JP2651136B2 - Document processing method - Google Patents

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Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document processing method for editing and displaying a document image based on a typesetting rule.

[Prior Art] Recently, word processors have become widespread and the input of documents has been fiberized and streamlined, but is limited to streamlining of character string input such as kana-kanji conversion and Roman-kanji conversion. Therefore, there is no high-resolution output device for printing or displaying a high-quality document, that is, an easy-to-read beautiful document, and there is no function such as a device for arranging characters called a typesetting rule in the so-called printing world. Therefore, it was difficult to create a document of a certain level or higher.

On the other hand, in the printing world, vast know-how of typesetting is stored as expert knowledge, and creating high-quality documents by manual operations such as stuffing characters and formatting columns requires complicated processes. It was expensive. In particular, the created document cannot be proofread until it is once output in the form of galley printing or the like, and there is a problem that a long process is repeated by repeating the correction.

[Object] In view of the above-described conventional example, an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing method capable of displaying a partial character string as a line heading from a displayed character string.

〔Example〕

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1-1 is an external connection diagram of an image processing system to which the present invention is applied. It is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to this, and that the present invention can be applied to a single device even if a part of the system is changed. Reference numeral 31 denotes a control unit (referred to as a work station) having a microcomputer for system control, an internal memory including a RAM and a ROM, and an external memory including a floppy disk or a cartridge disk. Reference numeral 32 denotes an input unit of the digital copier, which converts the document information of the original placed on the platen into CC.
A document reader 33 which converts the signal into an electric signal by an image pickup device such as D is a high-speed printer for recording an image on a recording material based on the information converted into an electric signal, such as a laser beam printer. Reference numeral 34 denotes an image file having a storage medium such as an optical disk or a magneto-optical disk and capable of writing and reading a large amount of image information. Reference numeral 35 denotes a microfilm file, which includes a microfilm search unit and a microfilm reader unit that converts image information on the searched microfilm into an electric signal by an image sensor. Reference numeral 36 denotes a photosensitive belt having a photoconductive layer provided on a transparent and conductive strip-shaped substrate, and a laser beam modulated according to an input image signal is applied to the photoconductive layer through a substrate to thereby increase or decrease the brightness of image light. Is formed on the photoconductive layer, and the formed latent image is developed with a conductive and magnetic toner (developer) held on a toner carrier to form a display image. It is a high resolution soft display.
Reference numeral 37 denotes a printer device such as a laser beam printer similar to the printer 33, but is smaller and slower than the printer 33, and is installed as necessary. Reference numeral 38 denotes a CRT device for displaying image information or system control information photoelectrically read by a digital copying machine and an input scanner (reader) of a microfilm file, and a display unit for performing document and image processing of the present invention. 39 is a control unit that connects each input / output device
This is a switching device that switches according to a signal from 31. 40 to 48 are cables for electrically connecting the input / output devices. Reference numeral 50 denotes a keyboard provided in the control unit 31. By operating the keyboard 50, an operation command of the system is issued. Reference numeral 61 denotes a point device for instructing processing of image information on the CRT 38.
Move in any direction and select a command image on the command menu to give an instruction. An operation panel 51 is used to issue an operation command for the digital copying machine. The operation panel 51 includes keys for setting the number of copies and a copy magnification, and a copy key 55 for instructing the start of copying.
And a numerical display. Reference numeral 52 denotes a mode switching switch for determining whether the initiative for starting the digital copying machine is the copying machine or the control unit. Reference numerals 53 and 54 denote light emitting diodes (LE) for displaying a mode selection state of the mode switching switch 52.
D). Note that () is a communication controller for connecting to an external device and a communication line for a network.

FIG. 1-2 is a block diagram of the image editing apparatus. In the present application, image editing is also referred to as document editing. The same parts as those in FIG. 1-1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. H4
Expands data to be displayed on the display unit 38 in VRAM on a bit map. For example, in the case of character data, a character character corresponding to the code is developed on the VRAM, and a cursor can be directly generated in the display area of the VRAM by software control to be displayed. The memory capacity is 512 KB in this embodiment. 202 is a communication interface, 20
Reference numeral 5 denotes a transceiver cable, 203 denotes a transceiver, and 204 denotes a network cable. The above-described system is connected to an external device via a network.

