Patent ID: 8634100

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a holder for holding document data; a printing unit for printing the document data held in the holder; a detector for detecting index data of one document data held in the holder; a display unit for displaying contents of each index of the document data based on the index data detected by said detector; a selector for selecting at least one index displayed on said display unit; and a designating unit for designating print settings for each one of the selected indexes included in one document data, wherein said printing unit prints a portion of the document data corresponding to an index selected by the selector, wherein when a plurality of different designated print settings coexist in the document data to be printed on one page, the printing unit is configured to print the document data so that one portion of the document data for one index corresponding to one of the different designated print settings and another portion of the document data for another index corresponding to another one of the different designated print settings are separately printed into different pages without a user designating the portions to be separately printed into the different pages.