Patent ID: 8614812
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit; a communication interface unit to receive an Extensible Markup Language (XML) Paper Specification (XPS) file, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Paper Specification (XPS) file is hierarchically divided into a job level, a document level, and a page level and the printing options for the job level are applied to the corresponding job, the printing options for the document level are applied to the corresponding document, and the printing options for the page level are applied to the corresponding page; a determination unit to determine whether the printing options set for the received XPS file are supported by the image forming apparatus; a user interface unit to display a message that a printing option set for the received XPS file is an unsupported printing option if the printing option is not supported by the image forming apparatus; and a control unit to search a replacement printing option to replace the unsupported printing option from among the printing options set for the XPS file and change the unsupported printing option to the replacement printing option and control the image forming unit to print the XPS file using the replacement printing option, with the control unit to search for the replacement printing option according to a replacement option setting pattern.