Patent ID: 6471423
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
An information processing method carried out in an information processing apparatus which functions as a host computer to add added information to a print document formed by an application and to generate print data to be printed by a printer, comprising:an inputting step of inputting, via a print setting window of a printer driver, settings of adding added information to a print document formed by the application; a discriminating step of discriminating whether the added information is drawn on the foreground or background of the print document, if the settings have been input in said inputting step; a spooling order control step of, in case of printing said added information onto the background of said print document, spooling a draw command of said added information earlier than a draw command of said print document; and a character setting changing step of, if, in spooling the draw command of said print document, the setting of a character draw command in the draw command of said print document is set to a mode in which a periphery of a character is painted white, changing said setting to a mode in which the periphery of said character is not painted white.