Patent ID: 8824009

Claim:
A display processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive designation information for designating an area to which a surface effect is applied in image data and a type of the surface effect; a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied based on the designation information; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is information depending on a device configuration of a printing apparatus for forming an image to the recording medium based on the image data, the replacement information being used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in the device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image illustrating an image that estimates a result of print executed by the printing apparatus based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied; and a display unit configured to display the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit.