JP3060383B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus for creating and editing a document having area data, and more particularly to a document creation apparatus suitable for creating area data.

2. Description of the Related Art In a document creation apparatus, document data such as graphs, figures, and mathematical expressions, that is, area data is inserted into a specific area of a page containing a document to be created, separately from the text. In some cases.

In such a case, in the conventional document creating apparatus, when creating area data such as a figure or a graph, the area data is edited after setting the area of the area data in the document. Here, the area of the area data means the range in which the document data including figures and graphs is stored on the page, and the setting of the area means determining where and how large the range is located Means

By the way, in the conventional document creation apparatus, when creating a document including only the area data, a document having no document is created, an area of the area data is formed therein, and the area data is created. Was. The registration was also done as a document. Therefore, when reusing the area data, it is necessary to extract a document including the area data and extract the area data from the document.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the above-described conventional technology does not consider that area data is handled simply. Therefore, there is a problem that the area data cannot be created unless the area data is created as a document. Also, since it is possible to register only as a document, when using the registered area data, it is necessary to read out the area data once, and then take out the area data, which is extremely troublesome. Was.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creating apparatus which can edit region data simply and independently of a document body.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus which can register and print only the area data, and can easily use the area data by taking it into the document.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a document creation device (ninth embodiment) that includes an input device, a display device, a CPU, a memory, and a pointing device and creates a document having area data. Page 18 line-page 10 line 2
In FIG. 1B), the memory stores a program for performing screen display processing for document creation, a text editing program for editing text, and an area data editing program for creating and editing area data. As well as switches
Switch box data including data for displaying a box, a program name to be activated when each switch box is instructed, body data, and area data are stored. The area data is stored in different areas of the memory (the fifth area).
Page 13 line to page 7 line 14; page 9 line 20;
13th page, lines 14 to 20, FIG. 1A, FIG. 6), the CPU executes a program for performing the screen display processing, and switches the switch to a part of the display screen of the display device. -Characters indicating the name of the program to be started when the box is specified are displayed (page 12, line 15 to page 13, line 6, FIG. 8, FIG. 10 (a)) The program and the area data editing program are activated by being selectively designated by the pointing device (page 14, lines 1 to 5, page 19, lines 5 to 8). Eye, seventh
(FIG. 10A), the CPU has a function as a means for displaying a document editing screen based on the text editing program and editing the text when the text editing program is instructed. (Page 19, line 9 to page 21)
16th line), when the area data editing program is instructed, it has a function as a means for displaying a figure editing screen based on the area data editing program and editing the area data, and The area size obtained based on the coordinate data defining the size is compared with the maximum screen size that can be displayed, and if (area size ≧ maximum screen size), the area size is set as the window size to be opened. When the size is equal to or greater than the maximum screen size, the maximum screen size is set as the window size to be opened.
The means for editing the area data is means for registering the edited area data in the memory (page 18 in the specification).
Line 13 to page 19, line 4, FIG. 1A, FIG. 20), and the means for editing the text is a means for performing menu selection processing (page 20, lines 1 to 11; Fig. 23, 26
FIG. 20) and registered content reference means (page 20, lines 12 to 17, page 27, FIG. 28) for displaying a list of one or more area data registered in the memory in a referable manner. Area data capturing means for capturing area data into the document being edited (page 20, lines 10 to 13, line 20, page 18)
The means for performing the menu selection processing includes taking in area data as one of the menu options (FIG. 20).
Lines 8 to 11 of the page, FIG. 23), when the registration of the area data is selected from the menu, the registered content reference means performs a list display of the area data (lines 12 to 20 of page 20). 17th line, Fig. 27, 28
FIG.), The area data capturing means receives a selection instruction for the area data displayed in a list via the pointing device (page 20, lines 1 to 11).
At the same time, the setting of the designated area data capture position is received via the pointing device, and the selected area data is displayed at the designated capture position (page 20, line 20 to page 21, page 4). Line), a document creating apparatus is provided.

