Patent ID: 8312124

Claim:
A fixed form document creating system comprising: a fixed form data managing server apparatus in a fixed form creating system comprising a fixed form data managing server apparatus that manages fixed form data constituting a fixed form attached with version information and having various input items set therein, and an information processing apparatus that transmits document data into which text data corresponding to the various input items of the fixed form data is input based on the fixed form data, comprising: a recording portion that has recorded therein the fixed form data attached with the version information and updated when necessary; and a determining portion that compares version information of the fixed form data transmitted from the information processing apparatus with the version information attached to the fixed form data recorded in the recording portion and that determines whether the version information of the fixed form data transmitted from the information processing apparatus is the version information attached to the fixed form data recorded in the recording portion, wherein when the determining portion determines that the version information of the fixed form data transmitted from the information processing apparatus is not the version information attached to the fixed form data recorded in the recording portion, the fixed form data managing server apparatus transmits control information to stop printing of the document data to the information processing apparatus; and an information processing apparatus that has a function of transmitting document data created based on fixed form data, the information processing apparatus transmitting version information of the fixed form data to the fixed form data managing server apparatus, wherein the fixed form data managing server apparatus and the information processing apparatus are connected to each other through a network.