Patent attributes
To display a print preview to which an operating instruction from an operation panel provided for an external operating apparatus, an interruption event which is transferred from the external operating apparatus 111 to a host computer 101 is detected every instruction of the operation panel provided for the external operating apparatus 111, image data which is read out from a memory card which can be loaded into the external operating apparatus 111 and a print setting which is set are obtained in accordance with the detected interruption event, and a preview display unit 305 controls a print preview display in which the print setting has been reflected to a display device of the host computer 101 and an updating display of the print preview display.
