JP2003223646A - Production system and program for newspaper page - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To confirm the lay out on a page, to reduce burden on an operator, and to improve workability by printing only identification information of materials laid out on a page and information such as tentative headlines on corresponding positions of the material on the page. <P>SOLUTION: This production system of a newspaper page edits page data 71 by disposing a plurality of elements to be carried on the newspaper page and, at least, composed of news items, images, and photographs on the page, prints the edited page data 71, and produces the newspaper page. This system is provided with printing means 61 printing element identification information preset in the respective elements on a disposition position on the page disposed with the corresponding elements. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is used in a newspaper company or a printing company, and arranges materials such as articles and images on each surface of a newspaper to create a block copy data for printing. And about the production program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, as shown in FIG. 36 (b), a newspaper 10 is composed of a plurality of pages 12. Each page 12
Are classified into the first side, political side, economic side, sports side, social side, etc. As shown in FIG. 36A, each sheet 12 has a characteristic layout and includes a plurality of small sets which are a united set. And the large group 13 and the small group 14
Inside, a plurality of images (photographs, illustrations) 15 and a plurality of articles 16 are posted. Further, an advertisement 17 is posted below the paper surface 12.

Each article 16 and each image (photograph, illustration) 1
5 is collected by many newspaper reporters and photographers and sent to newspaper companies. A newspaper company decides which article or image should be adopted on which page 12 out of the huge amount of articles and images sent from newspaper reporters and photographers, and selects the articles 16 and images 15 decided to be adopted. To edit. Then, the edited article 16 and the image 15 need to be arranged (assigned) on each sheet 12 in consideration of the article content and the image content to create the block copy data for printing.

In the newspaper 10, since it is necessary to publish the newspaper within a short time after receiving the articles 16 and the images 15 from the newspaper reporter or the photographer, the huge number of edited articles 16 and A plurality of operators perform the work of arranging the images 15 by arranging the images 15 on the respective paper surfaces 12. In this way, the work copy data for printing is created by a plurality of operator operations.

[0005]

However, such a conventional newspaper production system has the following problems.

That is, with respect to the block copy data thus created, the operator refers to the identification information such as the ID of the allocated material and the temporary headline in order to confirm the allocation state of the paper surface.

However, since a normal printed matter is a printed matter on a laid out newspaper sheet, information such as a material ID and a temporary headline is not printed. This is because it is difficult to determine whether or not the information is actually on the paper if the information other than the paper printed at the time of checking the paper is printed. In other words, it is impossible to distinguish whether the printed information is the material itself such as an article, the ID, or the temporary headline. Therefore, the information such as the material ID and the temporary headline is not printed so as to prevent a mistake or the like caused by misunderstanding.

Therefore, the editor must know the identification information of the material from the content of the article or photograph on the paper, so that the associating work has to be done manually, which imposes a heavy burden on the operator and improves the work efficiency. There is a problem that is causing the decrease of.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is possible to print only the identification information of the material allocated on the paper surface and the information such as the temporary headline at the corresponding material arrangement position on the paper surface. It is an object of the present invention to provide a newspaper production system and a production program capable of confirming the layout state of paper sheets, thus reducing the burden on the operator and improving work efficiency.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention takes the following means.

That is, the invention of claim 1 edits the page data by arranging on the page a plurality of elements including at least articles, images and photographs to be published on the newspaper page, and the edited page data is downloaded. A newspaper page production system for printing and producing a newspaper page, comprising printing means for printing the element identification information given in advance to each element at the arrangement position on the sheet where the corresponding element is arranged. .

The invention of claim 2 is the newspaper production system according to claim 1, wherein the element identification information is element I.
At least one of the D number and the temporary headline is used.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable program for producing a newspaper page.
A page editing function that edits page data by arranging at least a plurality of elements consisting of articles, images, and photographs on the page of a newspaper page, and each element placed in the page data edited by the page editing function in advance It is a program for producing a newspaper page for causing a computer to realize an identification information printing function of printing the assigned element identification information at the arrangement position on the paper on which the corresponding element is arranged.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable program for producing a newspaper page.
Among the elements stored in the storage means, an identification information storage function of storing in storage means a plurality of elements including at least articles, images, and photographs, and element identification information given in advance to each element One of the above is placed on the paper surface to edit the paper surface editing function, and element identification information corresponding to each element arranged in the paper surface data edited by the paper surface editing function is acquired from the storage means, and this acquisition is performed. It is a program for producing a newspaper page for causing a computer to realize an identification information printing function of printing the element identification information at the position where the corresponding element is placed on the page data.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the program for producing a newspaper page according to the third or fourth aspect, the element identification information is at least one of an element ID number and a temporary headline. Is a production program.

