JPH01229646A - Control method in alphabetic outline font printing - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a printing displayed by an alphabetic outline font unexisting in a main body, by a method wherein, the alphabetic outline font and the data, such as a character width, corresponding thereto are inputted from the external to be stored in an internal memory part, the X coordinate of the character is obtained, and the character pattern is developed in a line buffer. CONSTITUTION:An auxiliary floppy disk is set on a floppy disk device 15, and an alphabetic outline font printing mode is specified by operating a keyboard. With this mode specification, under the control by a CPU, data relating to an outline font type, a control method, a control part, etc. are read from an outline font data medium, i.e. a floppy disk device 15 in this case, to be written into a RAM 11. Then, a control system of alphabetic outline font printing is constructed. A printing main control part 12e obtains a width and an inclined width of each character from a document buffer and a Y management table in the RAM 11. Data intrinsic to character are read from an outline font table 11b, and a PS pitch, a heading, a character width, and an inclined character width are obtained from the width and the inclined width of each character.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a control method for printing English and European outline fonts in a document creation device.

(Prior Art) A document creation device such as a word processor is generally equipped with a format setting function and a print format setting function, so that various formats for document creation and printing can be selected and specified. Conventionally, character fonts for display and printing are developed as patterns within certain predetermined sections, and do not include data such as character width between characters.

However, English and European fonts have different data such as character width, and in order to display and print them in a connected form, it is necessary to have a dictionary for them. Current word processors have data about characters within the processor, but do not have data about character fonts given externally. For this reason, it is possible to display and print character fonts within the main body according to their character widths, but this is not possible for English and European outline fonts provided from the outside.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As mentioned above, in current word processors, character fonts in the main body are displayed according to the character width,
Although printing is possible, for example, for character fonts such as cursive that are not included in the main body, data for them is not available, so it is not possible to display or print according to the character width.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and is a display using an English and European outline font that is not included in the main body.

The object of the present invention is to provide a control method for printing English and European outline fonts that can perform marking by incorporating data from the outside.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means and effects for solving the problems) The present invention consists of a data input section, a storage section, a screen display section, a printer section, an external media section, and a control section that connects these sections.
In a document creation device equipped with an outline font printing function, when printing English and European outline fonts that are not included in the main body, data such as English and European outline fonts and their respective character widths are imported from the external media and printed internally. In addition to determining the horizontal width and italic width of the characters stored in the storage unit and printed, the character-specific data is referred to the table stored in the internal storage unit, and the feed width, cue width, cue, etc. are calculated from the character width and italic width. The system is structured so that the character width and italic character width are sequentially determined for each character, the X coordinate of each character is determined from the above-mentioned leading width and cue, and the character pattern is expanded into a line buffer to print an English and European outline font. This is what I did.

(Example) Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In Figure 1, 10 is a microprocessor (CPU)
, 11 is a RAM accessed by the microprocessor IO, and 12 is a ROM.

A microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10 controls the entire device, and controls the RAM II and ROM described above.
12 and start the program according to the input instructions, document creation processing, key manual control processing, outline font printing control processing for internal character fonts, and outline font printing control processing for externally input English and European fonts. Execute processing. RAMII is a document area.

Including external character registration area, word registration area, X coordinate table lla, outline font data buffer llb
, outline font pattern buffer 11c,
Table l of line buffer lid, PS pitch, etc.
It consists of an area for storing various control information such as ie.

The ROM 12 includes a program area storing input processing programs including a program that determines the operation of the CPU10 and a cursor control routine associated with key manual input, an X coordinate generation section 12a, and an outline font development section 12b1.
It has areas such as a character development section 12C, a printer driver 12d, and a printing main control section 12e.

Further, 13 is a keyboard (KB), 14 is a display, 15 is an external medium such as a floppy disk device, and 16 is a printer. The floppy disk device 15 includes:
A main floppy disk for storing document data or an auxiliary floppy disk for storing data for printing English and European outline fonts can be optionally installed. The auxiliary floppy disk stores data for printing English and European outline fonts, such as font types for English and European characters, printing methods, control units, outline font data, PS pitch (feeding width) tables, etc. The data is read out and written to RAM II under the control of the CPU 1O. Further, the printer 16 prints a document created under the control of the CPU 10 or a document recorded on the main floppy disk.

