Patent ID: 7299413

Claim:
A computerized document processing method for processing original data that has attributes for a print process, comprising: a manipulation step of manipulating data by moving or copying a node representing a page of a chapter of a document in a tree structure in which the original data is stored with nodes, wherein each node represents: a page included in the original data and having attributes of the page, or a chapter including a plurality of pages and having attributes of the chapter; a first determining step of determining whether a user has instructed the saving of a previously-set attribute of a source page to be moved or copied after the source page has been moved or copied in said manipulation step, or whether the user has instructed to not save a previously-set attribute of a source page to be moved or copied after the source page has been moved or copied in said manipulation step; a first setting step of saving the attribute of the source page to be moved or copied after the source page has been moved or copied in said manipulation step so that the moved or copied source page contains the saved attribute after being moved or copied in response to said first determining step determining that the user has instructed the saving of attribute of a node of the source page in said manipulation step; a second determining step of determining whether a chapter of which the source page is a part has a specific attribute different from a corresponding attribute of the document in response to said first determining step determining that the user has instructed not to save previously-set attributes of the source page to be moved or copied; and a second setting step of setting the attributes of the source page to be moved or copied after the source page has been moved or copied in said manipulation step to the specific attribute of the chapter or a corresponding attribute of the document, in response to the determination of said second determining step.