Patent ID: 8264738

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a reading portion that reads a document and generates image data; an information detecting portion that detects, from the image data generated by the reading portion, attribute information about areas divided in accordance with a type of an image; a modifying portion that modifies the image data for each of the areas by performing a resolution converting process on the image in accordance with instructions that are provided by a user based on the attribute information detected by the information detecting portion; a printer that prints an image based on the image data modified by the modifying portion on a recording medium; wherein said image is at least two images; and in the resolution converting process, the modifying portion modifies the image data by applying an original size and an original forming position of one of the two images to other of the two images for the other of the two images to be formed and applying an original size and an original forming position of the other of the two images to said one of the two images for said one of the two images to be formed.