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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an image forming apparatus appropriately provide the execution environment of an application, and to achieve the intensive function of a 2in1 copy function or the like. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes a setting information reception means for receiving setting information for a job from an application, a job execution request reception means for receiving the execution request of the job, a job execution control means for controlling the execution of the job according to the setting information of the job, an output element management means for making the output of an output surface be executed for each output surface of the output object of the job, and an output bundle management means for requesting the execution of the output of the output surface according to an output order to the output element management means. The image forming apparatus is provided with an input image-holding means for holding input images to be output as the output surfaces and an image-editing means for editing the input images in order to output the input images as the output surfaces, and the image-editing means prepares an output image corresponding to one output surface from the plurality of input images. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž
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