JP2004038506A - Method, device, system, and program for business form printing, recording medium for recording the same program and computer - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable ruled line contained in a business form to be printed in appropriate line width regardless of a type of printer. <P>SOLUTION: The business form printing system 10 is equipped with a computer 12 and a printer 14. A storage medium 16 of the computer 12 records a business form printing program 18, a business form defining file 20, a printing color converting file 22, a line width converting file 24, and a business form content file 26. The line width converting file 24 stores line width converting information, which indicates a width of the horizontal rule to be instructed to the printer, in correspondence to the line width of the horizontal line contained in the business form defining information according to the type of printer. The business form printing program 18 prepares the business form printing data on the basis of the business form defining file 20. In doing so, the width of the ruled line contained in the business form defining information is converted on the basis of the line width converting information on the type of printer stored in the line width converting file 24. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for printing a form including a ruled line such as a tax return. The present invention also relates to a program for causing a computer to execute such a method, a recording medium on which the program is recorded, and a computer on which the program is installed.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In a form such as a tax return such as a final income tax return or a local tax return, characters such as numbers representing the contents of the report are described in a character frame. In general, such a tax return is prepared by processing tax payment data by computer and printing it by a printer. At this time, if printing is to be performed on paper of a predetermined format in which a character frame is displayed in advance, it is necessary to finely adjust the printing position so that the characters are correctly arranged in the character frame, which is troublesome. Therefore, conventionally, for example, both character frames and characters are printed on blank paper so that characters can be correctly printed in the character frames without fine adjustment of the print position.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, when printing a form including ruled lines such as character frames as described above, even if a print instruction of the same ruled line width is given to the printer, the width of the printed ruled line may differ depending on the printer model. is there. For this reason, in some printers, ruled lines are printed with an appropriate line width, while in other printers, ruled lines may be too thick or too thin, making them difficult to see. However, conventionally, when printing a form, no consideration is given to the fact that the printed ruled line width differs depending on the printer model. For this reason, if both characters and character frames are printed as described above, the appearance of the form may be deteriorated due to the difference in the printing width of the ruled line depending on the type of printer used.
[0004]
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has as its object to print ruled lines included in a form with an appropriate line width regardless of the printer model.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention is a form printing method for printing a form, wherein the computer comprises:
Definition information acquisition step of acquiring form definition information including the line width of a ruled line constituting the form,
A line width information obtaining step of obtaining line width conversion information representing a ruled line width to be designated by a ruled line print command to a printer to be used, in accordance with the ruled line width included in the form definition information;
Based on the obtained form definition information and line width conversion information, creating a form print data by converting the ruled line width included in the form definition information according to the line width conversion information,
And outputting the created form print data.
[0006]
According to the present invention, line width conversion information representing a ruled line width to be specified by a ruled line print command to a printer to be used is acquired corresponding to the ruled line width included in the form definition information, and To create form print data with the ruled line width converted. Therefore, the ruled lines included in the form can be printed with an appropriate line width regardless of the printer model.
[0007]
In this case, the computer further executes a step of acquiring form content information representing data content to be displayed on the form,
In the print data creating step, the print data including the acquired form content information may be created.
[0008]
Further, in the line width information obtaining step, the line width conversion information input by a user may be obtained. In this way, the user can input the line width conversion information by himself. For example, even when a new printer is introduced, the ruled line width converted by the appropriate line width conversion information according to the printer can be used. Form printing can be performed.
[0009]
Further, the computer further executes a step of allowing the user to select a model of the printer to be used,
In the line width information obtaining step, the line width conversion information for the selected printer model may be obtained by referring to a data storage unit in which the line width conversion information is recorded for each model of the printer. . In this way, when the user selects a printer model, form printing can be performed using the ruled line width converted by the line width conversion information suitable for the printer model.
[0010]
In this case, the computer may further execute a setting step of setting the line width information stored in the data storage unit based on a user input. The setting step includes a step of displaying a model selection screen for the user to select a printer model, and a line width for the user to set the line width conversion information for the printer model selected on the model selection screen. The method may further include displaying a setting screen, and storing, in the data storage unit, line width information set on the line width setting screen for the printer model selected on the model selection screen.
[0011]
The present invention also includes a program for causing a computer to execute the form printing method, a recording medium on which the program is recorded, and a computer on which the program is installed.
