Patent ID: 9444968
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a print device that performs a print job onto a print medium; a sign printing circuit that causes the print device to print a sign where a glyph is present in a font corresponding to a code, based on the code included in print data; and a sign analyzing circuit that analyzes whether or not the glyph is invalid data where the sign printing circuit is not able to cause the print device to print, wherein, when the sign analyzing circuit analyzes that the glyph present in the font corresponding to the code of a target sign is the invalid data, the sign printing circuit causes the print device to print a specific alternative sign as an alternative to the target sign, wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises a report printing circuit that causes the print device to print a font-analysis report indicating that the glyph of the target sign where the alternative sign is printed is the invalid data, and wherein the font-analysis report includes: