Patent ID: 7599086

Claim:
A preview image displaying method of displaying a preview image performed in an information processing apparatus configured to designate bookbinding printing as a print setting, wherein, when bookbinding printing is designated, document data having logical pages arranged in a predetermined order is printed so that a book produced by stacking a plurality of printed sheets and then folding the stacked sheets into two consists of pages arranged in the predetermined order of the logical page, said method comprising: a determining step of determining whether the bookbinding printing is designated; a deciding step of deciding an output order of outputting the logical pages of the document data so that a book produced by stacking a plurality of printed sheets and then folding the stacked sheets into two consists of pages arranged in the predetermined order of the logical page when it is determined that the bookbinding printing is designated in said determining step; and a display control step of displaying a preview image of a logical page in accordance with an order different from the output order determined in said deciding step when it is determined that the bookbinding printing is designated in said determining step and an instruction for displaying the preview image has been accepted.