JPH0528554B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Technical Field of the Invention) The present invention uses an interactive computer when creating layout designated sheets from so-called rough manuscripts such as layout instructions and photographing instructions for printing magazines, catalogs, etc. The present invention relates to a graphic layout display method in a printing system that is used to improve efficiency.

(Technical background of the invention and its problems) In order to create a photographic manuscript for printing, it is necessary to create a layout designation sheet that indicates the arrangement of photographs and the position of copies thereof. For this reason, designers and the like must hand-write the arrangement of photographs and characters and the contents of photographs (layout of subjects) according to the conditions required for printed matter. Since design work inevitably involves revisions, manual rewriting is required each time, and in the past, it took a lot of effort and time to obtain the final layout designation sheet. In other words, Figure 6 shows how layouts are created for today's wide variety of printed materials such as magazines, books, catalogs, pamphlets, etc., based on a project proposal 100 for commercializing various information and project images. In addition to creating a photography instruction sheet that summarizes the content of meetings such as photography, how to compose the overall image pattern by including copies of specific content explanations and explanations, taking into consideration the layout and shape. A rough manuscript is created by creating a layout instruction sheet, and performing a so-called rough draft work 101 in which various considerations are made to make the product suitable. Based on this rough draft,
A copywriter 102 creates a character manuscript (copy) 103 that fits within a predetermined space, and typesets it into phototypesetting characters 104 using a phototypesetting machine or the like. On the other hand, the cameraman 108 takes pictures according to the rough manuscript,
Create color manuscript (photo) 109 and use Designer 1
05, a layout designation sheet (picture pattern) 106 is created by placing a pattern or photograph trimmed to a predetermined size from the color original 109 and the rough original 101.
After that, these layout designation sheets 106, color original 1
09, Phototypesetting character 104 is Finishman 110
After further examination and some corrections, the phototypesetting characters 104 are pasted on a mount 111, and printed on a block 1 using a block drawing machine or the like.
12, convex photography 113, and later negative 114
will be made into In addition, the layout designation sheet 106 and the color original (photo) 109 are the finisher 1.
10, the operator 115 uses the scanner 116 to print Y (yellow), M (magenta),
After the colors are separated into C (cyan) and BK (black), they are finally combined 117 with the negative 114 to form a film original plate 118, which is then passed through the plate making and printing process 11.
9 to be printed.

In this way, in conventional systems, the positioning of figures during the layout of the layout designation sheet 106 is all done manually, as well as the rough work of layout instructions or photography instructions in the process of realizing printed matter from a plan. Therefore, there is a strong desire to improve the efficiency of these relatively monotonous repetitive trial-and-error operations.

(Purpose of the Invention) This invention was made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to automatically create the assignment sheet creation process when creating a printed manuscript using an interactive computer, and to create the final instructions. It is an object of the present invention to provide a graphic layout method in a printing system that can be obtained quickly and accurately, and can also rationally create a printing mount based on this information.

(Summary of the Invention) The present invention relates to a method for displaying a layout of figures for creating layout-designated paper in a printing system, and includes a menu display section from which various command menus can be selected on the same screen within a layout frame;
It is composed of a display screen section that displays images corresponding to the contents of the menu, and a CRT display device that allows interactive graphic input using an input device such as a tablet, mouse, or light pen. In a printing system that performs layout drawing for creating a designated layout sheet, a picture area of one page of the designated layout sheet is input as the contents of one screen using the input device from the command menu displayed on the menu display section. and character area on the display screen section, and reduce the contents of the two independent screens of the picture area and character area to 1
The contents are displayed simultaneously on the screen, with the contents of two pages on the left and right being displayed in a double-page spread format, and the contents of one page displayed as an original.

(Embodiment of the Invention) Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a device for realizing the present invention, and a computer (CPU) 30 that performs overall control is generally referred to as a minicomputer. It is desirable that basic line drawings be processed bit by bit. This CPU 30 has main storage device 3.
1 and an auxiliary storage device 32 such as a floppy disk, hard disk, or optical disk are connected via a bus line, and a TV camera, scanner,
An image input device 33 such as a CCD scanner is connected via an interface 33A. Further, an output device 34 such as an electrostatic plotter, an XY plotter, a laser beam printer, etc. is connected via an interface 34A, and a keyboard 35 for manually inputting necessary data and commands is connected. This kind of image processing system is interface 3.
It is connected to a display system of a graphic display via 6A and 36B, and the display system is provided with a display controller 40 consisting of a microprocessor or the like that controls the overall display.
This display controller 40 includes a frame memory 41 and a CRT display device 4 capable of displaying original size.
2 and an input device 43, such as a doublet, a mouse, or a light pen, which functions as a man-machine interface. With this configuration, the present invention aims to improve the efficiency of the creation work by using a computer to perform the graphic positioning work, which requires repeated trial and error, in creating the layout designation sheet 106.

In such a configuration, this invention first
A layout frame 50 as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the CRT display device 42 in a manner described later. As shown in the figure, this display frame 50 includes a menu display section 500 in which a desired command menu (for example, A10 command for copy registration, A11 command for copy column setting, etc.) is prepared and a desired command can be selected with a single touch. , a display screen section 6 that can display a picture area, a copy area, etc. on the screen according to command menus A1, A2, A3, . . . and perform various operations in an interactive manner.
00. Further, this layout frame 50 is designed so that the menu display section 500 and the display screen section 600 can be changed to any size as necessary.

