Patent ID: 8824020

Claim:
An image editing apparatus configured to determine two or more scheduled disposition regions, which do not overlap each other, in a predetermined region on a printing plate or an output medium, and gang two or more content images for the respective scheduled disposition regions, comprising: a ganging information managing unit that sequentially manages first list information regarding a plurality of print jobs and second list information regarding assignment states of the print jobs corresponding to the respective scheduled disposition regions; a job assigning unit that assigns the scheduled disposition regions to at least one print job satisfying a predetermined disposition approval condition among the plurality of print jobs indicated by the first list information; a ganging state monitoring unit that sequentially monitors the first list information and the second list information managed by the ganging information managing unit and determines whether or not there is at least one combination of the print jobs which have not been assigned yet by the job assigning unit and the scheduled disposition regions; and a monitoring result informing unit that informs a user of there being the combination in a case where the ganging state monitoring unit determines that there is the combination.