Patent ID: 7152206

Claim:
A method of producing printed matter containing a direct-reading material and an additional material related to the direct-reading material by an information processing apparatus, the direct-reading material comprising text and pictures, and the additional material comprising text, sound, and images related to the direct-reading material, the method comprising: converting primary data of the additional material into secondary data in the form of codes for high-density display; determining the additional material linked with the direct-reading material to allocate, with reference to a link management database storing a link between direct-reading material and additional material, wherein the allocation is carried out based on a total space for the direct-reading material and the additional material; storing data to be applied to an allocating operation; determining a specific way of allocating the additional material with respect to relevant direct-reading material based on the stored data; and performing the allocating operation for the direct-reading material and the additional material in accordance with a type space corresponding to the secondary data, wherein the primary data of the additional material converted into the secondary data in the form of codes for high-density display comprise data from which information content is obtained directly without accessing a separate storage location, and wherein the specific way of allocating the additional material with respect to the relevant direct-reading material is selected from among the following ways of allocating the additional material: allocating at an immediate position of the relevant direct-reading material, allocating at a special space, allocating at a directly designated vacant position, or allocating at a directly designated overlapping position.