Patent ID: 7295336

Claim:
A document-management apparatus, comprising: a displaying unit displaying both document information managed by a document-management server and image-forming-job information managed by an image-forming-job management server on an operation screen, wherein the operation screen is a single window of the displaying unit; a first unit performing an image-forming preparation of a specific document contained in the document information according to a transfer request inputted on the operation screen to transfer the specific document from the document-management server to the image-forming-job management server; and a second unit outputting a specific image-forming job, contained in the image-forming-job information, from the image-forming-job management server to an image-forming device connected to the image-forming-job management server, according to an image-forming request inputted on the operation screen with respect to the specific image-forming job, wherein the first unit comprises: an intermediate-file creating unit automatically generating, in response to the transfer request, an intermediate file for image formation based on data of the specific document received from the document-management server, the intermediate-file creating unit storing the generated intermediate file into the image-forming-job management server as an image-forming job; and a list folder displaying unit displaying on the single window of the displaying unit both a list of all image-forming jobs contained in the image-forming-job information managed by the image-forming-job management server and a set of folders of all image forming devices connected to the image-forming-job management server, and wherein said image-forming request is inputted on the single window of the displaying unit when said specific image-forming job in the list of all image-forming jobs is dragged and dropped to one of the set of folders corresponding to said image-forming device.