JP2014092928A - Information processor, information processing method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently edit VDP language data even without knowledge of the VDP language data.SOLUTION: An information processor has: display means for displaying a screen including a preview of page data on a display device on the basis of print data of VDP language data; determination means for determining a range for applying an editing operation, when receiving an editing operation on a reusable object which can be reused in common among a plurality of pieces of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device; and editing means for performing editing corresponding to an editing operation on the range determined by the determination means.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program.

<Description of POD>
In recent years, the print on demand (hereinafter referred to as POD) market is expanding with the increase in speed and image quality of digital printers of electrophotographic and ink jet systems. POD is generally a service that prints electronic data using a digital printer, and can print a relatively small lot of a print job in a shorter delivery time than conventional offset printing or the like.

<Description of VDP>
In POD, a printing method known as variable data printing (hereinafter, referred to as VDP or variable printing) is performed by making use of characteristics using electronic data.
In order to perform VDP, a data source such as an RDB (Relational Database) or CSV (Comma Separated Values) file including a plurality of records is first prepared. Then, the drawing object arranged on the page is divided into a fixed part and a variable part, the variable part is associated with a value of a specific field of the data source, and the drawing object arranged for each record is changed.
In this way, different contents can be printed for each record.
In VDP, for example, a direct mail or the like that changes product information provided according to customer information can be created. In such a usage method, since the advertising effect is generally higher than that of normal printing, the use of VDP is rapidly spreading.

<VDP-related term definitions>
Here, a collection of logical information such as a page layout and a data source necessary for one VDP is called a “VDP document”, and a VDP document converted into physical electronic data is called “VDP data”. An application or system that creates VDP data is called a “VDP data generation system”, and an application or system that interprets VDP data and outputs it on a digital printing machine is called a “VDP data processing system”.

<Description of VDP language>
The VDP data may generally be in any page description language (hereinafter referred to as PDL), but if a VDP dedicated PDL (hereinafter referred to as VDP language) is used, processing by the VDP data processing system Efficiency is good. This is because in the VDP language, an object that is to be used a plurality of times in a VDP document is declared in advance as a “reusable object”, and a description indicating that the reusable object is referred to later is possible. When such a VDP language is printed by the VDP data processing system, it is only necessary to store the interpretation processing result of each reusable object and reuse the interpretation processing result each time it is referenced. By doing so, it can be expected that the processing of the entire VDP data is accelerated. In contrast to a reusable object, a normal object that is used only once is sometimes called a single use object. Hereinafter, VDP data using the VDP language is referred to as VDP language data.

<VDP workflow issues>
A problem in the workflow of VDP language data is when editing is required when checking VDP language data that has been page-expanded.
There are two possible methods for editing VDP language data. One is to recreate the VDP language data using the VDP data generation system described above, and the other is to directly edit the VDP language data.
However, the former method may be difficult or impossible for several reasons. For example, it is impossible for the VDP data generation system to slightly move the position by a specific object on a specific page. This is because the VDP data generation system generally creates a layout for one record of the data source, and is not in a state where the pages are expanded, so that editing in units of pages cannot be performed.
In addition, the VDP data generation system may not have a complicated object placement rule such as increasing the size only when a specific object is placed as a result of rule application.
Further, there are cases where the person who creates the VDP language data and the person who edits the data are different persons, or the persons are in different places separated by a distance. In this case, it is common to avoid taking the method of starting from the creation of the VDP language data, if possible, because the rework in the workflow becomes large.
Therefore, consider directly editing the latter VDP language data. However, unlike normal PDL editing, VDP language data has reusable object declarations and references, and special operations are required to edit while maintaining the conformity of this part. That is, there is a problem that it is difficult to perform editing while maintaining conformity to the specification of VDP language data unless the person who performs the data editing is familiar with the specification of VDP language data. In addition, since VDP generally handles a document with a very large number of pages, it is necessary to perform an editing operation on each page, and there is a problem that it takes an enormous amount of time.