[0012]
Further, the present invention is a form printing device for printing a form,
Means for acquiring form definition information including a line width of a ruled line constituting the form,
Means for acquiring line width conversion information indicating a ruled line width to be designated by a ruled line print command given to a printer to be used, in accordance with the ruled line width included in the form definition information;
Based on the obtained form definition information and line width conversion information, means for creating form print data in which the ruled line width included in the form definition information is converted according to the line width conversion information,
Means for outputting the created form print data.
[0013]
Further, the present invention includes a form printing system including such a form printing apparatus and a printer that performs printing in accordance with print data output from the form printing apparatus.
[0014]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a form printing system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the form printing system 10 includes a computer 12 and a printer 14. The printer 14 is, for example, an ink jet type or laser type color printer. In the present embodiment, one or more types of printers 14 are provided, and the printers 14 are registered in the OS (for example, Windows (registered trademark)) of the computer 12. The user can select a printer to be used for printing from the registered printers 14 on the computer 12. Hereinafter, the printer 14 thus selected is referred to as a printer to be used.
[0015]
A form printing program 18 is installed in a storage device 16 such as a hard disk device provided in the computer 12. The storage device 16 also records a form definition file 20, a print color conversion file 22, a line width conversion file 24, and a form content file 26. As will be described later, the form print program 18 generates print data of the form with reference to these files 20 to 26 and outputs it to the printer driver 28 for the printer used. The printer driver 28 transmits a print command suitable for the model of the printer to be used to the printer based on the print data.
[0016]
The form printing program 18 may be stored and distributed on a recording medium 30 such as a flexible disk, a CD-ROM, or a DVD-ROM and installed in the storage device 16 of the computer 12, or may be installed on the computer 12 via a network. May be downloaded to the storage device 16. Alternatively, the form printing program 18 may be installed in the storage device 16 from the beginning, and the form printing system 10 may be provided to the user as a form printing apparatus.
[0017]
2 and 3 show examples of forms printed by the form printing system 10 of the present embodiment. FIG. 2 shows a corporate tax final return, and FIG. 3 shows a consumption tax return. As shown in these figures, the form includes a ruled line 52a that forms a character frame 50 for inputting a character such as an amount and a date for each declared item one character at a time, and a ruled line 52b that appropriately partitions the form (the ruled line 52 and the ruled line 52b). Collectively), title characters 54 indicating the name (title) of each declared item, and the serial number of the item and the form such as “Heisei”, “Year”, “Month”, “Day” in the date are visually checked. The necessary supplementary characters 56 and a selection circle 58 for selecting the corresponding item with a circle are printed.
[0018]
Among the print contents of the form, the ruled line 52 and the auxiliary character 56 are printed in close proximity to the numbers (hereinafter, referred to as data characters 60) to be printed in the frame 50. When these are read by the OCR, A recognition error of the data character 60 may occur. Also, if the selection circle 58 is read by the OCR, it becomes impossible to recognize which item has been selected. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the ruled line 52, the auxiliary character 56, and the selection circle 58 are printed in a dropout color, so that the data characters 60 in the character frame 50 and the selection items in the selection circle 58 are selected. The OCR allows correct recognition. Also, in the example of FIG. 2, the background color 62 is added to the “blue report” column in the upper right part of the sheet, and this background color 62 is also a dropout color.
[0019]
FIG. 4 shows an example of data stored in the form definition file 20. As shown in the figure, the form definition file 20 includes, for each type of form, ruled line information on a ruled line 52 to be printed on the form, character information on a title character 54 and an auxiliary character 56, and data character 60 on each report item. Data character information and the like are stored. The ruled line information includes start point coordinates, end point coordinates, line width, and print color for each ruled line 52 included in each form. The character information includes a character string, a print start position, and a print color for each title character 54 and auxiliary character 56. The data character information includes the item name of each declaration item and the start position of the data character 60.
[0020]
In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the print color is represented by RGB values (each level of R, G, B is represented by, for example, 256 levels from 0 to 255). In the present embodiment, a plurality (for example, four types) of dropout colors DC1 to DC4 are used, and their RGB values are, for example, DC1: (255, 128, 64) and DC2: (255, 128, 128), DC3: (255, 32, 128) and DC4: (255, 64, 0).
