JP2705192B2 - Document editing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a document having a printing apparatus having a manual printing function, transferring drawing data to the printing apparatus, and performing data printing based on the drawing data. Related to an editing device.

[Prior art] Conventionally, with this type of apparatus, when performing manual printing,
The user is instructed to perform manual printing in advance, and the size of paper to be printed is selected, the drawing data is expanded in the drawing memory according to the selected paper size, and the user further prints the paper of that size by the printing apparatus. The drawing data is printed by inserting the drawing data manually.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in manual printing in the document editing apparatus, manual printing and paper size for manual printing are selected in advance, and appropriate printing of data is performed unless paper corresponding to the selected paper size is manually inserted into the printing apparatus. There was a problem that it was not done.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and can print data on manual paper of any size without selecting a paper size to be printed in advance, thereby improving operability in data printing. An object of the present invention is to provide a document editing device capable of causing a document to be edited.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a document editing apparatus which can set manual printing without a user's designation of manual printing, thereby improving operability in data printing. .

[Means for solving the problem]

The present invention has a printing unit such as a printing apparatus having a manual printing function of manually inserting a sheet and performing printing on the sheet, and a drawing data storage unit such as a drawing memory for storing drawing data. In a document editing apparatus which transfers drawing data of the drawing memory to the printing apparatus and performs data printing based on the drawing data, when performing the manual feed printing, a predetermined sheet size in which the drawing data is fixed, for example, a printing apparatus And a drawing data storage control means such as a central processing unit and a drawing control unit for storing the maximum printable paper size in the drawing memory.

[Action]

When performing manual feed printing, the drawing data is stored in a drawing memory with a predetermined paper size fixed in advance, and the drawing data is transferred to a printing apparatus to perform data printing based on the drawing data.

Therefore, since it is not necessary to select the paper to be printed, there is no need to change the print format or the like of the document editing apparatus, and it is possible to perform printing on any manual paper, thereby improving operability in data printing. Cut off.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings of FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a document editing device according to the present invention. In the figure, a keyboard / mouse control unit 11 controls input of various data and commands including document data from the keyboard 12 or the mouse 13 connected to the keyboard 12, and executes a central processing operation according to the command according to the input. Output to the device (CPU) 14.

The CPU 14 controls the keyboard / mouse control unit 11, the real memory 15, the disk control unit 16, the printer control unit 18, the drawing control unit 20, and the display control unit 22 by a program corresponding to the command input from the keyboard / mouse control unit 11. In addition to performing overall control, predetermined calculations and processes are executed.

The real memory 15 and the disk 17 store a program for executing manual printing according to the present invention, document data, a command group and data group input from the keyboard 12 or the mouse 13, and the like. The disk 17 stores data that cannot be stored in the real memory 15 among the data, and the data stored in the disk 17 is transferred from the disk 17 by the control of the disk control unit 16 as necessary. It is read and stored in the real memory 15.

The printer control unit 18 controls the printing of the printer 19 in accordance with the instruction from the CPU 14.

The printer 19 is composed of a laser printer or the like, and, under the control of the printer control unit 18, manual printing of drawing data developed in a printing drawing memory 21 described later or drawing data using paper set in the printer 19. Normal printing is performed to perform printing based on. At a predetermined position of the printer 19, a paper detection sensor 24 for detecting manual paper is provided, and a detection result by the sensor 24 is input to the CPU 14 via the printer control unit 18. The CPU 14 sets the printer 19 from the normal print mode to the manual print mode according to the detection result, and executes the manual print.

The printing drawing memory 21 writes document data and the like under the control of the drawing control unit 20, expands the data based on the document data and the like, and reads out the expanded drawing data.

The display control unit 22 controls the display device 2 in accordance with the instruction from the CPU 14.
Display control of 3 is performed.

The display device 23 is composed of a display such as a CRT, and is controlled by the display control unit 22.
A menu of a print format such as normal printing for printing using the paper set in 19 is displayed on the screen, and the operation of the menu is enabled by a cursor (not shown) linked with the movement of the mouse 13. The display device 23 displays the data developed in the display drawing memory 27 on the screen.

The display drawing memory 26, under the control of the CPU 14, writes document data and the like as well as the print drawing memory 21 and develops data based on the document data and the like.
Reading out the expanded data.

