Patent ID: 8531708

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which generates, from received data, a job containing a plurality of image data to be printed, a printing instruction, and a bookbinding instruction, and outputs the job to a printing apparatus and post-processing apparatus for generating a bound product, comprising: a data determination unit configured to determine, using first received data as a reference, whether to add other received data to processing in a single job; a size determination unit configured, when said data determination unit determines to add the other received data in a bookbinding mode in which a plurality of bound products are generated by a single job, to regard, as single tentative image data, a plurality of image data which are generated from different received data and laid out on a single sheet of paper, and to determine whether the single tentative image data fits in the single sheet of paper; and a job generation unit configured to generate a job for at least one received data corresponding to image data contained in the single tentative image data determined by said size determination unit to fit in the single sheet of paper.