Print information conversion apparatus, printing apparatus, printing system, and computer readable medium

1. A print information conversion apparatus, comprising:

a print information acquiring portion that acquires print information in a page description language format;

a conversion portion that converts the acquired print information in the page description language format into electronic document information in an electronic document format;

an addition portion that adds restoration information to the electronic document information, the restoration information being used for restoring nonreversible information that is contained in the print information in the page description language format and that is not reversibly convertible to the electronic document information; and

a print information generating portion that generates print information based on the electronic document information and the restoration information added to the electronic document information,

wherein at least one of the print information acquiring portion, the conversion portion, the addition portion, and the print information generating portion includes a hardware circuit.

2. The print information conversion apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a reception portion that receives a request for printing out the electronic document information converted by the conversion portion from a specified printing apparatus; and

a print information output portion,

wherein, in response to the request received by the reception portion, the print information generating portion generates print information in a format corresponding to the specified printing apparatus based on the electronic document information to be printed out and the restoration information added to the electronic document information and a print control corresponding to the specified printing apparatus; and

the print information output portion outputs the print information in the format corresponding to the specified printing apparatus into the specified printing apparatus.

3. The print information conversion apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the print information generating portion generates print control information corresponding to the specified printing apparatus, based on the restoration information added to the electronic document information; and

the print information generating portion adds the created print control information to the electronic document information so as to generate print information.

4. The print information conversion apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the restoration information includes conversion information containing a converted content of the nonreversible information converted into information in the electronic document format.

5. The print information conversion apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a display information generating portion that generates display information to be displayed based on the electronic document information converted by the conversion portion,

wherein the print information in the page description language format contains designation information, the designation information containing any of designations including a designation of a preprinted form and a designation of a barcode;

the conversion portion converts the designation information into image information corresponding to the designation information; and

the display information generating portion generates display information for the image information converted by the conversion portion.

6. The print information conversion apparatus according to claim 5 ,

wherein the print information generating portion deletes the display information for the image information generated by the display information generating portion, and generates the print information in the format corresponding to the specified printing apparatus.

7. A printing apparatus, comprising:

an electronic document information acquiring portion that acquires the electronic document information converted by the print information conversion apparatus according to claim 1 ; and

a printing portion that performs printing based on the electronic document information acquired by the electronic document information acquiring portion and the restoration information added to the electronic document information.

8. A printing system, comprising:

a first printing apparatus;

a second printing apparatus; and

a print information conversion apparatus,

wherein

the first printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing based on print information in a page description language format;

the print information conversion apparatus includes:

a print information acquiring portion that acquires the print information in the page description language format;

a conversion portion that converts the acquired print information in the page description language format into electronic document information in an electronic document format;

an addition portion that adds restoration information to the electronic document information, the restoration information being used for restoring nonreversible information that is contained in the print information in the page description language format and that is not reversibly convertible to the electronic document information;

a reception portion that receives a request for print out the electronic document information converted by the conversion portion from the second printing apparatus;

a print information generating portion that, in response to the request received by the reception portion, generates print information in a format corresponding to the second printing apparatus based on the electronic document information to be printed and the restoration information added to the electronic document information; and

a print information output portion that outputs the print information generated by the print information generating portion to the second printing apparatus; and

the second printing apparatus includes a printing portion that prints the print information output by the print information output portion.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for converting print information, the process comprising:

acquiring print information in a page description language format;

converting the acquired print information in the page description language format into electronic document information in an electronic document format;

adding restoration information to the electronic document information, the restoration information being used for restoring nonreversible information that is contained in the print information in the page description language format and that is not reversibly convertible to the electronic document information; and

generating print information based on the electronic document information and the restoration information added to the electronic document information.