JPS6289058A - Positioning method for graphic in printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automate preparation of layout designation paper and to process quickly and accurately in real time by displaying a graphic in a CRT screen section and positioning by rotation by desired angle around the center of the graphic frame. CONSTITUTION:A frame for layout is displayed in a CRT display unit 42. The display frame is divided into a desired command menu display section and a display screen section that performs various works in interactive form according to the command menu. When changing the angle of the graphic frame displayed in the screen section, rotation command is designated first, and then, direction of rotation and angle of rotation of the graphic frame are inputted. When correction is necessary, it is enough to return to the step of inputting direction of rotation of the graphic frame, and if it is satisfactory, angle changing of the graphic frame is completed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Technical Field of the Invention) This light [Jl is used for layout instructions and ti! The present invention relates to a method for positioning figures in a printing system that uses an interactive computer to improve efficiency when creating a designated paper with 1, 1 markings from a so-called rough manuscript such as a shadow-directed reading.

(Technical background of the invention and its problems) In order to create a printable photo M, the A! It is necessary to create a layout designation sheet indicating the location and copy location. For this reason, designers etc., depending on the conditions required for printed matter,
Arrangement of photos and text and photo content (layout of subject)
must be done by hand. Since design work inevitably involves revisions, each time the design is revised manually, and in the past, it took a lot of effort and time to obtain the final consistency designation paper. That is, FIG. 6 shows how layouts are created for today's wide variety of printed materials such as magazines, stories, catalogs, and pamphlets.

Based on the project plan 100 that commercializes various information and project images, we create a W shadow instruction horoscope that summarizes the contents of meetings such as photography, and also explain and comment on the specific contents while taking into account the shape of the fist arrangement. A rough manuscript is created by inserting a copy of the image, creating a layout instruction chart for how to configure the overall image pattern, and performing so-called rough work 101 in which various considerations are made to make it suitable for the product. Based on this rough manuscript, the copywriter 102 creates a character manuscript (copy) 103 that fits within a predetermined space, and typesets it into phototypesetting characters 104 using a phototypesetting machine or the like. On the other hand, the cameraman 108 takes pictures according to the rough manuscript,
A color original (photograph) 109 is created, and a designer 105 places a pattern or a photograph trimmed to a predetermined size on the color original 109 and the rough original 101 to create a layout designation sheet (picture ff1) toe. Thereafter, these layout specification sheets 10B, color manuscript 10B, and phototypesetting characters 104 are collectively collected under the finisher 110, and after further examination and some corrections are made, phototypesetting characters 1
04 is pasted on a mount 111, and is made into a block 112 using block drawing Ja or the like.

The convex seed 113 will be made into a negative 114 later. In addition, the layout designation sheet 108 and the color manuscript (Photo fD 10
9 receives instructions from finish muff 110, and scans Y (yellow) 1M (yellow) with scanner IIS by operator 85.
After being color separated into (magenta), C (cyan) and BK (blank), the kit 117 is finally combined with the negative 114.
The film original plate is +18, and the plate making/printing process is 11.
It is supposed to be sent to 9th and 1st stamped.

In this way, in the conventional system, the positioning of the leap shape during the layout of the designated layout sheet 10B is all done in the layout work, as well as the rough work such as layout instructions and photographing instructions in the process of realizing printed matter from a plan. Therefore, there is a strong desire to improve the efficiency of these relatively monotonous repeated trial-and-error operations.

(Purpose of the Invention) This invention was made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and is based on a rough manuscript such as layout instructions, photo shooting instructions, etc. when creating a printed manuscript. A method for positioning figures in a printing system that can be automatically created by an interactive computer to quickly and accurately obtain a final indication, and also create a printing mount based on this information. is intended to provide.

(A Ship of the Invention) This invention relates to a method for positioning figures for a designated layout sheet in a printing system, and includes a menu display section from which various command menus can be selected, and lll1f&' corresponding to the contents of the menu. Using the interactive CR1 display device consisting of a display screen section,
In a printing system that performs layout drawing to create layout designation paper for printing, a figure is displayed on both sides of the display to create it, and is positioned by rotating it by a desired angle around the center of the figure frame as the rotation center. This is how it was done.

(Embodiment of the invention) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the invention, in which a computer (C:PU) performs overall control.
The CPυ30 has a function that is generally referred to as a mini-computer, and is preferably capable of processing basic line drawings with medium bits.This CPυ30 includes a main memory 2131, a floppy disk, a hard disk,
An auxiliary storage device 32 such as an optical disk is connected via a pass line, and an image input device 33 such as a TV right camera scanner or a CCO scanner is connected via an interface 33A. In addition, the output R7134 of a Seiden plotter, XY plotter, laser beam printer, etc. is connected via the interface 34A, and it is necessary to use A! A keyboard 35 is connected for manually inputting data and commands. Such an image processing system is connected to a display system of a graphics display via interfaces 38A and 38B, and one display system includes a display controller (O-Large) consisting of a microprocessor etc. that controls the overall display. 40 is provided, and this display controller 40 includes a frame memory 41, a CRT display device m42 capable of displaying the original size, and a human-powered device 43 such as a tablet, maunu, light ben, etc., which has a device f@ as a man-machine interface. It is connected. This output I is designed to improve the efficiency of the creation work by computerizing the figure positioning work X, which requires repeated trial and error in creating the H layout designation sheet 106, with the above-described configuration.

In such a configuration, in the present invention, first, a layout frame 50 as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the CRT display device ri 42 by a method to be described later.