Next, processing operations when printing English and European outline fonts will be explained with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. When printing English and European outline fonts, after creating a document, an auxiliary floppy disk is loaded into the floppy disk device 15, and the mode for printing English and European outline fonts is designated by key operations on the keyboard 13.

When this mode is specified, the outline font data medium, that is,
In this case, data regarding the outline font type, control method, control unit, etc. is read from the floppy disk device 15 and written to RAMII, and the control system for printing English and European outline fonts is configured as shown in FIG. . That is, the X coordinate table ll in RAM 11
a, outline font data buffer llb, outline font pattern buffer 11C, line buffer lid.

and an X coordinate generation unit 12a set in the ROM 12.

Outline font development section 12b, character development section 12c
, the print main control section 12e, etc. constitute a control system. The numbers ■, ■, . . . in the figure indicate the order of print control.

Then, when data related to English and European outline font printing is read from the auxiliary floppy disk into RAMII by the floppy disk device 15, the print format shown in FIG. The settings screen will be displayed. In this printing format, the printing font can be specified from among 12 types. The font is specified by selecting the font number by operating the cursor keys. Also,
The display screen is provided with a font image display area 21, and by selecting the font, the corresponding font image is displayed in the display area 21, and the font name is displayed above it. Furthermore, in the print format "Japanese/English" setting item, "Proportional" is selected. After setting each item, by operating the selection/execution key, a two-screen window with the print format shown in FIG. 3(b) is displayed. This screen shows an example of what is displayed when printing a full text, such as "Print speed".

``Ruled line printing'', ``mirror image printing'', ``English right alignment''.

It is now possible to set the ``number of copies'' etc.

After setting the above items, when the selection/execution key is operated, the printing process shown in the flowchart shown in FIG. 4 is executed.

That is, the print main control unit 12e determines the width and the width of the italic character of each character from the document buffer in the RAM 1l and the Y management table (step Al). Next, character-specific data is read from the outline font table llb, and the PS pitch, cue, character width, and italic character width are determined from the character width and italic width (step A2). The process of step A2 is repeated for the number of characters on one line.

That is, in the present invention, the character feed width is different for each character, and in order to find the coordinates of each character, first the character feed width during normal printing is found. For this character feed width, the magnification is determined from the width and the italic width, and the feed table obtained from each data table is multiplied by the magnification to determine the feed width (PS pitch), cue, character width, and italic character width. After that, P obtained as above
The X coordinate of each character is determined from the S pitch and cue (step A3). Furthermore, it is determined whether or not there is a right alignment instruction (step A4), and if there is such an instruction, right alignment processing is performed (step A5), and the character pattern is developed in the line buffer lld according to the X coordinate (step A8). The above-mentioned right alignment processing and buffer expansion are performed conventionally, that is, by the same processing as in the case of Japanese characters. Then, the printer I6 is driven by the printer driver 12d according to the character pattern developed in the line buffer lld, and, for example, as shown in FIGS. .

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, in a document creation device equipped with an outline font printing function, data such as English and European outline fonts that are not included in the main body and their respective character widths can be printed. Since the data is imported from outside and printed, it is possible to display and print in English and European outline fonts. Therefore, it is possible to display and print with a unique font that is not available in the main body, increasing the variety. Furthermore, since it is an outline font, there is no unevenness due to enlargement, and high-quality printing can be performed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing the flow of control when printing English and European outline fonts, and Figure 3 is a diagram showing the format setting screen when printing. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing control operations during printing, and FIGS. 5(a) to 5(C) are diagrams showing printing examples of English and European outline fonts. 10...Microprocessor (CPU), 11...
RAM, 12...ROM, 13...Keyboard, 1
4... Display unit, 15... Floppy disk device,
16...Printer. Applicant's Representative Patent Attorney Takehiko Suzue English/European Outline Font Printing 1III Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] This document creation device consists of a data input section, a storage section, a screen display section, a printer section, an external media section, and a control section that connects these sections, and is equipped with an outline font printing function. At the time of printing, a storage means for externally importing data such as English and European outline fonts and their respective character widths from the external media and storing them in an internal storage section, a means for determining the width of the characters to be printed, and the width of the italic characters; Means for sequentially determining the feeding width, cue, character width, and italic character width for each character from the horizontal width and italic width of the character by referring to a table in which unique data is stored in the internal storage unit; A control method for printing an English and European outline font, comprising means for determining the X coordinate of each character from the beginning of the character, and means for developing and printing a character pattern in a line buffer according to the X coordinate.