The means for editing the area data includes: an area data being edited, which is positioned at the time of printing, and is developed into a print image.
Line 14 to page 18, line 3, FIG. 17).

The area data editing means includes means for opening and closing the figure editing window (page 20, line 20 to page 15, line 12, page 16, line 16 to page 17, line 2,
FIG. 10 (b), FIG. 11) and means for performing scrolling processing in a window (page 16 1st line to 4th line, 11th line)
FIG.).

Further, the means for editing the text is a means for opening / closing a document editing window (page 19, lines 18 to 19, page 21, lines 13 to 16, FIG. 23, FIG. 26). ) Can be further provided.

[Operation] The document creation device of the present invention has an area data editing unit that operates independently of a unit that edits a text. The area data editing means is started by the area data editing instruction means and executes editing work such as area data creation.
In this case, the size of the area data is set, but the setting such as the arrangement with respect to the paper need not be performed. That is, the area data can be edited independently of the sheet.

The edited area data is registered as area data by the area data registration unit. This area data is not limited to one data, and a plurality of area data can be registered.

When the area data of the present invention is used for editing the text, the area data importing means designates the necessary area data from the registered area data and imports the data into the document. Can be synthesized.

Further, the area data being edited and the registered area data can be printed by the printing unit. This printing is not a printing in the state that it is included in the text,
This is printing as area data. However, since the position of the area data is not set in the paper to be printed, the printing cannot be performed as it is, so that the printing means performs positioning on the paper and performs image processing on the paper on which the area data can be printed. Expand as Printing is
It can be executed using a printing device used for printing a normal document.

The registered area data can be referred to by the registered content reference means.

In the present invention, when area data is created, the position of the area data in the text is designated and stored in advance, so that when the area data is imported into the text, the stored specification Is automatically placed in the text according to.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1B shows an example of the configuration of a document creation device according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a document creation device according to the embodiment includes an input device 1 such as a keyboard, a display device 2, a CPU 3, a main memory 4 for storing processing programs and the like, a document storage memory 5 such as a hard disk, and a pointing device such as a mouse. 6
It is composed of

The document storage memory 5 includes a document being edited and the user's environment memory 51, and a document storage memory 52 for storing the document after editing.
Consists of Documents stored in these areas, for example, a document 7 having a graphic area 71 and a graph area 72 as areas as shown in FIG. 2, are stored in the format shown in FIG.

In FIG. 3, the document 7 includes a directory 531 indicating that the document name is a sample, a document management data file 532 for managing the paper size, the number of areas, the area data file name, etc. of each page constituting the document; Body data file that stores character strings stored in the document across pages
The document file 53 includes a graphic area data file 534 for storing graphic area data, and a graph area data file 535 for storing graph area data.

The data shown in FIG. 4 is stored in these data files.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the document management data includes NPAGE for managing the number of pages, and a page management table PAG for managing page information.
AREANAME that manages ETBL and area data file names
(I), i = 0, 1 ..., NAREANAME-1. The page management table PAGETBL includes, for each page, a paper size PSIZE, the number of areas NAREA stored on the page, and a pointer PA to a name of an area data file storing the area data.
(I), i = 0, 1,..., NAREA-1 are configured as one set.

As shown in FIG. 4 (b), the body data includes an NLINE for managing the number of lines and a line management table LINETB for managing line information.
L, character string data LETTER (i), i = 0, 1,..., Which stores a character string flowing into a document across pages. The line management table LINETBL has a line interval SPL,
The character spacing SPC in the line, the number of characters NLETTER, and a pointer PS to character string data stored in the line are stored as one set.

As shown in FIG. 4 (c), area data such as figures and graphs include a page number PNO in which the area is stored, an X coordinate XL at the upper left corner, a Y coordinate YL, and an X coordinate at the lower right corner on the area paper. It is composed of XR, Y coordinate YR, and data DATA stored in this area. Here, the X coordinate and the Y coordinate are taken as shown in FIG. 4 (d).

