Patent ID: 8707165
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus configured to alternately display a first layer and a second layer in a document, the method comprising: selecting a target layer to be output, from the first layer and the second layer; determining, when the first layer is selected as the target layer, whether an object in a second page of the first layer can be relocated in a blank region in a first page of the first layer, the second page following the first page; determining, when the first layer is selected as the target layer, whether an object in a second page of the second layer can be relocated to a blank region in a first page of the second layer, the second page of the second layer following the first page of the second layer; relocating the object in the second page of the first layer to the first page of the first layer when it is determined that the object of the second page of the first layer can be relocated in the first page of the first layer; relocating the object in the second page of the second layer to the first page of the second layer when it is determined that the object of the second page of the second layer can be relocated in the first page of the second layer; and deleting a page in which an object disappeared after relocating the object, wherein an output result of the first layer is different from an output result of the second layer, and wherein a number of pages to be deleted from the first layer is different from a number of pages to be deleted from the second layer.