JPH08235270A - Updating data display method and slip kind design system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily and accuractely perform the changing operation of process data by providing a data division means, a data extraction means, a data synthesis means and a data display means in an updating data display means. CONSTITUTION: An updating data display device 1 is provided with a storage means 7 and an arithmetic means 8. Then, by a data division process, common partial data and additional partial data are divided based on first design data 9 and second design data 10 obtained by partially updating the first design data 9. Then, by a data extraction process, only data accompanying the common partial data are extracted from third design data 9 generated accompanying the first design data 9 and extracted partial data are generated. Then, by a data synthesis process, the extracted partial data and the additional partial data are synthesized and forth design data 10 are generated. The forth design data 10 are displayed by a data display process. In this case, the extracted partial data and the additional partial data are displayed in different display forms.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data display method. In particular, when changing some of the data designed in the past in the field of printing and plate making to create new design data, the design work is performed by emphasizing the part that needs to be updated and displaying it on the display. The present invention relates to a method of displaying updated data that is efficient and accurate, and a form designing system to which the method is applied.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a process for producing a printed matter includes a plate making process for designing a printed matter, a plate making process for making a printing plate based on plate making data, and a printed matter made by a printing machine using the printing plate. It is roughly divided into printing processes that are printed.
Furthermore, those steps are subdivided into several steps. In the plate making process, there is a process of preparing block copy data before plate making data as final data of the plate making process is made. That is, the block copy data is data in the process of creating the plate making data. The block copy data may be data in which only simple line drawing data such as ruled lines, graphic frames, and reference lines are arranged, and further pattern data such as logotypes, marks, illustrations, characters, and mesh bands are arranged. It may have been done. By giving various attribute data to each part of this block copy data and adding necessary data, plate making data can be obtained.

For example, the attribute data may be line drawing data to be printed on the printing plate or line drawing data to be erased, such as line drawing data to be erased. There is data for designating print colors such as logotypes, marks, and illustrations, for example, data for generating and designing pictures and characters in graphic frames. As described above, in the plate making process, the plate making data is created based on the block copy data. By the way, there is a case where a printed matter in which a part of the printed matter printed in the past is changed is manufactured. Even in such a case, all data is newly created in the plate making process, but it is clear that the same work is repeated in the common part, and the work is wasted. is there. Therefore, the past plate-making data is saved, and the data is partially changed to create new plate-making data.

[0004]

However, the work of changing a part of the plate-making data in the past is not a work of simply adding new data as in the case of newly creating the plate-making data, but an existing huge amount of data. This is a work that deletes only unnecessary data from the existing data and adds new data so that the data that should be left is not damaged. It was easy. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an update data display method and a form design system to which the update data display method is applied, which enables the work of changing the prepress data to be performed easily and accurately.

[0005]

The above object can be achieved by the present invention described below. That is, the present invention is based on the first design data and the second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data.
Data partitioning process for partitioning the common part data and the additional part data of the design data, and extracting only the data associated with the common part data from the third design data generated associated with the first design data. A data extracting step of obtaining extracted partial data, a data combining step of combining the extracted partial data and the additional partial data to generate fourth design data, and the displaying of the fourth design data, the extraction And a data display step of displaying the partial data and the additional partial data in different display formats.

Further, according to the present invention, when data associated with an arbitrary portion of the additional partial data is generated, a display format of the arbitrary portion of the additional partial data and a display format of data associated with the common partial data are provided. And an update data display method having a display style changing process for matching the above.

The present invention is also a form design system having update data display means, wherein the update data display means has a data dividing means, a data extracting means, a data synthesizing means and a data displaying means. The data dividing means is based on the first design data and the second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data, and the common part data and the additional part of the first and second design data. The data is divided, and the data extracting means extracts only the data associated with the common partial data from the third design data generated associated with the first design data to generate the extracted partial data. The data synthesizing means synthesizes the extracted partial data and the additional partial data to generate fourth design data, and the data display means tunes the fourth design data. Upon displaying the Ndeta, displaying the said additional portion data and the extracted partial data with different display modes, a paper sheet design system.

