JP2000099505A - Document generation device and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print a desired document and the like with a simple operation on paper (mount) where the logo mark of a company and the like are previously printed while avoiding the parts of the logo mark and the like. SOLUTION: Relating to a document generation device, an input document is arranged in a document generation area corresponding to a paper area and data are printed on paper. The document generation device has a setting means for setting (S03) an area in a document generation area, which corresponds to a printing inhibition area in the paper area, to be a non-printing area and a rearranging means for rearranging (S11) the input document arranged in the non-printing area in the document generation area which is out of the non- printing area.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus for creating a document on a paper on which a company logo, a picture and the like are printed in advance, and a computer functioning as such a document creating apparatus. The present invention relates to a recording medium on which a program is recorded. The document to be created is arbitrary, but may be a standard document such as a business card, a letter of mail, a fax transmission paper, or a postcard for various kinds of guidance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-96636 discloses a method in which a document or the like is divided into a plurality of areas, a document created in a certain area is printed, and a document created in another certain area is printed. There is disclosed an apparatus capable of designating printing / non-printing of a document in each area so as not to do so. In this device, for example, a test question is created in a test question area, an answer is created in an answer area, and for teachers, both areas are printed to obtain a printed matter in which the question and the answer coexist. It is possible to obtain a printed matter only for the student by printing only the area of the test question for the student.

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 9-295430 discloses an apparatus capable of designating a color for each document component (character, graphic, etc.) and designating a print / non-print attribute for each color. In this apparatus, only a desired document document component can be printed by changing a combination of a color designated for each document component and a print / non-print attribute designated for each color.

[0004]

In some cases, it is desired to print a document or the like on a sheet on which a company logo or a picture or the like is printed in advance while avoiding the logo or picture or the like. For example, there is a case where the business card data of each person is to be printed in black on a business card mount on which a company logo is printed in color. JP-A-7-96636 and JP-A-9-29543
In the apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 0, part of the components of the created document (part of the business card data when the business card data is printed on the business card mount) can be non-printed. Non-printing cannot be designated for a certain area above. That is, the above request cannot be met.

According to the present invention, a simple operation is performed on a sheet (backing paper) on which a company logo, a picture, and the like are printed in advance.
It is an object of the present invention to reliably print a desired document or the like while avoiding the logo mark or the picture.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document creating apparatus for arranging an input document in a document creating area corresponding to a sheet area and printing the input document on a sheet. A document creation apparatus, comprising: a setting unit that sets an area in a corresponding document creation area as a non-print area; and a prohibition unit that prohibits printing of an input document arranged in the non-print area. . The invention according to claim 2 is the document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the prohibiting means prohibits printing of an input document arranged in a non-printing area for which forced clear is set. .

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document creation apparatus for arranging an input document in a document creation area corresponding to a paper area and printing the input document on a sheet, wherein the document creation area corresponds to a print prohibited area in the paper area. Document creation characterized by comprising: setting means for setting an area of a non-print area as a non-print area; and relocation means for relocating an input document arranged in the non-print area to a document creation area outside the non-print area. Device. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect, the relocating means relocates the input document arranged in the non-printing area where the arrangement of the input document is prohibited to a document creation area outside the non-printing area. A document creation apparatus characterized in that:

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document creating apparatus having the functions of the second and fourth aspects. The invention according to claim 6 is the business card according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the document is a business card created by synthesizing user data with a design template that specifies the layout of items. A document creation device.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document which comprises a computer having the setting means, the prohibiting means, and the rearranging means according to the fifth aspect, wherein the input document is arranged in a document creation area corresponding to the paper area and printed on paper. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for functioning as a creation device is recorded.

[0010]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a business card creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
3 is a flowchart showing a document creation procedure by the PU, FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a printing procedure by the CPU in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the business card mount and print characters, and FIG. 5 shows a screen for setting a non-print area FIG.

[0011] As shown in FIG.
It has a PU 10, a storage device 20, a printer 30, a display 40, and input means (a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse) 50. In the storage device 20, a program for causing the computer device to function as a business card creating device is installed from a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, for example. When a program is selected, the system is configured as a business card creation device.

The storage device 20 stores, in addition to the above programs, template files holding various design templates copied from a recording medium such as the CD-ROM or the like. A separately stored user data file is stored.
In addition, the real business card creation device stores the design template selected by the instruction from the input unit 50 in the RA in the CPU 10.
M, and stores the user data selected by the instruction from the input means 50 in the R template file.
It is stored in the selected user file of the AM, these are combined, and output on paper. That is, the real business card creation device is a device that combines user data with a design template that defines the layout of items and prints the data.

A procedure for printing user data on a mount having a print prohibited area so as to avoid the print prohibited area among the document preparation procedure and the print procedure in the real business card preparation apparatus will be described below with reference to a flowchart. I do. That is, a procedure for printing user data on a mount on which a pattern as illustrated in the uppermost column of FIG. 4 is printed in advance so as to avoid the part of the pattern will be described.