BMU H5 is BMU (Bit Manipulation Unit)
The transfer in units of words between the video ram H4, devices (H7, H8, H9) such as a main memory and a disk, and input / output devices such as a printer is performed without passing through an MPU. The address space on the memory where the last operation can be performed is 16MB.
The transfer length is 8Kword (MAX) in the horizontal direction (X) and 8KLine (MAX) in the vertical direction (Y). The transfer speed is 1.7 us / word. Furthermore, the following 16 types of logical operations are possible as a function. The data transfer source is A (source side) and the data transfer destination is B (destination
Side), for example, (reverse), ▲ ▼, + B, Lo
gicl (black out), ▲ ▼, B, A +, A, AB, B, A + B, Logic0, A, AB, A, etc.

BMU is also using DMAC (Direct Memory Access Control)
oller) function, the details of which are omitted, but in the DMA cycle, the read cycle is 600 ns, the write cycle is 500 ns,
The number of channels is three. Also, if you need synchronization
An ACK-attached device mode (for example, when there is no transfer between memories) is provided.

In addition, BMU has functions of figure rotation and scaling, etc. In XY conversion, there are five types (90 ° rotation, 180 ° rotation, 270 ° rotation, X symmetry, Y
Symmetric) transformations are possible. There are four types of conversion sizes (16 × 16, 32 × 32, 48 × 48, 64 × 64). The conversion cycle is 1.6 us / word for the source read cycle, 1.6 us / word for the destination write cycle, and the conversion speed is 52 us, 208 us, and 4 us for the above four types, respectively.
68us and 832us.

Next, regarding the scaling function, in addition to the function of simply enlarging or reducing, 15-step enlargement of 2/1, 3/2 to 16/15, 1 /
It is possible to reduce in 15 steps from 2,2 / 3 to 15/16. It should be noted that the magnification can be specified independently in the vertical and horizontal directions. The processing cycle is 1.6us / word for the source read cycle, 1.6us / word for the destination write cycle, and the processing speed is, for example, 64 × 64.
To convert to 128 × 128 dots, convert 2048us, 64 × 64 to 32
When converting to × 32 dots, it is 512us. In the case of reduction, characters (binary images) are simply thinned out, and photographs (dither images) are thinned out in units of 4 × 4 Boxes to reduce the size. The processing cycle is 1.1 us / word in the DMA mode and 1.7 us / word in the ROP mode.

In FIG. 1-2, H7, H8, and H9 are disks for data files. For example, H8 is a hard disk 7HD, and H7 is a hard disk 7HD.
Is a 5-inch floppy disk (FD) with a capacity of 640KB
It is. The H9 is an 8-inch floppy disk with a capacity of
7MB.

MPU Next, H6 is an MPU (micro processor unit) unit, and the CPU is, for example, 68000 manufactured by Motorola. MPU is HD / FD-IF
(Interface) and the above discs H7, H8,
It controls access to H9 and PMEM and IMEM described later.

In FIGS. 1-2, H10 and H13 are printers having different pixel densities, and H12 is a reader for reading an original.
H11 and H14 are interfaces provided corresponding to the printer H10, the printer H13, and the reader H12, respectively.

PMEM, IMEM H15 and H16 are program memories (PMEM), for example, having a capacity of 1 MB, and an option of 1.5 MB. The PMEM is called a main memory, and selects a program for editing processing from the hard disk H8 as appropriate and executes it. Data input from the keyboard 50 is stored as code information in a main memory, which is a text memory. Also, data stored in the main memory, data stored in the disk,
The data read from the reader is stored in the image memory IMEM
Can be expanded as bit data to PMEM
The same applies to the data stored in
DMAC, XY conversion, scaling, etc. are possible via the. A simple memory map in PMEM, H15 or H16
It is shown in FIG. P-1 is a document data text section, in which text data is stored as code information. P-2 is a document data format part number, which will be described later with reference to FIG. 2, and includes, for example, text, heading, character types such as pillars, line pitch, and character pitch as data. In P-3 row information table, and performs positioning in the memory and the display, for example in rows _{(x 11, x 12, x} 13 ......, y) data is stored. Note that P-3 may be included in P-2.

Next, in the system having the above-described configuration, a description will be given of a function relating to a format such as a print format and the like prepared in advance in the document editing apparatus according to the present invention and a call to the text. The format has the following functions.