Also, as shown in FIG. 5, the environment information file includes a default value of the position of the region on the sheet when the editor is started by direct instruction of the region data creation, an X coordinate CXL at the upper left corner,
The Y coordinate CYL, the lower right X coordinate CXR, the Y coordinate CYR, and the like are stored.

Hereinafter, this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In this embodiment, a case where a figure is formed as area data will be described.

First, when the power is turned on, the subroutine INIT @ SY
The STEM is called to display the initial screen shown in FIG. 10 (a) (81). The subroutine INIT @ SYSTEM displays a switch box in the switch box area 21 on the screen shown in FIG. 10A by the operation shown in the flowchart of FIG. That is, after the initial setting of I to O, the display of each switch box is performed until I reaches the number of switch boxes. The switch box is a switch for starting a program corresponding to the instruction by the mouse cursor 62.

The mouse cursor 62 can be moved on the screen in accordance with the movement of the mouse 6 shown in FIG. 1B by, for example, moving the mouse 6 on a desk. In order to specify a certain target, the mouse cursor 62 is moved to position the target to be specified, and the switch 61 of the mouse 6 is pressed and released (82).

As shown in FIG. 6, the switch box data is composed of switch box display data SDATA and a program name PGMNAME to be activated when the switch box is selected. The number of these switch boxes is stored in NSWITCH. These data are stored in the main memory 4.

After the switch box is displayed, when the switch box 211 for creating the graphic area data is designated by the mouse cursor 62 (83), the subroutine INIT @ DRAW is called, and the initial processing 84 for creating the graphic area data is performed. .

The subroutine INIT @ DRAW creates a file 534 (see FIG. 3) in the temporary storage memory 51 for graphic area data as shown in FIG.
(See (c) of FIG. 5), the initial value 1 is substituted (842), and then, XL, XL, XR, and YR of the file are respectively replaced with CXL, CYL, CXR, and CXL of the environmental information file (see FIG. 5). Substitute CYR (843). Further, an area DATA for storing data created by an area data editing means (hereinafter referred to as a figure editor) relating to the figure is initialized (844).

When the initialization of the graphic area data file is completed, a subroutine DRAW is called, and processing 87 of the graphic editor is performed.

FIG. 11 shows a flowchart of the subroutine DRAW. At first,
A subroutine OPENW is called to open a graphic editing window 23 (FIG. 10 (b)) in accordance with XL, YL, XR, YR defining the size of the graphic area data (871). That is, as shown in FIG. 12, the subroutine OPENW obtains the position of the lower right point when the upper left corner is the origin, that is, the area size (8711), and can display the window size to be opened as this area size. The window size is obtained from the maximum screen size (8712), and a window is opened with the obtained size (8713). At this time, the obtained area sizes AXR and AYR are
The data is stored in the main memory 4 as shown in FIG.

After opening the figure editing window, input is performed by the mouse cursor 62 as shown in FIG. 11 (872).

When the menu area 22 is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (873), a subroutine AELECT @ MENU is called to display a pull-down menu, select a function, and process the selected function (877).

The mouse cursor 62 causes a scroll area 231
Is selected (874), scrolling is performed in the range of (O, O) to (AXR, AYR) in accordance with the scroll direction (878).

When the graphic primitive 233 is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (875), drawing processing of the selected primitive is performed (879). The created primitives are stored in DATA of the graphic area data file 534 in the order of creation.

As shown in Fig. 14, the data of each primitive is composed of the X coordinate DX and Y coordinate DY of the coordinate base point of the primitive with the origin at the upper left end of the area, and the DKIND storing the type and size of the primitive. Is done. Their number is stored in NDRAW.

When the end area 232 is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (876), the subroutine SAVE is called, the graphic area data file 534 being edited is moved from the temporary storage memory 51 to the text storage memory 52 (880), and the subroutine is executed. CLOSE
Call W to close the editing window and end editing (881).

The subroutine SELECT @ MENU877 of FIG. 11 displays a pull-down menu of the menu selected by the mouse cursor 62 (8771), and selects a function described in the pull-down menu, as shown in FIG. (8772), and the function processing is performed (8773).

