Patent ID: 7612908

Claim:
An information processing device connectable with an image forming device that feeds a unit of recording-medium in a feeding direction to form an image thereon, the unit of recording-medium having a rectangular shape having a longer side and a shorter side, comprising: a data receiving unit that receives a plurality of pages, each of the plurality of pages having a size and an orientation, the orientation being one of portrait and landscape; a feeding side determining unit that determines which side of the unit of recording-medium is parallel to the feeding direction; a layout setting unit that divides the unit of recording-medium by a number of pages, based on a result of the feeding side determining unit, to establish a layout having the same number of areas as the number of pages, the number of pages defining the number of pages to be printed on a single unit of recording-medium, and each of the areas being used for receiving one of the plurality of pages; a processing unit that modifies each of the number of pages by means of at least one of enlargement, reduction, and rotation processing in order to fit to a corresponding area of the layout and produce printing image data; a storage unit that stores the printing image data; and a controlling unit that reads out the printing image data stored in the storage unit and converts the printing image data into the input image data for the image forming device.