Patent ID: 8819543

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processing unit configured to execute moving of an object including a plurality of elements or changing a size of the object in one or more pages a in which the object is arranged in response to an instruction from a user; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating the position in the one or more pages, of the elements included in the object which the moving or the changing of the size is executed in the one or more pages by the processing unit; a detecting unit configured to, if in a case where the object straddles a boundary between two pages because of the moving or the changing of the size, detect at least one element that is included in the object and that corresponds to of the boundary between the two pages on the basis of the information acquired by the acquiring unit; a determining unit configured to determine a position in the object where the object is divided by the two pages, so that the object is divided at the boundary in a case where the detecting unit does not detect the at least one element, and so that the object is divided by arranging a part of or the entirety of a first element to one of the two pages and by arranging a second element included in the object to another page, in a case where the detecting unit detects the first element; and an output unit configured to output an image corresponding to the two pages in which the object is divided by the two pages at the position determined by the determining unit.