Patent ID: 8791970

Claim:
An information processing device for generating a piece of drawing information of a character defined by a combination of strokes and drawn by intermittently imparting energy to a chromogenic medium while changing a position to be imparted, comprising: a shape information storing part configured to store plural pieces of shape information for the character, one of the plural pieces of shape information for the character including all strokes in the combination of strokes defining the character and a simplified piece of shape information of the plural pieces of shape information for the character omitting at least one stroke of the combination of strokes defining the character; a thickness information obtaining part configured to obtain a piece of thickness information of the character; a code information obtaining part configured to obtain a piece of code information of the character; a size information obtaining part configured to obtain a piece of size information of the character; a shape information selecting part configured to select a piece of shape information out of the plural pieces of shape information for the character based on the obtained piece of thickness information and the obtained piece of size information; and a drawing information generating part configured to read out the piece of shape information selected by the shape information selecting part from the shape information storing part and to generate a piece of drawing information from the piece of shape information, wherein the shape information storing part stores, for each of the plural pieces of shape information for the character, lower limit information including a thickness and an associated minimum size of the respective piece of shape information for the character drawable by the thickness, the shape information selecting part selects one of the plural pieces of shape information for the character, by comparing a first ratio between the associated minimum size and the thickness in the lower limit information of each of the plural pieces of shape information with a second ratio between the obtained piece of size information and the obtained piece of thickness information.