JPH03156668A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print characters on a form of an optional size without changing the layout of a produced document by calculating automatically the size of a character to store these characters within a form after the number of characters included in a single line are decided together with the number of lines included in a single page, the character space, the line space, the form size, etc., and printing the characters in the calculated size. CONSTITUTION:An operator first sets the number N of characters included in a single line of a document to be prepared, the number M of lines included in a single page, the character pitch Q set with a basic character size (a), the line feed pitch R, etc. Then a user sets a form size 31, and an area size 32 that can be actually printed is usually set and stored in accordance with the performance of a printer and in response to a form size smaller than the size 31. Then the size of a single character is calculated so that these characters are included in the form. Thus, the characters are printed in the calculated size. As a result, the characters can be printed on a form of an optional size without changing the layout of a document.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Purpose of the invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to a document creation device.

(Prior art) To set the format on a document creation device, first decide on the paper size such as A4 or B5, and then set the number of characters, number of lines, character size, character pitch, line break pitch, etc. to fit within the paper size. is common. A number of graded values are available for font size, character pitch, line break pitch, etc., and by changing the values along with the number of characters and lines, it is compatible with various paper sizes.

The disadvantages of this method are that it is difficult to change the paper size and that the layout of the document is constrained by the paper size. For example, when printing a document set as A4 size on 85 size paper, even if you change the character pitch, line break pitch, etc., there is a limit to the number of characters that can be set, so the number of characters per line, line per page, etc. The numbers must also be changed. Conversely, if you want to print a document created on B5 paper all over A4 paper, you will also have to change the layout of the document. Therefore, if you really want a document with a different paper size without changing the layout, you have to print out a document and then enlarge or reduce the size of the document.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As detailed above, in the conventional document creation device,
If you want to change the paper size after the document is completed, you can change the layout or enlarge the previously printed document.
Methods such as reduced copying were used, which was cumbersome to operate.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that can change a created document to any paper size without changing the layout, and can set the layout of a document regardless of the paper size.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The document creation device of the present invention sets the number of characters in one line, number of lines in one page, character spacing, line spacing, and print paper size of a document to be created. a calculating means for calculating a single character size that fits within the size of a printing paper from a value set by the setting means, and a means for printing a document with the character size calculated by the calculating means. It is characterized by what it did.

(Function) According to the document creation device of the present invention, when the number of characters per line, number of lines per page, character spacing, line spacing, paper size, etc. are set, the size of one character is calculated to fit on the paper. , printing is performed using this calculated character size. Therefore, it is possible to print on paper of any size without changing the layout of the created document.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing the basic configuration of a document creation device used in this embodiment. Inside the document creation device,
There is a CPU 10 that controls the operation of the apparatus, a RAM 11 that temporarily stores the contents of created documents, and a ROM 12 that stores basic programs related to the operation of the apparatus. Furthermore, RAMII is composed of parts such as a document buffer 13 that stores the character codes of each character that makes up the document being created, and a format information buffer 14 that stores format information of the document that is being created. ing.

The ROM 12 includes a program area 16 that stores basic programs, a character pattern area 17 that stores character patterns corresponding to character codes, and a dictionary area 18 that stores dictionaries related to kana-kanji conversion. It is configured. Additionally, a keyboard 19 (hereinafter K
B), a display 20 that displays the document being created, the creation mode, etc., a display dot memory 21 that temporarily stores the pattern displayed on the display 20, and a printer 22 that prints the created document on paper or the like. (hereinafter referred to as PRT), a floppy disk drive 23 (hereinafter referred to as FDD) for external storage of documents in the document buffer 13, and a keyboard interface 24 (hereinafter referred to as
B-IF), display CNT 25, printer interface 26 (hereinafter referred to as PRT-IF), floppy disk drive interface (hereinafter referred to as FDD-
IF) 27.

In such a document creation device, a document is created through the following operations. First, the operator inputs the reading in kana characters using KB19.