[0008]

According to the update data display method of the present invention, the first design data and the second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data by the data division process are used to generate the first design data. And common part data of the second design data and additional part data are divided, and only the data associated with the common part data is extracted from the third design data generated in association with the first design data by the data extraction process. The extracted partial data is generated, the extracted partial data and the additional partial data are combined in the data combining process to generate the fourth design data, and the fourth design data is displayed in the data displaying process. The additional part data is displayed in a different display format. Therefore, the portion to which the data to be generated accompanying the additional portion data is added can be easily and reliably determined from the difference in the display format.

Further, according to the update data display method of the present invention, when data accompanying an arbitrary portion of the additional partial data is generated by the display style changing process, the display format of the arbitrary portion of the additional partial data and the common portion are The display format of the data accompanying the data is matched. Therefore, the part that has already been added with the data that should be generated accompanying the additional part data matches the display format of the data that accompanies the common part data, and only the remaining part that should be added has a different display format. Easily and reliably identified.

Further, according to the form design system of the present invention, the form design system has update data display means, wherein the update data display means is a data dividing means, a data extracting means, a data synthesizing means, and a data displaying means. And a second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data and the first design data by the data dividing means.
Common design data and additional design data of the first and second design data are divided based on the design data of the first design data, and common from the third design data generated by the data extracting means in association with the first design data. Only the data associated with the partial data is extracted to generate the extracted partial data, and the data combining means combines the extracted partial data and the additional partial data to generate the fourth design data,
When displaying the fourth design data by the data display means, the extracted partial data and the additional partial data are displayed in different display formats.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The preferred embodiments of the update data display method and form design system of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus for carrying out the update data display method of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a portion surrounded by a solid line 1 is an update data display device for implementing the update data display method of the present invention, and 2 is a LAN such as Ethernet.
(Local Area Network), 3 is a data store system that stores basic component (primitive) data, design data, and other data, and transfers these data to and from the update data display device 1 through a LAN. A design system for creating design data such as block copy data and plate making data, 5 is an input device such as a keyboard and mouse, and 6 is an output means such as a display and a printer.

In FIG. 1, the update data display device 1 is further composed of details, 7 is a storage means, 8 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 7, 9 is old design data (first and third design data) read from the data store system 3 or originally stored, 1
Reference numeral 0 is intermediate design data (second and fourth design data) obtained by performing data processing from the old design data 9, and 11 is newly generated new design data. Further, in the calculating means 8, 12 is a data division / extraction / synthesis processing routine for performing data division processing, data extraction processing, and data combination processing on the design data, and 13 is data display in different display formats depending on the type. The data display processing routine 14 performs the display style change processing routine for changing the display style by generating data associated with the additional portion.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing in the update data display device. The entire process will be described with reference to FIG. First, with respect to newly generated design data, old design data having a part of different contents is searched for, designated, and read from the data store system 3 into the update data display device 1. There are two old design data, which will be referred to as first design data and third design data. The first design data is data created in the process before the third design data is created. The third design data is created by adding data attached to the data of each part of the first design data. Data. For example, the first design data can be block copy data (intermediate design data), and the second design data can be plate making data (final plate design data). Further, the design system 4 partially updates the first design data to generate second design data, and the second design data is stored in the data store system 3. The second design data (one of the intermediate design data) is also read from the data store system 3 into the update data display device 1. In this way, the first, second, and third design data are read by the update data display device 1 (S1).

Next, data division processing is performed in the data division / extraction / synthesis processing routine 12, and based on the first design data and the second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data. , The common partial data of the first and second design data and the additional partial data are divided (S2). Next, data extraction processing is performed in the data division / extraction / synthesis processing routine 12, and only the data associated with the above-mentioned common part data is extracted from the third design data generated associated with the first design data. To be done. The extracted data will be called extracted partial data (S3). Next, a data combining process is performed in the data division / extraction / combination process routine 12 to combine the extracted partial data and the additional partial data described above.
Design data (one of the intermediate design data) is generated (S4).

