image forming apparatus and print control method

Provided are an image forming apparatus and a print control method. Even through pinting data, configured with specific file format, of objects in specified pages are not directly printed, printing resultd according to users' intentions can also be obtained. An image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section receiving the printing data, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze the printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and enable the display section to display different print setup screesn thereon, where the print setup screens depends on whether the printing data have the specific file format. The analyzing section is configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed according to printing setup of the printing setup screens and convert the printing