[0021]
FIG. 5 shows an example of data stored in the print color conversion file 22. As shown in the figure, in the print color conversion file 22, for each combination of the printer model and the form submission destination (hereinafter referred to as "model / submission destination"), the drop-out specified as the print color in the ruled line definition information. Information (hereinafter, referred to as print color conversion information) indicating the correspondence between the colors DC1 to DC4 and the print colors to be actually instructed to the printer is stored. That is, even if a print command of the same print color is given to the printer, the color tone differs depending on the printer model, and the color tone of the dropout color may differ depending on the OCR model used depending on the destination of the form. Therefore, the print color conversion information corresponding to the model / submission destination is stored in the print color conversion file 22 in order to absorb such a difference in the color tone of the dropout color depending on the printer model and the destination. . In the example of FIG. 5, when the model / submission destination is “EPSON LP8800C Tokyo” (a form to be submitted to a tax office in Tokyo by the EPSON LP8800C is printed), dropout colors DC1: (255, 128, 64), DC2: For (255, 128, 128), DC3: (255, 32, 128), and DC4: (255, 64, 0), the print colors (255, 128, 64) and (255, 128, 128), respectively. , (255, 32, 128) and (255, 64, 0) are associated with each other.
[0022]
FIG. 6 shows an example of data stored in the line width conversion file 24. As shown in the drawing, the line width conversion file 24 contains, for each printer model, information indicating the correspondence between the ruled line width specified in the form definition information and the ruled line width to be actually instructed to the printer (hereinafter, referred to as “line width”). (Referred to as line width conversion information). That is, even if a ruled line printing command of the same line width is given to the printer, the width of the ruled line actually printed may be different depending on the printer model. Line width conversion information corresponding to the printer model is stored in the line width conversion file 24. In the present embodiment, the ruled line width is represented by, for example, the number of points. In the example of FIG. 6, for example, for “EPSON LP8800C”, the ruled line widths “3”, “5”, and “7” in the form definition information correspond to the ruled line widths “4”, “7”, and “9”, respectively. Are associated.
[0023]
The form contents file 26 stores information to be described as report contents in the form (hereinafter, referred to as form contents information). As will be described later, the form content information is set by the user on the setting screen.
[0024]
The form printing program 18 includes a form definition file 20, a print color conversion file 22, a line width conversion file 24, and a form printing process based on the form content file 26 as described above, and a print color conversion file 22, a line width conversion file 24. , And contents setting processing of the form contents file 26, and the like. Hereinafter, the function of the form printing program 18 will be described in detail.
[0025]
FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram showing each functional unit of the form printing program 18. As shown in the figure, the form printing program 18 has a form content setting unit 18A, a form printing unit 18B, and a conversion table setting unit 18C.
[0026]
The form content setting unit 18A sets the form content information stored in the form content file 26. This form content information is divided into basic information common to various forms (for example, information on the filer) and individual information required for each form type (for example, the amount required for tax declaration such as income amount). You. FIG. 8 shows an example of a basic setting screen for setting basic information. As shown in the figure, the setting screen of the basic information is provided with setting fields such as a name of a corporation as a filer, a representative name, a report category, and a business year. FIG. 9 is an example of an individual setting screen for setting individual information, and shows an example of a corporate tax final income tax return. Of the fields displayed on this individual setting screen, some items such as "income or deficit" and "special deduction of corporate tax" are input fields for the amount. Displays a tax amount or the like automatically calculated based on the input amount. The form content information set on the basic setting screen and the individual setting screen is stored in the form content file 26.
[0027]
The form printing unit 18B is activated in response to a print instruction operation from a user. Then, the form content information set in the form content setting unit 18A or read from the form content file 26, the form definition information stored in the form definition file 20, and the printing stored in the print color conversion file 22. With reference to the color conversion information and the line width conversion information stored in the line width conversion file 24, print data of the form is created and output to the printer driver 28 of the printer used.
[0028]
The user can issue a print instruction by, for example, clicking a “print” button on the individual setting screen shown in FIG. In this case, the form in which the individual information is being entered on the individual setting screen (corporate tax return in the case of FIG. 9) is to be printed, and when the “Print” button is clicked, a preview screen showing the print image of the form is displayed. Is displayed. When the “detailed setting” button is further clicked on this preview screen, a print setting screen as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed.
