JPS61194572A - Graphic positioning method in printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable preparation of a board for printing based on information available as well as obtaining allocation designated paper rapidly and accurately by automating allocation designated paper preparation works by interactive computer in the preparation of printing originals, CONSTITUTION:In case of carrying out allocation designated paper preparation by interactive computer, first display in proper reduced scale in the CRT 42 the area corresponding to the paper for allocating designted paper, then by operating the mouse 45, input the graphic frame by the digitizer 43. The inputted frame graphic is converted to picture signal PS 2 via the display controller 40 and is displayed in color on the CPT 42. Then several sheets of the layout original paper is collectively input and processed. Also in laying out/graphics such as a pattern, character, photo, etc., at the desired position, similar processing is be followed with the layout picture displayed in color on the CRT 42 and the desired layout picture accurately obtained by interactive mode. In this way, allocation designation paper can be attained quickly and accuractely and printing board is prepared.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Technical Field of the Invention) The present invention is applicable to so-called "instructions" such as layout instructions and photographing instructions for printing magazines, catalogs, etc. Concerning a method for positioning figures in a printing system that uses an interactive computer to improve efficiency when creating original sheets and layout sheets. , 5
, 1. (Before the technical aspects of the invention, the scene and its problems) To create a photo source for double printing, it is necessary to create a layout designation sheet that indicates the placement of the photo and the position of its copy. ,For this reason,
Designers, etc., hand-write the layout of the text and text, and the content (layout of the subject) according to the φ conditions required for printed matter. 1 is required. In addition, the buzzer and input work inevitably requires corrections, which are manually rewritten each time, and in the past, it took a lot of effort and time to obtain the final assigned paper. Ta. In other words, Figure 5 shows how layouts are created for today's wide variety of printed matter, such as prayers, books, catalogs, pamphlets, etc., and it is used to commercialize various information and project images. Based on Project Proposal 100, we created a photography instruction document that summarized the contents of meetings such as photography, and included copies of explanations and explanations of specific contents while considering the layout and shape. A rough document is created by creating a layout instruction sheet for configuring an image pattern and performing a so-called rough work 101 in which various considerations are made to ensure that it is appropriate as a product. Based on this rough manuscript, copywriter 10
2 is a text manuscript (copy) that fits within the specified space
Create 103, typesetting it with a phototypesetting machine, etc., and write phototypesetting characters 104.
shall be. On the other hand, the cameraman 10B takes pictures according to the rough manuscript and creates a color manuscript (photograph) 109, and the designer 105 arranges the color manuscript 105 and the rough manuscript 101 by placing images and photographs trimmed to a predetermined size. Create designated paper (design) toe. After that, these layout designation sheets 10B, color manuscript 1011, and typesetting characters 104 are collectively collected under the finisher 110, and after further examination and some corrections are made,
The phototypesetting characters 104 are pasted onto a mount 111, made into a block 112 using a block drafting machine, etc., printed in relief 113, and later converted into a negative 114.

Further, upon receiving instructions from the layout designation sheet 106 and the color original (photo) finisher 11G, the operator 115 separates the colors into Y, M, C, and BK using the scanner 116, and then the negative 11. ．． 4 and is finally synthesized 11 to form a film original plate 11B, which is sent to a plate making/printing process 119 and printed.

In this way, in conventional systems, the creation of layout designation sheets as well as the rough work of layout instructions or shooting instructions during the process of turning a project into reality are all done manually.
There is a strong desire to improve the efficiency of these relatively monotonous repeated trial-and-error operations, especially the positioning of figures.

(Object of the invention) This invention was made under the above circumstances,
To automate the work of creating sheets with designated layout when creating a printing manuscript using an interactive computer, so that sheets with designated layout can be obtained quickly and accurately, and furthermore, to create a printing mount based on this information. The purpose of this invention is to provide a method for positioning figures in a printing system.

(Summary of the Invention) The present invention uses a digitizer input device for inputting graphic information and an interactive CRT display device for displaying the graphic information, to create a layout for creating layout designation sheets for printing. This invention relates to a method for positioning figures in a printing system in which each of the above-mentioned figure information is displayed, by providing a means for making the relative positional relationship of the display on a CRT display device constant, and adjusting the relative positional relationship of each of the above-mentioned figure information to a predetermined position. It is designed so that it can be moved and set with fine adjustments.

