Patent ID: 6833930
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A printing control apparatus operating as a host computer having a graphics engine which loads a printer driver into a memory and makes the printer driver convert an output from an application into print data including a printer control command to be processed by a printer, said printing control apparatus comprising:set means for, through an interface image provided by the printer driver, setting a print mode including a resolution and a manner of magnifying data and dividing the magnified data; magnification control means for obtaining a magnification ratio for magnifying a page of data to be printed output from the application to a designated size in accordance with the manner set by said set means and for controlling the graphics engine so as to magnify and divide the page of data to be printed into plural pages; print data generation means for generating print data to be processed by the printer so that the print data is transmitted to the printer in a predetermined order based upon the data to be printed divided into the plural pages by the graphics engine; determination means for determining whether or not the graphics engine can magnify and divide the data based upon the resolution and the manner of magnifying data arid dividing the magnified data set by said set means; and warning display control means for performing a warning display processing when it is determined that the graphics engine cannot magnify and divide the data by said determination means.