JP2006048504A - Device and method for business form generation and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve user's operability and easiness of business form generation processing by previously storing settings of ground tints in a business form file. <P>SOLUTION: A business form generating method includes a ground tint printing decision stage of deciding whether ground tint printing is possible, a ground tint generating stage of generating a ground tint image when the printing is possible, an overlay printing decision stage of deciding whether printer overlay printing is possible, a form registering stage of registering a form by processing a business form template when the printing is possible, a form calling stage of calling the registered form, a form printing stage of printing the form when the printer overlay printing is possible, and a field printing stage of printing fields by processing field definitions and field data of the business form template. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a software for creating a form, and in particular, records a form creation apparatus, a form creation method, and a control program for creating a form for printing a form with a copy check pattern for checking copying for an illegal purpose. The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium.

  Important documents such as securities such as gold vouchers and seal certificates were printed on special paper pre-printed with a background pattern for the purpose of checking copy. The background pattern is a pattern in which there are a part that disappears when copied by a copying machine and a part that is reproduced, and the reproduced part is called a latent image. For example, what appears to be a fine geometric pattern at first glance, and a character such as “copy” emerges when copied. Copying a form with such a copy-checking copy-forgery-inhibited pattern provides an effect of checking copying for an illegal purpose because only a copy that can be clearly seen as a copy is obtained.

In recent years, there has been devised a form creation device that prints a background of a background pattern and a form at the same time using a general printer instead of printing the form on dedicated paper on which a copy check pattern has already been printed. For example, Patent Document 1 below devises a form creation device that simultaneously prints a background of a background pattern and a form using a “security form definition file” that defines a setting of a background pattern to be printed before form printing. With such an apparatus, plain paper can be used instead of expensive exclusive paper, so the cost of purchasing and storing paper can be greatly reduced.
JP 2001-324898 A

  Usually, whether or not a background pattern is used as a background, and a character string or logo image as a latent image of the background pattern is often determined by the type of form. However, since the conventional form creation device that simultaneously prints a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern and a form performs setting and processing of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern and the like separately from the form printing process, for example, the user creates a latent image in the printer driver before printing. When it is necessary to make settings such as character strings and fonts, or when a company logo image is used as a latent image, the image file is placed in a specific location in advance by a process separate from the form printing process or by user operation. There was a need to do. For example, in the case of the above-mentioned patent document 1, it is necessary to arrange the “security form definition file” and the file specified therein in advance on local and network drives accessible from the form creation device.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems. By storing the background pattern settings in a form file in advance, the operability of the user and the simplicity of the form creation process are improved. It is an object of the present invention to provide a computer-readable recording medium that records a form creation device, a form creation method, and a control program for creating a form.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention includes a data acquisition unit that acquires a form template and field data, and a form printing unit that processes the acquired data and prints a form with a background pattern as a background.

  The present invention also provides a tint block printing determination unit that determines whether tint block printing is possible, a tint block printing unit that prints tint blocks if possible, an overlay printing determination unit that determines whether printer overlay printing is possible, and Form registration means for processing form templates and registering forms, form calling means for calling registered forms, form printing means for printing forms if printer overlay printing is not possible, field definitions and field data for form templates Field printing means for processing and printing the field.

  According to the present invention, by setting the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information in the form template file in advance, in order to print the form with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern as the background, each user who performs printing sets the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern or sets the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image or the like in the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image It is no longer necessary to place necessary files in a location accessible from the form creation device. In the printing, a printer overlay function can be used.

  In addition, since a specific background pattern is always printed simultaneously with the form as a background by the form, it is possible to prevent a malicious user from printing the form without a background pattern or printing only the background pattern.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an embodiment of a form creation apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a flow of data processing. 3 to 4 are flowcharts showing the flow of data processing in the computer of FIG.

  First, the configuration of the form creation apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  The form creation apparatus according to this embodiment includes a central processing unit 1, a storage device 2, a display device 3, a keyboard 4, a mouse 5, an external storage device 6, a printing device 7, a network connection device 8, and the like.

  The external auxiliary storage device 6 indicates that a program or the like is distributed from the medium to the computer. ROM, floppy (registered trademark) disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, memory card, magneto-optical disk, or the like can be used as a storage medium for storing programs and the like. FIG. 5 shows the configuration of the form creation program in the storage medium.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the form creation device acquires them from a device such as a database or a file server in which form templates and field data are stored, and prints them on the printing device by processing the form creation program.

  FIG. 6 shows a memory map in a state in which a form creation program, form template, field data, and program work memory are stored in the storage device 2 and the program can be executed.

  The form template includes information on the form as a whole, such as the form name, definitions related to forms that are fixed parts such as form borders, the definition of each field that is the field data field, and the setting of the tint block. Create it as a file with the information set in advance. FIG. 7 is an example of the structure of a form template.

  The copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information included in the form template is setting information that characterizes the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern used as the background of the form. The latent image is an image that emerges when copied, and the camouflage image is an image for making the latent image more difficult to be seen by the human eye when the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is printed. For printing a tint block, a pure toner color of a printer is generally used, and the tint block color is any one of black, yellow, magenta, and cyan. Therefore, in the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information, the latent image and the camouflage image are valid monochrome images, and black bits are printed in the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern color at the time of printing. When the printer is monochrome, even if the setting is other than black, printing is performed in the same manner as the black setting.

  FIG. 8 is an example of a screen for setting copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information. When a file is designated by the latent image reference button in FIG. 8, if the file is a valid latent image, the file name is not only stored in the latent image name in FIG. Is stored in the latent image of FIG. The same applies to the camouflage image. When the clear button is pressed, all the tint block information is cleared and the tint block is not printed.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

  First, the overall operation will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.

  First, it is determined whether the printer and the printer driver can perform the background pattern printing (step 301). If the background pattern printing is possible, the background pattern printing is performed (step 302). A printer and printer driver capable of printing a tint block can be used to set a tint block property of a printer driver from a print program and print a tint block in an appropriate state.

  FIG. 9 is an example of a tint block property that can be set for a printer driver from a program. When a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern print command is sent from the program, the printer driver creates a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image according to the set copy-forgery-inhibited pattern parameters and prints it in an appropriate state. For example, in general, if the tint block is not printed with the pure color of the toner of the printer, the latent image will be lowered when copied, so the tint block is printed without using the color management system (CMS).

  The subsequent processing is the same as that of conventional form printing. It is determined whether the printer and the printer driver can perform printer overlay printing (step 303). If possible, form registration (step 304) and call of the registered form (step 305) are performed. If printer overlay printing is possible, steps 304 to 305 allow normal printing after the registered form is first printed without drawing the form on subsequent pages. Then, it is determined again whether the printer overlay printing is possible (step 306). If not, the form is drawn (step 307), the result of the field data flowing into the field is drawn (step 308), and all the field data is displayed. It is determined whether processing has been performed (step 309). If field data still remains, the process returns to step 306, and steps 306 to 308 are performed until all the field data is processed, and the processing is terminated.

  Next, the tint block printing process in step S302, which is one of the features of the present invention, will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information is acquired from the form template stored in 604 of FIG. 6 (step 401), and it is determined whether there is copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information (step 402). If there is copy-forgery-inhibited pattern information, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern parameter is set in the printer driver (step 403), and it is determined whether the printer and the printer driver can perform printer overlay printing (step 404). If not, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern print command is sent (step 405). Then, a background pattern reflecting the background pattern parameters is printed. At this point, the paper is not discharged.

  If it is determined in step 404 that printer overlay printing is possible, a background pattern form registration command is sent (step 406), and the registered background pattern form is called (step 407). When a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern form registration command is sent to the printer driver, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is created in accordance with the set copy-forgery-inhibited pattern parameter, and the form is registered in the printer. At this time, since the background pattern must be printed in a lower layer than the normal form, it is registered as the lowermost layer form.

The block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the information processing system which actualizes this execution Conceptual diagram showing the flow of data processing in this implementation The flowchart which shows the flow of the data processing in the computer of FIG. The flowchart which shows the flow of the data processing in the computer of FIG. The figure which shows the structure of the form creation program in the storage medium Memory map in which the form creation program can be executed Diagram showing an example of a form template The figure which shows an example of the setting screen of a tint block information Figure showing an example of tint block properties that can be set in the printer driver

Explanation of symbols

1 Central processing unit 2 Storage device 3 Display device 4 Keyboard 5 Mouse 6 External auxiliary storage device 7 Printing device 8 Network connection device 601 Basic I / O program 602 OS
603 Form creation program 604 Form template 605 Field data 606 Program work memory

Claims (7)

  A form creation apparatus comprising: a data acquisition unit that acquires a form template and field data; and a form printing unit that processes the acquired data and prints a form with a background pattern as a background.   The form creation device according to claim 1, further comprising a background pattern information setting unit configured to set background pattern information in the form template.   A copy-forgery-inhibited pattern print determining unit for determining whether copy-forgery-inhibited pattern printing is possible, a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern print unit for printing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern if possible, an overlay print determining unit for determining whether or not printer overlay printing is possible, and processing a form template if possible Form registration means for registering forms, form calling means for calling registered forms, form printing means for printing forms if printer overlay printing is not possible, field definitions and field data for form templates, and printing of fields And a field printing means.   A form creation method comprising: a data acquisition step of acquiring a form template and field data; and a form generation means for processing the acquired data to generate a form image with a background pattern as a background.   The form creation method according to claim 4, further comprising a background pattern information setting step of setting background pattern information in the form template.   A tint block printing determination step for determining whether tint block printing is possible, a tint block generation step for generating a tint block image if possible, an overlay printing determination step for determining whether printer overlay printing is possible, and a form template if possible. The form registration process to register the form, the form call process to call the registered form, the form printing process to print the form if printer overlay printing is not possible, the field definition and field data of the form template, and the field A form creation method comprising a field printing process for printing.   A storage medium storing a computer-readable program for causing a computer to execute the procedure of the form creation method according to claim 4.