JP2007276377A - Printing apparatus, printing data output apparatus, printing method, printing data output method, and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing apparatus capable of bringing a page only with annotation and a page in which the whole text is covered with the annotation to the out of an object for printing when document data are printed, a printing data output apparatus, a printing method, a printing data output method and computer program. <P>SOLUTION: The printing apparatus 180 is characterized by having a document input part 130 for receiving input of the document data 110 which can include the page text and the annotation, a document judging part 140 for judging whether it is a page only with the annotation to respective pages of the document data 110 input, and a printing part 150 which prints the pages of the document data 110 by excluding the pages only with the annotation based on the result of the judgement of the document judging part 140. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing apparatus, a printing data output apparatus, a printing method, a printing data output method, and a computer program, and in particular, a printing apparatus and a printing data output apparatus used when printing document data that can include a page text and an annotation. The present invention relates to a printing method, a print data output method, and a computer program.

  Conventionally, there are many prior arts regarding an editing method, an adding method, a managing method, etc. of annotation as additional information for document data (see, for example, Patent Document 2). Among them, as a printing method that takes annotations into account, a technique has been proposed in which annotations that protrude from the print range of document data fall within the print range (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  In addition, a technique has been proposed in which a user selects an annotation to be printed through a screen operation and prints it out when document data is printed (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

JP-A-8-292755 JP-A-10-287015 JP 2005-25548 A

  However, when printing document data, if you want to exclude pages with annotation only or pages whose entire page text is covered by annotation from the viewpoint of saving blank pages, it is necessary to give instructions via user operations. There was a problem that burdened. In particular, the burden on the user is significant when printing document data including a large number of pages, and it has been difficult to directly print the document data without giving an instruction via a user operation.

  Therefore, the present invention is a new and improved method that can set a page with only annotations or a page whose entire page body is covered with annotations to be excluded from printing targets without user operation when printing document data. A printing apparatus, a print data output apparatus, a printing method, a print data output method, and a computer program are provided.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a document input unit that receives input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page or not. There is provided a printing apparatus, comprising: a document determination unit that determines a document; and a printing unit that prints a page of the document data excluding a page with only an annotation based on a determination result of the document determination unit. .

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, a document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and the entire page body is opaque to each page of the input document data. Based on the determination result of the document determination unit that determines whether the page is covered by the annotation and the document determination unit, the page of the document data is printed except for the page that is entirely covered by the opaque annotation. There is provided a printing apparatus including a printing unit.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, a document input unit that receives input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page or not. A print data output unit that outputs, as print data, a page of the document data excluding an annotation-only page based on a determination result of the document determination unit. A data output device is provided.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, a document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and the entire page body is opaque to each page of the input document data. Based on the determination result of the document determination unit that determines whether or not the page is covered by the annotation, and the page determination result of the document determination unit, the page of the document data is excluded from the page that is covered by the opaque annotation. And a print data output unit that outputs the data as a print data output unit.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, a document input step for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and whether or not each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page And a print data output step for printing the document data page excluding the annotation-only page based on the determination result of the document determination step. Is done.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, a document input process that accepts input of document data that can include a page body and annotations, and the entire page body is opaque to each page of the input document data. Based on the determination result of the document determination step for determining whether or not the page is covered by the annotation and the determination result of the document determination step, the page of the document data is printed excluding the page covered by the annotation that is opaque to the entire page body. And a printing data output step. A printing method is provided.

  According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, a document input step for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and whether or not each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page A document determination step for determining a document, and a print data output step for outputting, as print data, pages of the document data excluding an annotation-only page based on the determination result of the document determination step. A data output method is provided.

  According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, a document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and the entire page body is opaque to each page of the input document data. Based on the document determination step for determining whether or not the page is covered by the annotation and the determination result of the document determination step, the page of the document data excluding the page covered by the annotation whose entire page body is opaque is printed data. And a print data output process for outputting as a print data output method.

  According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, a document input step for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation, and whether or not each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page A computer for causing a computer to perform a document determination step for determining a document and a print data output step for outputting, as print data, a page of the document data excluding an annotation-only page based on a determination result of the document determination step A program is provided. Furthermore, according to the present invention, a recording medium on which the computer program is recorded is provided.

  According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, a document input process that accepts input of document data that can include a page body and annotations, and the entire page body is opaque to each page of the input document data. Based on the document determination step for determining whether or not the page is covered by the annotation and the determination result of the document determination step, the page of the document data excluding the page covered by the annotation whose entire page body is opaque is printed data. A computer program is provided for causing a computer to perform a print data output process to be output as Furthermore, according to the present invention, a recording medium on which the computer program is recorded is provided.

  According to the present invention, when printing document data, it is possible to set an annotation-only page or a page whose entire page body is covered by the annotation to be excluded from printing without user operation.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the present specification and drawings, components having substantially the same functional configuration are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

(First embodiment)
A printing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration of a printing system 10 according to the present embodiment.

  The printing system 10 includes a PC (Personal Computer) client 100 and a printing apparatus 180 (in the present embodiment, indicates a multifunction peripheral).

  The printing apparatus 180 accepts input of document data 110 from the PC client 100. Subsequently, the printing apparatus 180 determines whether or not the input document data 110 corresponds to an annotation-only page or a page whose entire page body is covered by the annotation.

  The document data 110 is, for example, data in a PDF (Portable Document Format) format capable of separating an object of a page body (hereinafter referred to as a page body), and an annotation drawing object (hereinafter referred to as an annotation). is there.

  Here, the annotation is information added to the page text (for example, an electronic sticky note).

  Further, the document data 110 may include a page composed only of annotations indicating proofreading information or update history information. Further, the same page of the document data 110 may include a page body, a transparent annotation, and an opaque annotation.

  Here, the transparent annotation means that the content of the page text under the annotation can be printed transparently. An opaque annotation is one in which the content of the page text under the annotation cannot be printed transparently.

  Based on the determination result, the printing apparatus 180 prints and outputs a page of the document data 110 excluding a page with only the annotation and a page in which the entire page body is covered with the annotation as a print target page.

  The PC client 100 is a terminal used by a general user connected to the printing apparatus 180 on a computer network.

  The PC client 100 can read a storage medium (for example, FD, CD-R, DVD-R, MO, etc.) including the document data 110.

  The PC client 100 can directly print the document data 110 read from the storage medium to the printing apparatus 180. As a result, the document data 110 is input to the printing apparatus 180.

  The printing apparatus 180 includes a controller 120 and a print engine 170. The controller 120 receives input of document data 110 from the PC client 100. Further, the controller 120 may accept an input of the document data 110 stored in the storage device of the printing apparatus 180.

  The controller 120 determines whether or not the received document data 110 is a page with only annotations or a page whose entire page body is covered with annotations.

  Then, based on the determination result, the controller 120 converts the print target page of the document data 110 into raster data in BMP (Bit MaP) format or JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format, and outputs the raster data to the print engine 170.

  The print engine 170 prints out using the raster data output from the controller 120.

  The controller 120 includes a document input unit 130, a document determination unit 140, and a print data output unit 150.

  The document input unit 130 receives input of document data 110 from the PC client 100. Further, the document input unit 130 can accept input of the document data 110 stored in the storage device of the printing apparatus 180.

  When the icon indicating the document data 110 to be output is dragged and dropped on the icon indicating the application linked to the printing apparatus 180 on the desktop screen of the PC client 100, a direct printing request to the printing apparatus 180 is generated. Document data 110 is input to the document input unit 210.

  The document determination unit 140 determines whether each page of the document data 110 input to the document input unit 130 is an annotation-only page or a page whose entire page body is covered by an opaque annotation.

  Based on the determination result of the document determination unit 140, the print data output unit 150 sets the page of the document data 110 excluding the page with only the annotation and the page covered by the opaque annotation with the entire page body as the print target page.

