US 11,733,937 B2
Support program, information processing device, and printing method
Ryota Kakitsuba, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/212,407.
Application 17/212,407 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/025800, filed on Jul. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-179039 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0232350 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1206 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1242 (2013.01); G06K 15/1836 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a support application program causing a computer installed in an information processing device to execute a process for a booklet printing by a printer connected to the information processing device, the process comprising:
in a case where a print instruction output from an editing application program installed in the information processing device and causing the printer to print images is sent to a general-purpose print program pre-installed in an operating system of the information processing device, and in a job based on the print instruction, the printer is caused to execute the booklet printing for making a booklet by printing two pages each on both sides of a sheet, stacking a plurality of printed sheets, and folding the stacked printed sheets in half, the printing being performed by the general-purpose print program without using a printer driver,
determining an arrangement order of the images according to a number of pages for one volume in the booklet printing based on print data corresponding to the images having a plurality of pages and being received from the general-purpose print program;
performing composite image output control of transmitting composite print data, which is made by rasterizing a composite image in which the images corresponding to two target pages are arranged so as to fit on one surface of each sheet based on the arrangement order determined in the determination of the arrangement order, from the information processing device to the printer.