Patent ID: 7319532
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus for convening a drawing instruction from an application into a control command suited to a predetermined printing apparatus, and outputting the control command, comprising: a spooler adapted to convert the drawing instruction into intermediate data having a format different from the control command, and to store the intermediate data; a despooler adapted to read out the stored intermediate data; and a printer driver adapted to convert the intermediate data read out by said despooler into the control command and to output the control command, wherein said spooler writes information representing a character drawing into a spool file as an intermediate code and, if a font is determined as an embedded font, which was registered into a graphic engine by the application from application data and is to be discarded from the graphic engine, acquires the font from the graphic engine and spools the acquired font into the spool file in the intermediate data format, and wherein said despooler registers, if the spool file includes the embedded font, the embedded font included in the spool file into the graphic engine, and wherein said printer driver converts the intermediate data into the control command by using the registered font in the graphic engine.