JP2900361B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a document creation device for sending a created document file to a printing device, and is particularly used for a local area network (hereinafter, referred to as LAN) system or the like. The present invention relates to a suitable document creation device. 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, such an apparatus is used for, for example, a word processor. The printer attached to this word processor is used exclusively for each word processor, and its character and symbol bitmaps use the same size and resolution as the bitmap of the document creation device. Similarly, it was not necessary to separately create a bitmap for printing for the external characters to be registered.
Also, when a document creation device is used in a type printing system such as a newspaper, fonts for display and printing are different,
The font for printing is not a bitmap according to digital dots or the like. For this reason, in the document editing apparatus for display and editing, it was not possible to design the print type, and the print type was created by a completely different type generator. [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in a LAN system or the like in which a plurality of document creation devices use an independent shared printing device, the bitmap of the external character of each document creation device has a bit size and resolution different from those of the printing device. In some cases, a map is used. In this case, the above-described conventional document creation device cannot separately create the bitmap for printing. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to provide a document creation apparatus capable of easily creating an external character bitmap for printing in addition to an external character bitmap for display. [Means and Actions for Solving the Problems] The present invention creates document data while displaying characters in a predetermined display font, and prints using a predetermined print font having a font size or resolution different from the display font. In a document creation device that sends the document data to a printing device that performs the above, when creating a new external character font for display, it corresponds to the external character font for display, and the font size of the print font or Creating means for creating an external character font for printing adapted to the resolution, and sending means for sending the external character font for printing created by the creating means to the printing device together with document data using an external character corresponding to the external character font And characterized in that: That is, in the present invention, when the document creation device creates the external character font for display, the printing device creates the external character font for printing required when printing the document data,
The created external character font for printing is sent to the printing device together with the document data via, for example, a LAN system or the like. Therefore, according to the present invention, the external characters included in the document data created on the document creation device can be accurately printed by a printing device using a print font having a different font size or resolution. Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings in FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of a LAN system according to the present invention. In the figure, the LAN system is provided with a plurality of workstations 11 to 14 and a printing device 15 which is independent of the workstations and can be shared by the workstations 11 to 14. Since the workstations 11 to 14 have the same configuration, the workstation 11 will be described here for convenience of explanation. The workstation has a keyboard 16 for inputting operator's instructions, a display 17 for displaying characters and symbols indicated by key operations on the keyboard 16, and external characters such as characters and symbols not stored in the main body of the character creating apparatus. And a mouse 19 with a button for editing a bitmap of patterns such as characters and symbols displayed on a display 17 and a controller 20 for controlling these. The device for specifying the bit position may be any device that can realize a method for specifying the bit position, such as a light pen or a cursor key instead of the mouse 19. The printing device 15 is a printer 2 for printing characters and symbols.
1. It comprises a disk device 22 for storing external character bitmaps for printing in a file sent from the workstation, and a printing device controller 23 for controlling these. The disk device 22 includes an external character file area 26 for storing the bit map of the external character pattern for printing, a controller area 23 for storing a program of the controller 23, and a buffer area for storing character information sent from the workstation. A print font area 25 for storing print fonts is provided. Next, the operation of the workstation and the printer will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the workstation when creating an external character pattern for display and printing. The operator opens a tool window by operating the keys of the keyboard 16, sets the controller 20 to the external character registration state, and sets the display device 17 to the external character registration state. The external character quoted in is called (step 101). The operator moves the mouse while looking at the called external character operator pattern on the display 17.
By operating the button 19, bitmaps of external character patterns for both display and printing are created (step 102).
The controller 20 creates a display font and a print font based on the created external character patterns, and codes and stores the created display font in a predetermined area in the disk device 17 (step 103). .
When the external character registration is completed, the tool window is closed, and the controller 20 releases the external character registration state (step 104). In step 103, a function after mechanical enlargement / reduction may be added to create the other bitmap from either the display or print bitmap. The algorithm for generating the resolution bitmap is in the research stage and requires the operator to modify the bitmap. As a method of managing the created external character font for printing, a method of sending the character to the printing device 15 and storing it in the disk device 22 of the printing device can be considered, but in this LAN system, the number of workstations is large and the The expiration date cannot be specified for the stored external character fonts, and the number of external character fonts increases, which may cause an overflow in the area for storing the external character fonts. Therefore, in the embodiment, the external character font for printing is stored in the disk device 18 on the workstation side,
Manages external characters. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the workstation when creating a document. First, the operator designates an input mode of characters or symbols on the controller 20 by key operation and creates a document. Is notified that there is a new additional font (external character font for display, external character font for printing). (Step 201). Next, when using the additional font in a document, the operator specifies a code in which the additional font to be used is stored by inputting a code, and causes the display 17 to display the font (step 202). When the document creation is completed and the print format is created, the controller 20 selects a print font corresponding to the display external character font from among the print external character fonts created and stored as described above for those having the display external character font. The external character font is read from the disk device 18 and incorporated into the print format including a code string (step 203). Next, the print format incorporating the external character font for printing is sent to the printing device 15 via the LAN system. The controller 23 of the printing device 15 extracts the external character format for printing from the transmitted print format, and stores it in the external character file area 26 of the disk device 22. Then, the controller 23 searches for the necessary font from the print font area 25 in which the font for printing is stored in accordance with the input and the code in the received print format, and finds the printing by the code designation in the print format. In some cases, the printing font of the code is searched for from the print file area 26 in the disk device, and the printer 21 prints the code to execute the printing operation (step 204). As a result, the printer 21
You can print even external characters that are not standard for the system. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an electronic mail communication network in addition to the above embodiment. In the case of e-mail communication, the content of the message to be transmitted, in addition to characters and symbols, image kanji codes, graphics, etc., have a wide application range, so display formats and prints incorporating external character fonts created separately on the transmitting workstation. The format can be embedded and transmitted, and the workstation on the receiving side can print the external characters created by the transmitting side and also can display the print on the display. Also, if used for e-mail communication with a storage function such as a mailbox, the sending workstation can send messages regardless of the state of the receiving side, and the receiving workstation is stored at a convenient time. Message can be read. Therefore, in the present invention, an external character pattern for printing is also created and held at the same time when an external character pattern for display is created, and is composed of a code string at the time of transmission. Since the external character font based on the pattern is incorporated in the print format, the external character pattern for printing can be easily created, and the external character can be managed for each workstation. [Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, when creating a new external character font for display, it corresponds to the external character font for display and adapted to the font size or resolution of the print font. Created external character fonts for printing, and print the created external character fonts for printing using a print font having a different font size or resolution together with the document data using the external characters corresponding to the external character fonts. Since transmission is performed, external characters included in document data created on the document creation device can be accurately printed by a printing device using a printing font having a different font size or resolution.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a storage area of a disk device 22 shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a diagram shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the workstation when creating an external character pattern, and FIG. 11-14… Workstation, 15… Printer, 16…
... keyboard, 17 ... display, 18,22 ... disk drive, 19 ... mouse, 20,23 ... controller, 21 ...
… Printer

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A document creation device that creates document data while performing character display using a predetermined display font, and sends the document data to a printing device that performs printing using a predetermined print font having a font size or resolution different from the display font. In, when creating a new external character font for display, corresponding to the external character font for display, and creating means for creating an external character font for printing adapted to the font size or resolution of the print font, A document creating apparatus, comprising: sending means for sending the external character font for printing created by the creating means to the printing device together with the document data using the external character corresponding to the external character font.