Abstract: A direct printing unit 35 acquires document formats of document file names read in accordance with information regarding a printing order, which is stored in an output control data storage unit 41, and activates document file expansion programs corresponding to the acquired document formats with reference to an activation program table stored in advance in an output method storage unit 23. The direct printing control unit 35 acquires printing intermediate files of document files corresponding to document file names, which are outputted from the activated document file expansion programs, and stores the acquired printing intermediate files in an output data storage unit 24. Then, an output data editing unit 36 edits the acquired printing intermediate files in accordance with an output format set by a user with reference to an output format storage unit 42.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: (a) a character image extraction extracting character image data of handwritten characters filled into character entry boxes from image data scanned from a character entry sheet in which the handwritten characters are filled into the character entry boxes corresponding to respective character codes; (b) a character positional information storage section storing character positional information of font character space defined for each of characters; (c) a character positional information calculation section calculating the amount of movement for moving the extracted character image data to a character position of the font character space defined in the character positional information; (d) a character position alignment section moving the character image data to the character position of the font character space defined in the character positional information, based on the calculated amount of movement; and (e) a character font generation section generating font characters of the handwri

Abstract: A user typestyle font reflecting personality of a registered user is stored in a font data memory in advance. When an electronic mail from the registered user is received, an authorizer performs authorization processing and then a typestyle of text of the electronic mail is processed by a text typestyle processor by use of the user typestyle font. The electronic mail is transmitted to a receiver of the electronic mail thereafter.