JPH08221500A - Primitive movement method and business forms design system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To attain the highly accurate layout of primitive by moving the designated primitive to another designated position with coincidence kept as it is between a designated reference point and a designated reference line. CONSTITUTION: A primitive movement device 1 consists of a storage means 6 and an arithmetic means 7. The means 7 includes an auxiliary line movement processing routine 10, a horizontal line reference movement processing routine 11 and a vertical line reference movement processing routine 12. When a primitive is designated, the primitive is moved in a primitive movement process so as to secure the coincidence between a designated reference point and a designated reference line. When the change is designated for the position of the designated primitive, the primitive is moved to another designated position in a primitive position chance process with coincidence kept as it is between the designated reference point and the designated reference line.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of laying out a primitive which is a basic component of design and a design system of forms to which the method is applied.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Primitives are basic components for designing figures such as rectangles, circles, and straight lines, tint blocks, pictures, marks, symbols, and character strings, and the design is performed by combining these primitives. The primitive does not have to have a simple content, and the type is not limited, and any frequently used primitive can be used as the primitive. Designing using primitives is based on the two processes of specifying primitives and layout. Conventionally, designation of a primitive is performed by moving a pointing point of the mouse on the primitive displayed on the display and pressing a mouse button.
Of course, the display of the specified primitive is separately performed by a method such as specifying the file menu of the primitive to open the file. In the conventional layout of primitives, the operation of moving the designated point of the mouse while holding down the mouse button on the specified primitive, that is, dragging, the specified primitive moves accordingly, and when the mouse button is released. This is done by stopping the primitive at that position.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional design using primitives, when attempting to lay out the primitives with high precision so as to meet the regulation, there is too much freedom and the position is not fixed. , The exact layout was impossible. For example, when laying out a primitive at a predetermined position with respect to a reference line such as a ruled line, when laying out a plurality of primitives at a predetermined relative position, when moving the plurality of primitives while maintaining the predetermined relative position. , Etc.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a primitive moving method and a form design system capable of accurately laying out primitives so as to meet the regulations.

[0005]

The above object can be achieved by the present invention described below. That is, according to the present invention, a primitive designation process that sets a designated primitive to a designated state by designating a primitive, and a reference point that sets a designated reference point to a designated state by designating a reference point of the primitive in the designated state. A designated processing step, and a reference line designated processing step in which the reference line is designated by the designation of the reference line,
By the primitive movement processing step of moving the primitive in the designated state so that the reference point in the designated state coincides with the reference line in the designated state, and the position change designation of the primitive in the designated state, the reference point in the designated state is set. And a primitive position change processing step of moving the primitive in the specified state to the position specified by the position change while keeping the primitive on the reference line in the specified state.

Further, the present invention is a form design system having a primitive designation processing means, a reference point designation processing means, a reference line designation processing means, a primitive movement processing means, and a primitive position change processing means. hand,
The primitive designation processing means sets the designated primitive to the designated state by designating the primitive, and the reference point designation processing means sets the designated reference point to the designated state by designating the reference point of the primitive in the designated state. The reference line designation processing means sets the reference line to the designated state by designating the reference line, and the primitive movement processing means sets the designated state so that the reference point in the designated state coincides with the reference line in the designated state. The primitive position change processing means changes the position of the primitive in the designated state to specify the primitive in the designated state while keeping the reference point in the designated state on the reference line in the designated state. A form design system characterized in that the position is moved to a designated position.

