Patent ID: 6924826
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for generating printing data to be transmitted to a printing apparatus, comprising: spool means for temporarily storing data to be printed in an intermediate-code format with print setting information designated via a user interface by a printer driver, wherein the data to be printed is generated by an application program and said spool means stores a plurality of print jobs; setting-information obtaining means for obtaining the print setting information from the data temporarily stored in said spool means in the intermediate-code format; display control means for controlling to display a user interface for editing print setting information of a print job generated by combining the plurality of print jobs stored in said spool means; setting edit means for relating the print setting information of the print job generated by combining the plurality of print jobs and edited by the user interface to the data of the plurality of print jobs stored in the intermediate-code format and for temporarily storing them; and print job generation means for generating a combined print job described in a page description language based on the data of the plurality of print jobs stored in said spool means in the intermediate-code format and the edited print setting information, wherein said display control means controls to restrict print setting items which cannot be edited as part of the combined job and to display the other print setting items as available print setting items which can be edited as part of the combined job, and wherein a default value of the available print setting items is a display value of the print setting information which can be edited.