IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD

摘要

Provided are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a print control method. 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, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, where the print setup screen depends on the file format of the printing data. The analyzing section is further configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed and convert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language, comprising:
a display section; a data receiving section configured to receive the printing data; an analyzing section configured to
analyze the printing data to determine a file format of the printing data,operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, the print setup screen depending on whether the printing data has a predetermined file format or not,define a layout of objects in each page to be printed from the printing data, according to a print setting or print settings set on the print setup screen, andconvert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language, based on the layout; and a rasterizing section configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.