[0029]
When the “printer setting” button is clicked on the print setting screen shown in FIG. 10, a list of printers 14 registered in the computer 12 is displayed. The user can select a printer to be used from this list. When the check box of "color printing" is checked, color printing is turned on, and color printing including a dropout color is performed. Then, the model / submission destination can be set in the “print color” column so that the dropout color can be printed in an appropriate color tone according to the model / submission destination during color printing. That is, when the "▼" mark on the right side of the "print color" column is clicked, the model / submission destination is displayed in a drop-down list as shown in FIG. 11, and the model / submission destination can be selected from the list. When printing a form that is not expected to be read by OCR at the destination or a copy of the form, it is possible to perform monochrome printing by turning off the check box of “color printing”.
[0030]
FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the flow of the printing process by the form printing unit 18B. As shown in the figure, when a print instruction operation is performed, form print data is created for a form to be printed in accordance with form content information and form definition information (S100). Next, it is determined whether or not the color printing is on (S102). If the color printing is on, the model / submission selected in the "print color" column is referred to with reference to the print color conversion file 22. Is obtained (S104). Based on this print color conversion information, the print color of the dropout color included in the form print data created in S100 is converted into a print color according to the model / submission destination (S106). Next, with reference to the line width conversion file 24, line width conversion information for the selected model / printer model corresponding to the submission destination is acquired (S108), and the form printing is performed based on the line width conversion information. The line width of the ruled line included in the data is converted into a line width suitable for the printer model (S110). In this way, a print preview screen is created and displayed based on the form print data in which the print color of the dropout color and the ruled line width have been converted (S112). When the "print" button is clicked on the preview screen (S114), the form print data is output to the printer driver 28 corresponding to the used printer (S116), and the form is printed by the used printer. If color printing is turned off in S102, the process jumps to S108, where only line width conversion is performed.
[0031]
In the above description, the case where the print instruction is issued by clicking the “print” button on the individual setting screen has been described. However, the form printing program 18 may print a plurality of preselected forms at once. It is possible. Also in this case, for each of the plurality of selected forms, the process of converting the print color of the dropout color and the ruled line width is performed in the same manner as described above, and the form print data is output to the printer driver 28. Will be.
[0032]
Next, the conversion table setting unit 18C will be described.
For existing printer models that are commercially available, the form printing program 18 or the vendor or manufacturer of the form printing system 10 must provide the user with a print color conversion file 22 that stores print color conversion information for each model. Can be. However, it is desirable that the user can set the contents of the print color conversion file 22 in order to cope with a case where the print color tone changes due to a change over time in the printer characteristics. Thus, in the present embodiment, the user can set the print color conversion file 22 by the conversion table setting unit 18C.
[0033]
The setting of the print color conversion file 22 can be performed by clicking a “print color setting” button on the print setting screen shown in FIG. When the “print color setting” button is clicked, a print color setting screen as shown in FIG. 13 is displayed. As shown in the figure, the print color setting screen is provided with a target selection column 80 and a color tone setting column 82. In the target selection field 80, the user can select and input the setting target of the dropout color printing color. That is, as described with reference to FIG. 2, the print target in the dropout color includes the ruled line 52, the supplementary character 56, the selection circle 58, and the background color 62. It can be specified.
[0034]
Specifically, when the “▼” mark on the right side of the target selection field 80 is clicked, the options of “OCR frame ruled line”, “character”, “circle”, and “background color” are displayed in a pull-down list format. , And a setting target can be selected from among them. In the color tone setting field 82, the color tone of the dropout color can be set in each of red (R), green (G), and blue (B) in, for example, 256 levels from 0 to 255. The color tone set in the color tone setting field 82 is displayed in the setting confirmation field 84, and when the "test print" button 86 is clicked, test printing is performed by the printer in use using the set color tone. By reading the result of such test printing by OCR on a trial basis, it is possible to confirm whether or not a color tone suitable for the dropout color has been set. In the case where reading is performed by OCR, the optimal RGB value of the dropout color can be set by repeating test printing and reading by OCR while gradually changing the RGB values.
[0035]
When the print color of the dropout color is set for each target item on the print color setting screen and the “OK” button 88 is clicked, the setting contents are changed to the corresponding model / submission destination (the print setting screen of FIG. 10). The print color conversion information is stored in the print color conversion file 22 as print color conversion information for the model / submission selected in the “print color” column.
