JP2882488B2 - Print spool data reediting device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Summary] The present invention relates to a re-editing apparatus for re-editing print spool data at the time of printing. Editing and printing, with the purpose of printing specific character strings, lines and pages containing character strings, and emphasizing and printing only specific character strings, edited the character code, ruled lines, etc. to be printed A print spool data editing definition that defines print spool data, selection information for selecting only a specific character string from the print spool data, or a line or page including the character string, and emphasis information for highlighting only the specific character string. Is added to the print spool data, and at the time of printing, the print spool data is defined from the print spool data based on the added print spool data edit definition. Only a specific character string, or a line or a page including the character string, is selected, and only the specific character string of the selected character string is highlighted and edited and printed.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a reediting device for reediting print spool data at the time of printing.

[Problems to be solved by conventional technology and invention]

Conventionally, there has been no function for reediting print spool data in which edited print data is stored in a magnetic disk device at the time of printing. For this reason, for the print spool data stored in the magnetic disk device at the time of compiling, for example, it is possible to perform processing for extracting and printing only lines of necessary information, and for emphasizing only specific character strings to make them easier to see. There was no problem. When forcibly extracting a line containing a specific character (for example, ERROR) from the print spool data or emphasizing a specific character in red, the user himself may take out the print spool data from the magnetic disk device to the memory once. There is a problem in that it is necessary to spend the troublesome work of creating an input / output program to be inserted, and creating, editing, and printing a program for editing the print spool data taken out of the memory. In addition, at the time of editing, the print spool data includes various control orders for the printing device, and the like.
There was also a problem that the editing process became very complicated.

The present invention adds a print spool data edit definition to the print spool data, re-edits the print spool data based on the print spool data at the time of printing and prints, and prints a specific character string, a line including a character string, a page, etc. It is intended to print and emphasize only specific character strings.

[Means for solving the problem]

Means for solving the problem will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 1, print spool data 4 is edited print data such as a character code and a ruled line to be printed.

The print spool data edit definition body 6 is an edit definition body that defines selection information for selecting only a specific character string or a line or page including the character string from the print spool data 4 and highlight information for highlighting only the specific character string. It is.

[Action]

According to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a print spool data editing definition body 6 is added to the print spool data 4 and a definition is made from the print spool data 4 based on the added print spool data editing definition body 6 at the time of printing. The specified string,
Alternatively, only a line or a page including a character string is selected, and only a specific character string of the selected character string is emphasized and printed.

Therefore, by adding the print spool data editing definition body 6 to the print spool data 4 and re-editing and printing the print spool data 4 based on this at the time of printing, a specific character string, a line including the character string, It is possible to easily print only pages or emphasize only specific character strings.

〔Example〕

Next, the configuration and operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be sequentially described in detail with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1, a print data creation program 1 is a program for creating print data.

The spooler 2 stores print data output from the print data creation program 1 in the magnetic disk device 3 as print spool data 4.

The magnetic disk device 3 stores print spool data 4, a print spool data editing definition body 6, and the like. Here, the print spool data editing information 4-1 added to the print spool data 4 indicated by the dotted line is obtained by converting the print spool data editing definition body 6 into an executable object format and adding it.

The print spool data 4 stores print data edited for characters, ruled lines, and the like.
It stores print data as shown in FIG.

The source data creation program 5 is a program for a user to define and create a print spool data editing definition body 6.

The print spool data editing definition body 6 is created by the user by the source data creation program 5 and stored in the magnetic disk device 3, and includes the print spool data 4.
Is an edit definition body that defines a specific character string, a line including the character string, selection information for selecting only the page, and emphasis information for emphasizing only the specific character string (described later with reference to FIG. 3 (b)). Do).

The print spool data edit command 7 converts the print spool data edit definition body 6 stored in the magnetic disk device 3 into an executable object format and adds it to the print spool data 4 as illustrated print spool data edit information 4-1. Things.

The writer 8 re-edits the print data in accordance with the applied print spool data editing information 4-1 when taking out the print data in the print spool data 4 from the magnetic disk device 3 and printing the data. Is output to the printing device 9.