  The print data output unit 150 converts the print target page of the document data 110 into raster data in BMP format or JPEG format, and then outputs the raster data to the print engine 170.

(Second Embodiment)
A print data output apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of the printing system 20 according to the present embodiment.

  The printing system 20 includes a print data output device 250 (in the present embodiment, indicates a PC client) and a printing device 290 (in the present embodiment, indicates a multifunction peripheral).

  The print data output device 250 can read a storage medium including the document data 110 (for example, FD, CD-R, DVD-R, MO, etc.).

  The print data output device 250 can directly print the document data 110 read from the storage medium to the printing device 290.

  The printing apparatus data output apparatus 250 determines whether or not the document data 110 corresponds to an annotation-only page or a page whose entire page body is covered by the annotation.

  Based on the determination result, the print data output device 250 converts the page of the document data 110 excluding the page with only the annotation and the page whose entire page body is covered by the annotation into PDL (Page Description Language) data 240. Thereafter, the data is output to the printing apparatus 290.

  The printing apparatus 290 prints out using the PDL data 240 output from the print data output apparatus 250.

  The print data output device 250 includes a print driver 200 that controls the operation of the printing device 290. The print driver 200 includes a document input unit 210, a document determination unit 220, and a print data output unit 230.

  The document input unit 210 receives input of the document data 110 from a storage medium connected to the print data output device 250. The document input unit 210 can also accept input of the document data 110 stored in the storage device of the print data output device 250.

  When the icon indicating the document data 110 to be output is dragged and dropped on the icon indicating the application linked to the printing device 290 on the desktop screen of the print data output device 250, a direct print request to the printing device 290 is issued. The document data 110 is input to the document input unit 210.

  The document determination unit 220 determines whether each page of the document data 110 input to the document input unit 210 is an annotation-only page or a page whose entire page text is covered by an opaque annotation.

  Based on the determination result of the document determination unit 220, the print data output unit 230 sets the page of the document data 110 excluding the page with only the annotation and the page covered with the non-transparent annotation as the page to be printed.

  The print data output unit 230 converts the print target page of the document data 110 into PDL data 240 that can be analyzed by the printing apparatus 290, and then outputs the PDL data 240 to the printing apparatus 290.

  The printing apparatus 290 includes a controller 260 and a print engine 280.

  The controller 260 converts the PDL data output from the print data output unit 230 into raster data 270 in BMP format or JPEG format, and then outputs it to the print engine 280.

  The print engine 280 prints out using the raster data 270 output from the controller 260.

(Operation)
The operations of the document input unit, document determination unit, and print data output unit in the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing flow of the above operation.

  In step S10, the document input unit accepts input of document data that can include a page text and annotations.

  In step S20, the document determination unit determines whether or not the page of the document data input by the document input unit (hereinafter referred to as a determination target page) is only an annotation page. If the determination target page is an annotation-only page, the process proceeds to step S30. If the determination target page is not an annotation-only page, the process proceeds to step S50.

  In step S <b> 30, the document determination unit determines whether or not the entire page body is covered with the opaque annotation for the determination target page of the document data. If the determination target page is covered with an annotation that is opaque to the entire page body, the process proceeds to step S50. If the determination target page is not covered with an annotation that is opaque to the entire page body, the process proceeds to step S40.

  In step S40, the document determination unit sets the determination target page as a print target page. And a process changes to step S60.

  In step S50, the document determination unit sets the determination target page as a non-print target page. And a process changes to step S60.

  In step S60, if the determination target page is the last page, the process proceeds to step S80. If the determination target page is not the last page, the process proceeds to step S70.

  In step S70, the determination target page is advanced by one, and the process transitions to step S20.

  In step S80, the print data output unit collectively converts the print target pages of the document data into data used for printing, and then outputs the data to the output device.

(effect)
According to the embodiment of the present invention, when printing document data, it is possible to set an annotation-only page to be excluded from printing without user operation.