Therefore, in the present invention, by taking the above-mentioned means, the element identification information such as the element ID number or the temporary heading given to each element in advance is printed on the paper on which the corresponding element is arranged. It can be printed at the location. Then, by referring to the printed element identification information, it is possible to confirm that each element is correctly arranged on the paper surface before the printing plate is released. This makes it possible to reduce the burden on the operator and improve work efficiency.

[0017]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 34.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a newspaper page production system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

That is, the newspaper page production system according to the present embodiment is realized by a computer which reads a program stored in a storage medium such as a magnetic disk and whose operation is controlled by the program, Article input / proofreading terminal 1, article server 2,
Image input / processing terminal 3, image server 4, typesetting terminal 5
1, a typesetting editing server 6, a paper surface data storage unit 7, an output server 8 and a printer / plotter 9.

The article input / proofreading terminal 1 is a terminal for inputting and proofreading articles, receives article information input from an operator, and outputs it to the article server 2. Also,
The article information accumulated in the article server 2 is acquired, the proofreading input based on the article information is accepted from the operator, and the proofread article information is output to the article server 2 again.

The article server 2 receives article information input from the article input / proofreading terminal 1 or article information input from a news agency or the like via a communication line (not shown),
accumulate. Further, in response to a proofreading request from the article input / proofreading terminal 1, the requested article information is output to the article input / proofreading terminal 1 from the accumulated article information. Further, the stored article information is output to the typesetting editing server 6 according to an operator's instruction.

The image input / processing terminal 3 is a terminal for inputting image data and processing image data, and is provided with a scanner, a display and the like. Such an image input / processing terminal 3 accepts input of image data from an operator and outputs the input image data to the image server 4. Further, the image data is processed based on the image data processing operation input input by the operator, and the processed image data is output to the image server 4. When processing the image data, it is also possible to directly process the image data input to the image input / processing terminal 3,
It is possible to obtain predetermined image data from the image data stored in the image server 4 and process the image data.

The image server 4 acquires and stores the image data output from the image input / processing terminal 3. Further, in response to a request from the image input / processing terminal 3, the requested image data is output to the image input / processing terminal 3 from the stored image data. Further, according to the operator's instruction, the accumulated image data is converted into the typesetting editing server 6
Output to.

The typesetting terminal 5 is composed of, for example, a workstation or a personal computer, receives an operation input for editing the layout of articles, images, and headlines by an operator, and receives the input operation input from the typesetting editing server 6 Output to.

The typesetting editing server 6 includes an editing unit 60 and a page layout material identification information output unit 61. Editorial department 60
Edits the paper surface data based on the operation input from the typesetting terminal 5 and stores the edited paper surface data 71 in the paper surface data storage unit 7 or the paper surface data stored in the paper surface data storage unit 7. 71 is taken out, this paper surface data 71 is edited and stored again in the paper surface data storage unit 7. The sheet layout material identification information output unit 61 roughly operates based on an operation input from the typesetting terminal 5 or automatically according to a predetermined procedure as shown in the flowchart of FIG. That is, the page layout material identification information output unit 61
Extracts the layout material from the paper surface data 71 to create data for outputting paper layout material identification information (S1), converts the created data for paper layout material identification information output to final output data (S2), and converts the data. It has a function of causing the output server 8 to print the final output data (S3).

3 to 14 show such paper surface data 7
FIG. 24 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of No. 1, and FIG.
Is a data configuration diagram showing an example of the page layout material identification information output data 62, and FIGS. 24 to 28 are data configuration diagrams showing an example of the final output data 63.

That is, the page data 71 is the page number (#
n), the management information as shown in FIG.
Each material information as shown in FIG. 3 and article data as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 3, the management information includes a publication date 71KN (n), a face name 71MN (n), and a version name 71HN.
(N), print page number 71PG (n), format information (set direction, number of columns, padding, character size, line spacing, line spacing, etc.) 71
It is composed of each data of TS (n), dimension X direction 71PX (n) of the paper surface, and dimension 71PY (n) of Y direction of the paper surface.