For example, as shown in FIG. 18, when the menu 221 is selected, a pull-down menu 222 is displayed. This pull-down menu 222 has print 2221,
Region arrangement 2222.

When print 2221 (FIG. 18) is selected by the mouse cursor 62, the editing area printing means is started, the displayed pull-down menu is closed, the subroutine PRINT shown in FIG. 17 is called, and printing is performed. I do. Subroutine P
RINT is calculated by adding the position of each primitive to the upper left corner XL, YL of the area and the position DX, DY in the area of the primitive (87
At 734), the data is developed into a print image (87735). After the development is completed for all primitives, the developed data is printed (87736).

When the area arrangement 2222 (FIG. 18) is selected, the 16
The subroutine SETAREA shown in the figure is called to perform the area arrangement processing. The subroutine SETAREA first displays the area arrangement data input screen 24 shown in FIG. (87731). Next, the area arrangement data IPNO, IXL, and IYL are input (8773).
2) The result is stored in PNO and X of the graphic area data file 534.
It is stored in L, YL, XR, and YR (87733).

The subroutine SAVE880 operates as area data registration means. First, as shown in FIG. 20, first, a screen 25 (FIG. 2) for registering the graphic area data file 534 being edited.
1) is displayed (8801). When a registered name is entered in the registered name area 251 of the file (8802), after inputting the registered name, the graphic area data file name being edited is changed to the inputted registered name (8803), and the file is changed to the 22nd. As shown in 5341 in the figure, the document is copied under the directory "clip area" 536 in the memory 51 for storing the document (8804), and the graphic area data file being edited is deleted (8805).

In FIG. 10A, when the switch box 212 of the new document is pointed by the mouse cursor 62,
The subroutine INIT @ DOC (FIG. 7) is called to perform initial processing for document creation (85). Subroutine INIT ＄ DOC is the second
As shown in FIG. 4, a document directory 531 is created in the temporary storage memory 51 (851), a document management data file 532 is created under that directory (852), and its contents are initialized (853).

After the initial processing of document creation, a subroutine DOC functioning as a text editing means is called (FIG. 7), and document creation processing is performed (86). FIG. 26 shows a flowchart of the subroutine DOC.

First, a document editing window as shown in Fig. 23
26 is opened (861). Next, the mouse cursor 62
(862).

When the menu area 22 is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (863), a pull-down menu of the selected menu area is displayed (864), and selection of a function described in the pull-down menu is performed. Do (86
5), the function is processed (866). For example, as shown in FIG. 23, when the menu 223 is selected, a pull-down menu 224 is displayed. When the retrieval 2241 is selected from this pull-down menu, a subroutine GET @ AREA shown in FIG. 27 is called, and a process of importing the area data into the document is performed.

The subroutine GET @ AREA functions as area data fetching means and registered content reference means. First, by the latter means, first, an area data file under the directory "clip area" in the document storage memory 52 is searched, and a list is displayed as shown in FIG. 28 (a) ( 8661).

Next, by the former means, an area data file to be taken into the document is selected from among them (8862). After the selection, a frame 262 indicating the area size is displayed from XL, YL, XR, and YR of the selected area data file as shown in FIG. 28 (b), and the extracted area is pasted by the mouse cursor 62. Set the position to attach (8663). The set position information is stored in CPNO, CCXL, and CCYL shown in FIG. CPNO indicates the page number, CCXL and CCYL indicate the X coordinate and Y coordinate of the upper left corner of the set area.
It is in.

Next, the selected area data file is copied under the document directory (8664), and the area data file and the management data of the document management data file are updated (8665, 8666).

In FIG. 23, when the end area 261 is selected (86
7) The document file being edited is registered in the document storage memory (868), and the document creation / edit window 26 is closed (869).

In FIG. 10A, when the file operation switch box 213 is pointed by the mouse cursor 62, the subroutine OP @ FILES (FIG. 7) is called, and the update,
Perform file operations such as deletion, printing, and reference (88).

