Patent ID: 7852507

Claim:
An image description data processing method for execution in an apparatus including a holding unit, the method comprising: acquiring first image description data from the holding unit, the first image description data being described in an image description language and comprising (a) a graphic rendering command defining a shape and (b) a plurality of first processing commands, each of the first processing commands having an affine transformation; extracting the graphic rendering command and the plurality of first processing commands from the acquired first image description data; generating second image description data described in the image description language, the second image description data being based on (1) the extracted graphic rendering command and (2) a second processing command derived by sequentially multiplying by each other the affine transformations of the plurality of extracted first processing commands, wherein the second image description data includes a path element and excludes affine transformations; and sending the generated second image description data to an image forming apparatus which interprets the generated second image description data to form an image.