Next, in displaying the above-mentioned fourth design data in the data display processing routine 13, the above-mentioned extracted partial data and the above-mentioned additional partial data are displayed on the display of the output device 6 in different display modes. Display processing is performed. As the display mode, for example, a method is used in which the emission brightness of the additional partial data is displayed higher than that of the extracted partial data, or the extracted partial data is displayed in Green color and the additional partial data is displayed in Red color (S5). .

When the display on the display of the output device 6 is performed in this manner, the work of adding the data accompanying the additional partial data of the fourth design data described above can be performed easily and reliably. In the configuration of FIG. 1, in order to clearly show the configuration of the update data display device 1, the update data display device 1 and the design system 4 are shown as separate devices connected via a LAN 2. Of course, also in this configuration, the design system 4 performs the work of adding the data accompanying the additional partial data of the fourth design data, and the update data display device 1 performs the processing in the display style change processing routine 14 and the like. It can be displayed on the display of the output device 6. Further, the update data display device 1 and the design system 4 can be incorporated into one computer system instead of being separate devices. The system configuration is simpler and the processing speed is faster. As described above, the present invention can be implemented in various modes. Based on this, the display style change processing routine 14 will be described next.

When a display is made on the display of the output device 6 in S5 described above, an operation of generating data attached to an arbitrary part of the additional part data of the above-mentioned fourth design data and adding it to the fourth design data. Is performed (S6). When data associated with an arbitrary portion of the additional portion data of the fourth design data is generated and added to the fourth design data, the display format change processing routine 14 displays the display format of the portion where the associated data is generated. Is subjected to a display style changing process that matches the display style of the data associated with the common part data described above. Then, the display of the output device 6 is displayed in this way (S
7).

Whether or not to continue the generation of the accompanying data is selected, and if it is to be continued, the process returns to S6. If all the data associated with the additional partial data is generated and added, the creation of the new design data 11 is completed, and in that case, no is selected (S8). Further, it is selected whether or not the change data display processing is to be finished, and if the above processing is to be performed for another design data, no is selected and the processing returns to S1 and is repeated. When the change data display process is finished, the end is selected and the process ends (S9).

Next, regarding the processing of S1 to S5 of FIG.
A description will be given based on a more specific example. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of update data display processing based on a more specific example. The update data display process shown in FIG.
ness Form Design) This is an example of setting up design data in the terminal and displaying it on the display. In this case, the BFD terminal is a terminal that creates plate-making data based on the plate-making data (by generating accompanying data), and the plate-making data is created by another terminal, FCS (Form Composite System). . Further, those design data are stored in the data store system. The configuration will be described later in detail regarding the same system.

First, the operator inputs the order number of design data to be worked from the BFD terminal (S101). Then, the order number is transferred to the data store system by the socket, then the result (item, customer name, etc.) of the response from the data store system to the BFD terminal is displayed on the screen, and the content of the file get is the file of the order number. If no (No), the process returns to S101 and the order number is input again from the BFD terminal (S102). If yes (yes), the process proceeds to file get processing, and the file under the corresponding directory is get from the data store system by the BFD terminal. For example, a graphic data file, a management shape file, a text file, and an image file are get from the / bfddb / management number dir / of the data store system to / tds / tdswork / of the BFD terminal (S103).

Next, a window for designating management information input or part designation processing is displayed, and the operator selects either (S104). If "Management information input" is selected, the printing method, processing method, etc. are set and then S
It returns to 104 (S105). When the "part designation process" is selected, the process proceeds to the part designation process (S106),
It is checked whether the order of the file get is processed using FCS data (S107). A part is one page of a form such as a delivery slip composed of a plurality of pages including copy pages. In the above judgment, the FCS data use flag of the relevant part recorded in the management shape file is referred to, and the result is F
If the CS data is not used (S10
8) The data of the relevant part is displayed on the main screen of the BFD terminal, and the design mode is entered (S109). F
If CS data is used (S108),
Move to the node name get processing of the FCS data store system, open the host database file to obtain the node name of the FCS data store system,
The corresponding node name is obtained (S110).

Next, the history file of the corresponding order is get from the FCS data store system. If a plurality of FCS data are used, get history files of all FCS orders (S111).
Further, the FCS work date recorded in the management shape file and the latest work date recorded in the history file obtained in the above process are checked (S112), and if the previous work and this time are the same work day (S113). ), The data of the relevant part is displayed on the main screen of the BFD terminal, and the design mode is entered (S114). If the work date is different from the previous work date (S113), a message indicating that the FCS data (block copy data) has been corrected is displayed, and the operator is inquired whether to perform difference detection (S11).
5). If the result of the inquiry is “do not perform difference detection processing” (S116), the data of the relevant part is BF
It is displayed on the main screen of the D terminal and the mode is changed to the design mode (S114).

If the inquiry result is "perform a difference detection process" (S116), the order file of the corresponding FCS is get. If it is composed of multiple orders, multiple files are get. In addition, a socket is set up between the BFD data store system and the directory name storing the storage FCS data linked to this BFD order. In addition, g of FCS data for storage
et (S117). Next, a difference detection process is performed.
The difference detection process is a process corresponding to the process steps of S2 to S4 in FIG. 2 described above, and will be described more specifically here. The details of the difference detection process will be described later with a focus on the data file process (S118). The data obtained by performing the difference detection processing on the data of the relevant part is displayed on the main screen of the BFD terminal, and the mode is changed to the design mode (S
114).

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the difference detection process mainly for the data file process. In FIG. 4, 1
Reference numeral 5 is a BFD graphic data file, 16 is a tdsn file (previous FCS data file), and 17 is a current FCS data file. The BFD figure data file 15 corresponds to the above-mentioned third design data, and the tdsn file 16 corresponds to the above-mentioned first design data.
The CS data file 17 corresponds to the above-mentioned second design data. In the BFD graphic data file 15,
The “fr” parameter is a parameter identifier that records the record number of the tdsn file 16. That is,
The data of the BFD graphic data file 15 that accompanies the data recorded in the record of a certain record number of the tdsn file 16 is recorded in the "fr" parameter portion of the BFD graphic data file 15 that matches the record number. Data.

When the tdsn file 16 and the FCS data file 17 of this time are compared and the common part is divided,
The data of record number 1 of the dsn file 16 "E01 1
1 12540 2540 ・ ・ ・ ”is the current FCS data file 1
The search reveals that it is included in 7.
However, this time FCS data file 17 "E01 1 11 2
"540 2540 ..." is not always recorded in the record number 1 of the FCS data file 17 this time, but is generally recorded in a different record number. Therefore, a search is necessary. Similarly, tdsn The data of record numbers 2 to 4 in the file 16 is also the FCS data file 1 this time.
The search reveals that it is included in 7.
These are the common parts. Also, tdsn file 16
It is revealed by the search that the data of record number 7 is included in the FCS data file 17 this time. Therefore, this is also the common part described above.

On the other hand, the data of record numbers 5 and 6 of the tdsn file 16 is not included in the FCS data file 17 this time, and it is revealed by the search. These are the deleted parts. In addition, the data included in the FCS data file 17 this time "E03 1 1 1 25412541 ・ ・
・ "E03 1 1 1 5081 5080 ・ ・ ・""E01 1 1 1 3250
The search reveals that 4120 ... "Is not included in the tdsn file 16. These are additional parts (new additional data).

The data obtained by performing the difference detection process on the data of the relevant part in S114 described above is BFD.
In the process of displaying on the main screen of the terminal and shifting to the design mode, the common part in the BFD graphic data file 15 is displayed. That is, in FIG. 4, fr = 1, fr = 2, fr = 3, fr = 4, fr =
7 is the corresponding data. Also, the additional portion of the FCS data file 17 this time is displayed. That is, in FIG. 4, the data “E03 1 1 1 2541 2541 ・ ・ ・”
"E03 1 1 1 5081 5080 ・ ・ ・""E01 1 1 1 3250 412
0 ... "is displayed. The above-mentioned fourth data is a combination of the displayed data of the BFD graphic data file 15 and the currently displayed FCS data file 17.

