Patent ID: 8395805

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an area specifying unit that specifies a print area to be printed on a print medium in a page of a document; a processing controller that controls processing related to an electronic sticky note added to the page of the document, in correspondence with a portion which is out of the print area in the electronic sticky note, to arrange a description held in the electronic sticky note within the print area; and a display processor that displays both a portion within the print area and a portion out of the print area within the electronic sticky note so that the portion within the print area and the portion out of the print area are distinguished, wherein if there is the portion which is out of the print area, the processing controller controls a printing processor that performs printing the electronic sticky note on the print medium, to move the description in the portion into the print area and perform printing, wherein the portion out of the print area is gray-out displayed in order to distinguish the portion out of the print area from the portion within the print area.