The material information exists for every material whose placement on the paper is considered. Therefore, for example, text article a, text article b, text article c, image d,
In the case where the layout of the material information of the image e, the image f, the small set g, the text article h, the text article i, and the image j is considered, as shown in FIG. 4 to FIG. Exists in. As for the data structure of such material information, the material type 71SB (n # 1) and the material ID number 71ID (n # as shown in FIG. 4 for the # 1 material information (text article a) are used.
1), arrangement information 71FL (n # 1), arrangement rectangular area number 7
1LMT (n # 1), placement rectangle X coordinate 71LMX (n #
1), arrangement rectangle Y coordinate 71LMY (n # 1), provisional heading 71KM (n # 1), text storage address information 71AD (n # 1) of text article a, laid out text storage address information 71BD (text of text article a) n # 1).
Arrangement rectangle X coordinate 71LMX (n # 1) and arrangement rectangle Y
The coordinate 71LMY (n # 1) is the number of arranged rectangular areas 71LM.
When there are a plurality of T (n # 1) s, there are as many as that. Other material information has the same data structure as in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 14, the article data includes article text 71TX, layout text 71LX, image display image data 71HI, and actual image data 71RI for each material information.

The page layout material identification information output data 62 includes management information as shown in FIG. 15 and material information as shown in FIGS. 16 to 23 for each page number (#n). There is.

Similar to the management information of the page data 71, the management information is, as shown in FIG. 15, the publication date 62KN.
(N), face name 62MN (n), version name 62HN (n), print page number 62PG (n), format information (set direction, number of columns, line spacing, letter size, line spacing, line spacing, etc.) 62TS
(N), data in the paper surface X direction 62PX (n), and data in the paper surface Y direction 62PY (n).

The material information is present for every material arranged on the paper surface. Therefore, for example, in the case of the paper on which the material information of the text article a, the text article b, the image d, the image e, the small set g, the text article h, the text article i, and the image j is arranged, the drawing from FIG. As shown in 23,
It exists for each of these materials. The data structure of such material information has a material type 62SB (n # 1), material I as shown in FIG. 16 for # 1 material information (text article a).
D number 62ID (n # 1), temporary headline 62KM (n #
1), number of arranged rectangular areas 62EN (n # 1), arranged rectangular area X start point 62XYSX (n # 1), arranged rectangular area Y start point 62XYSY (n # 1), arranged rectangular area X end point 62XY
EX (n # 1), arrangement rectangular area Y end point 62XYEY (n
# 1). Arranged rectangular area X start point 62XYSX (n #
1), the arrangement rectangular area Y start point 62XYSY (n # 1), the arrangement rectangular area X end point 62XYEX (n # 1), the arrangement rectangular area Y end point 62XYEY (n # 1) are the arrangement rectangular area number 6
When there are a plurality of 2EN (n # 1) s, there are as many as that. Other material information has the same data structure as in FIG.

On the other hand, the final output data 63 includes management information as shown in FIG. 24 and FIG. 25 for each sheet number (#n).
To the material layout information as shown in FIG.

Similar to the management information of the page layout material identification information output data 62, the management information is as shown in FIG.
Date of publication 63KN (n), face name 63MN (n), version name 63HN (n), print page number 63PG (n), format information (set direction, number of columns, padding, character size, column spacing, line spacing, etc.) ) 63TS (n), dimension 63PX (n) in the X direction of the paper,
It is composed of each data of the dimension 63PY (n) in the Y direction of the paper surface.

The material arrangement information exists for all the materials arranged on the paper surface. Therefore, for example, in the case of the paper on which the material information of the text article a, the text article b, the image d, the image e, the small set g, the text article h, the text article i, and the image j is arranged, Exists in. FIG. 25 shows the material arrangement information regarding the text article a, and FIG.
Is material arrangement information regarding the text article b, FIG. 27 is material arrangement information regarding the image d, and FIG. 28 is material arrangement information regarding the image e. In addition, small set g, text article h, text article i,
The material layout information regarding the image j is omitted.