(Embodiment of the Invention) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the invention, in which a computer (CPU) 30 performs overall control.
The computer has functions that are generally referred to as mini-computers, and is preferably capable of processing basic line drawings on a bit-by-bit basis. This GP030 has main memory H3
1 and an auxiliary storage device 32 such as a floppy disk, magnetic disk, or optical disk are connected via a path line, and an image input device 33 such as a TV camera, scanner, or GCD scanner is connected via an interface 33A. In addition, an output device 34 such as an electrostatic plotter, an XY plotter, or a laser beam printer is connected to the interface 3.
4A, and a keyboard 35 for manually inputting necessary data and commands is connected. Such an image processing system has interfaces 38A and 3.
8B to the display system of the graphic display, and the display system is provided with a display controller 40 consisting of a microprocessor or the like that controls the overall display. CR that can display the original size of
The T display device 42 is connected to a mouse 45 that can control the contents of the color display screen of the CRT display device 42 using a fine mode button attached thereto, and a digitizer 43 that inputs graphic information using the mouse 45. . In particular, the coordinate information from the digitizer 43 is converted into a time-series pulse signal, reduced to a frequency corresponding to the appropriate size by a frequency dividing circuit 45 consisting of a flip-flop, etc., and further controlled by a display controller 40.
It is possible to correspond to the display points of the CRT display device 42 with an appropriate scale of 1 to 1. As described above, the configuration of the present invention as a whole quickly functions as a man-machine interface.

With this configuration, the present invention uses a computer to perform the graphic positioning work that involves repeated trial and error of graphic layout on the layout designation sheet 10B, and also improves the efficiency of the positioning method.

In such a configuration, the present invention first displays a layout frame 50 as shown in FIG. 2 on the CRT display device 42 in a manner described later.

This display frame 50 displays a desired command menu (
For example, AIO command for copy registration, All command for copy row setting, etc.) are prepared, and a menu display section 500 allows you to select a desired command with a single touch using a light pen, etc., and command menus At, A2, . A3.
. . . The display screen section 800 is divided into a color image display screen section 800 in which a cursor is moved on the digitizer 43 by operating the mouse 44, a figure is displayed at a predetermined position on the screen, and various figure input operations can be performed in an interactive manner. It has a built-in structure. Further, this layout frame 50 is designed so that the menu display section 500 and the display screen section 600 can be changed to any size as necessary.

Now, to operate the system of this invention, firstly, two letters of the picture,
The process begins by aligning a figure corresponding to a photograph or the like with a desired layout, placing it at a predetermined plane position on the digitizer 43, and obtaining coordinate information of the figure using the mouse 45. This X, Y
The coordinate information is immediately converted into time-series pulse signals PxS and PYS, which are input to a frequency dividing circuit 46 made up of an IC, etc., and reduced to an appropriate frequency signal corresponding to the coordinate information, which is input to the display controller 40 as a frequency divided signal PS1. be done. Furthermore, the display controller 40 comprising this microprocessor or the like performs a conversion process to point-display the coordinate information of the figure at an appropriate scale at an appropriate position on the display screen section 600 of the CRT display device 42, and the corresponding image is displayed. Signal PS2 is transmitted to CRT display device 42
is input. As a result, the figure inputted by the digitizer 43 is immediately displayed in color on the display screen section 800 of the CRT display device 42 at a position corresponding to the figure 1 to 1. In this case, for example, if the layout area of the digitizer is 10 times the display area of the display screen section 80G in both vertical and horizontal directions, the frequency dividing circuit 4B
As a result, the pulses PxS and PYS are each converted to a frequency of 1110, and image processing is performed at a scale corresponding to this.

