Patent ID: 8804141

Claim:
A character output device comprising: a character direction specification unit that specifies a drawing direction of characters for each processing-target region of a processing-target page; a character rotation determination unit that determines whether the processing-target page rotates or not based on a relation between the specified drawing direction and a direction of an output medium; an output unit that performs an output processing based on the determination by the character rotation determination unit; and a character command acquisition unit that acquires a drawing command for the characters, the drawing command for the characters acquired by the character command acquisition unit includes a continuous character string, the character direction specification unit: (i) specifies a character direction of a first character in the continuous character string based on the acquired drawing command for the characters, (ii) weights information regarding the specified character direction by multiplying the number of characters in the continuous character string, and (iii) specifies the drawing direction of the continuous character string according to the weighted information regarding the specified character direction.