The printing device 9 performs printing (see FIG. 3C) based on the reedited print data output from the writer 9.

Next, in the order shown in the flowchart of FIG.
The operation of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to a specific example of the drawing.

(1) The spooler 2 transfers the print data output from the print data creation program 1 to the magnetic disk device 3 as print spool data 4, for example, as shown in FIG.
Stores BOL compilation list.

(2) The user creates the print spool data editing definition 6 in the print spool data editing definition 6 shown in FIG. 3B using the source data creation program 5 and stores it in the magnetic disk device 3. (FIG. 2). Here, FIG. 3B shows the selection process of the print spool data editing definition body 6 and the emphasis process (see FIG.
FIG. (B) description).

(3) When the user calls the print spool data edit command 7 and instructs to edit according to the print spool data edit definition body 6 created in (2), the print spool data edit command 7 The body 6 is converted into an executable object format, and the print spool data
-1 (FIG. 2).

(4) When the user gives a print instruction, when the writer 8 takes out the print data from the print spool data 4 instructed from the magnetic disk device 3, the writer 8 re-edits the print spool data according to the added print spool data editing information 4-1. Thereafter, the edited print data is sent to the printing device 9 (FIG. 2).

(5) The printing device 9 prints based on the print data sent in (4), and prints a list as shown in FIG. 3 (c), for example.

As described above, the print spool data editing information 4-1 is added to the print spool data 4, and a specific character string,
It is possible to easily select and print only a line or a page having a character string, or to print only a specific character string with emphasis (designating a color attribute and changing a character type).

 FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of the present invention.

FIG. 3A shows an example of print spool data. This is an example of the print spool data 4 stored in the magnetic disk device 3 in FIG. 1, and shows an example of a COBOL compile list.

FIG. 3B shows an example of the print spool data editing definition body 6. This is an example of the print spool data editing definition body 6 stored in the magnetic disk device 3 in FIG.
FIG. 7A defines a selection process and an emphasis process for the print spool data 4.

Here, the selection process is a line selection process, and is a definition that, when a character string of “ERROR” is in the 100th digit of the print spool data 4 in FIG. More specifically, "ERROR" is shown at the 100th line in FIG.
Extract and print only the lines with.

In the emphasis processing, the character string “ERROR” is printed in red.
This is the “ER
ROR "is highlighted in red and printed. To be more specific, the character string“ ER
For ROR ", a control order defining red is inserted, and printing is performed based on the control order. In addition to the color, the character type may be changed in addition to the color.

FIG. 3C shows a printing example. This shows an example in which the print spool data 4 in FIG. 3A is re-edited and printed based on the selection process and the emphasis process of the print spool data editing definition body 6 in FIG. 3B. Here, the print data of the line including the ERROR character string in the 100th digit is extracted, and the character string “ERROR” is highlighted in red.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the print spool data editing definition body 6 is added to the print spool data 4,
Since a configuration is adopted in which the print spool data 4 is re-edited and printed based on this when printing, only a specific character string, a line containing a character string, a page, etc. of the print spool data 4 is printed. Or, a specific character string can be emphasized and printed. Accordingly, dynamic print data editing can be performed only by the simple operation of the user defining the print spool data editing definition body 6 without modifying the print data creation program 1 or creating a new editing program. Then, only the desired character string can be selected and emphasized for printing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

 FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention. FIG. In the figure, 1: print data creation program 2: spooler 3: magnetic disk device 4: print spool data 4-1: print spool data editing information 5: source data creation program 6: print spool data editing definition 7: print spool data Edit command 8: Writer 9… Printer

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A re-editing apparatus for re-editing print spool data at the time of printing, wherein the print spool data in which a character code to be printed, a ruled line, etc. are edited, a specific character string from the print spool data, or this character string Means for adding, to the print spool data, a print spool data edit definition defining selection information for selecting a line or a page including the character string and emphasis information for emphasizing only a specific character string; Means for selecting a specific character string defined from the print spool data based on the edit definition body, or a line or page containing this character string, and editing / printing by highlighting the specific character string of the selected character string An apparatus for reediting print spool data, comprising: