Font downloading apparatus and font downloading method are provided in the invention. When a printing condition is assigned before printing out, a printing condition setting interface part displays a printing condition setting screen including a font processing selecting screen. An operator can select how to process fonts from among predetermined items in the font processing selecting screen, when the fonts that are not held in an output device exist in a document. In addition, the operator assigns a desired size and can thereby set so as to replace the fonts having a size no larger than the assigned size with the fonts held in the output device. A converting part converts a document that has been created in an application part into a print job including a control code and image data and the like for the output device, based on a condition that has been set in the printing condition setting screen.