As shown in the figure, this display frame 50 is a menu display section 500 in which a desired command menu (for example, AIO command for copy registration, Go11 command for copy setting, etc.) is prepared and the desired command can be selected with a single touch. and command menu AI, A2. A3. A display screen section 60 that can display a picture area, a copy area, etc. on the screen and perform various tasks in an interactive manner according to...
The configuration is divided into 0 and 0. This layout frame 50 can be changed to a size by changing the menu display section 500 and the display screen section 600 as needed.

By the way, if you need to change, modify, move, or delete the display position of the input and displayed layout figure, for example, use the light pen menu display ff & 5
By lightly touching the desired command menu of 00 (for example, touching the At command in the case of a split command), the corresponding contents are displayed in color on the display screen section 600 or menu display section 500 in real time, and the desired command operation can be performed. After finishing, the output device 34 prints the layout image of one frame on the recording paper 53 in A24 format.
Specify the “copy” command to make a hard copy. In this case, the output device i! The sizes of the output image of the i34 and the display image of the CRT display device 2 are made to correspond one-to-one in order to reduce the difference in impression between the actually hard-copied image and the display image. In addition, all input 1 selections and specified operations are performed using the command menu AI according to each work flow displayed on the input device 34 and the CRT display device 42.
A2. A3. This is done by using...

By the way, when changing the angle of a graphic frame displayed on the screen 50, it is necessary to position the graphic frame while rotating it while looking at the mutual relationship with other graphic frames displayed on the same screen. It is extremely difficult to perform manual adjustment. Therefore, in the present invention, the center point of the graphic frame is determined so that the graphic frame can be easily rotated.

Next, the operation will be explained with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4. First, specify the "rotate" command (+9A) with one figure frame displayed on the screen 50 (step S1).Next, input the direction of rotation force of the figure frame.Step 52).1) Next, enter the angle you want to rotate. Input (step S
3) By doing this, the conditions for rotation were set. Therefore, when the frame to be rotated is specified (step S4), the graphic frame is rotated and displayed under the above-mentioned conditions. If you want to make corrections, just return to step S2, and if you are satisfied, end the process.

The process of positioning using the above method will be explained using the display screen section 800 in FIG. A frame is defined. Here, when the "rotate" command is specified, the frame of one figure 60 is defined by three points, the center point PO and the positions P1 and p2, like the figure 81. And rotation direction C
When Cw and the rotation angle θ are specified, the figure 62 is rotated and displayed. At this time, if we correct this rotation angle 0 and specify 0÷-〇, in order to accurately rotate it to the position of θ + Δθ in the internal calculation, once the figure fil is
After returning to the state, it is rotated by an angle of θ÷Δ0. This is just a calculation, so
On the screen, it appears that only 10 is added from the angle of 0. In this way, the figure 60 is placed between the center point PO and the position 21P1.
and P2 are defined by reducing the data area of figure BO, and by aligning the reference line with the vertical line of the screen by position fiP1 and P2, increasing the accuracy as a reference position, and thereby specifying the rotation angle. This is to make M JJF less negative.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining another implementation means of the method of the present invention, in which the "rotate" command (1
9A) (step 5ll) and input the primary rotation direction (step 512) are the same as in the case of FIG.
When inputting (step 513) and specifying a rotation frame (step 514), the rotation is performed by that step angle in the specified direction. If a larger rotation angle is required (step 515), the frame to be rotated is further rotated each time the frame is specified. According to this method, the rotation angle is determined while looking only at the screen without looking at the keys at hand. There are advantages that can be achieved.

Although we have explained rectangles here, other shapes such as ellipses,
A similar method can be used for triangles and the like.

Once the figure has been completely positioned in the manner described above, it is stored in the auxiliary storage device 32 according to the flowchart in FIG. ), the hard copy thus 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. Also, when entering the pattern,
By treating a color manuscript as a pattern, it is now possible to use the Canadian I/VJ report as a designated layout sheet.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the method of the present invention, the work of creating layout designation sheets, which is a trial and error process from a plan to realization, can be computerized from the conventional manual work, and can be processed quickly and accurately in real time through automation. It has an extremely strong advantage of being able to improve efficiency by quickly responding to today's wide variety of printing demands.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a printing system showing an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is a CRT showing an embodiment of this invention.
3 and 4 are flowcharts for explaining the present invention in detail. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing how layout display is output, and FIG. 6 is a conventional layout of printed matter. It is a figure showing the state of creation. AO, AI, A2-...Command menu, 30...
・Cpu. 31.32... Auxiliary storage device, 33... Image human power device, 34... Output device, 35... Keyboard, 33
A~36B...Interface, 40...Display controller, 41...Frame memory, 4
2... CRT display device, 43... Input device, 50
...Layout frame, 80, 81, [12...Graphic frame, 500...Menu display section, SOO...Display screen section, 100...Planning plan, 101...Rough, 102. ...Copylike, 103...Text manuscript, 104...Phototypesetting text, 105...Designer, 10
B..., IA allocation designation paper 107...photo, 108.
...Photographer, 109...Color manuscript, 11O...
・Finishman, 111...Mount, 112...
Printing, 113...Convex printing, 114...Negative, 115
...Operator, 118...Retoucher, +17・
...Synthesis, 118...Film original plate, 119...Plate printing process. Applicant's agent Yasukata Male Three sheep 4 Deputy sheep 5 Figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] A layout designation sheet for printing is created using an interactive CRT display device consisting of a menu display section from which various command menus can be selected and a display screen section that displays images corresponding to the contents of the menu. In the printing system for drawing a layout for a printing system, a figure is displayed on the display screen to create the figure, and the figure frame is rotated by a desired angle with the center of the figure frame as the center of rotation. How to position shapes in printing systems.