Patent ID: 7046385

Claim:
A print control apparatus for managing document information on a page basis and performing control to lay out the document information on a page basis in a designated layout area, comprising: data management means for managing the document data as a set of data on a page basis; division information giving means for, in a case where a page of a predetermined size of the document data is divided into two pages of half the size of the predetermined size, giving management information on a page basis division information for identifying the divided data as divided pages and specifying a relationship between the divided pages; and control means for determining a layout area in which data managed on a page basis is laid out on the basis of the management information given by said division information giving means, and laying out the data in the determined layout area, wherein said control means, in a case where the document data divided into the two pages is not being laid out as a two-page spread of pages to be printed, lays out the respective divided document data on the determined layout area, wherein said control means, in a case where the document data divided into the two pages is being laid out as the two-page spread of the pages to be printed, lays out the respective divided document data on a two-page spread area, and wherein the two-page spread is larger than two layout areas.