JP2741800B2 - Document processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating a document in Japanese, and more particularly to a document processing apparatus having a printing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, in this type of document processing apparatus, the size of printable paper has been limited due to restrictions imposed by the print width of a printer.

[0003]

That is, such a conventional document processing apparatus cannot print on sheets such as A2, B2, A0, and B0 used for posters and the like. Therefore, in order to create a B0 size poster or panel, it is necessary to print the contents of the poster or panel on a printable sheet and then enlarge it using an expensive machine such as a copying machine.

In order to solve this problem, the contents to be printed as a poster or panel are divided into printable paper sizes and printed, and after printing, one large poster or panel is created by joining them. It is possible. However, in such a case, for example, when printing using a vertically long roll wrapper, the cut portion of the printed poster is unknown,
Since there is no guide when joining the posters printed separately, there is a problem that it is not possible to know where to paste the posters.

If the poster print mode is set separately, a document created in the normal document creation mode cannot be used as it is for poster printing, and a special document must be created for poster printing. Also occurs.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances. A first object of the present invention is to divide an enlarged image such as a poster or a panel into a plurality of sheets when printing an enlarged image. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document processing apparatus in which a cut line is provided on each part and a margin for superimposing is provided, and printing is performed simultaneously.

A second object of the present invention is to specify an enlargement ratio at the time of printing, and to specify an enlargement ratio equal to or higher than a predetermined magnification after creating a document in a normal document creation mode. An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus which automatically switches to a poster print mode and prints an enlarged image such as a poster or a panel.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the first embodiment of the present invention stores information such as a document, an image, a graph, and a graphic. An input unit 101 for inputting and specifying the size, the number of divisions, and the enlargement ratio of the printing paper, a storage unit 102 for storing information input from the input unit 101, and a storage unit 10
The information stored in 2 is specified by the specified number of divisions and
Image to be converted to divided enlarged print image
And forming means 103, a calculating means 104 for calculating the position of the cut line and the margin based on the size and number of divisions of the printing sheet designated from the input unit 101, image generating means 103
Calculating means and adding means 105 for adding the cut line and the margin to the calculated position by 103, the added divided enlarged print image of cut line and the margin by adding means 105 the divided enlarged print image generated by And a printing unit 106 that prints the document.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the second embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the second embodiment of the present invention inputs information such as a document, an image, a graph, and a graphic. Input means 201 for specifying the number of divisions and enlargement ratio
A storage unit 202 for storing information input from the input unit 201; and a determination unit 203 for determining whether the magnification specified by the input unit 201 is equal to or greater than a predetermined magnification .
When the determination by the determination means 203 is equal to or greater than a predetermined magnification, the information stored in the storage means 202 is
Creates a divided enlarged print image with the specified number of divisions and the specified enlargement ratio
Image generating means 204 for converting and image generating means
And a printing unit 205 for printing the divided enlarged print image generated by the printing unit 204 .

The input means 101,
As the keyboard 201, an input device such as a keyboard device, a tablet device, a pointing device, or a touch panel is used.

The image generating means 103 , 204 ,
Calculation means 104 , addition means 105 , and determination means 203
It is convenient to use a microcomputer comprising a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and an I / O port.
Is used.

As the printing means 106 and 205 , various printers such as a thermal transfer printer, a laser printer, a dot impact printer, and an ink jet printer are used.

[0013]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, information such as a document, an image, a graph, and a graphic input from the input means 101 is
After being stored in the storage means 102, the image generation means 10
3, the specified number of divisions and the specified magnification
It is converted to a divided enlarged print image .

[0014] Simultaneously, the calculating means 104, the position of the cut line and the margin on the basis of the size of the designated printing paper and the number of divisions <br/> is calculated from the input unit 101, Image
Divided enlarged print image generated by the image generation means 103
To the page , a cutting line and a margin are added by the adding unit 105 , and the divided line and the margin are added.
The enlarged print image is printed by the printing unit 106 .

Therefore, when the content to be printed as a poster or a panel is to be divided into printable paper sizes and printed, it is necessary to cut the paper with a cutout line after printing, and to glue the glue margin positions together. Since it is good, it is easy to create one large poster or panel, and visibility and operability are improved.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, information such as a document, an image, a graph, and a graphic input from the input unit 201 is stored in the storage unit 202.