(1) Registration of a format, (2) Partial correction of a registered format, (3) Formatting of a document, (4) Partial correction of a format of a document First, the description of the above (1) to (4) First, the format data will be described. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of data stored in the disk device 48 shown in FIG. 9 is a format file table.
9 is a table for determining which file to select. The document file 11 includes a sentence section 12 in which document data is actually stored, and a format section 13 in which a format corresponding to the sentence is stored.A document file table 14 indicates which sentence or section of the document file 11 Decide whether to choose a format.

Next, format data stored in the format file 10 shown in FIG. 2 will be described. Note that this data does not need to be stored in a file, as shown in Fig. 1-3.
It may be stored in MEM. The format definition consists of the following three record parts, namely, "a" format definition header recorder part,
<< b >> One body definition recorder section, and << c >> a plurality of peripheral definition recorder sections. << a >> manages the number of format definitions, but details are omitted. << c >> is a definition of a page number (page number), a column (heading of a margin), and the like, but details are omitted here. << b >> is a text definition having a text and a column definition, for example, as shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of parameters (terms) related to a format. FIG. 4 shows the position of a printing plate, which is a place for inputting and editing a document or the like displayed on a paper displayed on a display unit 38 such as a CRT shown in FIG. 1, and I, II, III, and VI are:
The “top (blank space at the top of the page)” and “throat (margin)” are called the forehead (opposite to the margin) and the ground (blank at the bottom of the page). Is determined. The number of columns in FIG. 3 indicates the number of columns, and the number of columns in FIG. 4 is two. Column alignment is to align the lower row of the column as is apparent from the figure. The line length indicates the line length of the column, which is indicated by IV, and the number of lines indicates the number of lines in the column. Further, since there are two stages in FIG. 4, the interval (V) between the stages is shown. The above is the data related to the column definition shown in FIG. 3. The definition of the text includes data such as font, number of dots, size, character spacing, indentation, color information, and the like.

Next, functions related to the above-described format will be described in detail.

(1) Registration of format Fig. 5 shows the registration flowchart. When a command for registering a format is input, the process first enters a registration routine among various functions of a WS (workstation) including a display unit 38 and a keyboard 42. Then, in step 1 of FIG. 5, the paper size, the paper placement direction,
Enter information such as horizontal writing. Next, in step 2, an input is made for a step appearance as shown in FIG. 4, for example, in a display flow as shown in FIG. That is, FIG. 6 (1)
As shown in (1), the plate surface 6 in the paper 5 is determined by inputting, for example, two points indicated by X by a pointing device (P, D) 61. Then, in (2), the number of steps is input (two steps in the figure), and in (3), for example, a cross mark point is specified by a keyboard or PD, and a step width and a step interval are specified. After the column definition as described above, further, in (4), the main definition such as the font, dot, and size is performed. Therefore, by looking at (4) in FIG. 6, the approximate number of rows and the layout can be intuitively understood. Next, in step 3 of FIG. 5, the page numbers (page numbers), columns (headlines), and headings are further defined. This operation can also be intuitively input while looking at the WS image, so that the format can be set very efficiently. The format set above is the fifth
Registered in step 4 in the figure, and stored in A, B, C... Of the format file 10 shown in FIG. A plurality of formats can be registered by the above means. The numerical data indicating the format may be displayed in accordance with the image indicating the format set as described above.

(2) Partial Correction of Registered Format In (1), a case will be described in which a registered format is called and corrected according to the procedure described above. A drawing (hereinafter, referred to as a window) in which a menu of a format for calling up the registered format is partially displayed on the display screen is shown in FIG.
Shown in the figure. FIG. 8 shows a flowchart for partially correcting the registered form file. First, in step 1, a menu is displayed on the WS as shown in FIG.
For example, (B) shows "article", which is A4 (paper size), 10 points (character size), and one step (number of steps). Next, step 2
At P.D51, move the cursor (arrow 17 in FIG. 7) by using the P.D51 key and turn on the PD key at the desired format, for example, the report in (A), and the file will be in the format file A in FIG. The format is selected by the format file table 9 and displayed on the CRT display unit 1 in FIG. 1 as shown in FIG. Then, in step 3, the parameters such as the line length of the column described in FIG. 4 for the format A are corrected by numerically or intuitively deforming the image by key input or PD. Then, the corrected format may be rewritten in the format file shown in FIG. 2 or newly written and registered.

