Patent ID: 8218197

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image data acquiring portion that acquires image data; a display portion that displays the image data in a thumbnail form as a document icon; an operation receiving portion that receives operation input for process conditions about a finishing process; a storage portion that stores the image data and data of the process conditions; and a control portion that performs control for the finishing process involving output of the image data, wherein the operation receiving portion is provided on a display surface of the display portion to receive the operation input such that a user's physical engagement on the display surface of the display portion generates input information, and the control portion causes the display portion to display the document icon, and performs setting for the process conditions by the input information acquired from the operation receiving portion based on a size, shape, and position of each operation input resulting from the user's physical engagement on the display surface, wherein input information acquired from the operation receiving portion is coordinate information of a continuous track, and the control portion performs determination as to whether or not the track forms a closed area, and in a case where determination result shows the closed area, when the closed area includes a display area corresponding to the document icon, the coordinate information is set in the storage portion as information for specifying a paper area, wherein the control portion performs determination as to whether or not the track forms a closed area, in a case where determination result shows the closed area, when the closed area includes no display area of the document icon and when the closed area has a size smaller than a predetermined size, the coordinate information is set in the storage portion as information for specifying a position of a punching process, and wherein the control portion performs determination as to whether or not the track forms a closed area, in a case where determination result does not show the closed area, when the track has a length shorter than a predetermined length, the coordinate information is set in the storage portion as information for specifying a position of a stapling process.