FIG. 3 shows a configuration in which the layout frame 50A is divided into a menu display section 510 and a display screen section 610.
0 is further divided into a left page screen section 610A and a right page screen section 610B, so that the contents of the left and right page screens are displayed simultaneously. By the way, if it is necessary to change, modify, move, or delete this layout display content, for example, by lightly touching the desired command menu of the menu display section 500 with a light pen (for example, if it is a split command, A1 command), the corresponding contents are displayed in color on the display screen section 600 or the menu display section 500 in real time, and the main menu display section 51
If it is necessary to further specify the command specified in 0, the submenu display section 52
After the command is displayed at 0 and the desired command operation is completed, one frame worth of layout image is hard-copied onto the recording paper 53 using the output device 34 by specifying "copy" of the A24 command. in this case,
The sizes of the output image of the output device 34 and the display image of the CRT display device 42 are made to correspond one-to-one in order to reduce the difference in impression between the actually hard-copied image and the display image. In addition, all input, selection, and specified operations are performed using the input device 34 and the CRT.
This is done by using command menus A1, A2, A3, . . . according to each work flow displayed on the display device 42.

In this way, by creating a one-to-one correspondence between the actual hard-copied image and the image on the display screen, in other words, by displaying the image on the display screen at its original size, you can intuitively recognize the finished state and easily avoid misconceptions. After trying to reduce the number of pages, they went one step further and made it possible to simultaneously display the left and right pages in a double-page spread, assuming the state of a completed book.

FIG. 4 shows the present invention in a flowchart. First, contents such as images of the left page are created (step S1), and then the contents are stored in the frame memory 41 as the left page area (step S2).
do. After similarly creating the contents of the right page image (step S3), the contents are stored in the frame memory 41 as the right page area (step S4). Here, if you instruct full display A19 in the command menu (step S5), the respective areas of the left and right pages will be displayed on the display screen, with the contents of the left page displayed on the left side and the contents of the right page displayed simultaneously on the right side ( Step S6). In this way, with the page open, its placement,
When the "OK" instruction (step S7) is given after checking the balance, etc., only the contents of the original left page are displayed in their original size on the display screen.

The operation of this flowchart will be explained with reference to the layout frames 50 and 50A of FIGS. 2 and 3. Display screen section 6 in Fig. 2
00 displays the contents of the left page of the double-page spread in its original size, and this contents are stored in the frame memory 41 as the left page area. This can be stored in the frame memory 41 by specifying A26 (picture of a floppy disk) on the command menu.
Next, the contents of the right page (not shown) are stored in the frame memory 41 as the right page area by similarly specifying the command menu A26. Here, when the command menu entire display A19 is specified on the menu display section 510, the layout frame 50 in FIG. 2 is switched to the layout frame 50A in FIG. 3. At this time, the contents of the left page area are displayed on the left page screen section 610A, and the contents of the right page area are displayed on the right page screen section 610B. In terms of the contents of the left page, the picture frames 61, 62 and the character frame 63 are reduced at the same ratio and displayed as picture frames 61A, 62A and character frame 63A. Furthermore, the menu display section 510 is positioned and displayed at the bottom of the layout frame 50, and is arranged so that the left and right page screens 610A and 610B can be displayed simultaneously. This makes it possible to determine the relationship between the contents of the left and right pages at a glance. In other words, the picture frames 61A and 6
Related positions of 2A, 65 and 66, and character frame 6
The relative position with 3A and 64 can now be seen. Then, when the desired left and right page contents are obtained by correcting the positions, etc., by specifying "OK" on the command menu, the original full-size display screen, that is, the layout frame 50, is obtained, and the next work can be done. It becomes a system that accepts the command menu of.

When the frame area is completely positioned as described above, it is stored in the auxiliary storage device 32 according to the flowchart in FIG.
S52), and make a hard copy on paper or the like using the output device 34 (step S51). The hard copy thus obtained from the output device 34 is used as the layout designation sheet 106 for printing. Furthermore, part of the information created here can be used as information for creating a printing mount, and based on this information, a printing mount is created using a drawing machine.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the method of the present invention, the work of creating layout designation sheets in the trial and error process from planning to realization can be changed from the conventional manual work to a computer, and through automation, it can be done quickly and accurately in real time. In addition, at the layout stage, the overall display can be switched as needed to balance between the original size display in the same state as the finished product and the spread state. It has the great advantage of being able to quickly respond to a wide variety of printing requests.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a printing system showing an embodiment of a device that realizes this invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 show the structure and function of a CRT display device that shows an embodiment of a device that realizes this invention. Figure 4 showing
The figure is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing how a layout display is output, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state of creating a layout of a printed matter in the related art. A0, A1, A2 ~... Command menu, 3
0...CPU, 31, 32...Auxiliary storage device, 3
3... Image input device, 34... Output device, 35...
...Keyboard, 33A-36B...Interface, 40...Display controller, 41
...Frame memory, 42...CRT display device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 The same screen within the layout frame consists of a menu display section that allows you to select various command menus, and a display screen section that displays images corresponding to the contents of the menu, and allows input from a tablet, mouse, light pen, etc. In a printing system that uses a CRT display device that allows graphic input to be input interactively using the device to create a layout for creating layout-designated paper for printing, from the command menu displayed on the menu display section. Using the input device, display the picture area and character area of one page of the layout designated paper on the display screen section as the content of one screen, and reduce the contents of two independent screens of the picture area and character area, respectively. A method for displaying a graphic layout in a printing system, characterized in that the contents of two left and right pages are displayed as two-page spreads, and the contents of one page are displayed as originals.