<Conventional technology>
In order to solve a part of this problem, Patent Document 1 proposes an application that can adjust the object arrangement of VDP language data.
Patent Document 2 proposes an editing support application for replacing object data in order to clarify the boundary between two overlapping print objects when the colors are close to each other.

JP 2007-122486 A JP 2007-345313 A

  However, the method of the prior art only mentions that an editing operation is performed on each page, and cannot solve the problem of an enormous working time for VDP language data having a large number of pages.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object thereof is to enable efficient editing of VDP language data without knowledge of VDP language data.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides display means for displaying a screen including a preview of page data on a display device based on print data of VDP language data, and a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device. When an editing operation for a reusable object that can be reused in common is accepted, a determination unit that determines a range to which the editing operation is applied, and an editing corresponding to the editing operation with respect to the range determined by the determination unit Editing means.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently edit VDP language data without knowledge of VDP language data.

It is a figure for demonstrating the workflow of VDP. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of a computer apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of an image when a certain PPML data is printed. It is a figure which shows the drawing object list currently handled as a reusable object in PPML data. It is a figure which shows an example of the user interface of the edit application which edits VDP language data in the VDP language data edit operation 104 of the workflow shown in FIG. It is the flowchart which showed an example of the information processing of an edit application. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating an example of a user interface in a step (S502) in which an editing application receives an editing operation from a user. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating an example of a user interface in a step (S502) in which an editing application receives an editing operation from a user. FIG. 11 is a diagram (No. 3) illustrating an example of a user interface in a step (S502) in which the editing application receives an editing operation from a user. FIG. 10 illustrates an example of a change application destination confirmation interface (part 1); FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating an example of a change application destination confirmation interface (part 2); It is a figure which shows an example of the page data containing the reusable object before editing. It is a figure (the 1) which shows an example of an edit result. It is a figure which shows an example of an edit result (the 2). FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 3) illustrating an example of an editing result. It is a flowchart showing the detail of the step (S504) in which an editing application edits PPML data according to an application range. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating an example of editing of PPML data; FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating an example of editing of PPML data; FIG. 10 is a third diagram illustrating an example of editing PPML data; It is a figure which shows an example of the table which summarized how to express by each specification of PPML and PDF / VT. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a position of a frame 1101 in a page and an object arrangement rule for the frame 1101. It is the figure which represented a part of data source applied to VDP data in RDB format. It is a figure for demonstrating the feedback to the data preparation work of data edit content. It is a figure which shows an example of the data which recorded the edit content which an edit application outputs. It is a figure which shows an example of PPML which added the metadata which shows that it is "the 2nd page of the 3rd record" to a certain page.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<< Embodiment 1 >>
<VDP workflow>
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a VDP workflow.
First, VDP data is created using a VDP data generation system (101).
The VDP language data creation work is to create an arrangement (layout) of each object and a rule indicating a relationship between a value of a data source and an object to be actually arranged. It is a function provided.
Then, the VDP language data 102 is output in the VDP data generation system.
Next, the generated VDP language data is checked for each page data by preview, trial printing, or the like (103).
Next, the data is edited to reflect the check result (104), and the edited VDP language data 105 edited last is printed (106).

<Problems and solutions>
In the VDP language data editing work 104 of the above-described workflow, there is a method of re-creating VDP language data using the VDP data generation system (from the VDP language data creating work 101 in FIG. 1).
However, as described above, there is a problem that it may be difficult or impossible to take this method.
In the present embodiment, in order to solve these problems, editing such as object size change, movement, and replacement can be performed with VDP language data as it is.
More specifically, a means (hereinafter referred to as an editing application) capable of editing VDP language data is provided.

<Computer configuration>
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the computer apparatus.
The CPU 201 controls the entire apparatus according to a control program stored in the RAM 202.
A RAM 202 is an internal storage unit that stores programs executed by the CPU 201 and data such as document images.
A network interface (network I / F) 203 connects to a network under the control of the CPU 201 to transmit / receive data and the like.
The external storage device 204 is an external storage device such as a magnetic disk that stores data, programs, and the like.
The display 205 is an example of a display device and displays information. A keyboard 206 and a pointing device 207 are examples of input devices, and input information to a computer device in response to a user operation.
The CPU 201 executes processing based on a program (editing application program) stored in the external storage device 204, the RAM 202, or the like, thereby realizing an editing application and processing according to a flowchart described below.
In the following description, for simplification of description, it is sometimes described that the editing application performs processing instead of the CPU 201.