The data structure of such material arrangement information is
As shown in FIG. 29, each piece of data defines a place where the material is arranged on the paper surface 20, a place where the material ID number of the corresponding material is printed, and a place where a temporary heading of the corresponding material is printed. is doing.

For example, if an article, image, or small set is
As an example, as shown in FIG. 29, the case where it is arranged in any of the areas 21 to 32 will be described. Of the areas 21 to 32, the areas 21 to 23 are the text articles a
Is an area for arranging. And the material I is only in the area 21.
The D number "Ta: 1/3" and the temporary headline "Bright rural areas" are printed, and the material ID number "T
When printing only "a: 2/3" and "Ta: 3/3",
The material layout information of the text article a is as shown in FIG.

That is, the data division 63FL (n # 1)
"Line segment" is specified with and the start point / end point X of the upper side of the placement rectangle area
Y coordinate 63UP (n # 1), start point of the lower side of the arrangement rectangular area /
Area 2 with end point XY coordinates 63DW (n # 1), start point / end point XY coordinates 63LT (n # 1) on the left side of the arrangement rectangular area, and start point / end point XY coordinates 63RT (n # 1) on the right side of the arrangement rectangular area
Specifies that the outer frame of 1 is printed. Next, "character string" is specified in the data division 63 (n # 2), and the XY coordinate 63XY (n # 2) of the base point of the first character string is specified, and the material ID number "Ta: 1" is specified as the character string to be printed. By specifying "/ 3", the material ID number "Ta: 1/3" is specified to be printed from the specified XY coordinate 63XY (n # 2). Further, in the data division 63 (n # 3), "character string" is designated, and the XY coordinate 63XY (n #
By specifying 3) and specifying the temporary heading "Bright rural" of the material as the character string to be printed, the temporary heading "Bright rural" of the material is printed from the specified XY coordinates 63XY (n # 3). specify. By designating in this way, printing is performed as shown in the area 21 of FIG.

In the area 22, the temporary heading is not printed, only the material ID number is printed, which is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, data segment 63FL (n # 4) is designated as a “line segment”, and the start / end point XY coordinates 63UP (n # 4) of the upper side of the arrangement rectangular area and the start / end point X of the lower side of the arrangement rectangular area are designated.
Y coordinate 63DW (n # 4), start point of left side of arrangement rectangular area /
The outer frame of the area 22 is specified by the end point XY coordinate 63LT (n # 4), the start point / end point XY coordinate 63RT (n # 4) on the right side of the arrangement rectangular area, and the "character string" is specified by the data division 63 (n # 5). XY coordinates of the base point of the first character string 63XY (n #
5) is specified, and the material ID number "T
By specifying "a: 2/3", the material ID number "Ta: 2/3" is calculated from the specified XY coordinate 63XY (n # 5).
Is specified to be printed. The same applies to the area 23.

Similarly, the material layout information of the text article b shown in FIG. 26 has the areas 25 and 31 as shown in FIG.
Is defined to be printed. The material arrangement information of the image d shown in FIG. 27 is defined so that the area 24 is printed as shown in FIG. The material arrangement information of the image e shown in FIG. 28 is defined so that the area 32 is printed as shown in FIG.

The space data storage unit 7 is a typesetting editing server 6
The paper surface data 71 output from is stored. Further, when the typesetting editing server 6 side requests to read out the stored sheet surface server 71, the sheet surface data 71 is read and output to the typesetting editing server 6.

The output server 8 is a large print from the typesetting terminal 5 /
According to the block copy output instruction, the paper surface data 71 output from the typesetting editing server 6 is expanded into dot data and output to the printer / plotter 9.

The printer / plotter 9 acquires dot data from the output server 8 and outputs a large print or a block copy based on the acquired dot data.

Next, the operation of the newspaper page production system according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

First, the details of the operation for creating the page layout material identification information output data 62 performed by the page layout material identification information output section 61, which is the operation corresponding to step S1 shown in FIG. 2, will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Explain.

First, when the operator inputs a paper surface name from the typesetting terminal 5 to the editing unit 60, the paper surface layout material identification information output unit 61 causes the paper surface data 7 of the input paper surface name.
1 is read from the paper surface data storage unit 7 (S11).
In this way, when the paper surface data 71 is read by the paper surface allocation material identification information output unit 61, the paper surface allocation material identification information output unit 61 initializes the paper surface allocation material identification information output data 62 (S12), and the specified paper surface The management information in the paper data 71 is copied as the management information of the paper layout material identification information output data 62 (S13).

