JPH05151215A - Document processor with frame editing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically allocate serial numbers to respective cards to be printed out in the case of repeatedly printing out data by synthesizing a prescribed value with information to be printed out in each section and printing out the synthesized result. CONSTITUTION:This document processor is provided with a numeral storing means 101 previously storing a prescribed numeral, an input means 102 for inputting printable information in a divided section, an input information storing means 103 for storing information inputted from the means 102, a copying means 104 for copying the information stored in the means 103 in each section, a synthesizing means 105 for reading out the numerals stored in the means 101 at the time of executing copying by the means 104 and synthesizing the read numeral with the information to be copied, and a printing means 106 for printing out the information synthesized by the means 105. At the time of copying information, the numeral is read out from the means 101 by the means 105 and synthesized with the information and the synthesized information is read out from the means 106. Thereby the prescribed value is synthesized with the information to be printed out in each section and the synthesized information can be printed out.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating documents in Japanese, and more particularly to setting a frame on a screen and editing information in the frame. The present invention relates to a document processing device with a frame editing function capable of printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a document processing apparatus as described above,
A frame with a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper is set on the screen, the frame is divided into desired sizes, and the divided sections are edited as if they were one page. Usually, it is possible to perform editing in units of sections called column editing and block editing.

Further, in such a document processing apparatus, in order to print on a card, a ticket, etc., a text for one section is input, and the text is copied into a plurality of sections and printed, so-called repeated printing. Some printers have the function of, and when performing such repetitive printing, a basic format is specified, and the same format is repeatedly printed in the horizontal and vertical directions.

That is, during repeated printing, normally,
Roll paper is used as the printing paper, and the same data (for example, the same pattern if it is a ticket) is repeatedly printed on the roll paper, and after printing, the user separates the printed tickets using the cutter one by one. I'm trying to cut it.

[0005]

However, in such a conventional document processing apparatus, when the pattern of the ticket is repeatedly printed on the roll paper as described above and the serial number is given to each ticket, After repeatedly printing the same pattern on the printing paper, I had to write the serial number by hand.

[0006] Further, when the ticket design is repeatedly printed on the roll paper, for example, as the bus ticket whose first ticket is the cover, the ticket design to be printed on the first sheet When it is desired to change the design of the ticket to be printed on the second and subsequent sheets, it is necessary to input according to the printing style, and the operation is complicated.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances. A first object of the present invention is to edit a frame by automatically adding a serial number to each card to be printed when printing is repeated. To provide a document processing device with a function. The second purpose is to perform repeated printing.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device with a frame editing function that prints another card at the head of a continuous card.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of the invention of claim 1. As shown in the figure, the invention of claim 1 has a size corresponding to the maximum print area of a sheet. In a document processing apparatus capable of displaying a frame on a screen, dividing the display frame into a desired size, and editing information in each of the divided sections, a numerical value storage unit 101 that stores a predetermined numerical value in advance. Input means 102 for inputting printable information in the divided sections, input information storage means 103 for storing the information input from the input means 102, and information stored in the input information storage means 103 for each section The copying means 104 for copying, the synthesizing means 105 for reading the numerical value stored in the numerical value information storing means 101 at the time of copying by the copying means 104, and synthesizing with the information to be copied, and the synthesizing means 105. And printing means 106 for printing made information, a frame editing function document processing device including a.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 2, and as shown in the figure, the invention of claim 2 is
1 is a document processing apparatus with a frame editing function, further comprising a count-up means 107 for counting up the numerical value stored in the numerical value storage means 101 after composition by the composition means 105. ..

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 3, and as shown in the figure, the invention of claim 3 displays a frame of a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper on the screen. Then, in the document processing apparatus capable of dividing the display frame into a desired size and editing the information for each of the divided sections, the first and second information that can be printed is input to each of the divided sections. Input means 201 and input information storage means 202 for storing the first and second information input from the input means 201
When copying the information stored in the input information storage means 202 to each section, the input information storage means 2 is set in the first section.
02, the first information is read and copied, and after the next section, all the second information is read from the input information storage section 202 and sequentially copied, and the copying section 203 and the sections copied by the copying section 203 are sequentially copied. Printing means 204 for printing information
And a document processing device with a frame editing function.

As the input means 102 in the present invention, a keyboard device, a tablet device, an input device such as a pointing device or a touch panel is used.

Copying means 104, 203, synthesizing means 105
As the count-up means 107, CPU, RO
It is convenient to use a microcomputer consisting of M, RAM and I / O ports, and as the numerical value storage means 101 and the input information storage means 103 and 202, the RAM therein is usually used.

As the printing means 106 and 204, a dot matrix type thermal printer, a laser printer or the like is used.

[0014]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the printable information is input from the input means 102 to the divided sections, the information is stored in the input information storage means 103. And
The information stored in the input information storage means 103 is copied to each section by the copying means 104. At the time of copying,
By the synthesizing means 105, the numerical value stored in the numerical information storage means 101 is read and synthesized with the information to be copied,
The combined information is printed by the printing unit 106. Therefore, a predetermined numerical value can be combined with the information printed in each section and printed.

