JPH0976450A - Character data allocating apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character data allocating apparatus facilitating the allocating operation by automatically supplying character data to an area when many character data are allocated to designated area. SOLUTION: The character data allocating apparatus comprises character data input means 1 for inputting character data added with composing condition and area recognition symbol, character data storage means 2 for storing the data, area setting means 3 for setting the area allocated with the data, area recognition symbol input means 4 for adding the area recognition symbol to the area, area storage means 5 for storing the area, allocating means 6 for reading the data and the area and supplying the data corresponding to the read symbol to the area, and display means 7 for displaying the layout supplied by the allocating means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character data allocating device, and more particularly to a character data allocating device for allocating character data in a designated area.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the plate making process of printed materials such as catalogs, the arrangement positions of materials such as characters, pictures and photographs are decided in advance on the surface of the paper, and the respective block forms of the materials are prepared and mounted on the mount. However, it was time-consuming because most of the work was done manually.
Therefore, in recent years, computerization has been progressing in the process of printing and plate making, and a computer that handles drawings and characters as digital data from design to making a plate for plate making, plate making, and outputting a film for plate making. It is possible to do by. Furthermore, due to the recent improvement in the computing capacity of small computer systems such as personal computers, although relatively long processing time is required, it is possible to perform illustration creation, image processing, layout of paper, etc. with a relatively inexpensive small computer system. It is possible. Further, with the improvement in hardware of the small computer system as described above, the function of a commercially available application program has become more sophisticated, and the DTP (D
It is possible to perform the above-mentioned layout on the paper by using a commercially available esk Top Publishing program. In the above DTP software, when laying out material data (photographs, charts, characters, etc.) on the screen showing the paper surface to be printed, create a layout data file that records data such as the allocation position of each material data, By reading the image from the original material data file, one page is output.

That is, a layout data file indicating a layout created by DTP software and each material data are input, and when outputting an image, the material data file linked to the layout data file is read and It is designed to be output as an image on paper. Specifically, the character data and the chart data of the material data are mainly created by using a word processor or CAD. At this time, for the character data, typesetting data such as a character typeface, size, character spacing, and line spacing is given. Further, various image data is mainly captured by a scanner, and the captured image data is subjected to image processing, trimming and other corrections by a graphic program.
Image data such as illustrations can be created by the graphic program. Then, on the monitor screen of the computer, for example, a layout area representing the paper surface is set as a rectangular frame, an area for arranging an image such as character data or a pattern is designated in the frame, and in the area, The character data and the image data are assigned as characters and pictures. Further, on the monitor screen, it is possible to correct the document or the pattern formed by the character data, the area to which the pattern is assigned, and the pattern which is the image data.

[0004]

By the way, in catalogs and leaflets among printed materials, a plurality of products are posted on one sheet of paper, and a plurality of character strings (product name, product code No., standard, function) are provided for each product. , Price, description, etc.) are used. Therefore, even if it is computerized as described above, the work of allocating the catalog is troublesome.
For example, when performing allocation, after determining the arrangement position of the area occupied by each product, the arrangement position of the character data in each area is determined for each product, and the character data registered in advance in a storage means such as a hard disk is determined. It is necessary for the operator to search for each product and allocate material data to each product area, which is troublesome when the number of products to be posted is large.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and when a large number of characters and image data needs to be allocated like a catalog, a character data allocating device that can easily perform allocation work. It is intended to provide.

[0006]

A character data allocating device of the present invention is characterized by a typesetting condition peculiar to an allocation-designated area,
And character data inputting means for inputting character data added with an area recognition symbol indicating an area to be allocated, character data storing means for storing the input character data, and area setting for setting an area to which the character data is allocated Means, area recognition symbol input means for adding an area-specific item recognition symbol to the set area, area storage means for storing the input area, and the area read out from the area storage device and input for each area Corresponding to the item recognition symbol
A character data allocating device comprising: character data storage means for selecting character data from the character data storage means; and an allocation processing means for injecting the selected character data into this area; and a display means for displaying an inflow result of the allocation processing means. .

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the character data allocating device of this embodiment is a character or character string formed by adding a typesetting condition specific to the area to which the character data is allocated and an area recognition symbol indicating the area to be allocated. And the like, character data input means 1 for inputting character data, character data storage means 2 for storing the input character data, area setting means 3 for setting an area to which the character data is allocated, and this set Area recognition symbol input means 4 for adding an area recognition symbol to an area, area storage means 5 for storing the set area, and the character data storage means 2
Character data is read out from the area storage means 5
An area is read from the area, the read character data is poured into the area to which the corresponding area recognition symbol is added and allocated, a display means 7 for displaying the result of the character data being poured and printed, Output means 8 for outputting
It consists of

FIG. 2 shows an example when the apparatus of this embodiment is constructed by using a computer system in order to realize the functional basic configuration as described above. Referring to FIG. Will be explained.

The word processor 9 corresponds to the character input means 1, inputs a character string as character data, and adds peculiar typesetting information required in the allocated area to the character data. As typesetting information, character size, typeface, character spacing, etc. are added as a code, and each character data is made into a file, and an area recognition symbol peculiar to each file is added. For example, a word processing program incorporated in a computer system or a word processor capable of inputting character data to the computer system independent of the computer system, and well-known to input characters as a character code via a keyboard (not shown) belongs to.

The mouse 12 corresponds to the area input means 3. The mouse 12 is for setting an area into which the character data is poured on the screen displayed on the display means 7 which is the display 14.

