Patent ID: 7155669

Claim:
An information processing system having a facsimile apparatus and an information processing apparatus, wherein: said information processing apparatus comprises: temporary storing means for temporarily storing, on a storage medium, output image data composed of a plurality of pages, for causing the facsimile apparatus to transmit to a receiving apparatus, as well as output configuring information; acquisition means for acquiring output size of a prescribed page from the output configuring information of the output image data stored temporarily by said temporary storing means; addition means for adding a cover page to the output image data; setting means for setting the size of the cover page added by said addition means to the output size of the prescribed pare acquired by said acquisition means, and transferring means for transferring to said facsimile apparatus for causing said facsimile apparatus to transmit the cover page and the output image data to a receiving apparatus, the cover page to which the output size has been set, the output image data temporarily stored by said temporary storing means and address information of the receiving apparatus, and said facsimile apparatus comprises: receiving means for receiving the cover page, the output image data and the address information transferred by said transferring means; expansion means for expanding the cover page based on the size of the cover page set by said setting means; and transmitting means for transmitting the cover page expanded by said expanding means and the output image data to the receiving apparatus in accordance with the address information received by said receiving means.