Next, the first material information of the material information in the paper surface data 71 of the designated paper surface is targeted (S14), and the processing from step S15 is performed.

First, in step S15, it is confirmed whether or not the targeted material information is "unplaced". If the targeted material information is “arrangement” (S15: No), the material type 71SB in the paper surface data 71 of the designated paper surface,
The material ID number 71ID and the temporary headline 71KM are written in the page layout material identification information output data 62 (S1).
6).

Next, the number of arranged rectangular areas of the paper data 71 is 7
The number of arranged rectangular areas 62EN is obtained from 1 LMT and written in the page layout material identification information output data 62 (S
17). Furthermore, the layout rectangular coordinates 71LM of the paper data 71
Arrangement rectangle area X start point 62XYSX, arrangement rectangle area Y start point 62X for the number of arrangement rectangle areas 62EN from X, 71LMY
YSY, the arranged rectangular area X end point 62XYEX, and the arranged rectangular area Y end point 62XYEY are calculated and written in the page layout material identification information output data 62 (S18).

Then, from step S16 to step S1
When the processes up to 8 have been performed on all the material information on the designated paper surface (S19: Yes), the creation processing of the paper layout material identification information output data 62 is completed. On the other hand, if there is material information that has not been subjected to the processing from step S16 to step S18 (S19: No), the material information next to the material information on the designated page is targeted,
It returns to step S15 (S20).

Further, in step S15, when the targeted material information is “not arranged” (S15: Ye
s), no processing is performed on this material information,
The process proceeds to step S19.

Next, the details of the operation for creating the final output data 63 performed by the page layout material identification information output section 61, which is the operation corresponding to step S2 shown in FIG. 2, will be described with reference to FIG.
From now on, description will be made with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the final output data 63 is created based on the page layout material identification information output data 62 created according to the operation shown in FIG. 30, first, the created page layout material identification information output data is created. 62 is read (S21), the final output data 63 is further initialized (S22), and the management information in the page layout material identification information output data 62 is copied as the management information of the final output data 63 ( S23).

Next, the first material information of the material information in the page layout material identification information output data 62 is targeted (S2).
4), the processing from step S25 onward is performed.

First, in step S25, it is confirmed whether the material type 62SB of the targeted material information is "article". When the material type 62SB is “article” (S2
5: Yes), the arrangement rectangular area coordinates 62XYSX, 6
Based on 2XYSY, 62XYEX, 62XYEY,
Start point / end point XY coordinates 63UP of the upper side of the arrangement rectangular area, start point / end point XY coordinates 63DW of the lower side, start point / end point XY of the left side
The coordinates 63LT and the start / end XY coordinates 63RT on the right side are calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S2
6).

Next, the head coordinates 63XY for starting the printing of the character string of the material ID number 62ID is calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S27). Further, the head coordinates 63XY for starting the printing of the character string of the temporary headline 62KM are calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S2).
8).

Then, from step S26 to step S2
If the processes up to 8 have been processed by the number of layout positions (S29: Yes) and all the material information on the specified paper surface has been processed (S30: Yes), the final output The process of creating the business data 63 is completed. On the other hand, the processing from step S26 to step S28
When only the number of arrangement positions has not been processed (S29: N
In (o), the material information of the designated paper is targeted, and the process proceeds to step S25 (S31).

In step S25, if the material type 62SB of the targeted material information is not "article" (S
In 25: No), it is confirmed whether or not the material type 62SB is “image”. And this material type 62S
When B is an "image" (S32: Yes), the arrangement rectangular area coordinates 62XYSX, 62XYSY, 62XYE are arranged.
Based on X, 62XYEY, the start point / end point XY coordinates 63UP of the upper side of the arrangement rectangular area and the start point / end point XY coordinates 6 of the lower side
3DW, the left side start point / end point XY coordinates 63LT, and the right side start point / end point XY coordinates 63RT are calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S33).

Next, the start coordinates 63XY for starting the printing of the character string of the material ID number 62ID is calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S34). Further, the head coordinates 63XY at which the printing of the character string of the temporary heading 62KM is started is calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S3
5) Then, the process proceeds to step S30.

