Patent ID: 8860962

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a determining unit that determines whether a print setting indicates that a combining number is two or more, and that determines, when the combining number is two or more, among documents that have different orientations and are printed in a two-sided mode on a first printing sheet and a second printing sheet that is a back side of the first printing sheet, whether a first direction, which represents an orientation of one of the documents that is first allocated on the first printing sheet, matches a second direction, which represents a most common orientation among orientations of the documents allocated on the second printing sheet; a changing unit that changes, when the determining unit determines that the first direction does not match the second direction, an output order of the documents to be printed in combination on the second printing sheet such that a layout represented by an arrangement order of the documents allocated on the second printing sheet becomes understandable to a user; and an output control unit that outputs the documents in a changed output order that is changed by the changing unit.