[0007]

According to the primitive moving method of the present invention, when a primitive is designated, the designated primitive is brought into the designated state by the primitive designation process,
When the reference point of the primitive in the designated state is designated, the designated reference point becomes the designated state by the reference point designation processing step, and when the reference line is designated, the designated reference line is designated by the reference line designation processing step. Becomes a designated state, and the primitive in the designated state is moved by the primitive moving process so that the reference point in the designated state coincides with the reference line in the designated state, and the position change designation of the primitive in the designated state is performed. In the primitive position changing process, the primitive in the specified state is moved to the position specified by the position change while keeping the specified reference point on the specified reference line.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The primitive moving method and form design system of the present invention will be described below with reference to preferred embodiments. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus for carrying out the primitive moving method of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a portion surrounded by a solid line 1 is a primitive moving device for carrying out the primitive moving method of the present invention, 2 is a LAN (Local Area Network) such as Ethernet, 3 is basic component (primitive) data, A data store system for storing design data and other data and transferring the data to and from the primitive moving device through a LAN, 4 is an input device such as a keyboard and mouse, and 5 is an output means such as a display and a printer. Is.

In FIG. 1, the primitive moving device 1 is further configured in detail, 6 is a storage means, 7 is a computing means, and is a main body of a computer such as a personal computer or an engineering workstation. In the storage means 6, 8 is the primitive data read from the data store system 3 or originally stored, and 9 is design data obtained by designating and laying out the primitive data 8. Further, in the arithmetic means 7, 10 is an auxiliary line movement processing routine for aligning primitive data such as a figure or text in an edited state on a specified auxiliary line and moving the auxiliary line, 11 is a figure in an edited state, A horizontal line reference moving processing routine for aligning primitive data such as text on the specified horizontal line reference and moving the same along the specified horizontal line reference. Reference numeral 12 designates primitive data such as a figure or text in an edited state and a specified vertical line. It is a vertical line reference movement processing routine for performing processing of aligning on the reference and moving on the vertical line reference. As will be described later in detail, these auxiliary lines, horizontal lines, and vertical lines are reference lines that regulate movement when moving a figure.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the flow of the primitive moving process. Details will be described later. First, the process in FIG. 2 will be briefly described. The target primitive is selected (S1), and the movement processing method is selected from "auxiliary line", "horizontal line", and "vertical line" (S2).
Then, the selected processing routine is activated. At the end of the processing, it is selected whether to end or continue the primitive movement processing (S8). If it is the end selection, the processing is ended, and if it is the continuous selection, the process returns to the target figure selection (S1).

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a dialog screen for interactively inputting / outputting data between the operator and the system. This dialog screen is output device 5 (see Figure 1)
3A is a drawing tool palette used for drawing, FIG. 3B is a coordinate input palette used for inputting coordinates, and FIG. 3C is a primitive layout. It is a layout palette used when performing. In FIG. 3A, for example, when drawing an auxiliary line, place an instruction point of the mouse on the auxiliary line button of the drawing tool palette, click the mouse button to select the auxiliary line mode, then An auxiliary line can be drawn by moving the pointing point to the start point of the auxiliary line and clicking the mouse button, and further moving the pointing point of the mouse to the ending point of the auxiliary line and clicking the mouse button.

In FIG. 3B, for example, when designating a primitive reference point for layout, when the center reference is selected with the mouse in the input form of the coordinate input palette, the primitive center point is designated as the reference point. When the corner reference is selected with the mouse and any of the four corners is selected with the mouse, the corner is designated as the reference point. FIG.
In (C), for example, when the primitive is to be moved, the button of the corresponding mode in the layout palette depends on whether the auxiliary line movement, the horizontal line reference movement, or the vertical line reference movement is performed. Is selected by the mouse, the processing in that mode, that is, the auxiliary line movement processing routine 10 of each processing routine in FIG. 1, the horizontal line reference movement processing routine 11,
The vertical line movement processing routine 12 can proceed.

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show the processing steps of the auxiliary line movement processing routine 10 for aligning primitive data such as figures and texts in the edited state on the specified auxiliary line and moving the auxiliary line on the edit screen of the display. It is a figure demonstrated based on it. Next, the primitive moving method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4A shows a graphic in an edited state. The "auxiliary line" is created by the drawing tool palette FIG. 3A, and the "graphic data" is created by the drawing tool palette FIG. 3A or is read from the primitive data 8 (see FIG. 1) of the storage means 6. Laid out and laid out primitives.