Next, the manual print operation of the document editing apparatus according to the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the figure, when a user designates document data and a print execution command is issued to a predetermined printer 19, the CPU 14 performs a print start process for opening the document data and a file of the printer 19 (step 101).
Then, first, it is determined whether or not a sheet for manual printing has been inserted into the printer 19 based on the detection result from the sheet detection sensor 24 (step 102).

If no manual paper is inserted in the printer 19, normal printing is performed using paper of the size set in the printer 19 (step 103). And
When printing of all pages is completed (step 104), a printing end process is performed (step 111), and the printing operation ends. When paper for manual printing is inserted in the printer 19, the CPU 14 sets the printer 19 to a manual printing mode (step 105). Next, the CPU 14
The document data to be printed is read from the real memory 15 or the disk 17 and expanded in the printing drawing memory 21 (step 10).
6). As shown in FIG. 3 (a), the development to the printing drawing memory 21 is performed for the maximum paper size that can be printed by the printer 19, and when the development is completed, the drawing data is transferred to the printing paper for the maximum paper size. The data is transferred to 19 (step 107). Then, printing is instructed to the printer 19 (step 108).

The printer 19 forms an image on manual paper of a desired size on the basis of the data transferred in response to the instruction (see FIG. 3A), as if printing on a paper of the maximum size that the printer 19 can print. However, for example, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), when the size of the original and the manual feed paper are the same, if the printing is performed so that the position of the image to be formed and the upper left position of the paper are matched, the actual size of the original is The print result is the same as when printing is performed by transferring data by the same size. Also, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), even when the size of the original document and the size of the manual feed paper are different, as in FIG. 3 (b), only the transferred data is copied onto the paper, so that printing is inserted. It does not depend on the paper. When the printer 19 finishes printing the transferred data, it outputs a signal notifying the end of printing to the CPU 14.

Next, when the above signal is input, the CPU 14 determines whether or not data development to the print drawing memory 21 has been completed for all pages (step 109).

If there is still data to expand,
Returning to step 106, the document data to be printed is stored in the drawing memory 2
Then, printing is performed on the drawn data. When the data expansion is completed for all pages, the manual print mode of the printer 19 is released (step 110), and the printer 19 is set to the normal print mode to set the document data and the printer 19 to the normal print mode. A print end process for closing the file is performed (step 111), and the print operation ends.

Therefore, according to the present invention, when starting manual feed printing, it is not necessary to specify manual feed printing, and it is not necessary to select paper for manual feed printing in advance. Is unnecessary, and printing can be performed on manual paper of any size. As a result, the user can perform printing using a menu or the like, which is not different from normal printing, even in the case of manual feed printing, and the operation procedure can be reduced. Therefore, the operability of the system in data printing can be improved, and a better interface can be provided.

In general, a printing apparatus can use only paper of a size determined by the limitation of a paper tray, but in the present invention, printing can be performed by a printing apparatus even with a paper size not specified in the document editing apparatus.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, in the present invention, paper insertion for manual printing is detected and manual printing is set in accordance with the detection result, so that manual printing designation by the user can be omitted and a fixed paper size can be used. Since data transfer is performed, data can be printed on paper without selecting the size of manual paper to be printed in advance, and operability of the system in data printing can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a document editing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining a manual printing operation of the document editing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of data printed on paper of a desired size by the printer shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 11 Keyboard / mouse controller, 12 Keyboard
13 ... Mouse, 14 ... Central processing unit (CPU), 15 ...
... real memory, 16 ... disk controller, 17 ... disk,
18 printer control unit, 19 printer, 20 drawing control unit, 21 drawing memory for printing, 22 display control unit, 23
...... Display device (display), 24 ... Paper detection sensor, 26 ... Display drawing memory.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A printing means having a manual printing function for manually inserting paper and performing data printing on the paper,
A document editing device having drawing data storage means for storing drawing data, wherein the document data is transferred to the printing means to perform data printing based on the drawing data. In this case, the document editing apparatus further comprises drawing data storage control means for storing the drawing data in the drawing data storage means in a fixed predetermined paper size. 2. A printing means having a manual printing function for manually inserting paper and performing printing on the paper, a drawing data storage means for storing drawing data, and the drawing data when performing the manual printing. Drawing data storage control means for storing data in the drawing data storage means in a fixed predetermined paper size, transferring drawing data of the drawing data storage means to the printing means, and performing data printing based on the drawing data. In the document editing apparatus to be performed, the printing unit is provided with a paper detection unit that detects a sheet inserted when performing manual printing, and the data printing is set to the manual printing according to the paper detection of the paper detection unit. And a print control unit.