Patent ID: 8749833

Claim:
An information processing apparatus allowing a printing apparatus to print an image of a set page made of a plurality of combine pages comprising: a reduction rate selection scene display section configured to display a selection scene for selecting a number of the combine pages to be arranged in the set page on a displaying section; an image forming and processing section configured to reduce a plurality of source images at a reduction rate based on the number of the combine pages selected through the reduction rate selection scene display section and generate the plurality of combine pages; a set page generation section configured to generate a set page by arranging the plurality of combine pages; and a print output section configured to output image information of the set page to the printing apparatus, wherein, when the plurality of combine pages includes a first combine page having a first orientation and a second combine page having a second orientation different than the first orientation, the set page generation section orients each combine page in a same orientation, and arranges the second combine page across two arrangement regions of the set page, each arrangement region is one region of a number of regions of the set page determined by dividing the set page by the number of combine pages selected at the reduction rate selection scene display section, the each arrangement region is equal in size.