Patent ID: 8077344

Claim:
A print controlling apparatus comprising: a detecting unit configured to detect that print data is input in a hot folder; a determining unit configured to determine, in a case where the detecting unit detects that the print data is input in the hot folder, a number of pages to be printed included in the print data input in the hot folder; a generating unit configured to generate an output layout of the print data input in the hot folder depending on whether the number of pages to be printed is one page or greater than or equal to two; and a print control unit configured to cause a printer to print the print data input in the hot folder on a printing medium in accordance with the output layout generated by the generating unit, wherein the generating unit generates the output layout for one page, in a case where the number of pages to be printed is one page, such that the print data of one page is fitted to a width of the printing medium and generates the output layout for plural pages, in a case where the number of pages to be printed is greater than or equal two, such that plural pages included in the print data are arranged in the width of the printing medium.