Patent ID: 8156431
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document editing apparatus for editing document data including a plurality of pages, the apparatus comprising: at least one processor that executes a computer program stored in a storage medium, wherein the computer program, when executed, causes the at least one processor to function as each of: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a move process or a copy process of an object across pages is executed for the document data; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of a stamp, a comment and an annotation from a page attribute of an editing source page when said determination unit determines that the move process or the copy process of the object across the pages is executed; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of a stamp, a comment and an annotation from a page attribute of an editing destination page; a comparison unit configured to compare the at least one of the stamp, the comment and the annotation of the editing source page with the at least one of the stamp, the comment and the annotation of the editing destination page, and determine whether the at least one of the stamp, the comment and the annotation of the editing source page is different from that of the editing destination page; a composition unit configured to composite at least one of the stamp, the comment and the annotation of the editing source page with the object to generate a composite object when said comparison unit determines that the at least one of the stamp, the comment and the annotation of the editing source page is different from that of the editing destination page; and a layout unit configured to lay out the composite object generated by said composition unit on the editing destination page.