Patent ID: 8082495

Claim:
A label creating apparatus having a print data creating and editing device that creates and edits print data to be printed onto a long tape, the print data creating and editing device comprising: a storage device that stores a data file that stores a plurality of label data composed of character data and figure data; a divided display control device that performs display control to display a display screen of a display device in a state of being divided into a tape display area for displaying the tape and a data file display area for display the data file so that the tape display area and the data file display area are displayed at the same time in the display screen of the display device; a print data selecting device capable of selecting plural pieces of label data from the data file displayed in the data file display area; a print data creating device that creates print data to be printed on the tape from the label data selected by the print data selecting device; a model tape display control device that creates a model tape indicative of a state where the print data is printed on the tape, and displays the model tape in the tape display area; a model data file display control device that creates a model data file indicative of a state where a plurality of label data stored in the data file are arranged in a predetermined matrix, and displays the plural label data in the data file display area; and a file display size determining device that determines whether or not the model data file is entirely displayed in the data file display area, wherein, if the file display size determining device determines that the model data file is not entirely displayed in the data file display area, the model data file display control device compresses the model data file so that the model data file can be entirely displayed in the data file display area; and wherein said display screen is separate from a label printer for printing the long tape.