Patent ID: 6896426

Claim:
A document processing system constituted by a printing apparatus with a staple function and information processing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus, comprising: setting means for setting a partial staple instruction, which instructs that one or more parts of a document are to be stapled by the printing apparatus, the document being comprised of a plurality of parts, wherein said setting means individually sets, for each of the plurality of parts into which the document is divided, whether to perform stapling for that part; generation means for generating print data including the partial staple instruction for stapling each part as a print job in accordance with the partial staple instruction set by said setting means; and staple means for stapling each of the respective parts of the document which, according to the partial staple instruction, are to be stapled, printed on the basis of the generated print data, wherein said generation means generates the print data comprised of a plurality of partial print data, and each of the partial print data includes partial print attribute information for indicating the part to be stapled.