Patent ID: 8307280

Claim:
A label data creating apparatus comprising: a display having a display screen; a layout display unit that displays a layout of a long print medium onto which print data is to be printed, in the display screen of the display; an input device that is used in inputting a plurality of objects in a print area of said layout; said plurality of objects each including printable information which is one of text, word art or bar code information; an object storage unit that stores said plurality of objects inputted through the input device, said plurality of objects having a rank allocated thereto; a select device that is used in selecting said plurality of objects inputted into the print area; and a link object setting unit that, in a case where said plurality of objects are selected by the select device, sets an object ranked as first from amongst said plurality of objects thus selected as a parent object, and sets the remaining of said plurality of objects ranked as second or lower as child objects for creating a group; wherein the printable information in the child objects is automatically updated to include identical printable information as the parent object when grouped and when printable information in the parent object is thereafter changed; and said child objects are automatically displayed so as to be disposed toward a rear side of the parent object in a print direction, and each of the parent object and said child objects in said group each include a group ID symbol, wherein the child objects have a substantially same illustration of said group ID symbol, which differs from said parent object.