Patent ID: 9019553
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for causing an application capable of allocating a page to a printing area, to generate data, the method comprising: causing the application to allocate at least one page of a predetermined size to the printing area; acquiring a vertical number of pages, of the predetermined size, allocated by the application with respect to a vertical direction of the printing area and a horizontal number of pages, of the predetermined size, allocated by the application with respect to a horizontal direction of the printing area, based on the allocating of the at least one page by the application; multiplying a vertical length of the predetermined size and a horizontal length of the predetermined size by the acquired vertical number of pages and the acquired horizontal number of pages, respectively, to obtain a vertical length and a horizontal length; and causing the application to generate data of the printing area in a page of a page size corresponding to the vertical length and the horizontal length obtained by the multiplying, by setting the page size to the application.