The method of reading a specific primitive from the primitive data 8 is to specify the reading position of the primitive by specifying the center point or a frame such as a rectangle on the edit screen, then open the dialog of the primitive data and open the file name. By entering and instructing to open the file. At the time of opening, options such as enlargement / reduction can be specified. In FIG. 4A, "graphic data" indicates that the primitive graphic immediately after opening or "graphic data" is in the designated state. That is, when the black circle ● at the center of the “figure data” and the four black circles around it are displayed in association with the figure, it indicates that it is in the designated state, and this black circle ● is displayed in association with the figure. If not, it means that it is not in the specified state. “In the designated state” means that the object is designated as a processing target, and the processing is performed only on the primitive in the designated state.

Designation of a primitive that is not in the designated state and placing it in the designated state is performed by placing the pointing point of the mouse on the primitive and clicking the mouse button. To cancel the designation, place the pointing point of the mouse on a part of the screen where there is no primitive and click the mouse button. FIG. 4 (A)
In the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, a target graphic is designated by designating a primitive (S1), and movement selection is performed by a method of selecting auxiliary line movement in the layout palette (see FIG. 3). That is, the auxiliary line moving routine 10 (see FIG. 1) is activated (S2), and the auxiliary line is displayed (S3).

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, an auxiliary line is designated (S4). Figure 4 (B)
Is a diagram showing that the "auxiliary line" has been specified and is in the specified state. White circles at both ends of the specified auxiliary line ○
Is displayed in association with the designated state. Next, in the primitive moving process flow of FIG. 2, the primitive of the target graphic is moved to the auxiliary line (S5). In FIG. 4B, when the central black circle ● is designated as the reference point of the primitive, the central black circle ● changes to a white circle ○ and the designation is displayed. At the next moment, as shown in FIG. 4C, the primitive moves and the reference point of the primitive coincides with the auxiliary line in the designated state.

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process in FIG. 2, the primitive of the target graphic is moved to an arbitrary position on the auxiliary line (S6). As shown in FIG. 5D, the primitive of the target graphic can move to any position along the reference line. If you move (drag) the pointing point of the mouse near the auxiliary line while pressing the mouse button, the primitive of the target figure moves so that the reference point matches the foot of the perpendicular line on the auxiliary line of the pointing point of the mouse. Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, the position of the primitive of the target graphic is determined (S
7). When the position of the primitive of the target graphic is determined, the designated point of the primitive of the target graphic is canceled by moving the pointing point of the mouse to a position away from the primitive of the target graphic and clicking the mouse button. When the specified state is released, the primitive does not move even if dragged, and the position is determined. Figure 5 (E)
Indicates a state where the position of the primitive of the target graphic is determined.

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, an input is made as to whether or not the primitive moving process is continued, and if it is continued, the process returns to the target graphic designation (S1) (S8). 6 and 7 show a horizontal line reference movement process 11 for aligning primitive data such as figures and texts in an edited state on a specified horizontal line reference (y = a; parallel to the x-axis) and moving on the horizontal line reference. It is a figure explaining a processing process based on the edit screen of a display. Next, the primitive moving method of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, 6, and 7 by taking the horizontal line reference moving process as an example. Basically, it is the same as the above-mentioned auxiliary line movement process, but in the case of the horizontal line reference movement process, the movement in the horizontal direction can be performed with "horizontal" being completely compensated.

