PROCESS DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the convenience of a past process data reusing work at the time of preparing and registering the process data of new printed matter. SOLUTION: In the case of the process data of the printed matter consisting of plural pages, for the reuse of the formation and registration of the process data of the succeeding new printed matter, there are information suitable to be registered and managed by the printed matter unit and information suitable to be registered and managed by the page unit. For example, as for the printed matter to be bound, it is preferable to manage the size, etc., of the book by the printed matter unit, and it is preferable to manage the layout of a sentence and a cut, etc., by the page unit. Thus, the information preferably to be registered and managed by the printed matter unit is registered as design information 5A1, 5A2 and 5B, and on the other hand, the information preferable to be registered and managed by the page unit is registered and managed as layout information 7A1, 7A2 and 7B. Thus, the convenience of the reusing work is improved.