JPH02147265A - Printing designating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit printing designating labor over several times and to enhance operability in the printing of a document by designating whether printing is required in a page unit with respect to the document of two or more pages inputted by an input means. CONSTITUTION:An arbitrary page printing item is provided to a printing condition setting item and, when the printing of an arbitrary page is designated, the pages present in one document are displayed on a picture and the printing of a page to be printed is designated on the picture. By setting the designation of the printing of the arbitrary page in the setting of a printing condition, all of the pages present in one document are displayed and, by designating the page to be printed, printing designating labor can be omitted when an operator prints the arbitrary page of the document of two or more pages and the printing efficiency of the document can be enhanced and user's convenience can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to print control of a Japanese input/editing device.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional Japanese input/editing device i! i (Hitachi Japanese word processor reordpal 610 operation manual P192
~P193), when printing only an arbitrary page in a multi-page document, if the pages are not consecutive, you must specify printing once for each page to be printed. ,
You had to make as many print specifications as there were true numbers to print.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The present invention allows you to select the print designation for any page when creating a multi-page document in a Japanese input/output machine and print multiple arbitrary pages, thereby changing the print designation several times. The purpose is to save time and improve operability in printing a single document.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above purpose is to provide an item for printing arbitrary pages in the conventional printing condition setting items, and when printing an arbitrary page is specified, to display the pages existing in one document on the screen, and to select which pages on the screen. This is accomplished by specifying what to print.

[Effect]

The interlocking control between the conventional document editing device and the present invention displays all pages existing in one document by setting arbitrary page print specification in the print condition settings, and by specifying which page to print. When an operator prints an arbitrary page in a multi-page document, it is possible to save the trouble of specifying printing, thereby improving document printing efficiency and usability.

〔Example〕

A Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an overview of the present invention. 101 is a process of displaying print condition settings for specifying the number of copies, page numbers, etc. when printing a created document. 102 is a condition setting process for each item of the printing conditions displayed in 101, and 103 is a process after the Execute> key is pressed after setting the conditions in 102.

104 displays an arbitrary page print specification menu when arbitrary page print specification is selected in the set conditions;
After the display is finished, the page to be printed is specified in step 105.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied, where l is an input device using a keyboard for inputting characters, etc., 2 is a display output device such as a CRT display for displaying characters, etc., and 3 is a display output device such as a CRT display for displaying characters, etc. A memory or a magnetic storage device for storing the contents of the text; 4 is a printout Mm using a wire dot printer or the like; 5 is a control section using a microprocessor or the like for controlling each of the above-mentioned sections.

FIG. 3 is a flow showing 104 in FIG. 1 in more detail. 301 sets the work variable K, which sets the number of lines for displaying the menu, to (3), which is the value of the display start line minus 1; and 302, the variable I, which sets the number of existing pages used internally. Then, in 303, the title and document name of the target document and notes are displayed.
Set the true number of pages created in the target document in variable I in 04, check the number of pages in 405, and if the number of pages is 1 or more, set variables J and I by +1 in 306. First, in step 307, the number I of pages existing in the document/book is compared with the number J displayed on the screen. If the comparison result is J greater than 1, a message is displayed at the bottom of one screen and the process is terminated, and if ■ is 5 or more, a menu is displayed on the screen in the row 308. At that time, the number displayed is 10 or 1
If it is 20 or 30, the display ends with 309 and 31
0 displays messages at the bottom of the screen.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the process 105 in FIG. 1 in more detail. After displaying a menu for specifying arbitrary page printing at 104 in FIG. 1, a keystroke is performed at 401 to specify which page is to be printed.

If the input key is pressed at 402, then the page to be printed is registered in the print page information area at 403, and the print function is entered. Also, the input key is 404 and 1.2 on the numeric keypad.
If so, the unnecessary or essential items in the optional page print designation menu displayed in 405 are inverted in black and white, and the key (1 or 2) input in 406 is displayed on the screen, and then in 407, the cursor selects the item below. Processing is performed to determine whether or not it is possible to move to.

Also, if the input key is 408 and the cursor key is one down, the cursor is moved in 407, and the input key is 408.
If 09 is the previous page/next page key, 41O is the screen display line (
K) is returned to its initial value, and if 411 is the next page key, up to 10 items will be displayed starting from the item next to the bottom line currently displayed, and if it is the previous page key, the currently displayed line will be displayed. The 10th item from the previous item in the bottom row [Up to 10 will be displayed, but if the previous data is less than 10th item 11, the 1f of the 1st item will be displayed. Displays the i-th to 10th exits. Further, if the input key is 412 and the cancel key, the process returns to the 1 edit proofreading or work menu, and if a key other than the above-mentioned key is manually pressed, an abnormal sound is outputted in 413.

Thereafter, the key manual processing at 401 is performed again.

FIG. 5 is an example of the print condition setting screen displayed at 104 in FIG. 1. By specifying 1 in item 501, a print designation menu screen for any page can be displayed.

FIG. 6 shows the arbitrary page printing designation menu screen that is displayed after the arbitrary page printing is specified in step 104 of FIG. 1 and the ``Execute'' key is input. Specify all and print.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, only an arbitrary page of a multi-page input document is to be printed.

This allows you to print any page by specifying it only once, without having to specify printing multiple times.

It is possible to improve the operability of printing and increase the efficiency of document printing.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a general flow diagram of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the Japanese input device, Fig. 3 is a detailed flow diagram of displaying the arbitrary page print designation menu shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a block diagram of the Japanese input device. A detailed flowchart of the arbitrary page print designation process, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for setting printing conditions to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the screen of the arbitrary page print designation menu. ■...Keyboard, 2...Display device, 3...Storage device, 4...Printing device value, 5...Control device. Agent: Patent Attorney Katsuo Ogawa, ″′ Figure 2 Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A Japanese language device equipped with a means for inputting characters, a means for editing and proofreading characters, a display means for displaying the input and editing status of characters, a printing means for printing created documents, and a storage means for storing created documents. 1. A print designation method, characterized in that, in an input editing device, it is possible to designate whether or not to print a plurality of pages of a document inputted by the input means on a page-by-page basis.