Next, the form design system of the present invention in which the above-mentioned update data display 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. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an integrated system that connects the main business office and the remote business office, including the form design system of the present invention and its peripheral devices. In FIG. 5, 21a and 21b are BFD (Business Form Design) terminals including a form design system of the present invention having an update data display 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 (color images, component images, etc.), 24 is a plate-making scanner for inputting original images, 25 is a film output device for outputting image data to photographic film, and 26 is B
Obtaining image data with the data format of FD data converted B
An FD conversion server, 27 is a comp output device for color printing out color image data on plain paper, and 28 is an FCS (Fo (Fo)
rm Composing System), 29 is a router of a device for connecting a network between remote places.

FIG. 6 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. 6, 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, "part 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. The update data display process of the present invention is performed by the above-mentioned "WS (Work
station) data acquisition process ”.

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 ”,
A process of removing a margin of image data captured from the scanner via WS and registering the data is performed.

In the output processing routine (S25),
All color composite output to the comp output device 27 (see FIG. 5), or C (Cyan), M (Mgenta), Y (Yellow), Bk (Blac
k), “Comp output processing” for performing color separation output of spot color 1 to spot color 24, C on the film output machine 25 (see FIG. 5),
"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 submenu, 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. 7 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing in the form creation processing routine. In FIG. 7, a form creation processing routine (S in FIG. 6)
When 24) is activated, a submenu in this processing routine is displayed (S31). The submenu is
"File", "Design", "Display", "Color separation",
It consists of "utility", "layout", "edit", and "part", and when one of these submenus 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.

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. In addition, "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. Perform processing.
These "line object copy" and "copy mirror image" are parts that constitute the present invention as described above. "Rotate" rotates a specified figure at an arbitrary angle, and "Repeat" mainly creates a tint block. In this "repeat" processing, simple arrangement processing, arrangement processing while expanding or reducing, arrangement processing while gradually rotating,
The process of arranging the figures is performed while gradually changing the mesh%.
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 "move", "enlarge or reduce", "rotate", "cut", "copy", and "pack" of figures as sub-menus. 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", and "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 BFD data,
"FCS data" reads the block copy data created by FCS, "sample part" registers the presentation form, and "form part" cuts out only the necessary parts in the form and registers as parts. The registered form parts are read and combined with the data currently being edited.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided an update data display method and a form design system to which the update data display method can be easily and accurately changed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus for implementing an update data display method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the update data display device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of update data display processing based on a more specific example.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a difference detection process mainly for a data file process.

FIG. 5 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. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of a main routine of the form design system of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing flow in a form creation processing routine.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Update data display device 2 LAN 3,23 Data store system 4 Design system 5 Input device 6 Output device 7 Storage means 8 Calculation means 9 Old design data 10 Intermediate design data 11 New design data 12 Data classification / extraction / synthesis processing routine ( Difference detection processing routine) 13 Data display processing routine 14 Display style change processing routine 15 BFD graphic data file 16 tdsgn file (previous FCS data file) 17 Current FCS data file 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

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[Claims] 1. A common partial data of the first and second design data and addition based on first design data and second design data obtained by partially updating the first design data. Data partitioning process for partitioning partial data, and data extraction process for extracting only data associated with the common partial data from the third design data generated associated with the first design data to obtain extracted partial data A data synthesizing step of synthesizing the extracted partial data and the additional partial data to generate fourth design data; and displaying the fourth design data, the extracted partial data and the additional partial data are combined. A method for displaying updated data, characterized by comprising a data display process of displaying in different display formats. 2. When data associated with an arbitrary portion of the additional partial data is generated, a display format of the arbitrary portion of the additional partial data and a display format of data associated with the common partial data are matched. The update data display method according to claim 1, further comprising a display style changing process. 3. A form design system having update data display means, wherein the update data display means includes a data dividing means, a data extracting means, a data synthesizing means, and a data displaying means. Is the first design data and its first
Common design data and additional design data of the first and second design data are divided based on the second design data obtained by partially updating the design data of And extracting only the data associated with the common partial data from the third design data generated associated with the design data to generate the extracted partial data, and the data synthesizing unit generates the extracted partial data and the additional partial data. To generate fourth design data, and the data display means displays the extracted partial data and the additional partial data in different display formats when displaying the fourth design data. A characteristic form design system.