FIG. 6A shows a graphic in an edited state. The "graphic data" is a primitive created by the drawing tool palette FIG. 3A or read from the primitive data 8 (see FIG. 1) of the storage means 6 and laid out. The method of reading a specific primitive from the primitive data 8 is to specify the reading position of the primitive by designating the center point or a frame such as a rectangle on the edit screen, and then open the primitive data dialog (not shown). This is done by entering the file name and instructing to open the file. At the time of opening, options such as enlargement / reduction can be specified. Figure 6
In (A), two "graphic data" are shown.
It indicates that the primitive graphic or "graphic data" immediately after opening is in the designated state. That is,
When the black circle ● in the center of the “figure data” and the four black circles around it are displayed in association with the figure, it indicates that it is in the designated state. When this black circle ● is not displayed in association with the figure , Indicates that it is not in the specified state. “In the designated state” means that the object is designated as a processing target, and the processing is performed only on the primitive in the designated state.

Designation of a primitive that is not in the designated state to bring it into the designated state is performed by placing a mouse pointing point on the primitive and clicking the mouse button. To cancel the designation, place the pointing point of the mouse on a part of the screen where there is no primitive and click the mouse button. FIG. 6 (A)
In the flow of the primitive moving process in FIG. 2, a target graphic is designated by designating a primitive and making it the designated state. Here, two primitives are in the designated state (S1). Further, in FIG. 6B, the movement selection is performed by the method of selecting the horizontal line reference movement in the layout palette (see FIG. 3), and the horizontal line reference movement routine 11 (see FIG. 1) is activated (S2), and the horizontal line is It is in the displayed state (S9).

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, the horizontal line position is designated (S10). The horizontal line position is designated by numerically designating the y position in a horizontal line reference movement dialog (not shown), or by moving the designated point of the mouse near the horizontal line and performing a drag operation. Next, in the primitive movement processing flow of FIG. 2, the primitive of the target graphic is moved on the horizontal line reference (S11). FIG. 6C is a diagram showing a state in which the "horizontal line position" is designated and is in the designated state, and the primitive of the target graphic is moving on the horizontal line reference. In FIG. 6B, when the central black circle ● is designated as the reference point of the primitive, the central black circle ● changes to a white circle ○ and the designation is displayed. 2 here
Reference points for two primitives are specified. And
As shown in FIG. 6C, the two primitives move and the reference point of the primitive coincides with the horizontal line reference in the designated state.

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, the primitive of the target graphic is moved to an arbitrary position on the horizontal line reference (S12). As shown in FIG. 7D, the primitives of the target figure are
It can be moved to any position. If you move (drag) the pointing point of the mouse near the horizontal line while pressing the mouse button, the primitive of the target figure moves so that the reference point matches the foot of the perpendicular line on the horizontal line of the pointing point of the mouse. The two primitives can be independently moved, and the primitive is targeted for movement by performing the above-mentioned movement operation inside the black circle at the corner of the primitive with the mouse. Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, the position of the primitive of the target graphic is determined (S13). When the position of the primitive of the target figure is determined, move the pointing point of the mouse to a position away from the primitive of the target figure, and click the mouse button.
The designated state of the primitive of the target graphic is released. The designated states of the two primitives are released in the order in which the primitives are designated. When the specified state is released, the primitive does not move even if you drag it,
The position is determined. FIG. 7E shows a state in which the position of the primitive of the target graphic has been determined.

Next, in the flow of the primitive moving process of FIG. 2, an input is made as to whether or not the primitive moving process is continued, and if it is continued, the process returns to the target graphic designation (S1) (S8). In FIG. 2, move selection (S
S1 when the vertical line reference movement is selected in 2)
The main difference between the processing steps 4 to S18 is that the above-mentioned "horizontal line" is replaced with "vertical line", and since the processing steps are the same, a description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the form design system of the present invention in which the above-described primitive moving method is applied to the form design system will be described. Here, the forms refer to items provided with items (entry fields) for entering predetermined data such as slips, copy slips, OCR slips, passbooks, application slips, and notification slips. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an integrated system including a form design system of the present invention and its peripheral devices and connecting a main business office and a remote business office. In FIG. 8, 21a and 21b are BFD (Business Form Design) terminals including a form design system of the present invention having a primitive movement processing function and an input / output device, 22 is a LAN Ethernet, 23 is BFD data, and various image data ( A data store system for storing and managing data such as color images and component images, 24 is a plate-making scanner for inputting original images, 25 is a film output machine for outputting image data to photographic film, and 26 is BFD data. A BFD conversion server that obtains image data whose data format has been converted, 27 is a comp output device that prints out color image data in color on plain paper, and 28 is an FCS that is a block making system that creates a block for printing.
(Form Composing System) 29 is a router of a device for connecting a network between remote places.