According to the second aspect of the invention, after the combination by the combination means 105, the count-up means 107 counts up the numerical value stored in the numerical value storage means 101. Therefore, by storing the numbers in the numerical information storage means 101, for example, when the information of each section is a card such as a ticket, a serial number can be automatically added to each card to be printed.

Further, according to the invention of claim 3, the first and second information which can be printed in the divided sections are input means 20.
When input from 1, the first and second information is stored in the input information storage means 202. Then, the copying means 203
The information stored in the input information storage means 202 is copied to each section by the operation of
Information is read out and copied, the second information is read out and copied sequentially in the subsequent sections, and the copied information in each section is printed by the printing unit 204. Therefore, for example, when the information of each section is a card such as a ticket, another card can be printed at the head of the continuous cards.

[0017]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below based on the embodiments shown in the drawings. The present invention is not limited to this.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor. This Japanese word processor can set a frame on the screen and edit and print information in the frame.

In FIG. 4, reference numeral 1 is a keyboard provided with kana character keys, numeric keys, kana-kanji conversion keys, function keys and the like. During the frame editing process, a frame having a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper is divided, and various kinds of information that can be printed on the card as the divided section is input from the keyboard 1 and the card is printed. At the time of printing, character strings, graphics, images, etc. to be printed on each card are designated.

Reference numeral 2 is a control unit composed of a CPU for controlling the operation of this system. Reference numeral 3 denotes a program memory including a ROM, which is a program for original document creation / editing of a Japanese word processor, a program for printing another card at the head of a continuous card of the present invention, and a program for continuous printing. A program for automatically assigning a number to each card is stored. The control unit 2
By these programs written in the program memory 3, various data processes described later are performed.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a card format memory including a RAM, which stores layout information of a card which is a divided section. Reference numeral 5 denotes a card data memory including a RAM, in which card creation data input from the keyboard 1 is stored. Reference numeral 6 denotes a display device including a CRT display device and an LC (liquid crystal) display device, on which various card data and a series of operations are displayed.
Reference numeral 7 is an RA for expanding the card data for actual printing.
M is a printing memory, 8 is a number memory that is a RAM for storing a card number to be attached to a card when the cards are continuously printed, and 9 is a dot matrix type thermal printer that outputs a print result And a printer such as a laser printer.

FIG. 5 is a partial front view showing the external appearance of the printing apparatus 9. As shown in the figure, when the printing apparatus 9 uses roll paper as the printing paper, the roll paper is cut halfway. It has a built-in cutter.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the stored contents of the card format memory 4. As shown in this figure, the card format memory 4 stores paper information and frame information 1 to n. The paper information is information about format setting and tab setting, and information such as paper size and left / right / upper and lower margins is set.

The frame information 1 to n is set by the number of frames to be set, and the frame start information, the frame size information, the frame attribute,
It is composed of frame numbers. The frame start information represents the coordinate value of the upper left corner on the printing paper of the divided section in millimeter units. The frame size information represents the vertical length and the horizontal length of the divided section in millimeters. The frame attribute indicates the property of the section such as an input prohibited frame as a section in which no data is input, or graphic data such as a graph or an image. The frame number is the order of the divided sections, and is set for the case where the frames are sequentially numbered.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the stored contents of the card data memory 5. As shown in this figure, the card data memory 5 stores card data such as character string information, graphic information, and image information.

The character string information is composed of actual character string data such as kanji and kana, and coordinate data indicating where the character string data is located. The graphic information is divided into various graphic data such as line segment data, band line data, circle data, and parabolic data, each of which is composed of coordinate data and graphic data. The image information is composed of coordinate data and image data. The image data is image data formed by dots, and actually, the numerical value of the pointer is stored, and the image data indicated by the dot is stored at the position on the memory indicated by the pointer.

The character string information, the graphic information, and the image information are each provided with a flag indicating whether the data is common to each card or is changed for each card. “0” is recorded when the data is common to each card, and “1” is recorded when the data is changed for each card.

The control unit 2 copies the card data such as character strings, figures and images stored in the card data memory 5 to each card. At the time of this copying, the number stored in the number memory 8 is read out and combined with the card data to be copied. After that, the numerical value of the number memory 8 is incremented by 1, and the combined card data is printed via the printing device 9.

That is, when a serial number is attached to a ticket or the like, this number portion is data changed for each card. When repeatedly printing, the common part of each card prints the same data every time, but when there is a change for each card, the designated data is automatically counted up and numbered.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing an example in which a ticket is printed on roll paper and a serial number is printed on the ticket at the same time. As shown in this figure, the serial number portion 11 is given a serial number and cut. Position 12 is to be printed.

Further, when the control section 2 is instructed to print a cover with a different design at the head of consecutive tickets, the control section 2 copies the card data stored in the card data memory 5 to each card. , The data of the specified cover is read from the card data memory 5 and copied to the first card, and the data of the same ticket is read and sequentially copied to the subsequent cards. Then, when copying the subsequent cards, the number stored in the number memory 8 is read and combined with the card data to be copied. After that, the numerical value of the number memory 8 is incremented by 1, and the combined card data is printed via the printing device 9.

That is, in repeated printing, a plurality of card data can be input, and the frame number of the card to be printed on the first sheet and the frame number of cards to be printed on the second and subsequent sheets are designated at the time of printing. In this case, data input is performed by a conventionally known edit processing method. In the printing process, the data of the designated frame number is expanded on the memory. This makes it possible to print bus coupons and the like.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing the frame numbers of the cards to be printed. The first card means that the frame number is the second card, and the next and subsequent cards are those having the frame numbers from to. It shows that there is.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which a ticket with a different design is printed at the top and a serial number is printed at the same time on the ticket. It is possible to print, serialize the serial number portion 14 and print the cut position 15.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control unit 2 will be described with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS.

FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing the number expansion processing. When expanding numbers, card data memory 5
Check the flag of the card data stored in (step 21), and if 0, that is, data common to each card (step 22), first read coordinate data (step 23), then The card data is read (step 24), and the card data is developed at the read coordinate position in the printing memory 7 (step 25). Then, the end of data is checked (step 26),
When the data is completed (step 27), the process is completed.

In step 22, the flag is set to 1
If so, that is, if the data is changed for each card, first the coordinate data is read (step 28), then the number stored in the number memory 8 is read (step 29), and the print memory 7 is stored. At, the number is developed at the read coordinate position so as to be superimposed on the card data previously developed (step 30). Then, the number of the number memory 8 is counted up (step 31), the end of data is checked (step 26), and when the data is completed (step 27), the process is ended.

FIG. 12 is a flow chart showing the print expansion process. At the time of printing, first, an initial value of a counter for counting the frame number of a card to be printed is set (step 41). Then check the counter (step 4
2) If it is the first card (step 43), first,
The coordinate data of the frame number 1 is read from the card data memory 5 (step 44), then the card data of the frame number 1 is read (step 45), and the card data is read at the read coordinate position in the printing memory 7. Expand (step 46).

Then, the expanded card data is printed via the printer 9. After that, the counter is incremented by 1 (step 48), the end of data is checked (step 49), and when the data ends (step 5).
0), the process ends.

In the case of the second and subsequent cards in step 43, first, the coordinate data common to the frame number 2 and thereafter is read from the card data memory 5 (step 5).
1) Next, the common card data after the frame number 2 is read (step 52), and the card data is expanded in the read coordinate position in the printing memory 7 (step 4).
6). When developing the card data for the second and subsequent cards, the numbers and the card data are superposed and developed as shown in the number expanding process of FIG. Then, similarly to the above, the processes of steps 47 to 50 are performed.

In this way, another card is printed at the beginning of a continuous card, and when printing a continuous card, a serial number is automatically assigned to each card to be printed, thereby automating the conventional manual processing. Therefore, the convenience of the document processing apparatus can be further improved.

[0042]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the information to be printed in each section is combined with a predetermined numerical value and printed. Therefore, in the case of printing on a card such as a ticket. , Cards can be numbered.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, if the numbers are stored in the numerical value information storage means, in the case of printing on a card such as a ticket, each card to be printed is automatically The serial numbers can be attached to.

Further, according to the third aspect of the invention, the first information is copied in the first division, and the second information is copied in all the subsequent divisions. In the case of printing on a card, another card can be printed at the head of a continuous card.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 1.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 2;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 3;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 5 is a partial front view showing the outer appearance of the printing apparatus.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card format memory.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card data memory.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which a ticket is printed on roll paper and a serial number is printed on the ticket at the same time.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing frame numbers of cards to be printed.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which a ticket with a different design is printed at the head and a serial number is printed simultaneously on the ticket.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing number expansion processing.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating print expansion processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 keyboard 2 control unit 3 program memory 4 card format memory 5 card data memory 6 display device 7 printing memory 8 number memory 9 printing device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document in which a frame having a size corresponding to the maximum print area of a sheet is displayed on a screen, the display frame is divided into a desired size, and information can be edited in each divided section. In the treatment device, a numerical value storage means for storing a predetermined numerical value in advance, an input means for inputting printable information in the divided sections, an input information storage means for storing the information input from the input means, and an input information Copying means for copying the information stored in the storage means to each section, combining means for reading the numerical value stored in the numerical value information storage means and copying it with the copied information when copying by the copying means, and A document processing device with a frame editing function, comprising: a printing unit that prints the combined information. 2. The document processing apparatus with a frame editing function according to claim 1, further comprising count-up means for counting up the numerical value stored in the numerical value storage means after the combination by the combining means. 3. A document in which a frame having a size corresponding to the maximum print area of a sheet is displayed on the screen, the display frame is divided into a desired size, and information can be edited in each divided section. In the treatment device, input means for inputting first and second information printable in the divided sections, input information storage means for storing the first and second information input from the input means, and input information When copying the information stored in the storage means to each section, the first section reads the first information from the input information storage section and copies it, and after the next section, all of the second section from the input information storage section is read. A document processing apparatus with a frame editing function, comprising: a copying unit that reads out information and sequentially copies it; and a printing unit that prints the information of each section copied by the copying unit.