Patent ID: 8693052

Claim:
An electronic document generating apparatus configured to generate an imposition-completed document by performing imposition of each page of an electronic document including a plurality of pages and a plurality of layers, the apparatus comprising: an analyzing unit configured to analyze a drawing object which belongs to a layer to be processed of a page to be processed in the electronic document; a determination unit configured to determine, based on a result of an analysis of the drawing object performed by the analyzing unit, whether the drawing object is a special drawing object set in advance; and an imposition unit configured to perform imposition based on a layer attribute which is determined according to an attribute of the special drawing object, when the determination unit determines that the drawing object is the special drawing object, and wherein the layer attribute indicates a processing method for the drawing object which belongs to the layer to be processed, and wherein the layer attribute includes information indicating whether display on a display device is permitted, whether printing on a printing apparatus is permitted, and whether storage in a storage medium is permitted.