(3) Writing to Document Next, when a command for formatting the document is input by the WS, the diagram shown in FIG. 7 is displayed as in the case of (2). This screen is superimposed and displayed on the screen even if a document is currently being processed on the screen. Therefore, the window can be scaled in accordance with the movement of the cursor by pointing the square at the lower right of FIG. In addition, "format file" of title
By pointing and moving the portion, the entire window can be moved. Therefore, when the text screen is not displayed, of course, the window shown in FIG. 7 is moved or scaled to an empty portion on the text screen even when the text screen is displayed, and the text screen is displayed. A desired format in the window can be easily selected. FIG. 9 shows a flowchart for formatting a document. Now, the document of the data n1 of the document section 12 shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the screen. Then, in step 1 of FIG. 9, a window of a list of format files shown in FIG. 7 is called at an arbitrary position on the screen by key input from the WS. And P.
A desired format, for example, (A) is selected by D and the cursor 17. Then, the format file A in FIG. 2 is selected,
The format A is copied in step 2 to the portion a corresponding to n1 of the format section 3 in the format file 11 in FIG. As a result, the format of the document is deleted during the current processing. Since the typesetting output of the document is performed while formatting the sentence in accordance with the new format in the document, the document being processed by the above scanning is output in a completely new format.

(4) Partial change of document format
A description will be given of a case where a part of the format of a created document is corrected. FIG. 10 shows a flowchart for partially changing the format of the document. In step 1, the document file 11 composed of the format part and the text part 12 shown in FIG. 2 is read out by the document file table 14, and the display unit displays the document in the format.

Next, in step 2 in FIG. 10, the above-mentioned parameters relating to the format such as the number of columns, columns, line lengths, and columns are corrected, and in step 3, if it is desired to register, the document file 11 in FIG. It may be new or re-registered.

Next, input / edit operations will be described in detail using functions such as registration / correction of a format as described above on a file, formatting of a document, and partial correction thereof. The typesetting process referred to here is a process of developing document data including image data into format data on a screen element or a memory for printing out, for example, a document data text portion P-1 shown in FIG. Is a process of expanding the data stored in the image memory into the image memory while referring to the document data format parts P-2 and P-3. FIG. 11 is a control flow chart particularly relating to document image processing and typesetting of the image processing system having the above-described configuration functions. The document referred to here is a word including image data. Also, for simplicity, the description of the key controller and the like is omitted, and it is assumed that all are managed by the MPU. In step 1, MPU is keyboard 5
Waiting for input from 0 or P.D61 etc. If there is an input, it is determined whether it is a command for calling a document or an image (step 2), and if NO, it is omitted here because it is not directly related to the present invention. If YES, proceed to step 3 to determine whether there is no document data on IMEM or PMEM and it is in the blank initial state. If NO, call document data from disk H8 etc. into memory ( In step 4), typesetting is performed in step 26, and the flow advances to step 5. If YES in step 3, since the document exists in the memory, the process directly proceeds to steps 26, 5, and 6, and the VRAM
The document data expanded above is subjected to typesetting processing, and the editing menu is displayed on the CRT 38. Next, in step 7, an input is made by a key or PD. The input described in step 1 is, for example, instructed to call a document (101) by designating a reader, a cabinet, manuscript paper, or the like with a PD or the like in a menu section on the screen. Is the same as in step 1 or by moving the cursor over the document 101 displayed on the screen so that the position in the document is determined by the line information table P-3 in FIG. 1-3. is there. If there is an instruction to move the cursor (CR) in step 7, the cursor CR moves as a position cursor in step 9. However, when the start point and the end point of the character string or the area of the image data are designated by the PD and the arrow (referred to as AR), the area is designated. When a key of "range designation" in the keyboard or menu section is designated, the cursor CR is set as a range cursor (steps 10, 11).

Next, in step 12, when an editing command such as alignment is input in the menu section 100, each editing command is executed in step 13. Also, in step 18, when a format command insertion instruction is input, step 19 is executed.
, A format command is inserted, and code data such as “headline” is inserted into the document data. If you enter a layout command, step 2
At 0 and 21, a layout command is executed. When a print instruction, for example, an icon of the printer is indicated by a PD, a print command of step 22 and a step 28
The process proceeds to the typesetting process and the print process in step 23, and the designated document is printed out by the printer in accordance with the format. In steps 24 and 25, for example, a document update is performed as another application. For example, when the mode for newly creating is designated, the snap 25 stores a new document on the disk H8, calls up the document, updates the document, and returns after completion.

