Patent ID: 8780390

Claim:
An image editing apparatus comprising: an imposition information acquirer for acquiring imposition information for a print to be printed based on page description language data; an imposition processor for imposing the page description language data to generate imposition data according to the imposition information acquired by the imposition information acquirer; a RIP processor for performing a RIP process on the imposition data generated by the imposition processor to convert the imposition data into raster-format data; a page clipping processor for clipping page data corresponding respectively to a plurality of page areas from the raster-format data converted by the RIP processor; a shape model determiner for determining a three-dimensional shape model for the print; a preview data generator for mapping the page data clipped by the page clipping processor onto respective model areas corresponding to the page areas on the three-dimensional shape model determined by the shape model determiner thereby to generate three-dimensional preview data of the print; a display unit for displaying a three-dimensional preview image of the print based on the three-dimensional preview data generated by the preview data generator; and a page selector for selecting at least one page from pages represented by the imposition data; wherein the display unit displays the three-dimensional preview image by displaying an image representing page data of the at least one page selected by the page selector and by not displaying an image representing page data of the remaining pages.