At the same time, the determining means 203 determines whether or not the magnification specified by the input means 201 is equal to or greater than a predetermined magnification.
Stored in the storage unit 202 by the image generation unit 103
The specified information is the specified number of divisions and the specified magnification
Is converted to a divided enlarged print image, and the divided enlarged print
The image is printed by the printing unit 205 .

Therefore, after creating a document, image, graph, graphic, or the like in a normal document creation mode, by specifying an enlargement ratio equal to or higher than a predetermined magnification, the contents to be printed as a poster or panel can be printed on a printable paper. Since printing can be performed by dividing the document into sizes, it is not necessary to consider the printing mode before creating a document, and operability is improved.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. The present invention is not limited by this.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor. In this figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a keyboard provided with kana character keys, numeric keys, conversion keys, function keys, and the like.
Various data such as a document, an image, a graph, and a graphic are input from the keyboard 1 and the size, the number of divisions, and the enlargement ratio of the printing paper for poster printing are specified. The enlargement ratio is specified by the vertical and horizontal magnifications as follows. N (vertical magnification) x M (horizontal magnification) (however, N, M = 1, 2, 3, ...)

2 is a CPU, 3 is a program for document creation / editing which is an original of a Japanese word processor and 1 of the present invention.
This is a ROM in which a poster creation program is stored when an enlargement factor exceeding twice is specified. CPU2 is ROM
3, various data processing to be described later is performed.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a RAM, which is document data input from the keyboard 1, that is, document data generated by original document creation / editing of a Japanese word processor, documents, images, graphs, figures, and the like input from the keyboard 1. Are stored. Also, the size, the number of divisions, and the enlargement ratio of the printing paper designated from the keyboard 1 are stored. This RAM 4 is used for poster creation.
Used for poster creation position information and poster print image development.

Reference numeral 5 denotes an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) for displaying various data such as documents, images, graphs, and figures.
It is. The LCD 5 can change the orientation of the display screen in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction by rotating the display screen. As the LCD 5, other display devices such as a CRT display device and an EL display device may be used. Reference numeral 6 denotes a thermal transfer printer that prints various data such as documents, images, graphs, and figures.

The CPU 2 stores a document stored in the RAM 4,
Converts various data such as images, graphs, and figures into print images. In this conversion, a character pattern is read from a character generator (not shown) for document data, image data is calculated by an arithmetic processing program written in the ROM 3 for graphs, graphic data, and the like. Then, each print image is created and stored in the RAM 4.

At the same time, the enlargement ratio stored in the RAM 4 is read, and it is determined whether or not the enlargement ratio is greater than one. This determination is made for any of the vertical magnification and the horizontal magnification. If the enlargement ratio in either the vertical or horizontal direction exceeds 1, the number of divisions is read from the RAM 4, the converted print image is divided by the number of divisions, and the divided print images are stored in the RAM 4. .

Next, one of the divided print images is extracted, and the extracted print image is enlarged at a specified enlargement ratio. At this time, if only the poster printing is instructed without specifying the enlargement ratio, the print image is enlarged to a size that can be printed on the print paper of the specified size. This enlargement is a simple enlargement. That is, if, for example, an enlargement ratio of 4 times the width and 2 times the height is designated, one dot is simply enlarged to a size of 4 dots horizontally and 2 dots vertically.

Further, the size of the printing paper and the number of divisions are read out from the RAM 4, and the positions of the cut-off line and the margin are determined based on the size of the printing paper and the number of divisions.
To memorize it. Then, using the position information, a cut line and a margin are added to the enlarged print image, and the print image with the cut line and the margin added is printed by the printer 6 according to the size of the printing paper designated from the keyboard 1. Print.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of poster printing. FIG. 4A shows the contents to be printed as a poster or a panel. For example, if this is A1 size paper, the printer 6 cannot print. Therefore, this is divided into four from P-1 to P-4, and each is printed using a vertically long roll paper having an A4 size width. FIG. 4B shows an example in which cutout lines 7 and a margin 8 are added to P-1 to P-4 using a vertically long roll paper, and each of them is printed. Note that the shapes of the cutting line 7 and the margin 8 shown in FIG. 4B are not limited to these, and may be arbitrary.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the CPU 2 will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the processing contents in the additional printing of the cut line and the margin. When printing each enlarged print image at the time of poster printing, the CPU 2 first sets print image data for one page in the RAM 4 (step 11), and determines whether additional printing of a cutout line and a margin is necessary. (Step 1
2).