Next, the graphic processing operation in the printing system of the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

FIG. 3 shows an interactive graphic B on the CRT display device 42.
This is a flowchart of a method for positioning O. First, an area corresponding to a paper for designated layout paper is displayed at an appropriate scale size 1 on the CRT display device 42, and a desired layout screen 80 is displayed.
To obtain 0, operate the mouse 45 and press the digitizer 43.
Immediately after inputting the interframe shape (step 91), these coordinate signals are internally processed by the display controller 40 and converted into an image signal PS2. As a result, CR
As illustrated in FIG.
4) will be displayed in color (step S2), then input several sheets of layout manuscript paper at once and judge whether or not these input data need to be converted or corrected.Step S3) If there is, the process returns to step S1; if not, the process continues.

Next, in order to lay out a picture 80 such as a character or a photograph as shown in FIG.
When inputting the coordinate information of the figure 80 (step S4),
The graphic 60 is displayed on the display 1411 section 600 of the CRT display device 42 at the positions of points A, B, C, and D as shown in the figure (step S5). After that, a plurality of figures are sequentially inputted and displayed on the first layout screen 800 to examine the overall layout configuration (step S6), and if this layout configuration is good, the layout configuration for the next layout screen is performed in step S4. The process returns to , and the input layout manuscript sheets are sequentially processed. As shown in FIG.
, B, G, D to points AA, BB, (
[:, If you want to move to the IID position and modify or change the layout, select the A16 command for group movement from each command menu on the menu display section 500 of the CRT display device 42 using the light bar. Step S'? ), points A, B, C, mouth and destination AA
, BB, CC, and DD, the graphic 60 is immediately moved as shown (step 5fl).

Furthermore, if you want to move by a minute distance on the screen, switch to the fine mode button from among the various selection buttons of the mouse 45 connected to the digitizer 43 (step S9).
), by operating the mouse firefly by the required amount, the figure is moved with the cursor corresponding to the points AA, BB, CC, and D on the screen in conjunction with this, and the figure 60 is finely adjusted to a predetermined accurate position. You can move and position with
Step 510). In this way, a desired layout screen can be accurately obtained in an interactive manner. Now, after all the layout screens are displayed, it is determined whether there are any layout screens to be added or changed in step 512.
), if there is, the process returns to step S1 and the above-described graphic processing is repeated; if not, the process ends.

Once the complete layout display is obtained as described above,
The auxiliary recording device 3
2 (step 552), or make a hard copy on paper or the like using the output device 34 (step 551). In this way, the hard copy obtained from the output device 34 is used as the layout designation sheet 106 for printing. Further, part of the information created here can be used as information for creating a printing mount, and a printing mount is created using a drawing machine based on this information. Furthermore, when inputting a pattern, processing information can be used as layout designation paper by treating a color original as a pattern. B (Effects of the Invention) As described in T below, according to the method of this invention, the task of creating layout designation paper, which is a trial and error process from a plan to realization, can be computerized from the conventional manual work, and can be done quickly and accurately in real time through automation. It has the great advantage of being able to quickly respond to today's wide variety of printing operations, and can be used to increase efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a printing system showing an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is a CRT showing an embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the structure and function of the display device, FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the invention in detail, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing how the layout display is output, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing how a layout is created. AO, AI, A2-...Command menu, 30...
・cptt, 31.32... Auxiliary storage device, 33...
- Image input device, 34... Output device, 35... Keyboard, 3'3A to 38B... Interface, 4
0... Display controller, 41... Frame memory, 42... CRT display device, 43... Digitizer, 44... Mouse, 45... Tablet, 4
6... Frequency division circuit, 80... Graphic, 500... Menu display section, 800... Display screen section, 100
...Project plan, 101...Rough, 102...Copywriter, 103...Text manuscript, 104...Phototypesetting letters, 105...Designer, 106.Ration specification paper, 10
8...Cameraman, 109...Color manuscript, 110
...Finishman, 111...Mount, 112.
...Print, 113...Convex photography, 114...Negative,
115... Operator's evening, 1lfl... Retoucher, 117... Composition, 118... Original film plate, 11
9... Plate making/printing process.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a printing system that uses a digitizer input device for inputting graphical information and an interactive CRT display device for displaying the graphical information to create a layout for creating layout designation sheets for printing, each of the graphical information A printing system characterized in that means is provided for making the relative positional relationship of the display constant on the CRT display device, and each of the graphical information can be moved and set by fine adjustment while maintaining the relative positional relationship at a predetermined position. How to position shapes in.