The editing application uses an OS (Operating System) function stored in the RAM 202 as necessary.
The editing application reads / writes the contents of internal data temporarily stored in the RAM 202.
The editing application transmits / receives data as necessary when there is data on another computer via the network interface 203.
The editing application reads and writes data on the external storage device 204.
The editing application displays visual information such as a user interface and a processing result on the display 205.
The editing application receives a user input from the keyboard 206 or the pointing device 207.
Hereinafter, in describing the operation of the editing application of the present embodiment, the operation of each device described above is omitted.

<About the VDP language>
The VDP language is different from normal PDL in that there is a mechanism for declaring a reusable object (reusable object) called a reusable object and reusing it.
Because of the reusable object mechanism, a system that prints VDP language data stores processing results of objects declared as reusable objects in a memory or the like, and reuses them in common in a plurality of page data. be able to.
As a result, it is possible to realize high-speed printing processing during variable printing.
<Description of PPML data>
PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language; Non-Patent Document 1) is one of the VDP languages and is a PDL standard in the printing industry.
FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating an example of an image when certain PPML data is printed.
The PPML data that is the print image of FIG. 3A is an example of data of 200 pages in total for 100 direct mails of 2 pages printed with advertisements of △△ stores that have different contents depending on the recipient on the front side and the recipient on the back side. is there.
FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a list of drawing objects handled as reusable objects in PPML data.

<Basic operation of editing application>
In the present embodiment, functions of the editing application will be described by exemplifying various editing operations performed on the PPML data shown in FIG. 3 by the editing application.
A person who operates the editing application is called a user.
The operation when the editing application receives an editing operation from the user will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a user interface (screen) of an editing application for editing VDP language data in the VDP language data editing work 104 of the workflow shown in FIG.
The sub window 401 is an area in which thumbnails of each page data of PPML data are displayed in a list.
In the case of the PPML data in FIG. 3A, 200 pages of thumbnails are displayed in the sub window 401.
The sub window 402 is an area where thumbnails of reusable objects are displayed in a list.
In the case of the PPML data in FIG. 3A, the reusable object shown in FIG. 3B is displayed in the sub window 402.
The sub window 403 is an area where a preview of page data of the page is displayed when the user selects a page from the sub window 401.
FIG. 4 shows a state in which the editing application reads the PPML data in FIG. 3A and the user selects the second page 404. Therefore, the second page 404 is displayed in a preview larger than the thumbnail of the sub window 401 in the sub window 403.
The user can perform various operations on the objects in the sub-window 402 and the sub-window 403 by using a pointing device 207 or the like with a general graphic user interface.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of information processing of the editing application.
First, the editing application analyzes the PPML data to be edited and displays the initial state on the user interface (S501).
Displaying this initial state means displaying the page list as thumbnails in the sub window 401, displaying thumbnails of all reusable objects in the sub window 402, and displaying the preview of the first page in the sub window 403.
Next, the editing application receives an editing operation from the user using the pointing device 207 or the like (S502).
Next, the editing application receives an editing operation application range from the user and determines an editing operation application range (S503).
The state of the step of accepting an editing operation from the user (S502) and the step of accepting the editing operation application range (S503) will be described later with reference to a user interface diagram.
Next, the editing application edits PPML data according to the editing operation received in S502 in accordance with the application range received in S503 (S504).
Finally, the editing application updates the display of the user interface to reflect the editing result (S505).

