Patent ID: 7624359

Claim:
A print order receiving apparatus for receiving, from a client terminal apparatus, an order for printing an image by composing the image into a template frame, comprising: first transmitting means for transmitting, to said client terminal apparatus, preview image data of a preview image composed with an area designating frame; managing means for managing a table which assigns a position designation of the area designating frame to a numeral key of said client terminal apparatus; obtaining means for obtaining, from said client terminal apparatus, a kind of a numeral key designated by said client terminal apparatus and a number of times the designated numeral key is used repeatedly by said client terminal apparatus; first generating means for generating print image data by composing a print image corresponding to the preview image into the template frame by performing resizing to a designation position on the basis of an enlargement/reduction ratio designated in accordance with the numeral key of the kind obtained by said obtaining means and the number of times obtained by said obtaining means; calculating means for calculating a number of composed image pixels on the basis of a standard number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame and the designated enlargement/reduction ratio in accordance with the numeral key of the kind obtained by said obtaining means and the number of times obtained by said obtaining means; second generation means for generating the preview image, if the number of composed image pixels, calculated by said calculating means, is larger than a predetermined minimum number of pixels of the image to be composed into the template frame or smaller than the number of pixels of the print image corresponding to the preview image; and second transmitting means for transmitting the print image data generated by said generating means to a print server apparatus connected to a print apparatus.