Patent ID: 7777901

Claim:
An imposition apparatus comprising: a storage unit including: a paper image creating section that creates a paper image in a manner that an imposition for at least one page frame is applied onto a paper, and a page including an image and/or a character disposed in the page frame on a layout in which an imaginary page frame including the page frame is set up, so that the entire paper, in which the page is disposed, is provided in form of an image; an output processing section that causes an image output machine for outputting an image on the paper to output the paper image on the paper by applying the paper image created in the paper image creating section to the image output machine; and a processing interruption section that interrupts and stops the creation of the paper image by the paper image creating section and the output of the created paper image on the paper by the output processing section in the event that the page disposed on the layout juts out from the imaginary page frame, and wherein due to an interruption by the process interruption section no image is printed.