Patent ID: 8284445

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an extraction unit, adapted to extract a plurality of types of object from application data; a prediction unit, adapted to predict a plurality of rasterization time, each of which is for rasterizing one of the plurality of types of object extracted by the extraction unit into data of a specific format; a conversion unit, adapted to convert a type of object into another type of object, in accordance with the plurality of rasterization time predicted by the prediction unit; a generation unit, adapted to generate print data including the object extracted by the extraction unit and the object converted by the conversion unit; a transmission unit, adapted to transmit the print data generated by the generation unit; a reception unit, adapted to receive the print data transmitted by the transmission unit; a reconstruction unit, adapted to reconstruct the plurality of types of object from the print data received by the reception unit; a plurality of rasterization units, each of which is adapted to rasterize one of the plurality of types of object reconstructed by the reconstruction unit into data of the specific format; a composition unit, adapted to composite data of the specific format corresponding to the object rasterized by the plurality of rasterization units, to page data; and an image forming unit, adapted to form an image based on the page data.