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

Claim 3:
4. A control method for an image forming apparatus that outputs bitmap data converted from page description language data, and forms an image on a recording medium, the control method comprising:
executing a page description language process for analyzing the page description language data for each page of a print job, and generating the bitmap data;
restarting the executing independently to cause the executing 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
causing the executing 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 restart by the restarting repeats a predetermined number of times.