JPH01125658A - Document processing system containing layout function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To freely produce a text and to freely set the layouts when the documents are printed by securing such a constitution where a host document processing system decides the line left end position, the line right end position and the text data length based on the area information and then edits a text to be given to the relevant line. CONSTITUTION:A print command received from a terminal is sent to a document layout control part 8 via a document processing control part 7 and the area information supplied after the print command is stored in an area information file 13. Then the part 7 sends the print command to a document print control part 9. The part 9 reads the area information out of the file 13 for each page to evolve it onto a memory and cells out a text formatting control part 10. Thus the line right end position is decided together with the line left end position and the text data length. Then an image area and a graph area can be decided. In such a way, the texts given to the lines are edited.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing system equipped with a layout function, and more particularly to a document processing system equipped with a layout function that creates print images of centrally managed documents.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, a method for securing an area for allocating a graph, image, or table directly above a predetermined position is to input text by taking the area into account when creating text using a document creation device, as shown in FIG. 4(a). That is, as shown in the text data structure in FIG. 3(b), the document creation device sets the left end position, 9th row right end position, and text data length for each line, and stores it in the text file on the document creation device ( Figure 3(a)
), and then transfer that document to the host to manage it, graphs, images, etc. for viewing or printing.

Display or print embedded tables.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the conventional method, the host document processing system processes the line right end position, one line left end position, and data length set by the document creation device as fixed values, which causes the following problem.

(b) If you create text without considering the area to which graphs, images, and tables will be allocated, when you set the area in the document processing system on the host side and display or print the document, the text under the area will disappear (see Section 4). (See A in figure (b)).

(U) If the area secured when creating text is smaller than the data actually allocated, when the area is set in the document processing system on the host side and the document is displayed or printed, the text under the area disappears (Figure 4 (b) ). Also,
If the area secured when creating text is larger than the data actually allocated, extra blank space will appear when the area is set in the document processing system on the host side and the document is displayed or printed (see C in Figure 4(b)). ).

In order to avoid the above-mentioned inconvenience, there is a drawback that the text must be transferred from the host's document processing system to the document creation device, the text must be proofread, and then transferred to the host again.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing system with a layout function that improves the above-mentioned drawbacks by creating a text print image in a host by providing layout data.

[Means for solving problems]

A document processing system with a layout function according to the present invention includes a document creation device equipped with an input means and a display means capable of creating text, graphs, images, and tables;
The image and table layout includes a text formatting control section that creates text position information according to the information, and is configured to create a print image of a unified document.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1(a) is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, FIG. 1(b) shows the text formatting control section 1.
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing details of 0.

In the figure, 1 to 6 are components of a document creation device (terminal), and 7 to 21 are components of a document processing system (host).

The user selects display section 1. Keyboard section 21 Document creation control section 3
A document (text, non-text) is created on a text file 5 and a non-text file 6 via. The created document is transferred from the document processing control section 4 to the document processing control section 7 of the host, stored in a text file 11 and a non-text file 12, and managed. The structure of the text data in the text file 11 is shown in Figure 3 (b) above.
It is similar to

The print command input from the terminal is transmitted to the document layout control unit 8 via the document processing control unit 7, and the area information inputted subsequently (see FIG. 2(a)) is transferred to the area information file 1.
Next, the document processing control section 7 transmits the above print command to the document printing control section 9, and the document printing control section 9 reads area information page by page from the area information file 13 and develops it on the memory. and text 7 automation control section 10
call.

The control section 10a of the text formatting control section 10 passes the line number to be edited to the text file I 10 section 15, and the text file I 10 section 15 reads the text of the specified line from the text file 11 and sets it in the buffer 18, and stores the area of the specified line. The information 17 is set in the buffer 19 and the process returns to the control section 10a. Next, the control section 10a sends the text line formatting section 16 to the buffer 18 and the buffer 1.
9 ~, the text line formatting unit 16 edits the text line according to the passed area information, sets the text in the buffer 20, and stores the text information in the buffer 21.
Set to . The control unit 10a then returns the edited text and text information to the document print control unit 9.

The document print control unit 9 reads data from the non-text file 12 according to area information, creates a print image, and outputs it to a print image file 14. The document printing control section 9 repeatedly calls the text formatting control section 10 until the text editing is completed.

In the above manner, for example, the print image shown in Fig. 2(b) is created by determining the areas ■ and ■ based on the area information of the image and graph, determining the area ■, and sequentially pouring text there. do.

[Effects of the Invention] ′ As described in detail above, according to the document processing system equipped with the layout function of the present invention, the host document processing system determines the line right end position, one line left end position, and text data length according to the area information. Decide and edit the text that will flow into that line. Therefore, (a) graphs are created when text is created using a document creation device.

You can freely create text for images and table layouts without having to consider the area.

(U) The layout can be freely set when printing a document, and there is no need to re-proofread the text.

There is an effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figures 1 (a) and (b) are block diagrams showing one embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 (a) is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of an area information file, and Figure 2 (b) is an example of a print image. FIGS. 3 and 4 are explanatory diagrams showing conventional examples. 1...Display section, 2...Input section, 3...Document creation control section, 4.7...Document processing control section, 5.11...Text file, 6.12...Non text file,
8... Document layout control unit, 9... Document printing control unit, 10... Text formatting control unit, 13
...Area information file, 14...Print image file.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is equipped with a document creation device equipped with input means and display means that can create text, graphs, images, and tables, and a text formatting control unit that creates text position information according to the layout information of graphs, images, and tables. A document processing system equipped with a layout function that creates print images of managed documents.