FIG. 31 shows a flowchart of the subroutine OP @ FILES. This subroutine functions as registered content reference means.
First, as shown in FIG. 29, the file operation window 28 is opened (8811), the document storage memory is searched, and the file list 281 is displayed (8812). Next, an input is made by the mouse cursor 62 (8813).

When the displayed file is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (8818), the selected file is highlighted in black and white to indicate that the selected file has been selected (881).
9). For example, when “ABC. FIG.” 2811 is selected, the area where this is displayed is displayed in black and white inverted.

When the menu area 22 is selected by the mouse cursor 62 (8814), a pull-down menu of the selected menu area is displayed (8815), and selection of a function described in the pull-down menu is performed. Do (881
6), the function is processed (8817). As shown in FIG. 29, when the menu 225 is selected, a pull-down menu 226 is displayed.

When the area print 2261 is selected in the pull-down menu 226, a subroutine PRINT @ AREA shown in FIG. 32 is called,
Print the selected area data file.

This subroutine functions as registration area printing means. That is, when an area data file is selected, the selected area data file is copied to the temporary storage memory, and then the subroutine CALL PRINT is called, printing is performed, and the temporarily stored data Delete files.

When the area arrangement 2262 is selected from the pull-down menu 226, a subroutine CONSTRUCT shown in FIG. 33 is called, and the area is automatically arranged according to the position information of the created area data file.

The subroutine CONSTRUCT functions as an area arranging unit. First, as shown in FIG. 30, a screen 29 for inputting a name for registering a document created by automatic arrangement is displayed (88175), and a registered name is input to a registered name input area 291 (88176). A document directory is created in the document storage memory 52 with the input registered name (88177), and a document management data file is created under that directory (88177).
178).

Next, the directory “Clip.
Search for the first area data file under area "536 (Fig. 22) (88179). Check if the search was successful (88180), and if the area data file was found, create a document directory. The area data file searched for is copied below (88181), the location information and file name of the area data are set in the document management data (88182), and the next area data file is searched (881).
83).

In the pull-down menu 226 in FIG. 29, refer to the area 2263.
Is selected, the subroutine DISPLAY ＄ ARE shown in Fig. 34
Call A to display the area data of the selected area data file.

The subroutine DISPLAY @ AREA checks whether the first selected file is an area data file (88191). If the file is an area data file, the area data display window 30 is opened as shown in FIG. Open (88192) and DAT of the selected area data file
Display the contents of A (88193). After the display, when the end area 31 is selected by the mouse cursor 62, the area data display window 30 is closed (88194), and the processing ends.

The mouse cursor 62 moves the end area 282 of FIG.
Is selected (8820), the file operation window 28 is closed (8821).

