Patent ID: 7978374
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing workflow system configured to execute print processing based on a print document and a print instruction that instructs a printing workflow including plural processes applied to the print document, the printing workflow system comprising: a determining unit configured to determine whether resource information is embedded in the print document; an identifying unit configured to identify a process that initially uses the resource information embedded in the print document, among the plural processes instructed by the print instruction by reading each process among the plural processes and by determining each process that uses the resource information embedded in the print document; and a rewriting unit configured to rewrite the print instruction when the determining unit determines that the resource information is embedded in the print document, so as to include a first process to delete the resource information from the print document before execution of the plural processes and to include a second process to embed the resource information, which is deleted at the first process, in the print document just before execution of the process identified by the identifying unit, wherein the print instruction to instruct the printing workflow is optimized as a result of the rewriting by the rewriting unit.