Steps 14 to 17 are display control steps for displaying only a part of the corrected portion after executing each command and correcting or displaying the entire surface.

Typesetting Processing In the system configuration and the flow of image (document) processing described above, the typesetting processing will be further described in detail below. Document data sentence part P- shown in FIG.
1 is “Heading”, “Nomble”, “Pillar”, “Text definition”
And the like, and code data including a character string into which the command is to be inserted.
Then, in the typesetting process, the character of P-1 described above is referred to while referring to data relating to "heading" in the document data format part P-2 in FIG. 1-3 (described later in FIG. 12-4). This is the process of expanding the code data into actual bit image data.

Hereinafter, the typesetting processing will be further described with reference to the drawings. First, an example will be described in which document data containing no format command is displayed on a screen, a format command is inserted into the document data, and the document is formatted.

FIG. 12-1 shows the code data of a sentence containing no format command at all, and the disk memory H8 or PMEP H1 shown in FIG.
They are stored in 5,16. When the typesetting process (S26 in FIG. 11) is performed on this data, all the character strings (sentences) are regarded as the text. FIG. 12-4 is a detailed view of the document data format part shown in FIG. 1-3. The character string regarded as the text is referred to the text definition part P-1 in FIG. 12-4. Is developed into bit image data based on the information such as the character type, character spacing, line feed, etc., defined on the screen, and displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 12-2 (FIG. 11, S5). Here, since everything is regarded as the text, there is no "heading" or the like. Next, by operating the range cursor (CR) from this character string and selecting and instructing "this is the heading section" by the range specification process in the document (FIG. 11, S10, S11), the 12-3
As shown in the figure, a black-and-white inversion or a diagonal line is applied to the above-specified range, and a display screen indicating that the range has been specified is displayed.

Next, an icon (picture) indicating the command of the “large headline” displayed at the bottom of the screen shown in FIG. It is recognized as having attributes, and FIG. 11 S19
As shown in FIG. 12-5, the format command insertion of the "major heading" and the "major heading end" are inserted into the text data by the format command insertion execution processing.
Then, based on the data shown in FIG. 12-5, in the typesetting process (S27 in FIG. 11), the heading portion P-II in the format definition shown in FIG. "Major heading" based on information such as defined character types, character spacing, and line spacing
Is actually expanded on a memory (for example, IMEM).
FIG. 12-6 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display when a character larger than "body definition" is set as the character type of "large heading" by the above steps. In the above description, the typesetting process has been described using “heading” as an example. However, each time the development of one page of image (document) data on the memory is completed, the same format definition “number” (P-IV), "Pillar" (P
-III) or the like, which refers to a group of information that needs to be output for each page, and when there is an instruction of “flick”, a fob (page number) may be output according to the print position, character type, and the like set in the same manner. Similarly, if the main column character string is instructed to be used as the column text in the column definition, the column is similarly expanded and output to the set position.

Page Number The "page number" process in the typesetting process will be described in more detail. The “number” processing includes (1) a “number number setting” command similar to the data shown in FIG. 12-5 in the character code data while the character code data of the document data text part P-1 is being developed into an image. Is detected,
The process of changing the value of the “flick counter” in the memory map on the PMEM shown in FIG. 13-2 to the value specified by the “flick setting command” (S10 in FIG. 13-1). (2) Document Data After the character code data of the document section P-1 is expanded for one page, a process of adding a page number to the same page (S1 in FIG. 13-1)
6).

(1) is the same as the above-described heading processing, and thus details are omitted.

FIG. 13A is an explanatory diagram of the flicking and pillar processing described above. Step 1 reads an image (including document data) from file H8 in the same manner as in step 4 of FIG.
In step 2, the number counter N-1, the column storing buffer N-2, and the text buffer pointer N-3 in the memory map on the PMEM shown in FIG. 13-2 are initialized.
Next, in step 3, one code data is fetched by indicating the data in the document buffer N-4 by the document buffer pointer N-3. Then, in step 4, if the data is completed, the process proceeds to step 16, but if not, the process proceeds to step 5. Here, it is determined whether the data specified by the pointer N-3 is a command. If it is not a command, it is a character string (including an image), so step 6
Then, the data is directly expanded to the memory, and the process proceeds to step 14. If the data is a command in step 5, the process proceeds to step 7, and it is determined whether or not the command is a heading command as described in FIG. 12-5. If Yes, as shown in FIG. 12-6. Then, the heading processing in step 8 is performed, and the flow advances to step 14.

