Patent ID: 8395806
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: B42C,B42P,G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus configured to generate a print job that can be interpreted by a printing apparatus and to have a bookbinding application, the information processing apparatus comprising: a print setting unit configured to set case binding printing; a first display unit configured to display a first alternative indicating a first layout type laying out page data of two pages on a front surface of a cover and page data of two pages on a back surface of the cover and a second alternative indicating a second cover layout type laying out page data of two pages on the front surface of the cover and page data of one page on the back surface of the cover as a cover layout type for the cover including a spine, wherein the cover layout type is not applied to an inside page that is wrapped by the cover, and the first and second alternatives are displayed in a screen provided by the bookbinding application; a first setting unit configured to select a single alternative from the first layout type and the second layout type; a second setting unit configured to set an inside page layout type for a sheet of the inside page; a selecting unit configured to select one position among a plurality of positions as a position of a spine area in the spine on which data for the spine is printed; a receiving unit configured to receive original data including page data to be printed; a deciding unit configured to decide page data to be laid out in a cover area, from among page data included in the original data received by the receiving unit, based on the single alternative selected by the first setting unit, wherein if the first alternative is selected, the page data of first, second, next to last and last pages included in the original data is decided as the page data to be laid out in the cover area, and if the second alternative is selected, the page data of first, second and last pages included in the original data is decided as the page data to be laid out in the cover area; a determination unit configured to determine whether the bookbinding application can support a selected printer driver; a second display unit configured to display a message indicating that the case book binding cannot be performed if the determination unit determines that the bookbinding application cannot support the selected printer driver, and a first generation unit configured to generate a print job such that page data decided by the deciding unit is printed on the sheet for the cover and the data for the spine is printed on the position in the spine selected by the selecting unit and page data that is not decided by the deciding unit is printed on the sheet of the inside page based on the inside page layout type, wherein the cover sheet is bigger than the sheet of the inside page if the determination unit determines that the bookbinding application can support the selected printer driver.