In step S32, the targeted material type 62SB is not "image" (S32: No),
If it is not a small set (S36: No), the process proceeds to step S30. On the other hand, in step S32, the targeted material type 62SB is not “image” (S3
2: No), if it is a small set (S36: Yes),
Arrangement rectangular area coordinates 62XYSX, 62XYSY, 62X
Based on YEX and 62XYEY, the start / end XY coordinates 63UP of the upper side of the arrangement rectangular area, the start / end XY coordinates 63DW of the lower side, the start / end XY coordinates 63LT of the left side, the start / end XY coordinates 63RT of the right side are calculated, and the final It is written in the output data 63 (S37).

Next, the start coordinates 63XY for starting the printing of the character string of the material ID number 62ID is calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S38). Further, the head coordinates 63XY at which the printing of the character string of the temporary heading 62KM is started is calculated and written in the final output data 63 (S3
9) Then, the process proceeds to step S30.

The newspaper page production system described in this embodiment can be realized by causing a computer to read a program stored in a storage medium.

Here, as the storage medium in the present invention,
Magnetic disk, floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, optical disk (CD-ROM, DVD, etc.),
The storage format may be any form as long as it is a storage medium that can store a program and can be read by a computer, such as a magneto-optical disk (MO or the like) or a semiconductor memory.

Further, an OS (operating system) running on the computer based on the instructions of the program installed in the computer from the storage medium,
MW such as database management software and network software
(Middleware) or the like may execute a part of each processing for realizing the present embodiment.

Further, the storage medium in the present invention is not limited to a medium independent of the computer, but includes a storage medium in which a program transmitted via a LAN or the Internet is downloaded and stored or temporarily stored.

Further, the number of storage media is not limited to one, and the case in which the processing in the present embodiment is executed from a plurality of media is also included in the storage media in the present invention, and the medium configuration may be any configuration. .

The computer according to the present invention executes each process in the present embodiment based on the program stored in the storage medium, and is a device such as a personal computer or a plurality of devices which are networked. It may have any configuration such as a connected system.

The computer in the present invention means
Not only a personal computer but also an arithmetic processing unit, a microcomputer, and the like included in an information processing device, which collectively refer to a device and a device that can realize the functions of the present invention by a program.

As described above, in the newspaper page production system according to the embodiment of the present invention, due to the above operation, as shown in FIG. 29, the information of the article or the image itself is not printed. In addition, it is possible to print by arranging the arrangement position of the corresponding material on the paper with a line segment and arranging therein the material ID information which is the identification information of the allocated material and the information such as the temporary headline. . That is, since only the identification information of the material allocated to the paper surface and the information such as the temporary headline can be printed at the position of the corresponding material allocation on the paper surface, the operator can easily confirm the allocation status of the paper surface. As a result, it is possible to reduce the burden of the assignment confirmation work and improve the work efficiency.

(Second Embodiment) A second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 35 is a functional block diagram showing an example of the newspaper page production system according to the present embodiment. The same parts as those in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted. Will be described only.

That is, the newspaper page production system according to the present embodiment is a modification of the newspaper page production system according to the first embodiment, and the page layout material provided in the typesetting server 6 in FIG. The identification information output unit 61 is provided in the typesetting terminal 5.

Then, the page layout material identification information output section 61
Is the paper surface data 71 stored in the paper surface data storage unit 7.
Is read out through the typesetting editing server 6, and the layout material is extracted from the paper surface data 71 to output the paper layout material identification information in the same manner as described in the first embodiment with respect to the read paper surface data 71. It has a function of creating the production data 62, converting the produced page layout material identification information output data 62 into final output data 63, and printing the converted final output data 63 from the output server 8.

With such a structure, it is possible to obtain the same effects as those of the first embodiment.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to such configurations. Within the scope of the technical idea of the invention as claimed in the claims, those skilled in the art can come up with various modifications and modifications, and the modifications and modifications are also within the technical scope of the present invention. Be understood to belong to.

[0078]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By printing only the identification information of the material allocated to the paper surface and the information such as the temporary headline at the corresponding material arrangement position on the paper surface, the allocation status of the paper surface can be confirmed.

As described above, the burden on the operator is reduced,
It is possible to realize a newspaper production system and a production program capable of improving work efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a newspaper page production system according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a schematic operation of the newspaper page production system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of management information included in page data.

FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 1 material information (for a text article) included in page data.

FIG. 5 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 2 material information (in the case of a text article) included in page data.

FIG. 6 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 3 material information (in the case of a text article) included in page data.

FIG. 7 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 4 material information (in the case of an image) included in page data.

FIG. 8 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 5 material information (in the case of an image) included in page data.

FIG. 9 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 6 material information (in the case of an image) included in space data.

FIG. 10 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 7 material information (in the case of a small set) included in the space data.

FIG. 11 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 8 material information (in the case of a text article) included in page data.

FIG. 12 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 9 material information (for a text article) included in page data.

FIG. 13 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 10 material information (in the case of an image) included in page data.

FIG. 14 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of article data.

FIG. 15 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of management information included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 16 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 1 material information (in the case of a text article) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 17 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 2 material information (in the case of a text article) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 18 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 4 material information (in the case of an image) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 19 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 5 material information (in the case of an image) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 20 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 7 material information (in the case of a small set) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 21 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 8 material information (in the case of a text article) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 22 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 9 material information (in the case of a text article) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 23 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 10 material information (in the case of an image) included in the page layout material identification information output data.

FIG. 24 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of management information included in final output data.

FIG. 25 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 1 material information (for a text article) included in the final output data.

FIG. 26 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 2 material information (for a text article) included in final output data.

FIG. 27 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 4 material information (in the case of an image) included in final output data.

FIG. 28 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of # 5 material information (in the case of an image) included in final output data.

FIG. 29 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a screen display of page layout material identification information.

FIG. 30 is a flowchart showing the details of the operation for creating the data for outputting the page layout material identification information.

FIG. 31 is a flowchart showing details of the final output data creation operation.

FIG. 32 is a flowchart showing details of the final output data creation operation.

FIG. 33 is a flowchart showing details of a final output data creation operation.

FIG. 34 is a flowchart showing details of the final output data creation operation.

FIG. 35 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a newspaper page production system according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 36 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration example of a newspaper page.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Calibration terminal 2… Article server 3 ... Processing terminal 4 ... Image server 5 ... Typesetting terminal 6 ... Format editing server 7 ... Paper data storage unit 8 ... Output server 9 ... Printer / Plotter 10 ... Newspaper 12 ... Paper 13 ... Daigumi 14 ... Small set 15 ... Image 16 ... Article 17 ... Advertising

Continued front page    (72) Inventor Shinji Kawaguchi             No. 1 Toshiba-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation             Fuchu Office F-term (reference) 2C087 AB05 BA03 BA05 CA02                 5B009 NC01 RC13                 5B050 AA09 BA06 BA10 BA15 BA16                       BA20 EA12 EA19 FA03                 5C076 AA16 AA17 BA04 CA10

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A newspaper page is produced by editing the page data by arranging a plurality of elements including at least articles, images, and photographs to be published on the newspaper page and arranging the edited page data. A system for producing a newspaper page, comprising a printing means for printing the element identification information given in advance to each element at the arrangement position on the sheet where the corresponding element is arranged. 2. The newspaper production system according to claim 1, wherein the element identification information is at least one of an element ID number and a temporary headline. 3. A computer-readable program for producing a newspaper page, wherein the page data is edited by arranging on the page a plurality of elements including at least articles, images and photographs to be published on the newspaper page. A sheet surface editing function, element identification information given in advance to each element arranged in the sheet surface data edited by the sheet surface editing function, identification information for printing at the arrangement position on the sheet surface where the corresponding element is arranged A program for producing newspaper pages that allows a computer to implement the printing function. 4. A computer-readable program for producing a newspaper page, which comprises a plurality of elements including at least articles, images, and photographs to be printed on the newspaper page, and element identification given in advance to each element. An identification information storage function of storing information and storage information in a storage unit; a paper surface editing function of editing paper surface data by arranging any of the elements stored in the storage unit on a paper surface; The element identification information corresponding to each element arranged in the obtained paper surface data is acquired from the storage means, and the acquired element identification information is printed at the arrangement position where the corresponding element is arranged on the paper surface data. A program for producing newspaper pages that enables a computer to implement the identification information printing function. 5. The newspaper production program according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the element identification information is at least one of an element ID number and a temporary headline. ..