If the answer is NO in step 7, the program proceeds to step 9 to determine whether or not the command is a fobble command (corresponding to the above (1)). If YES, the command is instructed in step 10 by the command. The number counter N-1 shown in FIG. Then, go to step 14. Next, in the case of No in step 9, the process proceeds to step 11, and it is determined whether or not the command is a pillar command.
If yes, the process proceeds to step 12, and the data designated by the command is stored in the post buffer, in the post buffer storage buffer N-.
2 is stored. Then, go to step 14. Also step 11
If the answer is No in Step 13, the process proceeds to Step 13, and another command (for example, a bullet creation command) is executed to execute Step 14.
Proceed to. In step 14, it is determined whether or not the processing of the data for one page has been completed. If No, the process proceeds to step 15. If Yes, a page number is created in step 16 to create data for one page including columns, page numbers, and the like, and a page number counter is incremented by 1 to increase the page by one page. In step 17, a column is created based on the data stored in the column buffer. Next, it is determined in step 18 whether or not all pages have been completed. If No, in step 15,
The document buffer pointer is incremented by one, and the next one code data is fetched in step 3. If a code indicating the end is detected in step 4, the fetching of the code is completed and the process proceeds to step 16.

Next, in the case of the above-mentioned (2),
This will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. Note that this processing is also performed with reference to the format definition as in the other typesetting processing in the same manner as described above. First, in step 1 of FIG.
Referring to the page number definition part P-IV of the format definition in FIG. 12-4,
It is checked whether or not an output (print) instruction has been given to the flag string therein, and if there is no instruction, the process is terminated. If No in step 1, it is determined in step 2 whether or not double-sided printing is performed. The printing here need not be limited to printing on paper, and it is needless to say that printing on both sides is displayed on the screen. If the answer is No in Step 2, the page number print position for single-sided printing is determined in Step 3, and the process proceeds to Step 7. If Yes in step 2, go to step 4. Where the page number definition part P-IV
Will be described. FIG. 13-5 is an explanatory diagram of a page output mode, and FIG. 13-6 is a diagram showing an example of the flag string. FIG. 13-5 is the same as FIG. 4, except that it is added to explain the double-sided output, and the positions of any II and forehead III are reversed on the left and right. Also, 200 is the column printing position, 2
01 is the page number print position. It goes without saying that this device may be located in any part of the top, bottom, left and right, and it goes without saying that image information may be included in the pillars and page numbers. As shown in FIG. 13-6, the flag indicates whether or not printing: (0 or 1), printing position (1): top (0)
, Ground (1), print position (2): throat (0) side or edge (1) side, and print format: single-sided printing (0)
There is at least a flag indicating whether the printing is duplex printing (1). Then, referring to the above flags, if the answer is YES in step 2 of FIG. 13-3, that is, if the print format of the flag row shown in FIG. It is determined with reference to the number counter N-1 shown in FIG. 13-2. If the page is an odd page, the process proceeds to step 5, and the printing apparatus for the odd page is determined by referring to the flag of FIG. 13-6 and the data of the page number definition part P-IV of FIG. 12-4. In the case of an even number, the printing position is similarly determined in step 6. Note that the data is actually at the fore edge side in the flag string, for example, and the position of the end of the non-full character string is determined by the position 1/10 mm of the page number definition part. After the printing position has been determined as described above, the numerical value of the page number counter (FIG. 13-2) is defined in the page number non-pull definition part P-IV in the format definition of FIG. 12-4 in step 7. Font,
Develop into an image based on the number of character points. By the above processing, it is possible to print “flick” at the bilaterally symmetrical position in double-sided printing, and to modify the format definition in the procedure shown in FIG. Numbers can be expanded by the font and character size. The whiskers shown in the page number definition in FIG. 12-4 are the ones on the side of the page such as "(1)" and "~ 1".

Pillar Next, pillar processing in the typesetting processing will be described in detail.

