A printing system includes a server, an electronic device and a print apparatus. The electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a storage device storing a printer driver. The CPU executes the printer driver to function as an authentication unit, a user information storage unit, and a job transmitter. The authentication unit transmits authentication information of a user and receives user information from the server. The user information storage unit stores the user information received by the authentication unit. The job transmitter uses the user information received by the authentication unit to transmit an instruction execution type print job to the print apparatus. If the user information is not received by the authentication unit, the job transmitter transmits the instruction execution type print job corresponding to print regulation information included in the user information stored in the user information storage unit to the print apparatus.

An information processing apparatus includes an editing unit configured to, in a case where a plurality of mutually related functions exists in a plurality of functions defined in print setting information described in XML, edit the print setting information so that an OS's processing corresponding to one of the plurality of mutually related functions is reduced.

An operation display apparatus includes: an operating unit; a display unit; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a predetermined portable terminal; a free region detecting unit configured to detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal; and an operation control unit configured to display an image of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the position detecting unit is in front of a front side of the operating unit, and accept an operation performed on the image, as an operation received by the operating unit, the free region being detected by the free region detecting unit.

According to an embodiment of this invention, an information processing apparatus that executes, by a processor, a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor has the following arrangement. That is, the first program layer holds image data to be processed in a first format. On the other hand, the second program layer holds it in a second format. When transferring image data between the first program layer and the second program layer, the format of the image data is converted between the first format and the second format.

According to an embodiment of this invention, an information processing apparatus that executes, by a processor, a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by the processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor has the following arrangement. That is, the first program layer holds image data to be processed in a first format. On the other hand, the second program layer holds it in a second format. When transferring image data between the first program layer and the second program layer, the format of the image data is converted between the first format and the second format.

A page description language representation of the page is received, the page description language representation having a plurality of sequential graphic objects ordered by drawing order. One or more groups of sequentially adjacent graphic objects of the plurality of sequential objects is formed according to the drawing order. An intermediate representation for each of the groups is generated, the intermediate representation comprising a set of regions where each region of the set of regions is associated with a set of operations required to render at least one of the adjacent graphic objects of one of the groups that intersect the region. An adjacently located set of the intermediate representations is merged to render the page.

The printing control apparatus compares, when printing a bit image, a data set of a transmitted compressed image data to a data set of an untransmitted compressed image data, omits transmission of the data set in the subsequent compressed image data when the data sets coincide with each other, and notifies the printing apparatus that transmission of the data set has been omitted with setting in a printing command. The printing apparatus holds the compressed image data in which the data set has been omitted, and, when it is notified that transmission of the part of the data set has been omitted, generates the bit image by reusing a part of the already existing data set and developing the held compressed image data.

The present invention is directed to reduction of user-waiting time in using an authentication print function. An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing medium, a reception unit configured to receive, from an external device, a print job which causes the printing unit to execute printing in a power-saving state in which power supply to the printing unit is stopped, a storage unit configured to store the print job received by the reception unit, an operation unit configured to accept, from a user, an execution instruction for the print job stored by the storage unit, a control unit configured to execute the print job stored by the storage unit in accordance with acceptance of the execution instruction by the operation unit, and a setting unit configured to set whether to supply power to the printing unit before the execution instruction is accepted by the operation unit or to supply power to the printing unit after the execution instruction has been accepted by the operation unit.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program causing a computer to cause a display to display progress statuses of print jobs related to ordered printed materials with respect to work plans and volumes of the print jobs on a same screen process step by process step in which the print jobs are located.