In the document creation procedure, first, a paper area and a print prohibited area thereof are obtained (S01). Next, a document creation area on the screen is associated with the paper area, and a document creation area corresponding to the print prohibited area of the paper is obtained. Is set as a non-printing area (S03). This is because, after associating a paper area (paper size) with a document creation area on the screen according to a known procedure, an area on the screen corresponding to the print prohibited area is input, for example, by inputting coordinate data of the print prohibited area. (See “Non-printing area position input section” in FIG. 5). This can be realized by converting this into data of a document creation area on the screen. Or,
In advance, a plurality of print prohibited areas (for example, in the case of a business card, a plurality of areas where the company logo mark or the like is most likely to be printed) are set, and for each print prohibited area,
The user may input whether to select or not to select. “Non-printing area (non-selection)” in FIG.
"Non-printing area (selection)" shows this example.

Next, the input document is arranged in the document creation area (S05). In the case of the real business card creating device, the layout according to the template is performed by selecting the template and inputting the user data.

Next, it is determined whether an input document exists in the non-print area (S07). In the case of a real business card creation device,
In order to print the user data synthesized with the selected template, if the template is a design in which items are arranged in a non-printing area, an input document exists, and if the design does not arrange items in a non-printing area, the input document does not exist. In other words, in the case of a real business card creation device, the above determination result is determined by the selected template, but in the case where the present invention is applied to a device that does not use a template, the above determination result depends on the arrangement of the input document. .

If the input document exists in the non-print area (S07: YES), it is determined whether or not it is permitted to arrange the input document in the non-print area (S0).
9). This determination is made, for example, from the input unit in consideration of the fact that, when the design of the mount is a background or the like, there is no problem even if characters are superimposed on the background or the like. This is because, by inputting that effect, an option to permit printing in the non-printing area is made possible.

If the presence of the input document in the non-print area is not permitted (S09: NO), the document in the non-print area is rearranged outside the non-print area, and the process returns to step S07. If it is permitted (S09: YES), step S1
Proceed to 3.

In step S13, it is determined whether or not input of all input documents (all documents to be input in the current document creation area) has been completed.
3: NO), and return to step S05. When the process has been completed (S13, YES), the document creation procedure ends. The left column in FIG. 4 shows a case where the user data in the third column of the same column is printed on the mount in the top column of the same column to obtain a business card in the fourth column. The second column in the same column is a screen display showing the document in the print prohibited area hidden.

In the printing procedure, first, a document creation procedure (FIG. 2)
(A normal document creation procedure in which a non-print area is not specified at the time of creation) may be used to create a print image of the document created (S51). Next, it is determined whether there is a print image in the non-print area (S53). The non-printing area may be set according to an input from the input unit at the start of the main printing procedure. However, if the main printing procedure is executed following the main procedure of FIG. Use the non-printing area set in.

If there is no image in the non-printing area (S5
3: NO), the print image is output to the printer as it is. As a result, the printer prints a document having no image in the non-print area (S59). If there is a print image in the non-print area (S53: YES), it is determined whether a mode for forcibly clearing the print image in the non-print area is set (S55). The purpose of this determination is the same as in step S09 of FIG.

If the mode for forcibly clearing the print image in the non-printing area is not set, step S
Proceeding to 59, printing is performed as it is. If the above mode is set (S55: YES), the print data in which the print image in the non-print area has been cleared is output to the printer (S57), and the flow proceeds to step S59. That is, the printing is performed by forcibly clearing the non-printing area. The right column of FIG.
When printing the user data in the uppermost column of the same column, since the forced clear is set in the left half, the first character "bell" of the name in the user data is erased at the time of printing.

[0023]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, an area in the document creation area corresponding to the print prohibited area in the paper area is set as a non-print area, and printing of the input document arranged in the non-print area is prohibited. Therefore, a desired document or the like can be printed on paper (backing paper) on which a company logo or the like is printed in advance, avoiding the logo or picture. According to the third aspect of the present invention, the area in the document creation area corresponding to the print prohibited area in the paper area is set as the non-print area, and the input document arranged in the non-print area is set in the document creation area outside the non-print area. Because of the rearrangement, a desired document or the like can be printed on a sheet (backing paper) on which a company logo or the like is printed in advance, avoiding the logo or picture.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a document creation procedure executed by a CPU 10 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a printing procedure executed by a CPU 10 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between a sheet (backing sheet) and a print document.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a screen for inputting a non-print area.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 CPU 20 Storage device 30 Printer

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus for arranging an input document in a document creation area corresponding to a paper area and printing the input document on paper,
Setting means for setting an area in the document creation area corresponding to the print prohibited area in the paper area as a non-print area, and prohibiting means for prohibiting printing of the input document arranged in the non-print area. Characteristic document creation device. 2. The document creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said prohibiting means prohibits printing of an input document arranged in a non-printing area for which forced clear is set. 3. A document creation apparatus for arranging an input document in a document creation area corresponding to a paper area and printing the input document on paper.
Setting means for setting an area in the document creation area corresponding to the print prohibited area in the paper area as a non-print area, and relocating an input document arranged in the non-print area to a document creation area outside the non-print area And a re-arrangement means. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the rearrangement means includes:
A document creation apparatus characterized in that an input document arranged in a non-printing area where arrangement of an input document is prohibited is rearranged in a document creation area outside the non-printing area. 5. A document creation device having the functions of claim 2 and the function of claim 4. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein:
A document is a business card created by synthesizing user data with a design template that defines the layout of items.
A document creation device, characterized in that: 7. The computer according to claim 5, wherein:
A computer, comprising a prohibition unit and a relocation unit, and recording a program for functioning as a document creation device that arranges an input document in a document creation area corresponding to a paper area and prints it on paper. A readable recording medium.