Image forming system and image forming method

Abstract

An image forming system including an image reading apparatus and a printing apparatus connected to the image reading apparatus through a communication line, in which the image reading apparatus includes a font information acquiring unit which acquires font information indicating a type of a font installed on the printing apparatus, a print data generating unit which generates desired print data by using the font information acquired from the font information acquiring unit, and a print data transmitting unit which transmits the print data generated by the print data generating unit to the printing apparatus, and in which the printing apparatus prints out the desired print data on the basis of the print data transmitted from the print data transmitting unit.

1 . An image forming system comprising an image reading apparatus and a printing apparatus connected to the image reading apparatus through a communication line,
 wherein the image reading apparatus includes:   an information creating unit which generates information of a text format and   an information transmitting unit which transmits to the printing apparatus the information of the text format generated by the information creating unit, and   wherein the printing apparatus includes:   an attribute determining unit which determines attributes of various information contained in the information of the text format transmitted from the information transmitting unit,   a font allotting unit which allots a font on the basis of the attribute determined by the attribute determining unit, and   a print data generating unit which generates print data corresponding to the information of the text format on the basis of the font allotted by the font allotting unit.   
   
   
       2 . The image forming system according to  claim 1 , wherein the information creating unit has a metadata designating unit which designates, for each item of the information of the text format, metadata indicating a content indicated by the respective information contained in the information of the text format.