<Edit reusable object>
6A to 6C are diagrams illustrating an example of a user interface in the step (S502) in which the editing application receives an editing operation from the user.
As shown in FIG. 6A, the user can move the inside of the reusable object 405 in the sub window 403 by performing a drag and drop operation in the sub window 403 using the pointing device 207.
Further, as shown in FIG. 6B, the user can perform resizing (enlargement or reduction) by dragging the corner of the reusable object 405 in the subwindow 403 in the subwindow 403 using the pointing device 207. it can. A change in an object 1505 from FIG. 8A to FIG. 8B described later is an example of resizing.
Further, as shown in FIG. 6C, the user performs a drag-and-drop operation on the reusable object 406 in the sub-window 402 to the reusable object in the sub-window 403 using the pointing device 207. As a result, reusable objects can be replaced.

7A and 7B are diagrams illustrating an example of a user interface in the step (S503) in which the editing application receives an editing operation application range from the user.
After the step of accepting an editing operation from the user (S502), the editing application displays the user interface of FIG. 7A. Then, when the same reusable object exists in the same position of other page data, the editing application inquires of the user whether to edit these objects.
If the user selects “Yes” (701), the editing application further displays the user interface of FIG. 7B. Then, the editing application inquires whether to apply the editing even if the editing object is overlapped with another object when editing the same object at the same position in other page data.
The user interface in FIGS. 7A and 7B is an example of a selection object for causing the user to select a range for providing an editing operation.

FIG. 8C is a diagram illustrating an example of an editing result when the user selects Yes (701) in the user interface of FIG. 7A and selects Yes (703) in the user interface of FIG. 7B.
At this time, not only the second page (1501) but also the reusable objects (1507, 1508) of the cars in the sixth page (1503) and the eighth page (1504) are enlarged.
FIG. 8D is a diagram illustrating an example of an editing result when the user selects Yes (701) in the user interface of FIG. 7A and selects No (704) in the user interface of FIG. 7B.
At this time, the car reusable object (1507) in the second page (1501) and the sixth page (1503) is enlarged, but if the car object (1508) in the eighth page (1504) is enlarged, other objects Objects (1509) overlap. Therefore, it is not enlarged.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing details of the step (S504) in which the editing application edits the PPML data according to the application range.
The editing application determines whether to apply editing also to the same reusable object at the same position in other page data (S801).
If the editing application accepts “No” (702) in FIG. 7A, N in S801. In this case, the editing application edits the PPML data only in the portion corresponding to the page data edited by the user (S802).
If the editing application accepts “Yes” (701) in FIG. 7A, the answer is Y in S801. In this case, the editing application proceeds to S803.
The editing application determines whether or not to apply editing even if the editing application overlaps with another object (S803).
When the editing application accepts “Yes” (703) in FIG. 7B, Y is obtained in S803. In this case, the editing application edits the PPML data for all the same reusable objects arranged at the same position in other page data (S804).
If the editing application accepts “No” (704) in FIG. 7B, it becomes N in S803. In this case, the editing application edits the PPML data for the same reusable object arranged at the same position of other page data that does not overlap other objects as a result of editing (S805).

With regard to the editing operation of the PPML data of the editing application, a more specific example of each of reusable object movement, resizing, and replacement will be described with reference to FIGS. 10A to 10C.
When moving the reusable object, the editing application edits the Position attribute value of the MARK element to be edited as shown in FIG. 10A.
FIG. 10A shows a state where the target reusable object is edited from the position of coordinates (100, 50) to the position of coordinates (200, 50).
Further, in the case of resize of the reusable object, the editing application adds a new OCCURRENCE element to the declaration portion of the corresponding reusable object in accordance with the changed size as shown in FIG. 10B.
The OCCURRENCE element changes a parameter such as enlargement / reduction or rotation for a reusable object already declared so that it can be reused as another reusable object.