Pillar treatment can also be broadly divided into two treatments. (1) If the "starting column definition start" command and the "posting column definition end" command are detected in the character code data while the character code data of the document data text portion in FIG. Process of storing character string code data sandwiched between two commands in the post sentence storage buffer N-2 shown in FIG. 13-2 (FIG. 13-1 S11, S12)
And (2) a process (S17 in FIG. 13-1) for creating and adding a “pillar” to the page after the character code data of the document data text part P-1 is expanded for one page. . here,
The case (2) will be mainly described.

FIG. 13-4 is a flowchart of the pillar treatment. This process is also performed with reference to the format definition as described above.
First, in step 1, reference is made to the column definition part P-III of the format definition shown in FIG.
Check whether a column (print) output instruction is given in (Fig. -5). If there is an instruction, the flow advances to step 2 in FIG. 13-4 to check whether or not there is an instruction to use the headline sentence of the flag. In other words, if there is a headline, the headline is automatically used and used as a post. And
In step 3, the presence or absence of a heading is determined, and if there is no heading, the process ends.

If a headline is found in step 3, step 4
, The heading is used as a post.

In step 2, if the headline is not used as a column, the process proceeds to step 5, and it is checked whether the column definition P-III is formed. If it has been defined, the process proceeds to step 6, where the contents of the post sentence storage buffer N-2 shown in FIG. 13-2 are used as post sentences (S6).

The content of the post is determined as described above. The position of the post will be described in step 7 and subsequent steps in relation to double-sided printing. In step 7, the printing type of the flag shown in FIG. 13-6 is checked. That is, if the printing is double-sided, the flag 1
Otherwise 0. If you did not print on both sides,
Proceeding to step 8, the print position for single-sided printing is determined.
If the answer is Yes in step 7, the process proceeds to step 9 and the thirteenth
Referring to the page number counter 9N-1 in FIG. 2, if the page is an odd page, the process proceeds to step 10 to determine the print position for the odd page. If the answer is No in step 9, the process proceeds to step 11, and the printing position for even-numbered pages is determined. No. 13-
In the example of FIG. 5, the position 1/1 of the column definition part P-III in FIG.
At 0 mm, the column stored in the column sentence storage buffer N-2 shown in FIG. 13-2 at a distance from any of the fore-edge or throat instruction in the flag row shown in FIG. 13-6. The position of the end of the string is determined. Next, in step 12, the contents of the above-mentioned post sentence storage buffer are developed into an image with the font and the number of character points defined by the post definition part P-III in the format definition of FIG. 12-4. By the above-described processing, a spread can be made even during double-sided printing, and the correction is performed according to the procedure shown in the symmetrical position.
"Pillar" can be expanded by character size (step
12).

Further, a plurality of pillars can be stored in the "pillar" sentence storage buffer N-2 shown in FIG. 13-2, and different pillars can be developed on odd-numbered pages and even-numbered pages by designating a flag string. Either the odd page or the even page can be left blank by the same logic.

Next, both surfaces will be described in more detail, as described in the previous description. As can be understood from the above description of the page numbers and columns, the present image processing system performs the typesetting process, the front and back sides of the recording medium during double-sided printing, the binding margin at the time of bookbinding, and the page number position and the column position at the time of spread during bookbinding. With regard to the binding margin, it is possible to arrange them on the object. In addition, since the development position is set by the distance from the throat in the format definition for the text as well, it can be similarly arranged symmetrically with respect to the binding margin at the time of bookbinding. Therefore, by outputting to the double-sided printing machine such that the binding margins of the front side and the back side coincide with each other, it is possible to obtain a beautifully printed output when bookbinding. FIG. 13-7 shows a flowchart for this duplex printing. Thirteenth
In step 1 of FIG. 7, step 4 and FIG.
A document (including an image) file is read from the file H8 in the same manner as in step 1 in FIG.

Next, in step 2, the data in the document buffer N-4 is pointed one by one by the document buffer pointer N-3 in the PMEM shown in FIG. 13-2. I do. If data exists in PMEM even for one page, Step 2 becomes Yes. Next, in step 3, assuming that the first page is an odd page, first, the odd page formatting process is performed on the first page as shown in FIGS. 13-3 and 13-4. Next, in step 4, it is determined whether or not there is a second page, that is, whether or not there is an even page by the pointer. A paper for an odd page of a laser beam printer or the like is fed and data is output. Further, in step 8, as in step 2, the result is NO, so the process proceeds to step 2. Next, if there is even-numbered page data in step 4, the process proceeds to Yes, and even-number page formatting is performed in step 5, and odd-numbered pages are output in steps 6 and 7 in the same manner as described above. Next, in step 8, as in step 4, the process proceeds to Yes, and in steps 9 and 10, image data of an even page is output.

