Patent ID: 8749844

Claim:
An apparatus control method for controlling an image forming apparatus which generates composite image data in which image data is combined with first character data and performs image formation of the composite image data, comprising: a setting receiving step of accepting from a user setting of a first language describing a first character indicated by the first character data, and setting of a second character which is a translation of the first character to a second language; a data reading step of reading from a storage portion the first character data indicating the first character which is a translation of the second character to the first language; a data generating step of generating the composite image data in which the image data is combined with the first character data; and a control step of transmitting the composite image data to the image forming apparatus and controlling the image forming apparatus to execute image forming processing of the composite image data, wherein, in the setting receiving step, upon accepting a selection of a destination country of the composite image data by the user, the first language is set by referring to language information of the destination and setting the first language based on a correspondence between the destination country and a language used in the destination country.