In FIG. 10B, the editing application can reuse a reusable object that has been doubled vertically and horizontally under the name “ro02”.
Then, the editing application performs editing so that the MARK element to be edited refers to the newly added OCCURRENCE element.
FIG. 10B shows a state where the editing application is editing the OCCURRENCE referenced by the MARK element to be edited from “ro01” to the newly created “ro02”.
In the case of replacement of a reusable object, the editing application performs editing so that the MARK element to be edited refers to the OCCURRENCE element of the replaced reusable object as shown in FIG. 10C.
FIG. 10C shows a state where the editing application is editing the OCCURRENCE element referred to by the MARK element to be edited from “ro01” to another OCURRENCE element “ro03”.
The editing application completes S504 by performing the editing of the PPML data as shown in FIGS. 10A to 10C on the application range of the editing operation received from the user in S503.
Although the present embodiment deals with the case of PPML as the VDP language as input data, the same function can be provided for other VDP languages such as PDF / VT.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a table that summarizes how to express reusable object declarations, references, arrangements, and the like, which are features of VDP language data, in the specifications of PPML and PDF / VT. It is.
A similar function can be provided to PDF / VT by replacing the processing for the specification specific to PPML in this embodiment with the processing for the specification specific to PDF / VT.

<< Embodiment 2 >>
<About reordering and correspondence>
In actual printing work, reordering of printed matter from the orderer is often performed.
In this reordering, of course, the edited VDP language data must be printed.
One solution to reordering is to save edited VDP language data.
<Problem of saving edited VDP language data>
However, since the data size of VDP language data is generally large, it is often not practical to save all the VDP language data in preparation for reordering when it is unknown.
For this reason, not the VDP language data but the layout and rules necessary for the VDP language data creation work are stored, and in the case of reordering, the VDP language data creation work 101 is performed again.
However, since the VDP language data before the VDP language data editing work 104 is not created as it is, and the VDP language data editing work 104 needs to be performed again, the work load increases.
Therefore, the contents of the first VDP language data editing work 104 are fed back to the VDP language data creation work 101 so that the edited VDP language data is created in the second and subsequent VDP language data creation work 101. Think about what to do.

<General VDP data generation system>
Prior to a more specific editing content feedback method, a general function of a VDP data generation system will be briefly described.
In the VDP data generation system, a rule for specifying the position of a frame (referred to as a frame) where an object is to be arranged and the actual object to be arranged in each frame can be determined.
12A and 12B are diagrams conceptually showing a part of the data creation operation when creating the direct mail VDP language data of FIG. 3A.
FIG. 12A is a diagram showing the position of the frame 1101 in the page and the object placement rule for the frame 1101. The object arrangement rule indicates that the toaster image 1102 is arranged when the “sex” of the data source is “female”, and the car image 1103 is arranged when the data source is “male”.
FIG. 12B shows a part of the data source applied to the VDP data in the RDB format.

<Feedback to data creation work of data editing contents>
The feedback of the result of the VDP language data editing operation 104 to the VDP language data creation operation 101 is performed by adding a new rule to the rule of each frame described above.
For example, consider a case where the object arranged in the frame 1101 of the second record in FIG. 13 is resized (+20, +10) in the upper right direction with the lower left as the origin in the editing application of the first embodiment.
At this time, in order for the VDP data generation system to create edited VDP language data, as shown by 1201 in FIG. It is only necessary to add the rule “+20, +10) Resize”.
In order to do this, if the editing application outputs information necessary for the VDP data generation system to recognize the editing result as an additional rule, and the VDP data generation system can be applied as an additional rule in the VDP language data creation work 101, Good.
Here, the information necessary for the VDP data generation system to add the editing result as a rule is how and what object of the page data of what number of record is edited ( That is, the editing content).

<Edited content data output by editing application>
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of data in which editing content output by the editing application is recorded.
The Edit element 1301 indicates that “the fifth object of the second page data of the first record is resized (+20, +10) in the upper right direction”.
The Edit element 1302 indicates that “the third object of the fourth page data of the second record is moved 50 rightward and 5 downward”.
The Edit element 1303 indicates that “the second object of the first page data of the third record is replaced with a reusable object of“ ro02 ””.
The XML data is read by the VDP data generation system and added as a rule for the corresponding frame, so that the VDP language data reflecting the edited contents of the frame can be output. The VDP data generation system is an example of a print data generation unit. The print data generation means may be realized by the CPU 201 of the computer apparatus shown in FIG. 2 executing processing based on a program stored in the RAM 202 or the like, or similarly realized by the CPU of another computer apparatus. Also good.
In FIG. 14, the recording format of the editing result is described in the XML format, but as described above, it is recorded what numbered object of which numbered page data, what numbered page data, and how it was edited. Any format is possible. In other words, any format that can be used by the VDP data generation system may be used.

