1. An apparatus comprising: a compositing unit configured to composite, in order from top to bottom, an original document image, a form image and a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image in a first case, and to composite, in order from top to bottom, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, an original image and a form image in a second case; and an outputting unit configured to output an image obtained by the compositing: wherein the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image comprises a latent-image part and a background-image part that becomes pale compared with the latent-image part or disappears so that the latent-image part appears on a copy.