Patent ID: 11880613
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus that outputs bitmap data converted from page description language data, and forms an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:
an executer that executes a page description language process for analyzing the page description language data for each page of a print job, and generates the bitmap data;
a restarter that restarts the executer independently to cause the executer to perform analysis from a page of the print job in which an unrecoverable error occurs, and to generate the bitmap data, in a case where the unrecoverable error occurs in analyzing the page description language data; and
a continuator that causes the executer to perform the analysis from a next page of the page of the print job in which the unrecoverable error occurs, and to generate the bitmap data, in a case where a restart by the restarter repeats a predetermined number of times.