JPH02311894A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print out characters of high quality with inexpensive constitution by providing an outline information generating means which generates outline- font information on a character font from character font information extracted from a character font storage means. CONSTITUTION:This document preparing device is equipped with a character font storage means 3 where the character font information consisting of dot patterns is stored, a character font extracting means 5 which extracts the character font information from the character font storage means 3, and an outline information generating means 4 which generates the outline font information on the character font from the character font information extracted from the character font storage means 3. Then the outline information generating means 4 generates the outline information on the character font from the character font information extracted from the character font storage means 3. Consequently, characters of high quality are printed out with the inexpensive constitution without requiring the outline font.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a document creation device such as a word processor.

(Prior Art) In recent years, document creation devices such as word processors have been frequently used in various types of office processing.

Documents created by this document creation device are often printed out by a printing device and used as correspondence for business purposes.

By the way, the character fonts normally used in this document creation device are expressed as nXm dot matrices, and when printing, these character fonts are enlarged or reduced as they are.

Therefore, when a character font is printed in an enlarged manner, as shown in FIG. 4, unevenness becomes noticeable in the character font, resulting in poor quality.

To deal with this situation, devices have recently been commercialized that are equipped with a memory that stores character fonts made of dot patterns as well as outline fonts for printing. However, there was a problem in that it became larger and increased the cost.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, conventional document creation devices have a problem in that it is difficult to output high-quality characters during printing even with an inexpensive configuration.

The present invention is intended to solve the above problems, and aims to provide a document creation device that does not require an outline font, has an inexpensive configuration, and can print out high-quality characters.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the document creation device of the present invention includes a character font storage means in which character font information consisting of dot patterns is stored, and The present invention comprises a character font extraction means for extracting character font information corresponding to a character from a character font storage means, and an outline information generation means for generating outline information of the character font from the character font information extracted from the character font storage means. It is something.

(Function) In the document creation device of the present invention, the outline information generation means generates the outline information of the character font from the character font information extracted from the character font storage means, so an outline font is not required and an inexpensive In the configuration,
It is possible to print out high-quality characters.

(Example) Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

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

In the figure, 1 is an interface unit that accepts information input from an input device 2 such as a keyboard as input information into the device, 3 is a character font storage unit in which a character font consisting of an NXM dot pattern is stored, Reference numeral 4 denotes a data conversion unit which is an outline information generation means for generating outline information of the character font from the character font data extracted from the character font storage unit 3, and 5 a control unit which centrally controls each of the above components. be.

A document, which is a collection of character font data created by this document creation device, is displayed on the screen of a display device 6 such as a CRT. Furthermore, the document data created in the same device is transferred to a printing device 7 such as a laser printer, thereby printing the document.

In addition, with this device, characters on a document to be converted into outline information can be freely specified by an input operation by the operator while looking at the display screen, and the data conversion unit 4
Execute data conversion on the character font data in the specified range.

Next, the operation of this embodiment apparatus will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, the operator operates the human-powered device 2 to specify a portion of the document to be printed using outline information from among the documents already created by the document creation device and displayed on the screen of the display device 6.

After that, as shown in FIG. 2, when the operator issues a command to print the created document, the control unit 5 first extracts character font data corresponding to the characters to be printed from the character font storage unit 3, and extracts the character font data corresponding to the characters to be printed. is sent to the data converter 4 (step a). Here, the data conversion unit 4 determines whether or not each of the character font data sent sequentially is specified to be printed with outline information (step b), and if it is specified, it is not transferred. Step C) generates outline information of the same character font based on the character font data.
(step d).

As a result, as shown in FIG. 3, for example, high quality printing without unnecessary uneven parts can be obtained.

On the other hand, character font data other than the specified one is transferred as is to the printing device 7 and printed in a dot pattern.

Thus, according to the document creation device of this embodiment, high-quality printing without unnecessary irregularities can be obtained simply by storing a character font consisting of a dot pattern in the character font storage section 3.

Therefore, it is possible to effectively improve the device performance despite the inexpensive configuration, and in particular, when printing enlarged characters, it is possible to significantly improve the print quality.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the document creation device of the present invention, the outline information of the character font is generated from the character font information extracted from the character font storage means. It is possible to print out high-quality characters with an inexpensive configuration.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of outline information generation and output operations in the same embodiment device, and FIG. 3 4 is a diagram showing an example of print output based on outline information outputted from the apparatus of the embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of print output based on character font data. 1...Interface section 2...Input device 3...Character font storage section 4...Data conversion section 5...Control section 6...Display device ゛7...Printing device applicant Co., Ltd. Toshiba Representative Patent Attorney Sasa Suyama - Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A character font storage means in which character font information consisting of a dot pattern is stored; a character font extraction means for extracting character font information corresponding to characters to be output from the character font storage means; and the character font storage means. 1. A document creation device comprising: outline information generation means for generating outline information of a character font from character font information extracted from the character font information.