<PPML data output by the VDP data generation system>
In order for the editing application to know what page data of which record the page data to be edited is, it must be devised by PDL.
When the VDP language is PDF / VT, the editing application can analyze the data to know what page data of which record each page data is.
When the VDP language is PPML, metadata can be set for each page data, so that the editing application can use it.
More specifically, when the VDP data generation system outputs PPML data, as shown in FIG. 15, the page data is recorded with the page number of the page number in the metadata of each page data. This allows the editing application to know about it.
FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of PPML in which metadata indicating “second page data of the third record” is added to certain page data.
As described above, the editing contents can be fed back from the VDP language data editing operation 104 to the VDP language data generation operation 101. In the subsequent VDP language data generation operation 101, edited VDP data can be generated. It becomes like.

<< Other Embodiments >>
The present invention can also be realized by executing the following processing. That is, software (program) that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus via a network or various storage media, and a computer (or CPU, MPU, etc.) of the system or apparatus reads the program. It is a process to be executed.

  As described above, according to each of the embodiments described above, editing of VDP language data can be performed efficiently without knowledge of VDP language data.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited to such specific embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims.・ Change is possible.

Claims (10)

Display means for displaying a screen including a preview of page data on a display device based on print data of VDP language data;
Determining means for determining a range to which the editing operation is applied when an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device; ,
Editing means for performing editing according to the editing operation on the range determined by the determining means;
An information processing apparatus.   2. The determination unit displays a selection object for causing a user to select a range for providing the editing operation on the display device, and determines the range based on a user's selection via the selection object. The information processing apparatus described. The determining means is an editing operation for the reusable object.
Moving the reusable object,
Resizing the reusable object,
Replacing the reusable object,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein upon receiving any of the information, the range to which the editing operation is applied is determined. The determination means is a range to apply the editing operation,
The edited page and another page with the same reusable object placed in the same position,
Of the pages that have been edited and other pages that have the same reusable object placed at the same position, are those that do not overlap with other objects due to editing?
4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus determines any one of the information processing apparatus. Display means for displaying a screen including a preview of page data on a display device based on print data of VDP language data;
When an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device, an editing unit that performs editing according to the editing operation;
A storage unit that stores the contents of the editing performed by the editing unit in a format that can be used by the print data generation unit that generates the print data;
An information processing apparatus. The print data is composed of a plurality of records,
The storage means, as the content of the editing,
What number record was edited,
What page data of the record,
What number object of the page data,
Edits and
The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information is stored in a format that can be used by the print data generation unit. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus,
A display step of displaying a screen including a preview of page data on the display device based on the print data of the VDP language data;
A determination step of determining a range to which the editing operation is applied when an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device; ,
An editing step for performing editing according to the editing operation on the range determined in the determining step;
An information processing method including: An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus,
A display step of displaying a screen including a preview of page data on the display device based on the print data of the VDP language data;
When an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device, an editing step that performs editing according to the editing operation;
A storage step of storing the contents of the editing performed in the editing step in a format that can be used by a print data generation unit that generates the print data;
An information processing method including: On the computer,
A display step of displaying a screen including a preview of page data on the display device based on the print data of the VDP language data;
A determination step of determining a range to which the editing operation is applied when an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device; ,
An editing step for performing editing according to the editing operation on the range determined in the determining step;
A program that executes On the computer,
A display step of displaying a screen including a preview of page data on the display device based on the print data of the VDP language data;
When an editing operation is performed on a reusable object that can be reused in common with a plurality of page data included in the page data displayed on the display device, an editing step that performs editing according to the editing operation;
A storage step of storing the contents of the editing performed in the editing step in a format that can be used by a print data generation unit that generates the print data;
A program that executes

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