JP2001084122A - Printing job control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save the trouble for collecting subdivided document files for editing again by integrating a plurality of printing jobs to a single printing job, newly giving page numbers to it and outputting printing data to a printer. SOLUTION: On a computer, files corresponding to a printing job A5 outputted from a word processor 1, a printing job A6 outputted from spreadsheet software 2 and a printing job C7 outputted from image preparing software 3 are prepared in a printer spooler 4 with a function for integrating a plurality of printing jobs. A job control code is deleted from each printing job and three files are connected to prepare a printing job 11. By newly adding a job control code to the job 11, the three printing jobs are reconstituted to be a single continuous printing job 13. Then, a page number printing command and data are added into each page printing data to obtain worked output data 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a control method of print output support operating on a computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, documents such as materials and manuals created on a computer are created as document files by an application and printed. If the document is huge, the load on the computer increases, resulting in an increase in the work time.

Conventionally, in order to reduce the load on a computer, a document file is subdivided, created to a certain extent, and finally edited as a single document file and printed.

[0004] On the other hand, if the application that created the segmented document file is different, the segmented document file cannot be used as common data between the applications, and another editing application is prepared and edited again. Had been printing.

[0005]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to eliminate the trouble of collecting and re-editing fragmented document files.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to prevent a cost increase by purchasing a necessary editing application when a segmented document is created by a separate application. It is.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in the function of the present invention, a temporary file created in a printer spool area of an operating system on a computer at the time of print output is used. By linking and reconfiguring the files created in this area, multiple print files are integrated. Further, the inside of the integrated file is analyzed, and a page number print command is inserted at an appropriate position.
This makes it possible to assign continuous page numbers to print data created by a plurality of applications.

Further, by integrating the files, it is possible to handle them as one file, and the number of print copies can be controlled.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A print job control method according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

On a computer, a word processor 1,
The data created by the spreadsheet software 2 and the image creation software 3 is printed out to the printer spooler 4 with a multiple print job integration function, which temporarily stopped the job transfer to the printer. As a result, in the printer spooler 4 with the multiple print job integration function, the print job A5 output from the word processor, the print job B6 output from the spreadsheet software 2, and the print output from the image creation software 3 A file corresponding to the job C7 is created. In this embodiment, the print job A5 is 3
It is assumed that the output data 8 of the page, the print job B6 is composed of the output data 9 of one page, and the print job C7 is composed of the output data 10 of two pages.

A print job is composed of a job control code, a page control code, and page print data. Therefore,
The print job is analyzed, the job control code is deleted from each of the three print jobs, and the three files are connected to form a print job 11. The print job 11 is composed of a total of six pages of output data 12.

By adding a new job control code to the linked print job 11, three print jobs are reconfigured into one continuous print job 13. Further, the page control code in the reconstructed print job 13 is analyzed, and a page number print command and data are added to each page print data to obtain processed output data 14.

As described above, a print result having continuous page numbers can be obtained from data created by three different applications.

Further, when a job control code is newly added to the linked print job 11, a print output of a required number of copies can be obtained by adding a print copy setting command.

According to the present invention, a plurality of subdivided document files can be prepared and combined at the time of printing instead of preparing one huge document file. Therefore, each document can be created by a large number of people. And the working time can be shortened.

According to the present invention, even when document files created by different applications exist, it is not necessary to prepare an editing application, so that the cost can be reduced.

According to the present invention, a plurality of subdivided document files can be prepared and freely combined at the time of printing. Therefore, each subdivided document file can be used for a plurality of printed materials, and the document file can be used. Assets can be shared.

[0018]

By using the present invention, it is possible to save the trouble of collecting and re-editing the subdivided document files and to create print output data in a short time.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a process of a printer spooler with a multiple print job integration function.

[Explanation of symbols]

1,2,3: Data creation application, 4: Printer spooler with multiple print job integration function, 5, 6, 7,
11, 13: print job in printer spooler, 8,
9, 10, 12, 14: output data.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A computer having a printer spooler integrates a plurality of print jobs generated on the computer into one print job, newly assigns a page number as print data, and outputs the print data to a printer. A print job control method, comprising: