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code of the printing job in the storage, and takes out, when there is an instruction to not accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code from the storage and corrects it by rearranging it based on an instruction.

主权项

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
an operation input device that receives instructions from a user; a drawing command reception circuit that receives, based on an instruction from the user to execute a printing job, a drawing command of the printing job from an application program, converts the received drawing command of the printing job into an intermediate code with which layout of a printing page can be rearranged, and outputs the intermediate code; an intermediate code storage that stores the output intermediate code; a layout determination circuit that takes out the intermediate code stored in the intermediate code storage and corrects the intermediate code by rearranging the intermediate code based on an instruction from the user; and a Page Description Language (PDL) generation circuit that converts the corrected intermediate code into a PDL and outputs the PDL, wherein the layout determination circuit
keeps, when there is an instruction from the user to accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code of the printing job in the intermediate code storage, andtakes out, when there is an instruction from the user to not accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code of the printing job from the intermediate code storage and corrects the intermediate code of the printing job by rearranging the intermediate code based on an instruction from the user.