Patent ID: 9703758
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set whether to store an original document in a common file; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction for an original document having a first format; a generation unit configured to generate a common file having a second format by converting the original document having the first format, wherein the common file having the second format can be handled by a predetermined application, and wherein the second format is different from the first format; a determination unit configured, when the generation unit generates the common file, to determine whether the instruction received by the receiving unit is an editing instruction or a printing instruction, wherein the editing instruction is an instruction for starting an editing screen that enables a user to perform editing the generated common file, and wherein the printing instruction is an instruction for printing the generated common file without starting the editing screen; and a storage unit configured to store the original document having the first format in the generated common file having the second format if the determination unit determines that the received instruction is the editing instruction and the setting unit sets that the original document is to be stored in the common file, wherein the storage unit does not store, even if the setting unit sets that the original document is to be stored in the common file, the original document having the first format in the generated common file having the second format if the determination unit determines that the received instruction is the printing instruction.