  For example, in the document data, when an independent page such as proofreading information or history information can be displayed by annotation, only the page having the page body text excluding the page can be printed. Therefore, it is possible to save paper used when printing document data.

  Furthermore, according to the embodiment of the present invention, when document data is printed, a page whose entire page body is covered with annotations can be excluded from printing without user operation.

  For example, it is possible to set a page that is not required to be printed as a non-printable page by covering it with a non-transparent annotation without actually deleting the page that is considered to be temporarily unnecessary. Therefore, it is possible to save paper used when printing document data.

  For a page whose entire page body is covered by an opaque annotation, the entire page body can be confirmed by the application. In addition, the non-printable page can be changed to the print target page by removing the opaque annotation on the application. Therefore, convenience in managing document data can be improved.

  As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described referring an accompanying drawing, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is not limited to the example which concerns. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made within the scope of the claims, and these are naturally within the technical scope of the present invention. Understood.

  For example, in this embodiment, the document determination unit sets a page with annotation only and a page whose entire page body is covered with annotation as a non-printable page, but sets only a page with annotation only as a non-printable page. Alternatively, only pages whose entire page body is covered with annotations may be set as non-printable pages.

  For example, in this embodiment, the document determination unit sets a page whose entire page text is covered with annotations as a non-printable page, but sets a page where a part of the page text is covered as a non-printable page. May be.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the structure of the printing system concerning the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structure of the printing system concerning the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operation processing flow concerning embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  10, 20 Printing system 110 Document data, 130, 210 Document input unit, 140, 220 Document judgment unit, 150, 230 Print data output unit, 160, 270 Raster data, 180, 290 Printing device, 240 PDL data, 250 Print data Output device.

Claims (10)

A document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include page text and annotations;
A document determination unit that determines whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page;
Based on the determination result of the document determination unit, a printing unit that prints the page of the document data excluding the page of only the annotation;
A printing apparatus comprising: A document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include page text and annotations;
A document determination unit that determines whether or not the entire page body is a page covered by an opaque annotation for each page of the input document data;
Based on the determination result of the document determination unit, a printing unit that prints a page of the document data, excluding a page whose entire page body is covered with an opaque annotation;
A printing apparatus comprising: A document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include page text and annotations;
A document determination unit that determines whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page;
A print data output unit that outputs, as print data, pages of the document data excluding annotation-only pages based on the determination result of the document determination unit;
A print data output device comprising: A document input unit that accepts input of document data that can include page text and annotations;
A document determination unit that determines whether or not the entire page body is a page covered by an opaque annotation for each page of the input document data;
A print data output unit that outputs a page of the document data as print data, excluding a page whose entire page body is covered with an opaque annotation, based on a determination result of the document determination unit;
A print data output device comprising: A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page;
Based on the determination result of the document determination step, a printing step of printing a page of the document data excluding an annotation-only page;
A printing method, comprising: A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether or not each page of the input document data is a page whose entire page body is covered by an opaque annotation;
Based on the determination result of the document determination step, a printing step of printing a page of the document data, excluding a page whose entire page body is covered with an opaque annotation;
A printing method, comprising: A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page;
A print data output step for outputting, as print data, pages of the document data excluding annotation-only pages based on the determination result of the document determination step;
A print data output method comprising: A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether or not each page of the input document data is a page whose entire page body is covered by an opaque annotation;
A print data output step for outputting a page of the document data as print data, excluding a page whose entire page body is covered with an opaque annotation, based on a determination result of the document determination step;
A print data output method comprising: A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether each page of the input document data is an annotation-only page;
A print data output step for outputting, as print data, pages of the document data excluding annotation-only pages based on the determination result of the document determination step;
A computer program that causes a computer to perform A document input process for receiving input of document data that can include a page body and an annotation;
A document determination step for determining whether or not each page of the input document data is a page whose entire page body is covered by an opaque annotation;
A print data output step for outputting a page of the document data as print data, excluding a page whose entire page body is covered with an opaque annotation, based on a determination result of the document determination step;
A computer program that causes a computer to perform

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