FIG. 9 shows a form design system 2 according to the present invention.
It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a main routine of 1 (a, b). In FIG. 9, the form design system 2
When 1 is activated, the main menu is displayed on the display (S21). There are four menus in the main menu: "Utility", "Form creation", "Output", and "End". By selecting one of them,
Proceed to those processes (S22). When "utility" is selected, the utility processing routine (S23) is started, when "form preparation" is selected, the form preparation processing routine (S24) is started, and when "output" is selected, the output processing routine ( When S25) is activated and "End" is selected, the form design system is ended. When a processing routine other than "end" is completed, the main routine of the main routine is displayed (S21).

In the utility processing routine (S23), there are further submenus, "component image management", "color image management", "BFD data management",
“Form part data management”, “sample form data management”, and “WS (Workstation) data import processing” are performed. In "component image management", management of logo data and management of punctuation marks and the like are performed for each user. In addition, a cartridge M for a component image (primitive)
Each process of T initialization, saving of component image data, and loading of component image data is performed. "Color image management"
In, the management processing of the photographic image is performed. Further, each processing of initializing the color image cartridge MT, saving the color image data, and loading the color image data is performed.

In the "BFD data management", the BFD
Manage the data created in. Further, each processing of initializing the cartridge MT for BFD data, saving BFD data, and loading BFD data is performed. In the “form part data management”, management processing of form parts (forms in which only necessary parts are divided and parts are stored) is performed.
Further, each process of initializing the cartridge MT for form part data, saving the form part data, and loading the form part data is performed. In the “sample form data management”, a sample form (presentation form) is managed. In addition, initialization of the cartridge MT for sample form data, saving of sample form data,
Perform each process of loading sample form data. "WS
(Workstasion) Data import process ”,
The margins of the image data captured from the scanner via WS and the data registration processing are performed.

In the output processing routine (S25),
All-color composite output to the comp output device 27 (see FIG. 8), or C (Cyan), M (Mgenta), Y (Yellow), Bk (Blac
k), "Comp output processing" for performing color separation output from spot color 1 to spot color 24, C on the film output machine 25 (see FIG. 8),
"Film output processing" for outputting a color-separating positive film of M, Y, Bk, spot color 1 to spot color 24, or a color-separating negative film is performed. In addition, a "layout output process" for laying out and outputting when performing those outputs is performed.

In the "layout output process", there is a submenu further, and "layout", "offset", and "rotation output" are performed. In "Layout", there is a sub menu, and "automatic" and "position designation" are performed. "Automatic" indicates whether to place the next form on the right side or the bottom side of the form layout up to immediately before when outputting multiple forms (arranging and outputting multiple forms). Processing is automatically completed by specifying it. “Position designation” is a process designated when performing replacement output, composite output, etc., and layout is designated by inputting coordinate values with the upper left of the designated form as a reference. That is, when the position designation submenu is designated, the target form is designated with the mouse. Input the relative coordinate value based on the upper left of the specified form in the coordinate input window.

In the "offset", there is a sub menu, and "offset" and "offset" are performed. The default is “with offset”. “With offset” gives a finished size having a predetermined offset distance from the outer frame to the inner side with respect to the outer frame size of the film. "No offset" is a state where the finished size and the film size match.
The registration marks existing outside the finished size are removed. In the "rotation output", there is a submenu further, and "forward output", "90 degree rotation output", "180 degree rotation output", and "270 degree rotation output" are performed. The default is "forward output". As for the "forward output", the form is output in the normal direction as its name implies. The others are output by being rotated clockwise by the angle as the name implies.

