MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS

• US 20140029058A1
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: MURATA, Mareyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,001,375 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1868 for fitting to an output condition, e.g. paper colour or format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/393 Enlarging or reducing

Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-executable instructions. When the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions cause an information processing apparatus, to perform: a first receiving process for receiving a setting of a first allocation number; a size determining process for determining a size of an allocation area which is to be allocated to one image on the sheet; a judging process for judging whether it is possible to arrange the allocation areas of the size determined in the size determining process, according to a second allocation number which is greater than the first allocation number; and a guiding process for guiding that it is possible to allocate the image according to the second allocation number while maintaining the size of the allocation area determined in the size determining process for each of the images.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause an information processing apparatus to:

perform a first receiving process for receiving a setting of a first allocation number, which is the number of images to be allocated on one surface of a sheet;

perform a size determining process for determining a size of an allocation area which is to be allocated to one image on the sheet, based on the first allocation number which has been received in the first receiving process;

perform a judging process for judging whether it is possible to arrange, on the one surface of the sheet, allocation areas each of which has the size determined in the size determining process, according to a second allocation number which is greater than the first allocation number; and

perform a guiding process for guiding that it is possible to allocate the images according to the second allocation number while maintaining the size of the allocation area determined in the size determining process for each of the images, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number.

2. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the sheet is rectangular-shaped having a short side and a long side, and

in the judging process, a judgment whether it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number is performed for each of a case in which the sheet is arranged such that the long side extends in a horizontal direction, and a case in which the sheet is arranged such that the long side extends in a vertical direction.

3. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the sheet is rectangular-shaped having a short side and a long side, and

in the first receiving process, a setting of one of a landscape orientation in which the long side is in a horizontal direction and a portrait orientation in which the long side is in a vertical direction is received, as an orientation of the sheet, and

in the judging process, a judgment whether it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number is made only for the orientation of the sheet which has been received in the first receiving process.

4. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus further includes display unit, and

the instructions cause the display unit to display a layout in which the allocation areas are arranged on the one surface of the sheet, according to the second allocation number.

5. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to:

perform a selection process for selecting one of the first allocation number and the second allocation number, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number; and

perform an updating process for updating the first allocation number to the second allocation number in a case that the second allocation number has been selected in the selection process.

6. The medium according to claim 2, wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to:

perform a selection process for selecting one of the first allocation number and a plurality of the second allocation numbers, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number, for each of the case in which the sheet has been arranged such that the long side extends in the horizontal direction, and the case in which the sheet has been arranged such that the long side extends in the vertical direction; and

an updating process for updating the first allocation number to the second allocation number selected in the selection process, in a case that one of the second allocation numbers has been selected in the selection process.

7. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the information processing apparatus to perform a second receiving process for receiving a setting of whether the judging process is to be executed, before the judging process, and

in a case that a setting of not to execute the judging process has been received in the second receiving process, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus not to execute the judging process.

8. The medium according to claim 1, wherein the first allocation number is an integer not smaller than two, and

in the size determining process, the size of each of the allocation areas is determined such that sizes of all the allocation areas are same.

9. A print control apparatus comprising:

a guiding section configured to provide information; and

a processing section configured to execute;

a first receiving process for receiving a setting of a first allocation number, which is the number of images to be allocated on one surface of a sheet;

a size determining process for determining a size of an allocation area which is to be allocated to one image on the sheet, based on the first allocation number which has been received in the first receiving process;

a judging process for judging whether it is possible to arrange, on the one surface of the sheet, allocation areas each of which has the size determined in the size determining process, according to a second allocation number which is greater than the first allocation number; and

a guiding process for guiding by controlling the guiding section, that it is possible to allocate the images according to the second allocation number while maintaining the size of the allocation area determined in the size determining process for each of the images, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number.

10. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the sheet is rectangular-shaped having a short side and a long side, and

the processing section is configured to judge whether it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number for each of a case in which the sheet is arranged such that the long side extends in a horizontal direction, and a case in which the sheet is arranged such that the long side extends in a vertical direction, in the judging process.

11. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the sheet is rectangular-shaped having a short side and a long side,

in the first receiving process, the processing section is configured to receive a setting of one of a landscape orientation in which the long side is in a horizontal direction and a portrait orientation in which the long side is in a vertical direction, as an orientation of the sheet, and

in the judging process, the processing section is configured to judge whether it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number, only for the orientation of the sheet which has been received in the first receiving process.

12. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein in the guiding process, the processing section is configured to display a layout, in which the allocation areas are arranged on the one surface of the sheet according to the second allocation number, on the guiding section.

13. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processing section is configured to further perform:

a selection process for selecting one of the first allocation number and the second allocation number, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number; and

an updating process for updating the first allocation number to the second allocation number in a case that the second allocation number has been selected in the selection process.

14. The print control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processing section is configured to further perform:

a selection process for selecting one of the first allocation number and a plurality of the second allocation numbers, in a case that it is judged in the judging process that it is possible to arrange the allocation areas according to the second allocation number, for each of the case in which the sheet has been arranged such that the long side extends in the horizontal direction, and the case in which the sheet has been arranged such that the long side extends in the vertical direction; and

an updating process for updating the first allocation number to the second allocation number selected in the selection process, in a case that one of the second allocation numbers has been selected in the selection process.

15. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processing section is configured to further perform a second receiving process for receiving a setting of whether the judging process is to be executed, before the judging process, and

in a case that a setting of not to execute the judging process has been received in the second receiving process, the processing section is configured not to execute the judging process.

16. The print control apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the first allocation number is an integer not smaller than two, and

in the size determining process, the processing section is configured to determine the size of each of the allocation areas such that sizes of all the allocation areas are same.