JP2779157B2 - Document information processing device - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document information processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a document information edited in a row direction or in a column direction of a print medium. And a document information processing apparatus that prints the document by rotating it in the line direction of the print medium. [Related Art] In recent years, in a document information processing apparatus such as a word processor, multifunctionality and low price have been advanced, and it has become possible to create and print sentences for any business or purpose. Above all, as a printing method on a printing medium (paper), there is a printing method which can use a rotation printing function as shown in FIG. 4 (B) in addition to the normal printing as shown in FIG. 4 (A). According to this rotation printing function, printing corresponding to the horizontal width of the A4 size can be performed even if the maximum printing width of the printer is only the vertical width of the A4 size. Therefore, it is a very convenient function that can satisfy various demands of the user, such as creating a schedule in a landscape orientation on the screen and printing the schedule in a portrait orientation on paper. However, the conventional rotary printing function cannot print page numbers. For this reason, when the document has a large number of pages, there is a disadvantage that the document is frequently arranged and stored. Further, with the conventional rotary printing function, the printing cannot be stopped in the middle of printing. For this reason, especially when a large number of pages are to be printed, the printing is performed to the end even though the user wants to cancel the printing, so that there is much waste and the user interface is not excellent. [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the related art, and an object thereof is to print a document by rotating a document using a rotated character pattern. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document information processing apparatus which can print a page number even in such a case and can stop the printing process during printing. [Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the document information processing apparatus of the present invention converts a horizontally written document whose reading direction is a horizontal direction into a document parallel to a long side of a print medium. Document information processing that can be selected by controlling whether or not to use a rotated character pattern to print as a horizontally written document connected to the document or to print as a horizontally written document parallel to the short side of the print medium An apparatus for detecting a page break in the document information, deriving means for deriving a page number corresponding to the number of the breaks, and printing the horizontally written document using a rotated character pattern, Printing means for printing a rotated character pattern corresponding to the page number derived by the deriving means at a predetermined position in the document constituted by the rotated character pattern, and printing the document Determining means for determining whether to continue the processing and the page number printing processing by the printing means on a page-by-page basis. [Operation] In this configuration, when a document is printed using a rotated character pattern, a page number is printed at a predetermined position in the printed document using the rotated character pattern. Then, whether or not to continue the printing process of the document and the page number is determined on a page basis. [Description of Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document information processing apparatus (word processor) according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a central processing unit (CPU), which performs main control of the apparatus. 2 is a lead-on memory (RO
M) stores, for example, a dictionary for kanji conversion, tables for various controls, etc. (not shown) in addition to the control program 21 and the photo pattern 22 of characters in FIG. Reference numeral 3 denotes a keyboard (KB) for creating and editing document information;
The user inputs command information related to rotation printing. The keyboard 3
Is a character key for inputting characters, a conversion key for instructing kanji conversion, an edit key for editing a document, a cursor key for moving a cursor, etc., and a print for instructing start, stop and restart of printing. A key (PK) 32, a printing format key (PSK) 31 for designating a printing format of printing or rotation printing and a starting page number to start rotation printing, and a printing format such as the number of digits and lines of one page. Format setting key (SSK) 33 for specifying the Reference numeral 4 denotes a display unit (D) constituted by, for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD).
ISP), which displays document information being created or a part of the created document information, and displays a message or the like to the user. 5 is a thermal transfer type printer (PRN), for example.
A thermal element group is compared with one vertical column, and the thermal element group generates heat in accordance with a character pattern, so that ink on a thermal transfer tape facing the thermal element group is applied on a paper surface, and a character to be printed is formed. Is printed. The printer 5
Is a thermal head 51 having a thermal element group (TH) for 32 dots, a head driver (HD) 52 for driving the thermal head 51, and a carrier motor (CM) for moving the thermal head carrier in the row direction of the sheet. 53, a carrier motor driver (CMD) 54 for driving the carrier motor 53, a feed motor (FM) 55 for feeding the paper in the column direction, a feed motor driver (FMD) 56 for driving the feed motor 55, and a thermal head An up-down mechanism that allows the 51 to touch the paper surface or move it away
57, an up-down driver (UDD) 58 for driving the up-down mechanism 57, and a sensor (HP) 59 for detecting the return of the home position of the thermal head carrier. Note that the sensor (HP) 59 is also used to correct the positional deviation of the thermal head carrier when the positional deviation occurs. Reference numeral 6 denotes a printer control (PRNC) that controls the printer 5 according to an instruction from the CPU 1. 7 is a readable and writable random access memory (RAM)
A code buffer (CDBF) 71 that stores a document code being created or created (including control codes such as information on moving phrases and tab information), and a column code sequentially read from the document code of the code buffer 71, The contents of the code
An image buffer (IBF) that converts each column code into a corresponding character pattern by referring to the compressed font information 22 of the ROM 2, and further develops and stores the rotated dot images in the line direction of printing. 72 and a working area (WKA) 73 for storing various registers, counters and flags used in the program of FIG.
The user has an area such as a user dictionary (UJ) 74 registered and managed by the user. 8 is a common bus of the CPU1. FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing the contents of the code buffer 71. In the figure, each character is composed of 4 bytes,
It includes character codes and control codes. Here 1
This is document information edited in the line direction, with the number of format digits of the line being 40. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a rotary printing control procedure of the embodiment. <Description of Registers and Counters> In the figure, SG is a register for holding a number corresponding to the number of characters in one line of the code buffer 71.
