| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accelerate printing in a device for printing the document of HTML or the like capable of describing data incorporated in an output image in the form of reference to the outside. <P>SOLUTION: A data acquisition part 12 downloads the display content data of respective document elements detected by the analysis of the document by a document analysis part 13, and a layout part 15 performs the processing of allocating the respective document elements to pages. In the processing, at the time of laying out the document element for which downloading by the data acquisition part 12 is not completed on the page, a decision part 16 estimates the display size of the document element from the already downloaded data amount of the document element or the like, judges whether or not the estimated size can be settled in the free area of the page, and when determining that it can not be settled, decides to lay out the document element on the next and succeeding pages and establishes the layout of the page by the document elements immediately before that. Every time the layout of the page is established, printing of the page is started. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
