Patent ID: 11886756
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory storage medium storing a supporting program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus,
wherein the supporting program is configured to support a printing program of an operating system of the information processing apparatus, the supporting program conforming to a particular printer connected to the information processing apparatus,
wherein, when executed by the computer, the supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to execute:
registering, in the printing program of the operating system, a predetermined file format as a file format for which intermediate data does not need to be generated;
when being requested for processing from the printing program of the operating system in response to receipt of a printing instruction, outputted from an application program installed on the information processing apparatus to the printing program of the operating system, for causing the printing program of the operating system to print an image,
in a case where the intermediate data is received from the printing program of the operating system, generating print data based on the received intermediate data and transmitting a print job including the generated print data to the particular printer; and
in a case where image data in the predetermined format is received from the printing program of the operating system, receiving an edit of the image indicated by the received image data and transmitting the print job including the edited image data to the particular printer.