Next, the case where the form creation processing routine is started in the main routine will be described. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the form creation processing routine. In FIG. 10, the form creation processing routine (FIG. 9
When S24) is started, the sub menu in this processing routine is displayed (S31). The submenu consists of “File”, “Design”, “Display”, “Color separation”, “Utility”, “Layout”, “Edit”, “Parts”.
When one is selected, the processing routine of the selected menu is activated (S32).

The file processing routine (S33) further includes submenus "read", "register", "composite",
It is made up of "attributes" and reads or registers a BFD file. "Read" reads the BFD file, "Register" registers the BFD file,
"Combining" composes each sheet of the same order and composes one sheet, and "attribute" specifies the attribute (size, etc.) of each sheet. The design processing routine (S34) further comprises submenus "drawing tool", "text", "color image", "part image", and "register mark", and provides various tools for designing a form. "Drawing tools" are straight lines, boxes, circles, ellipses, continuous lines, free curves,
Equal division lines, closed area screen (meshing), auxiliary lines are created, "text" is created in Japanese and European sentences, and "color image" is a color image paste trimmed in any shape. The "part image" is made by trimming the logo image pasted with an arbitrary shape, and then "register mark"
Is a tool for pasting registration marks (registration marks) for print management. It should be noted that primitives (that is, parts) can also be created here, and the created graphics, text, etc. data can be used for a part processing routine (S40) described later.
By registering as a primitive in, it becomes a primitive.

The display processing routine (S35) further includes submenus "chart setting", "screen zoom", "auxiliary line display", "screen switching", and "screen scroll", and provides various tools for display display. . "Chart setting" displays the specified chart on the display, "Screen zoom" enlarges the displayed screen, "Auxiliary line display" displays an auxiliary line, and "Screen switching" is a form mount (register The two screens of the data creation screen) and the work mount (work screen) are switched, and "screen scroll" performs a process of scrolling the screen to be displayed. The color separation processing routine (S36) further includes submenus "main plate setting", "filter color separation", and "individual color separation", and performs processing for performing color separation work on BFD data and FCS block copy data. "Main plate setting" sets color attributes mainly used for ruled line, halftone, and character data all at once.
"Filter color" is an arbitrary shape, and specifies the color attribute for each of the ruled lines, halftone, and characters contained in it.
“Individual color separation” simply performs a process of specifying only color attributes for individual data.

Utility processing routine (S37)
Is the submenu "Color conversion",
It consists of "screen setting", "component image DB search", and "color image DB search", and performs design assistance processing in the form creation mode. "Color conversion" collectively changes the form data created with special colors to process colors, and "Screen setting" sets the resolution of the output machine to be used.
The number of lines and the angle are set, "part image DB search" searches the customer logo and the like from the database, and "color image DB search" performs color image (photograph, etc.) search from the database.

The layout processing routine (S38) further includes submenus "move auxiliary line", "move vertical line", "move horizontal line", "copy line object", "copy mirror image", "rotate", "repeat". ", And performs processing related to design layout. "Move auxiliary line" aligns the specified figure with the input auxiliary line and "Move vertical line"
Aligns the specified figure, text, etc. with the vertical reference line, and "horizontal line reference movement" aligns the specified figure, text, etc. with the horizontal reference line. These "auxiliary line movement", "vertical line reference movement", and "horizontal line reference movement" are the parts constituting the present invention as described above. "Line object copy" copies the specified figure to the object with the reference line (vertical, horizontal) as the reference, and "Copy mirror image" copies the specified figure with the mirror image with the reference line (vertical, horizontal) as the reference. , "Rotate" rotates the specified figure to an arbitrary angle, and "Repeat"
Mainly performs the process of creating a tint block and the like. This "repeat"
In the processing, in addition to simple arranging processing, arranging processing while enlarging or reducing, arranging processing while gradually rotating, and arranging figures while gradually changing the mesh% are performed. Further, after the processing, it is possible to cut out into an arbitrary shape by trimming processing on the editing screen.

