Patent ID: 8144345

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set, as part of a print setting when printing document data that includes a plurality of pages to be printed, a bookbinding setting for causing printed pages for a body to be cased with a printed page for a front cover; and a generating unit configured to generate: if the bookbinding setting is set and a post processing device whose paper transport path is not connected to a printing apparatus is used, body print data for printing the pages of the body in the document data in collated form based on a specified plurality of copies, and front cover print data for printing the page of the front cover in the document data based on the specified plurality of copies; and if the bookbinding setting is set and the post processing device whose paper transport path is connected to the printing apparatus is used, print data for printing both the page of the body and the page of the front cover in the document data in collated form based on the specified plurality of copies.