If there is no designation from, the number of characters in the one line is held, and if there is a designation, the designated number is held. PNG is a register that holds approximately half of the content of SG, and holds the line number for which the page number is to be actually rotated and printed. SPN is a register for securing a page number to be assigned to the first page of the rotation printing. If no designation is made from the format setting key 33, the first page is retained. Further, PNF is an odd / even flag, PN is a counter for updating and holding the page number of rotational printing,
M is a page counter that indicates an absolute page in the text, and N is a counter that counts characters in the text in the column direction. <Determination of line number to print page number> In step S1, it is determined whether or not the content of SG is odd. If it is odd, {(SG + 1) {2} is calculated in step S3, and the result is PNG. To be stored. For example, if the number of characters SG in one line of the code buffer 71 is 9, the fifth line of the rotation printing is the line number on which the page number is to be printed. If SG is an even number, {SG {2 + 1}} is calculated in step S2, the resulting value is stored in PNG, and the flag PNF is set to 1 in step S4. For example, if the number of characters SG in one line of the code buffer 71 is 10, the sixth line of the rotation printing is the line number on which the page number is to be printed. Thus, in any of the above cases, the page number is printed at a substantially central position of the rotationally printed character string. <Rotation printing of document information> In step S5, the contents of the specified SPN or 1 is
Transfer to N. In step S6, the page to be rotated and printed in the text is set in the page counter M, and the counter N is set to 1 in step S7. In step S8, from the page indicated by the counter M page in the text, the character codes of the Nth column (the first column) are read out one by one from the last line of the Mth page as shown in FIG. , Image Buffer 72
Rotate to the first line to expand. At that time, consider opening a character pitch corresponding to a normal line pitch.
In step S9, the printer 5 is driven to set the thermal head.
The pattern data of the developed one line is sent to 51. At step S10, it is determined whether or not the contents of the counter N and the contents of SK match. If No, the counter N is incremented by 1 at step 11. In step S12, it is determined whether or not the content of the counter N matches the content of PNG. If No, the sheet feed of the line pitch P is performed in step S13. This line pitch P is narrow in consideration of a normal character pitch. The flow returns to step S7 to perform rotation line printing of the document information of the next column. <Rotation printing of page number> If the content of the counter N matches the content of PNG in the determination in step S12, it is determined in step S20 whether the flag PNF is 1 or not. When PNF = 1, it is an even number. In step S21, P / 2 pitch paper is fed. In step S22, the contents of the PN are rotated and printed at almost the left end position of the paper.
Then, feed P / 2 pitch paper. FIG. 5A shows this state. When PNF is not 1, it is an odd number, and the page number is rotated and printed in step S24 in the same manner as in step S22.
FIG. 5B shows this state. <Page Break or End> If the contents of the counter N and the contents of SK match in the discrimination in step S10, P-pitch paper is fed in step S14, and it is discriminated in step S15 whether the counter M is the last page specified by the counter. I do. If it is not the last page number, it is further determined in step S16 whether or not the key is a print stop key. Here, a message to that effect is displayed on the display unit 4 to allow the user to determine whether to print the next page. Normally, the paper is replaced and the print resume key is pressed again.
+1 is added to the contents of In step S19, the content of M is incremented by one.
Then, the rotation printing of the next page is performed. If the content of the page counter M is equal to the designated final page number in step S15 or if the print stop key is pressed in step S16, the process ends. [Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, even when a document is rotated and printed using a rotated character pattern, page numbers can be printed, and the printing process can be stopped during printing. A document information processing device can be provided.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a rotation printing control procedure of the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is the contents of a code buffer 71. FIGS. 4 (A) and 4 (B) are diagrams showing the state of conventional normal printing and its rotation printing, and FIGS. 5 (A) and 5 (B) are embodiments according to the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state in which column information of document information is read as line information for printing. In the figure, 1 ... Central Processing Unit (CP
U), 2 ... Read only memory (ROM), 3 ... Keyboard (KB), 31 ... Print format key (PSK), 32 ... Print key (PK), 33 ... Format setting key (SSK), 4 ...
Display (DISP), 5: Printer (PRN), 51: Thermal head, 52: Head driver (HD), 53: Carrier motor (CM), 54: Carrier motor driver (CM)
D), 55: Feed motor (FM), 56: Feed motor driver (FMD), 57: Up-down mechanism, 58 ...
… Up-down driver (UDD), 59 …… Sensor, 6…
... Printer control (PRMC), 7... Random access memory (RAM), 8.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] Print a horizontally written document whose reading direction is horizontal, as a horizontally written document that runs parallel to the long side of the print medium, or print a horizontally written document that runs parallel to the short side of the print medium A document information processing apparatus which can select whether to use a rotated character pattern or not, detects a page break in the document information, and outputs a page number corresponding to the number of the breaks. Deriving means for deriving, when printing the horizontally written document using the rotated character pattern, a page number derived by the deriving means at a predetermined position in the document constituted by the rotated character pattern A printing unit that prints a rotated character pattern corresponding to the document, and a determination of whether to continue the printing process of the document and the printing process of the page number by the printing unit on a page basis. Document-processing device, characterized in that it comprises a means.