The edit processing routine (S39) has "movement", "enlargement or reduction", "rotation", "cut", "copy", and "pack" of figures as submenus. To do. "Packing" is a process of grouping a plurality of figures and subjecting them to various operations. In the parts processing routine (S40), the sub menu "BFD" is added.
Data "," FCS data "," sample parts "," form parts "are used to read or register various parts.Primitives (that is," parts ") are read or registered in this part processing routine. "BFD data" reads the BFD data, "FCS data" reads the block copy data created by FCS, "sample part" registers the presentation form, and "form part" the form. Only necessary parts in the inside are cut out, registered as parts, and the registered form parts are read and combined with the data currently being edited.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a primitive moving method and a form design system capable of accurately laying out primitives so as to meet the regulations.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus that implements a primitive moving method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of primitive movement processing.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a dialog screen for interactively inputting / outputting data between an operator and a system.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a process of an auxiliary line moving process of aligning primitive data such as a figure or text in an edited state on a specified auxiliary line and moving the auxiliary line based on an edit screen of a display. .

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a process of an auxiliary line moving process of aligning primitive data such as figures and texts in an edited state on a specified auxiliary line and moving the auxiliary line based on an edit screen of a display. (The part following FIG. 4).

FIG. 6 shows primitive data such as figures and texts in an edited state on a designated horizontal line standard (y = a; parallel to x axis).
It is a figure explaining the processing process of the horizontal line reference movement processing which aligns with and is moved on the horizontal line reference based on the edit screen of a display.

FIG. 7: Primitive data such as a figure or text in an edited state is designated on a designated horizontal line reference (y = a; parallel to the x axis).
FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the processing steps of the horizontal line reference moving processing for aligning and moving on the horizontal line reference based on the edit screen of the display (the portion following FIG. 6).

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an integrated system that connects a main business office and a remote business office, including the form design system of the present invention and its peripheral devices.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of a main routine of the form design system of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in a form creation processing routine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 primitive moving device 2 LAN 3,23 data store system 4 input device 5 output device 6 storage means 7 computing means 8 primitive data 9 design data 10 auxiliary line movement processing routine 11 horizontal line reference movement processing routine 12 vertical line reference movement processing routine 21a , 21b BFD terminal 22 Ethernet 24 Plate making scanner 25 Film output machine 26 BFD conversion server 27 Comp output machine 28 FCS 29 Router

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A primitive designation process for setting a designated primitive to a designated state by designating a primitive, and a reference point designation for designating a designated reference point by designating a reference point of the primitive in the designated state. Processing step, reference line designation processing step for setting the reference line to the designated state by designating the reference line, and moving the primitive in the designated state so that the reference point in the designated state coincides with the reference line in the designated state By the primitive movement process step and the position change designation of the primitive in the designated state, the primitive in the designated state is moved to the designated position in the designated state while keeping the reference point in the designated state on the reference line in the designated state. A process for moving a position of a moving primitive, and a primitive moving method comprising: 2. A form design system having primitive designation processing means, reference point designation processing means, reference line designation processing means, primitive movement processing means, and primitive position change processing means, wherein: The primitive designation processing means brings the designated primitive into a designated state by designating a primitive, and the reference point designation processing means brings the designated reference point into a designated state by designating a reference point of the primitive in the designated state, The reference line designation processing means sets the reference line to a designated state by designating a reference line, and the primitive movement processing means sets the reference state in the designated state to match the reference line in the designated state. The primitive is moved, and the primitive position change processing means changes the position of the primitive in the specified state. By specifying, while the reference point of the specified conditions were matched on the reference line of the designated state, the move to the primitives given condition is the position change specified position, paper sheet design system, characterized in that.