Patent ID: 8792124

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: a processor; a memory configured to store instructions for execution by the processor; a plurality of drawing processing units that perform a drawing process on a print instruction written in a page description language; a sending unit that sends the entirety of a print instruction including a plurality of pages, to the plurality of drawing processing units; and a delivering unit that delivers each of processing requests to a corresponding one of the plurality of drawing processing units, each of the processing requests specifying which page of the print instruction is to be subjected to a drawing process, wherein when each of the plurality of drawing processing units performs, in order to perform a drawing process in which a print instruction for a page specified by a processing request delivered by the delivering unit is converted into print data, an analysis process on the print instruction from the first page of the print instruction to the specified page, the drawing processing unit refers to an identifier in the page description language of the print instruction for pages other than the page specified by the processing request delivered by the delivering unit, and does not perform the analysis process for a range not containing a command that influences a drawing process of other pages.