[0036]
The above is the procedure for changing the print color conversion information already set in the print color conversion file 22. When a new printer is registered in the computer 12, for example, the print color conversion file 22 is changed using a text editor. By directly editing, print color conversion information can be added. That is, in the present embodiment, since the print color conversion file 22 is described by text data in the CSV format or the like, print color conversion information can be directly added. For example, when adding print color conversion information to be submitted to a tax office in Tokyo for a new printer EPSON L550C, the print color conversion file 22 should contain "EPSON L550C Tokyo, R1, G1, B1, R2, G2, B2". , R3, G3, B3, R4, G4, B4 "may be added. However, (Ri, Gi, Bi) (i = 1 to 4) is a print color corresponding to the dropout colors DC1 to DC4.
[0037]
Alternatively, a new print color conversion information setting menu may be provided in the form printing program, and this menu may be used to set print color conversion information for a new printer. That is, when the new setting menu is selected, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, a model / submission destination input field 100, a target selection field 90, a color tone setting field 92, a color tone confirmation field 94, a "test print" button 96, A new registration screen including an “OK” button 98 is displayed. The roles of the target selection column 90, the color tone setting column 92, the color tone confirmation column 94, and the "test print" button 96 are as follows: the target selection column 80, the color tone setting column 82, and the color tone confirmation column 84 of the print color setting screen in FIG. , "Test print" button 86. When the model / submission destination is input in the model / submission input column 90, the setting target is selected in the target selection column 90, the RGB values are set in the color tone setting column 92, and the “OK” button 98 is clicked. The printing colors (RGB values) for each of the setting models / submission destinations are additionally recorded in the printing color conversion file 22.
[0038]
In addition, it is desirable that the content of the line width setting file 24 can be set so that the user can change the line width to a desired ruled line width. In the present embodiment, the line width conversion file 24 is described by text data as well as the print color conversion file 22, and the line width conversion information can be directly changed or added in the same manner as described above. It can be done by editing.
[0039]
Alternatively, a “line width setting” button is provided on the print setting screen shown in FIG. 10, and when this button is clicked, the line width setting screen shown in FIG. 15 is displayed, and the user sets the line width conversion information. You may be able to. As shown in FIG. 15, the line width setting screen is provided with line width setting columns 110. In these setting columns 110, the ruled line width in the form definition information and the ruled line to be instructed to the printer corresponding to the ruled line width. Specify the width. In the setting confirmation column 112, a ruled line image of the set ruled line width is displayed. When the “test print” button 114 is clicked, the ruled line of the set line width is test printed by the printer 14 to be used. You. When the ruled line width is set in the line width setting column 110 and the “OK” button 116 is clicked, the setting contents are stored in the line width conversion file 24 as line width conversion information for the corresponding printer model.
[0040]
When adding line width conversion information for a new printer, a setting screen including a printer model name setting field 120 and a line width setting field 122 is displayed as shown in FIG. The printer model name and the line width conversion information may be additionally recorded in the line width conversion file 24.
[0041]
FIG. 17 shows the results of printing ruled lines by two types of printers, A and B, before applying the present invention (FIG. 17A) and after applying the present invention (FIG. 17B). If the ruled line width specified in the form definition information is, for example, "5", before the application of the present invention, as shown in FIG. On the other hand, after the application of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 7B, a printing instruction of the ruled line width “7” is given to A by the line width conversion based on the line width conversion information, and the printer B is given to the printer B. Is given a print instruction with a ruled line width of "3", whereby ruled lines having substantially the same thickness are printed by both printers.
[0042]
As described above, according to the present embodiment, in consideration of the printing width of the ruled line depending on the printer model, the ruled line width for instructing the printer to print is converted according to the printer model. Therefore, regardless of the printer model, it is possible to print a ruled line having an appropriate line width corresponding to the ruled line width defined in the form definition information. For example, in the corporate tax return as shown in FIG. 2, in the case of a thin dotted line such as a dotted line between a corporate name and a furigana or a dotted line of a selection circle, it is prevented from being blurred by a printer model to make it difficult to see. This makes it possible to prevent the appearance of the form from deteriorating, for example, by making the ruled line too thick to make it difficult to see.