FIG. 13-8 is a sectional view of the double-sided LBP printer. The photosensitive drum 61 is charged by the charger 62 and rotates. The data is read from the memory by the print command signal, and the beam 3 of the laser
81, deflection by the polygon mirror 359 is performed, and the photosensitive drum 361 is beam-scanned by rotation and deflection of the drum to form an electrostatic latent image on the drum.

The latent image on the drum is developed by a developing device 365, transferred to a sheet sent from an A3 or A4 size cassette 368, and discharged to a tray 370 fixed by a roller 369.
The drum is cleaned by the cleaner 371 and reused.

At the time of double-sided copying, the data for the front side of the memory is first output by a printer command, and the latent image is created and transferred to the front side of the paper. After the fixing is completed, the nail 301 is raised, and the discharge roller 302 is
To rotate the intermediate tray without discharging fixed sheets.
Send to 300 and wait. Next, the back surface data is output from the memory under the condition of the paper sense of the sensor 302, and when beam scanning of the image starts, a sheet is sent out from the intermediate tray 300 at a predetermined timing and is transferred to the back surface of the paper. At that time, the nail 101 is lowered and the sheet is discharged. This completes printing on both sides of the sheet.

In addition, it is possible to automatically arrange the text, pillars, page numbers, etc. in consideration of the symmetry with respect to the binding margin of the left and right pages.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a partial character string can be displayed as a line heading from among character strings to be displayed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1-1 is an external connection diagram of an image processing system using the present invention, FIG. 1-2 is a block diagram of an image editing device, and FIG. 1-3 is a diagram showing a simple memory map in PMEM. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of data stored in the disk device H8, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of format data stored in the format file 10 shown in FIG. 2, FIG. Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram of terms related to a format, Fig. 5 is a flowchart for registering a format, Fig. 6 is a diagram showing a flow of display when inputting an unloading and loading, Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a menu display of the format, Fig. 8 Is a flowchart for partially modifying a registered format file, FIG. 9 is a flowchart for formatting a document, FIG. 10 is a flowchart for partially modifying a document format, and FIG. 11 is an image processing system. Control flow chart including document processing typesetting processing in FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a display of document data and an editing menu. FIG. 12-1 is a diagram showing a state in which text code data containing no format command is stored in a memory. Is a diagram showing an image display example of information developed in bit image data, FIG. 12-3 is a diagram showing a state of specifying a range on a screen, and FIG. 12-4 is a diagram showing data relating to a typesetting process on PMEM. Fig. 12-5 shows how the text code data including the format command is stored in the memory. Fig. 12-6 shows the actual image on the screen based on the format command by the typesetting process. Fig. 13-1 is a flow chart of the typesetting process including the heading, page number and pillar. Fig. 13-2 is a view showing the memory map on PMEM. Fig. 13-3 is a page chart of page number output. Fig. 13-4 is a flow chart with pillar output. FIG. -5 is an explanatory diagram of a two-sided output mode, FIG. 13-6 is a diagram showing an example of a flag string, FIG. 13-7 is a flowchart of a two-sided output, and FIG. 13-8 is an example of a two-sided printer H6 is MPU, H15 and 16 are PMEM, H17 and 18 are iMEM, and 38 is CRT.

Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Yasuhiro Watanabe 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Inside Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Takahiro Kato 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Inside Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Masayuki Utsumi 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Hiroshi Takakura 3-30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Invention Person Takeshi Hasegawa 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Masaaki Shimizu 3-30-2 Shimomaruko 3-chome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Masaaki Saai, inventor 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Fumio Furukawa 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Yasuhisa Ishizawa Ota-ku, Tokyo Shimomaruko 3-30-2 Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Minagawa 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Kenzo Ina 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (56) References JP-A-59-94139 (JP, A) bit. 15 [7] (1983-7), 628-645 bit. 15 [9] (1983-8), P. 996-1012

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A step of storing body format information for outputting a character string as a body and heading format information different from the body format information for outputting a character string as a head, based on the body format information; Displaying a character string as a text, specifying a partial character string from the displayed character string, setting a heading command for the specified partial character string, Controlling a partial character string in which a heading command is set as a line heading based on the heading format information.