The input signal is transmitted to CPUl0, and the character code is written into a human reading buffer (not shown) in RAM II. A character pattern corresponding to the input signal is read from the character pattern area 17 in the ROM 12 and displayed in a predetermined area of the display 20. Then, when an instruction for kana-kanji conversion is given by the KB 19, the kana character string in the reading buffer is analyzed, the character strings in kanji and katakana notation corresponding to the reading of the word are sequentially called up from the dictionary area 18, and the display 20 The character pattern is displayed. In addition, if there are homophones for a reading, the KBI 9 also has a function to display them in order and select a predetermined one according to an instruction. When saving the document stored in the document buffer 13 to a floppy disk, the floppy disk is
Insert it into the DD23, and give an instruction to save the document using the KB19. The save instruction from the KB 19 is transmitted to the CPU 10, which drives the FDD 23 and writes the created document to a predetermined location on the floppy disk. In addition, when printing the created document on paper, etc., set the paper in the PRT22 and give a print instruction using the KB19.
A printing instruction is transmitted to the ROM 12, and the document stored in the document buffer 13 is printed on paper using the character pattern in the ROM 12. Print format information is set in the document. Print format information is stored in the document information buffer 14 of RAMII. Print format information includes the number of characters per line, number of lines per page, character pitch, line break pitch, paper size, horizontal writing,
Contains information such as vertical writing. The document in the document buffer 13 is managed with line breaks and page breaks based on the set number of characters per line and number of lines per page. When printing a document, spaces are created between each character pattern according to the character pitch,
Further, the paper field in the PRT 22 is performed according to the line feed pitch to create an interval between lines.

Other settings for horizontal writing and vertical writing are used to determine whether or not to rotate the character pattern in the ROM 12 and output it. Furthermore, the paper size (including the direction of the paper) is used to determine the character size (basic size), which will be described later. The basic size is the standard character print size for which no enlargement or reduction magnification is set, and the magnification (half-width, 1/4 character, double-width, quadruple-width, mXn times, etc.) is set for the character code in the document. If so, the character pattern in the ROM 12 is reduced or enlarged based on the basic character size.

Next, a method for calculating the size of printed characters will be explained with reference to FIG.

First, the operator sets the number of characters N in one line of the document to be created, the number M of lines in one page, the character pitch 1 line break pitch R when the character size is the basic size a, and so on.

As shown in Part 2, character pitch Q indicates the length from the beginning of the previous character to the beginning of the next character, and line break pitch R indicates the length from the beginning of the previous line to the beginning of the next line. The value will be set. These values can be set in any order. After setting these values, the user can select paper size 31, for example A4.
Set vertical, B4 horizontal, etc. The actual printable area size 32 is generally paper size 3 depending on the printer performance.
A value smaller than 1 is uniquely set and stored in correspondence with the paper size. Here, the area size 22 is the horizontal direction U
1 vertical direction V.

When printing this document, the character pitch 1 line feed pitch R and character size A of the content to be printed on the set paper are calculated by the following equation using the above-mentioned values.

To make the ratio of the height and width the same, use the smaller of the vertical and horizontal directions as the constant.

Character pitch Q - q Printing is performed by enlarging or reducing the character size A determined by the formula.

The character size calculated as character size A - basic character size a x constant is transmitted to the PRT 21 together with the character pattern, and printing is performed. In this embodiment, the character pattern is stored in the character pattern area 17 of the ROM 12 as outline font data, so if the coordinate values indicating each line are calculated based on the constant K, a desired size character pattern can be obtained. can be obtained. Note that even when dot data of a character pattern is stored as a pattern, a desired pattern can be obtained by reduction by dot thinning (logical sum method) and enlargement by dot interpolation.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the document creation device of the present invention,
When you set the number of characters per line, number of lines per page, character spacing, line spacing, paper size, etc., the size of one character is automatically calculated to fit on the paper, and the calculated font size is used for printing. will be held.

Therefore, you can print on paper of any size without changing the layout of the created document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing the configuration of a document creation device used in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a character size calculation method according to the present invention. 10...CPU 21...Printer

Claims (1)

[Claims] Number of characters per line of the document to be created, number of lines per page, character spacing,
A setting means for setting the line spacing and the size of the printed paper surface, a calculating means for calculating the size of one character that fits within the size of the printed paper surface from the value set by the setting means, and a character size calculated by the calculating means. 1. A document creation device, comprising means for printing a created document.