Further, the word processor 13 is the area recognition symbol input means 4, and inputs the area recognition symbol peculiar to the area so that the character data can be poured into the area set by the mouse 12. Yes,
An item recognition symbol is input to the area set by the mouse 12 using a keyboard or the like. Further, the word processor 9 and the word processor 13 may be the same.

Hard disk, floppy disk,
A storage device 10 such as a magneto-optical disk is the character data storage means 2 and the area storage means 5. Then, the character data to which the typesetting information, the item recognition symbol and the like are added, and the area to which the area recognition symbol is added are stored, and the allocated result of the character data poured into the area set by the control device 11 is stored. It is also something to do. Further, the storage device 10 may be built in the control device 11 or installed externally, and the character data or area may be stored in a medium such as a floppy disk at another place and the medium may be stored in the medium. The data stored in the storage device 13 can be read into the storage device 13 for use. By performing all the processing in different places in this way, it has become possible to divide the work of inputting character data, setting the area, and filling (allocating) in a line work.

A control device 11 having a central processing unit, an internal main memory, etc. is the allocation processing means 6,
The following control calculation processing is performed. That is, the file of the material data such as the character data and the area is read from the storage device 10, the character data corresponding to the designated area is poured and allocated, and then stored in the storage device 10 as a data file in the space area,
Further, it has a function of displaying an image in the paper surface area on the display 14 which is the display means 7, and outputting the image as a paper surface from the printer 15 which is the output means 8. The display 14 corresponds to the display means 7, and when the operator corrects various areas, the operator displays the display 1.
You can interactively give instructions while watching 4.
The printer 15 corresponds to the output unit 8 and is an output device that outputs the paper surface as photographic paper, film, or the like.

[0014]

Next, the operation of this embodiment having the above-mentioned structure will be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG. First, the operator inputs character data in the word processor 9 (step 1). As shown in FIG. 4, this character data has character series, character spacing, vertical or horizontal designation, line spacing, color, typeface, character transformation, etc., in the character string so that the character information is intended in the allocated area. The typesetting information indicating is added. And
An area recognition symbol indicating the area to which this character data is assigned is also added. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, three items of [company name], [address], and [comment] are provided, and the items are input in the above order. It is optional and the item name is also optional. Then, the input character data is input at the position corresponding to each item and displayed for each item. A plurality of pieces of this character data are input, and are stored in the storage device 10 as a character data file having the item name as a file name for each item.

Next, as shown in FIG. 5, areas 141, 142 and 143 to which character data files are to be allocated are set on the screen displayed on the display 14 with the mouse 12 (step 2). This work is displayed by the operator designating the shape, size, position and orientation of the area while looking at the screen of the display 14. As the shape of the area, a triangle, a quadrangle, a polygon, a circle, an ellipse, or the like can be selected.

Next, an area recognition symbol is input to the set area (step 3). This input can be performed using a keyboard or the like attached to the word processor 13. In this embodiment, [company name], [address], and [comment] are input to each area as area recognition symbols. Further, the screen in which the area recognition symbol is input is displayed on the screen of the display 14 as shown in FIG.

Next, the character data file is poured into the set area (step 4).

That is, an area recognition symbol peculiar to each area is described in a specific area, and the file name of the character data file is made the same as each area recognition symbol, and is poured into the area in which the eye recognition symbol is described. , Will be assigned. The assigned character data has a character shape designated by the added typesetting information. That is, FIG.
The allocation result as shown in is displayed on the screen of the display 14.

If the displayed allocation result needs to be corrected, the correction is made while observing the screen of the display 14 (step 5). If the allocation result needs to be corrected, the area is set again, and the character data is poured into the corrected area again. If you do not need to correct the allocation result,
The color printer 15 outputs the layout (step 6).

Although the present embodiment shows the flow of character data of one layout, the character data and the layout are sequentially read from the storage device 10 by the control device 11, so that a large amount of work is continuously performed. be able to.

Further, as the area setting means 6 for setting the area, it is possible to use a known CAD or scanner for inputting CAD data such as lines, drawings and pictures, and images such as photographs as photograph data. it can.

[0022]

[Effect] As described above, by inputting the character data and the area, respectively, and adding the specific item recognition symbol to both this character data and the area to which this character data is allocated, the character is written in the area with the same item recognition symbol Since the data is poured, it is not necessary to input the character data for each area, so that the work efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a character data allocating device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a character data allocation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining a system configuration of a character data allocating device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a display designating an area of the character data allocating device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing, on a display, a layout for allocating character data of the character data allocating device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing, on a display, a layout in which an area for allocating character data of the character data allocating device of one embodiment of the present invention is designated and an item recognition symbol is input to this area.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing, on a display, a layout in which character data of a character data allocating device according to an embodiment of the present invention is poured into a designated area and allocated.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Character data input means 2 ... Character data storage means 3 ... Layout input means 4 ... Area setting means 5 ... Area recognition symbol input means 6 ... Allocation processing means 7 ... Display means 8 ... Output means 9 ... Word processor 10 ... Storage device 11 ... Control device 12 ... Mouse 13 ... Word processor 14 ... Display 15 ... Color printer 16 ... Area

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A character data inputting device for inputting character data added with a typesetting condition specific to an area designated for allocation and an area recognition symbol indicating an area to be allocated, and a character for storing the input character data. Data storage means,
Area setting means for setting an area to which character data is allocated, area recognition symbol input means for adding an area recognition symbol specific to the area to the set area, area storage means for storing this area, and the area storage means The area is read from the area, the character data corresponding to the area recognition symbol is selected from the character data storage means, and the allocation processing means for pouring the selected character data into this area and the pouring of the allocation processing means are performed. Display means for displaying the layout,
A character data allocating device comprising: