Patent ID: 8233187

Claim:
A printing control apparatus which can cause a printer to print, on a print medium, an image having a print area which is larger than the print medium, the printing control apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of objects; an arranging unit configured to arrange the plurality of objects acquired by the acquisition unit in a print area which is larger than a print medium to be used by a printer, by changing a size of each of the plurality of objects according to a size of the print area; a specifying unit configured to specify, from among the plurality of objects, an object of which the arrangement going beyond an area of the print medium is restricted; a determination unit configured to determine whether, in a case where the plurality of objects are arranged in the print area by the arranging unit, the object specified by the specifying unit goes beyond the area of the print medium by the arranging unit changing a size of the object; and a restriction unit configured to restrict, in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the object goes beyond the area of the print medium, a printing of an image in which the object goes beyond the area of the print medium by changing a size of the object.