[0043]
In the above-described embodiment, the description has been made assuming that the form content information to be displayed as the declaration content on the form is printed on the form. However, it is also possible to print a form form sheet that does not include the form content information. In this case, the user prints or fills out the contents of the declaration on the printed form sheet and submits it to the tax office or the like.
[0044]
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the printer used and the model / submission destination are separately set. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the print color conversion information corresponding to the model / submission destination is linked to the selection of the printer used. And line width conversion information may be determined. For example, when there is only one submission destination (or when the color tone of the dropout color does not differ depending on the submission destination), the print color conversion information and the line width conversion information corresponding to the selected used printer are printed in a print color conversion file. 22 and the line width conversion file 24. If the dropout color differs depending on the destination, as in the above-described embodiment, the same printer model may be used in a form such as “EPSON LP8800C Tokyo”, “EPSON LP8800C related”, “EPSON LP8800C other”. A plurality of different names including the submission destination may be registered, and the print color conversion information and the line width conversion information corresponding to the name selected as the printer to be used may be read.
[0045]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, ruled lines included in a form can be printed with an appropriate line width regardless of the printer model.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a form printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a corporate tax final return which is an example of a form printed by the form printing system of the embodiment; .
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a consumption tax report, which is an example of a form printed by the form printing system according to the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in a form definition file.
FIG. 5 illustrates an example of data stored in a print color conversion file.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of data stored in a line width conversion file.
FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram illustrating each functional unit of the form printing program.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a basic setting screen for setting basic information of form content information.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a basic setting screen for setting individual information of form content information.
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a print setting screen.
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a model / submission destination is displayed in a drop-down display on a print setting screen.
FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a printing process performed by a form printing unit.
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of a print color setting screen for setting print color conversion information.
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen for setting print color conversion information for a new printer.
FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a line width setting screen.
FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen for setting line width conversion information for a new printer.
FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a result of printing ruled lines before and after application of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 form printing system 12 computer 14 printer 16 storage device 18 form printing program 20 form definition file 22 print color conversion file 24 line width conversion file 26 form content file 28 printer driver 30 recording medium

Claims (12)

A form printing method for printing a form, comprising:
Definition information acquisition step of acquiring form definition information including the line width of a ruled line constituting the form,
A line width information obtaining step of obtaining line width conversion information representing a ruled line width to be designated by a ruled line print command to a printer to be used, in accordance with the ruled line width included in the form definition information;
Based on the obtained form definition information and line width conversion information, creating a form print data by converting the ruled line width included in the form definition information according to the line width conversion information,
Outputting the created form print data. 2. The form printing method according to claim 1, wherein the computer further executes a step of acquiring form content information representing data content to be displayed on the form.
In the print data creating step, the print data including the acquired form content information is created. The form printing method according to claim 1 or 2,
In the method, the line width information acquiring step acquires the line width conversion information input by a user. 3. The form printing method according to claim 1, wherein the computer further executes a step of allowing a user to select a printer model to be used,
In the line width information obtaining step, the line width conversion information for the selected printer model is obtained by referring to a data storage unit in which the line width conversion information is recorded for each model of the printer. how to. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the computer further executes a setting step of setting the line width information stored in the data storage unit based on a user input. 6. The form printing method according to claim 5, wherein the setting step includes a step of displaying a model selection screen for a user to select a printer model, and the user performs the line width conversion for the printer model selected on the model selection screen. Displaying a line width setting screen for setting information; and storing the line width information set on the line width setting screen in the data storage unit for the printer model selected on the model selection screen. A method comprising: 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ruled line includes a line forming a character frame. A program for causing a computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7. A recording medium on which the program according to claim 8 is recorded. A computer on which the program according to claim 8 is installed. A form printing device for printing a form,
Means for acquiring form definition information including a line width of a ruled line constituting the form,
Means for acquiring line width conversion information indicating a ruled line width to be designated by a ruled line print command given to a printer to be used, in accordance with the ruled line width included in the form definition information;
Based on the obtained form definition information and line width conversion information, means for creating form print data in which the ruled line width included in the form definition information is converted according to the line width conversion information,
Means for outputting the created form print data. A form printing system comprising: the form printing apparatus according to claim 11; and a printer that performs printing in accordance with print data output from the form printing apparatus.

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