Patent ID: 8482752

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a first acquiring unit for acquiring composition guideline data containing information specifying a plurality of manuscript data sets formed by a plurality of users which are different from each other, and specifying an output order of the plurality of manuscript data sets; a second acquiring unit for accessing a first external device among a plurality of external devices based on the composition guideline data to acquire at least one of the plurality of manuscript data sets from a shared data storage unit of each user of the first external device via communication; and an output instruction unit for issuing an output instruction for outputting, in an order indicated by the composition guideline data, the plurality of manuscript data sets specified by the composition guideline data, including the at least one manuscript data set acquired by the second acquiring unit, wherein the composition guideline data further contains user authentication information for accessing the shared data storage unit of each user, the user authentication information being specified for each of the plurality of manuscript data sets, and the second acquiring unit acquires the manuscript data sets from the shared data storage unit corresponding to the information specifying the manuscript data cct sets of the composition guideline data.