JP2577341B2 - Document creation device and document printing method - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus and a document printing method capable of printing all of a plurality of documents registered as one group.

[Technical Background of the Invention] In order to print a document registered in a document creating apparatus of this type, the following operation is performed. That is, the operator first calls a work menu as shown in FIG. Select print. Then, the print document name list menu shown in FIG. 5 is called on the screen. Next, the name of the document group to be printed is specified by this menu. However, in the menu shown in FIG. 5, those marked with a ● mark at the top leave the group name of the same kind of document, and those without the mark represent a single document name. here, Shall be selected. When this selection is made, the screen displays a list of document names in a group shown in FIG. 6 and displays a list of single documents in the "Anna" group selected in FIG. When a desired menu to be printed is selected, for example, "Mr. 1" from this menu, the format setting menu shown in FIG. 7 is called on the screen. When a desired format is designated by this menu, the printing of the document name "Momoyoshi 1" of the "Anna" group is executed.

FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of the printing operation after setting the print format. First, in step 801, the seventh
The contents formatted by the menu shown in the figure are stored in the main memory of the apparatus, and the stored values are stored in the data area in the main memory used when executing the program. Next, in step 802, format setting values other than the number of copies are initialized, and in step 803, the document specified by the menu shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is read from the floppy disk device, and Transferred to memory. In step 804, printing of the document is executed, and in step 805, 1 is decremented from the designated number of copies. Next, it is determined in step 806 whether or not the number of print copies has become zero. If the number of prints has become zero, the process ends. If not, the process returns to step 802.

[Problems of Background Art] By the way, if you want to print all the documents in the "Anna" group shown in FIG. Must be repeated.

On the other hand, in a document creation device, the number of pages of a document created as one document is generally several pages to several tens of pages. For this reason, when a large document is created, it is common practice to divide the document into a plurality of documents and make them into one group. In such a case, one document group is often printed collectively, and in the conventional document creation apparatus, the print designation operation must be repeated as many times as the number of print documents as described above, which makes the operation complicated and troublesome. However, there was a drawback that it took.

[Object of the Invention] An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus and a document printing method that can easily perform an operation of printing all single documents constituting one group at a time, in view of the above-described drawbacks. Is to do.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, a document creation device of the present invention comprises:
A document storage unit that stores a plurality of documents constituting a group in association with a group name for managing the document group, a print instruction unit that issues a document print instruction, and a print format of the document. Print format setting means for calling, group control means for calling a group name from the document storage means in response to a print instruction from the print instruction means, and displaying the called group name on a display means for displaying various information. A group name designation unit for designating a group name to be printed from among the group names displayed on the display unit, and a plurality of documents managed by the group name designated by the group name designation unit. A document retrieving means for sequentially retrieving the documents from the document storing means; By providing a printing means for sequentially printing according to format, is characterized in that so as to print the print format unified a plurality of document managed by the group name specified by the group name specifying means.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document printing method, comprising the steps of: determining whether a command indicating a document printing instruction is input; Retrieving and displaying a group name from a memory in which a plurality of documents constituting the document are associated with a group name for managing the document group; and displaying a predetermined group name from the displayed group names. When a document designated as a print target is designated, sequentially retrieving documents managed by the designated group name from the memory; and And sequentially printing the called documents in the step of calling the documents in accordance with the print format committee, wherein a plurality of documents managed by a specified group name are managed. Characterized by being adapted to print the print format unified calligraphy.

Embodiments of the Invention One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the document creation apparatus of the present invention. A bus 50 to which the microprocessor 1 is connected
A main memory (MMU) 2 via a floppy disk controller (FDC) 3, a floppy disk device 4, a keyboard 6 via a keyboard controller (KBC) 5, and a CRT via a CRT controller (CRTC) 7.
8, a kanji pattern memory (KPM) 9 is connected to a printer device (PRT) 11 via a printer controller (PRTC) 10.

The microprocessor 1 controls the entire system, and executes processes such as document creation, editing, and proofreading based on a program stored in the main memory 2. The main memory 2 stores various program information for the microprocessor 1,
This is an internal memory for storing a plurality of pages of document information and the like according to a predetermined format. The floppy disk device 4 is an external storage means, and the input and output of data is controlled by the floppy disk controller 3 to store program information, document information and the like. The keyboard 6 has various data keys and function keys for inputting a document, and is controlled by the keyboard controller 5. The CRT 8 is a display device that displays various work menus, created documents, control information of the document being created, and the like, and is controlled by the CRT controller 7. The kanji pattern memory 9 stores fonts of characters used in this apparatus. The printer device 11 prints a created document, a document catalog, and the like. The printing operation is controlled by the printer controller 10.

First, when the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is turned on, the program information stored in the floppy disk device 4 is loaded into a predetermined program storage area of the main memory 2 under the control of the floppy disk controller 3. Is done. Thereafter, the microprocessor 1 transmits the work menu information stored in the main memory 2 to the CRT 8 via the CRT controller 7 in accordance with the loaded program.
Display on the screen. The operator selects a desired menu from the work menu displayed on the screen of the CRT 8 by using the keyboard 6.
Is selected by operating. The information selected by the operator is notified to the microprocessor 1 via the keyboard controller 5, and the microprocessor 1 processes the transmitted information, and stores a new memory for the next processing based on the information in the main memory 2. And displays it on the CRT 8 via the CRT controller 7. Next, the operator operates the keyboard 6 from the menu displayed on the CRT 8 to select a desired process as in the previous case. Similarly, necessary information is sequentially displayed on the screen of the CRT 8 one after another, and information selected by the operator is sequentially input to the microprocessor 1.

Next, the operation of printing all single documents constituting one group at the same time will be described. In this case, first CRT8
The work menu shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the screen of FIG. Here, the operator operates the keyboard 6 to display When printing is designated, the microprocessor 1 reads the list information of the document names from the floppy disk device 3 in accordance with the program stored in the main memory 2 and reads the list information of the document names through the CRT controller 7 as shown in FIG.
Display on screen 8. A document having a black mark at the beginning of the document name in the printed document name list indicates the group name. here It is assumed that the group having the document name "Anna" is selected.

When "Anna" is selected in the work menu shown in FIG. 5, the list of document names in the group shown in FIG.
Shown on the screen of CRT8. This list of document names in a group differs from the list of document names in a group described in FIG. 6 in the conventional example in that the group name itself is displayed as a zero item in the list display.
Others are the same as those shown in FIG.

Therefore, when it is desired to perform the same printing operation as in the conventional example, it can be performed by selecting an item other than the zero term shown in FIG. Here, it is assumed that the operator operates the keyboard 6 to select a zero term designating group batch printing. When the zero term "" is selected in FIG. 2, the microprocessor 1 stores a list of documents in the group to be printed in the main memory 2 together with the number of documents.
The next work menu, the print format setting menu shown in FIG. 7, is displayed on the CRT 8 screen. The operator operates the keyboard 6 from the print format setting menu to specify a desired format. When this format setting is completed, the microprocessor 1 executes the third setting stored in the main memory 2.
A group batch printing operation is performed according to a program as shown in the figure.

Here, the group batch printing operation will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, in step 301, the microprocessor 1 moves all the document names of the group documents to be printed already stored in the main memory and the number (N) of the documents to the data area for executing printing in the main memory 2. Next, at step 302, the format setting contents designated by the operator are transferred to the data area in the main memory 2 for printing. Then, in step 303, format settings other than the print multiple are initialized, and the document number n of the first document to be printed of the documents in the group is set to zero. In step 304, the format setting values other than the page number are initialized. Become Next, in step 305, an operation of reading out the document of document number n from the floppy disk device 3 and writing this in the main memory 2 is performed. Thereafter, in step 306, the document written in the main memory 2 is read out, developed into print pattern data based on the kanji pattern memory 9, and sent to the printer device 11 via the printer controller 10. Thus, the printer device 11 executes printing of the document. When this printing is completed, the document number n is incremented by 1 in step 307, and it is determined in step 308 whether or not this n matches N (the number of documents to be printed). If they do not match, the process returns to step 304 to initialize the page numbers other than the page numbers so that the page numbers with the next document are continuous. Then, the operations of step 305 and subsequent steps are performed to continue printing the document. This document printing operation is repeated until n = N in step 308, that is, until all the documents in the group are printed. N in step 308
Is equal to N in step 309, 1 is decremented from the number of copies to be printed, and in step 310 it is determined whether the number of copies has become zero. If not, the process returns to step 303 and returns to step 303. Steps 309 to 309 are repeated the specified number of times. When the number of copies becomes zero in step 310, the microprocessor 1 ends the above-described printing operation.

According to this embodiment, if a zero-term group name is specified in the group document name list shown in FIG. 2, the operation of printing all documents belonging to this group can be performed. In addition, it is possible to easily perform a print designation operation when printing a substance-document or the like divided into a plurality of documents collectively.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the document creation device and the document printing method of the present invention, by selecting and specifying a desired group name from the group names displayed on the display screen, the document belongs to the specified group. Since it is possible to instruct to print all of the plurality of documents at once, and to unify the print format of the documents at the time of batch printing of the plurality of documents to the print format set by the operator, There is no need to perform complicated printing operations, and printing operations by the operator can be performed easily and quickly.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the document creation apparatus of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of a list of document names in a group displayed on the CRT screen shown in FIG. Figure 1
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a work menu displayed on the document creation device, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a list of document names displayed on the document creation device. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional list of document names in a group displayed on the document creation device. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a format setting menu displayed on the document creation device, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a conventional print processing flowchart in the document creation device. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Microprocessor, 2 ... Main memory 4 ... Floppy disk, 6 ... Keyboard 8 ... CRT, 11 ... Printer

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document storage means for storing a plurality of documents constituting a group in association with a group name for managing the document group, a print instruction means for giving a print instruction for the document, A print format setting unit for setting a print format, and a group name is called from the document storage unit in response to a print instruction from the print instruction unit, and the called group name is displayed on a display unit for displaying various information. A display control unit for causing the display unit to perform printing, a group name specifying unit that specifies a group name to be printed from among the group names displayed on the display unit, and a group name specified by the group name specifying unit. A document retrieving unit for sequentially retrieving a plurality of documents from the document storage unit, and a document retrieving by the document retrieving unit to the print format setting unit. Printing means for sequentially printing according to the set print format, so that a plurality of documents managed by the group name designated by the group name designation means are printed in a unified print format. Characteristic document creation device. 2. A step of judging whether or not an instruction indicating a print instruction of a document has been input, and, when the instruction indicating the print instruction has been input, managing a plurality of documents forming a group and the document group. A step of retrieving and displaying a group name from a memory stored in a state where the group names are associated with each other, and designating a predetermined group name from among the displayed group names as a print target. In this case, the document managed by the designated group name is sequentially called from the memory, and the document is called in the step of calling the document according to a predetermined print format set as a print format when printing the document. It consists of the step of printing documents sequentially, so that multiple documents managed by the specified group name are printed in a unified print format Document printing method comprising and.