According to this embodiment, the area data can be handled independently, can be edited and printed in the same manner as a document, and can be registered as area data. Further, the registered area data can be taken into a conventional document. Further, the automatically created area data can be arranged in a document.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, since it can be handled as area data and can be fetched into a document, the operation of creating a document can be made finer and the work efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a block diagram showing the structure of the document creation apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 1B is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of the document, and FIG. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of document management data, text data, and area data constituting a document file, and FIG. 5 is an embodiment of an environment information file. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of switch box data, FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a processing procedure of a subroutine INIT @ SYSTEM. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine INIT @ DRAW, and FIG.
FIG. 10A is an explanatory diagram showing an output of an initial screen according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10B is an explanatory diagram showing an output of a screen when a graphic area editor is activated according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine DRAW, and FIG.
The figure is a flowchart showing the procedure for the subroutine OPENW, the thirteenth procedure.
FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of allocating an area for storing an area size to a main memory, FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the configuration of graphic primitive data, and FIG. 15 is a subroutine SELECT ＄. 16 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the MENU, FIG.
The figure is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine SETAREA.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine PRINT, and FIG.
FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram showing an output of a pull-down menu display of a graphic area editor of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram showing an output of an area arrangement data input screen of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a subroutine SAVE. FIG. 21 is an explanatory diagram showing an output of an area data / file registration name input screen according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 22 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of registration of an area data file in the present invention, FIG. 23 is an explanatory diagram showing an output of an initial screen of document editing in one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 24 is a subroutine INIT.流 れ Flow chart showing DOC processing procedure, 2nd
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the allocation of the area fetch position information area to the main memory, FIG. 26 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine DOC, and FIG. 27 is the processing procedure of the subroutine GET @ AREA FIG. 28 (a) is an explanatory diagram showing the output of the area data / file list display screen of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 28 (b) is the setting of the area data capturing position of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 29 is an explanatory diagram showing the output of the screen, FIG. 29 is an explanatory diagram showing the output of the initial screen of the file operation of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. Explanatory drawing showing the output of the name input screen, FIG. 31 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine OP @ FILES, FIG. 32 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine PRINT @ AREA, FIG.
The figure is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine CONSTRUCT,
FIG. 34 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the subroutine DISPLAY @ AREA, and FIG. 35 is an explanatory view showing the output of the area data file content display screen of one embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... keyboard, 2 ... display device, 3 ... CPU, 4 ...
... Main memory, 5 ... Document storage memory, 6 ... Mouse.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Keiichi Nakane, Inventor Keiichi Nakane 292, Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture (72) Inventor Hideki Kuwaki Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 292 Hitachi Microelectronics Device Development Laboratory, Inc. (72) Inventor Kazunari Suzuki 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Microsoft Software Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. (56) References JP-A-63- 138451 (JP, A) JP-A-61-292729 (JP, A) JP-A-62-95222 (JP, A) JP-A-62-105266 (JP, A) JP-A-59-94789 (JP, A) JP-A-61-121166 (JP, A) Canon Japanese word processor Canon Word 80 Instruction Book [2] (1985) 12-1 to 12-52 and P.E. 13-1 to 13 -72

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document creation apparatus comprising an input device, a display device, a CPU, a memory, and a pointing device for creating a document having area data, wherein a screen display process for creating a document is performed on the memory. , A text editing program for editing the text, and an area data editing program for creating and editing the area data, as well as data for displaying the switch boxes and instructions for each switch box The data of the switch box including the name of the program to be started when it is executed, the data of the text, and the area data are stored. The data of the text and the area data are stored in different areas of the memory. The CPU executes a program for performing the screen display processing, and executes a part of the display screen of the display device. A character representing a program name to be started when the switch box is instructed is displayed, and the text editing program and the area data editing program are selected by being selectively instructed by the pointing device. Is started and the above CPU
Has a function as a means for displaying a document editing screen based on the text editing program and editing the text when the text editing program is instructed, and has a function as a means for editing the text when the area data editing program is specified. In addition to having a function as a means for displaying a graphic editing screen based on the area data editing program and editing the area data, the area size obtained based on the coordinate data defining the size of the area data Compare with the maximum screen size that can be displayed, if not (area size ≥ maximum screen size), set the area size as the window size to open, and (area size ≥ maximum screen size)
When is set, the maximum screen size is set as the window size to be opened. The means for editing the area data includes means for registering the edited area data in the memory, and performs the editing of the text. The means includes a means for performing menu selection processing, a registered content reference means for displaying a list of one or more area data registered in the memory so that the area data can be referenced, and a means for fetching area data into a document being edited. Means for taking in the area data, wherein the means for performing the menu selection processing includes taking in the area data as one of the menu options, and the registered content reference means selects the taking in of the area data from the menu. When the area data is displayed, a list of the area data is displayed. Is received through the pointing device, and the setting of the designated area data capture position is received via the pointing device, and the selected area data is displayed at the designated capture position. A document creation device, characterized in that: 2. The editing device according to claim 1, wherein the data editing means further comprises an editing area printing means for positioning the area data being edited when printing, and developing the area data into a print image. A document creation device characterized by the following. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the means for editing the area data further comprises means for opening and closing a figure editing window, and means for performing scroll processing on the window, and means for editing the text. A document creation apparatus further comprising means for opening and closing a document editing window.