If additional printing of the cut line and the margin is required, the cut line is printed (step 1).
3) The enlarged image data is set to a one-line print image (step 14), and it is checked whether or not the division position is at the right end (step 15). At this time, if the division position is not the right end, a margin line is set in a one-line print image (step 1).
6) One-line printing is performed (step 17). If the division position is the right end, one line printing is performed without setting the margin line in the one line print image (step 17). Then, it is checked whether or not the printing of the division position has been completed (step 18). If the printing has not been completed, the process returns to step 14, and if completed, the cutout line is printed (step 19).

In step 12, if additional printing of the cut line and the margin is unnecessary, the enlarged image data is set to a one-line print image (step 20), and one-line printing is performed (step 21). Is checked (step 22). If not completed, the process returns to step 20, and if completed, the process ends.

As described above, when the content to be printed as a poster or a panel is divided into printable paper sizes and printed, the print image can be printed by adding a cutout line and a margin to the print image. After printing, the sheet is cut along the cut line, and the paste margin position is overlapped and bonded, so that one large poster or panel can be easily created.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the processing contents in automatic poster printing at the time of enlargement exceeding one time. 1
In poster printing at the time of enlargement exceeding twice, when poster printing data is created from the keyboard 1 by the operator after the poster printing data is created, the CP
U2 is first in a state of waiting for normal printing condition designation and enlargement ratio designation. Here, when the operator specifies an enlargement ratio from the keyboard 1 (step 31), the enlargement ratio information is stored in the RAM 4 (step 32).

Thereafter, when an instruction to execute printing is issued (step 33), enlargement ratio information is read from the RAM 4 (step 34), and if the enlargement ratio exceeds 1 (step 3).
5) A poster print process is performed to create print image data for poster print (step 36), and the print image is output (printed) to the printer 6 (step 37).

In step 35, if the enlargement ratio is 1 or less, print image data for normal printing is created (step 38), and the print image is output (printed) to the printer 6 (step 37).

In this way, automatic poster printing is possible when an enlargement factor of more than 1 is designated in printing.

[0038]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the poster printing, a cut line and a margin are added to the divided print image, so that the connection between the divided images and the paper can be easily adjusted. They can be joined together, improving visibility and operability.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the poster printing can be automatically performed by designating the enlargement ratio equal to or larger than the predetermined magnification. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the printing mode before creating the document. And the operability is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 1;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the invention of claim 2;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of poster printing.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing contents in additional printing of a cut line and a margin.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing contents in automatic poster printing at the time of enlargement exceeding one time.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 keyboard 2 CPU 3 ROM 4 RAM 5 LCD (liquid crystal display device) 6 printer

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Hiroki Sugimoto 22-22 Nagaikecho, Abeno-ku, Osaka City Inside Sharpe Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-2-245363 (JP, A) JP-A-3-42659 (JP, A) JP-A-1-25876 (JP, A) JP-A-61-51364 (JP, A) JP-A-63-229516 (JP, A) JP-A-3-75961 (JP, A) Kaisho 64-7554 (JP, U)

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. Inputting information such as a document, an image, a graph, a graphic, etc., as well as the size of a printing paper, the number of divisions,
Input means for designating a ratio , storage means for storing information input from the input means, and information stored in the storage means being designated by a designated number of divisions and
Image to be converted to a divided enlarged print image with the specified enlargement ratio
Image generating means , calculating means for calculating the position of the cut-out line and the margin based on the size of the printing paper and the number of divisions designated by the input means , and the divided enlarged print image generated by the image generating means.
Means for adding a cutting line and a margin to the position calculated by the calculating means for the page, and a dividing and expanding method in which the cutting line and the margin are added by the adding means.
A document processing apparatus comprising: a printing unit that prints a large print image . 2. An input means for inputting information such as a document, an image, a graph, a graphic, etc., and designating a number of divisions and an enlargement factor ; a storage means for storing information input from the input means; Determining means for determining whether the magnification specified by the input means is equal to or greater than a predetermined magnification; and storing when the determination by the determining means is equal to or greater than the predetermined magnification.
The information stored in the means is
To be converted to a divided enlarged print image with the specified enlargement ratio
Generating means, and the divided enlarged print image generated by the image generating means.
And a printing unit for printing the page .