Application function extension method, system, and program

• US 8,687,228 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Fujita, Tadanobu
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIMI DEHKORDY, SAEID
• Application Number:
  US13/777,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169978A1
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 358/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1254 Automatic configuration, e.g. by driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1843 Changing size or raster resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3935 with modification of image resolution, i.e. determining the values of picture elements at new relative positions

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a plug-in of a general use application, sheet size information and margin information set by the application are calculated by using a scaling factor at the time of an expansion or reduction printing. The calculated sheet size information and margin information are reconfigured into the application.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining margin information for specifying an amount of a margin area in a page in which data generated by an application is arranged, wherein the amount of the margin area has been set on the application; and

changing a size of the page of the application to a size corresponding to a sheet used in printing of the page, so that the margin area of the amount specified by the obtained margin information is applied, in the sheet, to the page of which the size is changed.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the size of the page is changed on the basis of the size corresponding to the sheet and the amount specified by the margin information.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

calculating an amount of a margin area to be newly set on the application on the basis of the size corresponding to the sheet and the margin information, so that the calculated amount of the margin area on the page is changed to an amount specified by the margin information in a case where the size of the page is changed;

wherein the calculated amount is set on the page of the application and the size of the page of the application is changed.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising determining whether a header or a footer is set on the application,

wherein the calculated amount is not set on the application in a case where the determining determines that the header or the footer is set.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein a size of an image corresponding to the page is changed, as the size of the page of the application.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the size of the image is changed by a printer driver.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein a setting of a size changing corresponding to the size corresponding to the sheet and a size of the page, is set on the printer driver and the printer driver changes the image in accordance with the setting of the size changing.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the margin which was information for specifying the amount of a margin area designated by a user to the application and has been set on the application, is obtained.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a processor and memory;

an obtaining unit that obtains margin information for specifying an amount of a margin area in a page in which data generated by an application is arranged, wherein the amount of the margin area has been set on the application; and

a changing unit that changes a size of the page of the application to a size corresponding to a sheet used in printing of the page, so that the margin area of the amount specified by the obtained margin information is applied, in the sheet, to the page of which the size is changed.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the size of the page is changed on the basis of the size corresponding to the sheet and the amount specified by the margin information.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a calculation unit that calculates an amount of a margin area to be newly set on the application on the basis of the size corresponding to the sheet and the margin information, so that the calculated amount of the margin area on the page is changed to an amount specified by the margin information in a case where the size of the page is changed,

wherein the calculated amount is set on the page of the application and the size of the page of the application is changed.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a determination unit that determines whether a header or a footer is set on the application,

wherein the calculated amount is not set on the application in a case where the determining determines that the header or the footer is set.

13. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein a size of an image corresponding to the page is changed, as the size of the page of the application.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the size of the image is changed by a printer driver.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein a setting of a size changing corresponding to the size corresponding to the sheet and a size of the page, is set on the printer driver and the printer driver changes the image in accordance with the setting of the size changing.

16. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the margin information for specifying the amount of a margin area which was designated by a user to the application and has been set on the application, is obtained.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for controlling an apparatus, the medium comprising:

computer-executable instructions that obtains margin information for specifying an amount of a margin area in a page in which data generated by an application is arranged, wherein the amount of the margin area has been set on the application; and

computer-executable instructions that changes a size of the page of the application to a size corresponding to a sheet used in printing of the page, so that the margin area of the amount specified by the obtained margin information is applied, in the sheet, to the page of which the size is changed.