Patent ID: 8223391
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processor, comprising: a reference information acquisition unit that acquires reference information for specifying a reference source and a reference target associated with the reference source from an electronic document having the reference information indicated therein; and a print instruction information production unit that produces print instruction information including an instruction for causing a printing device to print a reference source index for representing a reference source in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference source page specified based on the reference information, and an instruction for causing the printing device to print a reference target index for representing a reference target in a region overlapping the region where the reference source index is printed in a margin region located at a peripheral edge of a reference target page specified based on the reference information, the overlapping printed reference source index and printed reference target index providing a visually perceived link between the reference source page and the reference target page, the reference source index representing a first printed visual pattern at the peripheral edge of the reference source page, the reference target index representing a second printed visual pattern different from the first printed visual pattern, at the peripheral edge of the reference target page.