Patent ID: 7103837

Claim:
An information processing system having a print preview function for displaying a preview of a printed state of a document comprised of a plurality of pages before the document is printed, comprising: a user interface for receiving a setting of various print functions for a document; selection means for selecting one preview mode from at least first and second preview modes, wherein the first preview mode does not reflect the set print functions and the second preview mode reflects the set print functions when each page of the document is displayed on a display area; and display control means for controlling to display such that, in a case where the first preview mode is selected by said selection means, a preview of each page of the document indicating actual contents of each page is displayed on the display area using thumbnails without reflecting the print functions, and such that in a case where a double-sided printing function setting has been received by said user interface and the second preview mode is selected by said selection means, previews of front and back sides of pages of the document to be printed indicating actual contents of each page are simultaneously displayed on the display area using thumbnails by reflecting the print functions, in such a manner That the front and back sides of pages can be distinguished from each other by the positioning of the previews of the front and back sides of pages relative to one another.