IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique which can shorten the processing time in large-scale variable print processing.

SOLUTION: The image processing apparatus includes: an input means adapted to input a rendering job which includes a single fixed object and a plurality of variable objects; a designation means adapted to designate an inclusion region that includes rendering regions respectively for the plurality of variable objects; a transparent processing means adapted to generate transparent processed images by executing transparent processing in correspondence with a plurality of transparency attributes for a region of the fixed object that overlaps the inclusion region; a clipping image generation means adapted to generate a clipping image by clipping a region for a shape of the variable object from the transparent processed image in correspondence with the transparency attribute same with the transparency attribute designated by the variable object; and a generation means adapted to generate rendering data by blending the clipping image and the fixed object.

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