Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a peripheral apparatus control unit which controls a peripheral apparatus and an operation control unit which controls the operation in the peripheral apparatus by using operation instructing information regarding such an operation. The peripheral apparatus control unit forms first operation instructing information having a non-hierarchical structure from operation setting information including a specific setting, sets the specific setting into a private area in the first operation instructing information, and forms second operation instructing information having a hierarchical structure and including the specific setting from the first operation instructing information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether a sheet set in a print condition is included in a list of printable sheets supported by a printing apparatus, an acquisition unit obtaining a sheet size supported by the printing apparatus if the determination unit determines that the sheet set in the print condition is not included in the list of printable sheets, and a print processing unit executing print processing based on the sheet size obtained by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: The invention provides a printing control apparatus having a function for performing preview displaying prior to printing document data outputted by an application program. The apparatus comprises: a generator for generating a preview image based on the document data in accordance with a print setting; and a preview display controller for displaying, together with the preview image, a user interface which displays an option in a predetermined item of a print setting within a scope corresponding to a current print setting, when the predetermined item of the print setting corresponding to the preview image is to be changed. The printing control apparatus enables printing of the document data in accordance with the print setting changed through the user interface.

Abstract: In an image forming system, an information processing apparatus (host computer) outputs print data to a printer connected to the apparatus through an interface. The apparatus includes an interface identifying module for identifying the type of the interface, a query module for determining, based on the identified interface type, a quantization method for quantizing print data and/or a compression method, and an image processing module for performing quantization and/or compression on the print data by the determined quantization method and/or compression method. The apparatus outputs, to the printer, the print data processed by the image processing module.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has: a first obtaining unit for obtaining information showing setting orders of output settings regarding an image process (priority information showing which settings should be preferentially set prior to other settings) and obtaining candidates of output conditions retained in a device driver; and a second obtaining unit for obtaining a predetermined output condition from the candidates of the output conditions obtained by the first obtaining unit by using the information showing the setting orders of the output settings regarding the image process obtained by the first obtaining unit.

Abstract: An image processing method which is used to confirm a layout when an image is formed onto a recording medium on the basis of an application. The method includes: an image forming step of forming the image based on the application; and a display control step of controlling a process for displaying the image so that a portion corresponding to the inside of the recording medium of the image formed in the image forming step and a portion corresponding to the outside of the recording medium can be discriminated.