JPH03231379A - Document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the document processing system in which a relative relation of a character and a graphic is not spoiled, and also, which can generate a document of a high quality being free from indentation by handling unitedly the character and the graphic and expanding them by the same means by its external form information. CONSTITUTION:As for a character and a graphic, its external form information is stored in a storage part 15. A processing part (CPU) 14 branches in accordance with whether the designated external form information is a character or a graphic. At the time of the character, the storage part 15 is retrieved by a designated character code, and the external form information of the character concerned is drawn out. This external form information is a coordinate train of the apex for showing an external form of the character by a polygon, and the processing part 14 expands an image to a shape of the character from this external form information. This image is sent to a display part 11 and an output part 13. In the case of the graphic, it is the same as the case of the character, when a graphic code is given. As for the graphic to which the graphic code is not given, the external form information of its graphic is fetched by information of a storage position in the storage part 15, and the image is expanded from the obtained external form information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing system that enables efficient generation of characters and figures.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in a document processing system, when creating a document containing a mixture of characters and graphics, for example, the handling methods were different, such as characters being treated as characters and graphics being treated as graphics.

Therefore, when enlarging or reducing an area where text and a figure overlapped, it was necessary to enlarge or reduce the text for the text, enlarge or reduce the figure for the figure, and then superimpose the results.〇The above problem As a countermeasure to this point, for example, there is a method described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 65-52591.

In order to handle characters and figures in a unified manner, this method uses empty codes among character codes as figure codes, and by associating figures with these codes, figures are treated in the same way as characters.
The graphic code generates graphics instead of characters.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional technology enables efficient document processing based on the idea that figures are treated in the same way as characters, but when aiming for more efficient document processing, there are some shortcomings. In the above conventional technology, both characters and figures are stored in dot format expanded into image information, so when characters and figures are enlarged significantly, the dot shapes are enlarged as they are, resulting in jagged edges. The purpose of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, handle single characters and figures in a unified manner, and create high-quality documents without jagged edges even when greatly enlarged. An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing system that makes it possible to do this.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention adopts the concept of the above-mentioned conventional technology in which figures are treated in the same way as characters, and also adopts a method in which when a single character or figure is generated, information on its external shape is developed into an image. are doing.

That is, the present invention provides a document processing device for processing documents containing characters and figures, which includes means for storing external shape information of characters and figures, and extracting the external shape information of the characters and figures from the storage means and developing it into an image. and means.

When a character code or graphic code is designated, the developing means retrieves external shape information of a character or graphic corresponding to the character code or graphic code from the storage means and develops it into an image.

Further, when the developing means is given information on the storage position of the external shape information of the figure in the storage means, the developing means takes out the external shape information of the graphic stored in the storage position from the storage means and develops it into an image.

In order to provide information on the storage location of the external shape information of the figure in the storage means to the developing means, information for specifying the figure (for example, figure name 1 figure number) and the corresponding figure external information in the storage means are provided. When a table storing storage location information and information specifying a figure are specified from the outside, the table is searched, information on the storage position in the storage means of the external shape information of the corresponding figure is extracted, and the It can have means for providing a spreading means.

[Effect]

When generating characters/figures, the developing means extracts external shape information of the desired character/figure according to the character code or figure code for figures to which a character or figure code has been given, and extracts the extracted character/figure information. Develops the shape information of a figure into an image.

Further, for a figure to which a figure code has not been given, the developing means extracts the external shape information of the desired figure based on the information of the storage location in the storing means, and develops the extracted external shape information of the figure into an image. , In the present invention, it is also possible to specify a shape with a code,
Also, since it is possible to directly specify external shape information, it is possible to handle any shape without limiting the number of shape types, complexity, size, etc. of the shape.In this way, The present invention stores the external shape information of characters and figures and develops it into an image from this external shape information, so even when greatly enlarged, it can produce beautiful images without jagged edges, compared to when conventional dots are enlarged. Can be expanded.

If it is mixed, the jaggedness that conventionally occurs due to the expansion of the dots will be
This is because when expanding from the external shape information, it is possible to calculate and expand more precisely, so diagonal lines etc. can be drawn smoothly.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a document processing system 1 includes a display section 11.
Input section 12. Output section 13. Processing section 14 and storage section 15
have.

The input unit 12 is a keyboard, a mouse, or the like.

The display unit 11 is usually a display device such as a CRT. The output unit 13 is a printer. The processing unit 14 c
PTT (central processing unit), storage section 15
is a memory or an auxiliary storage device. In this embodiment, the external shape information of characters and graphics is stored in the storage unit 15. The external shape information of characters is given a character code, and the external shape information of figures is given either a graphic code similar to the conventional technology or not. Therefore, when retrieving the external shape information of a figure to which character external shape information and graphic code are given from the storage unit 15, the character code or graphic code is specified, and the specified character code or graphic code is retrieved from the storage unit 15. However, when extracting external shape information of a figure for which a figure code has not been given from the storage unit 15, it is retrieved from the storage unit 15 according to the information on the storage position in the storage unit 15, so the information on the storage position is It is necessary to give.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment.

The operation of this embodiment is realized by the processing unit 14 executing a program stored in the storage unit 15.

The processing unit 14 branches depending on whether the specified external shape information is a character or a figure.

If it is a character, the storage unit 15 is searched using the specified character code, and external shape information of the corresponding character is retrieved. This external shape information is, for example, a coordinate string of vertices representing the external shape of a character as a polygon, as shown in FIG. The processing unit 14
The image is developed from this external shape information, that is, the image is developed specifically into the shape of a character as shown in FIG. This character image is displayed on the display unit 11 and printed by the printer in the output unit 13.On the other hand, when it is a figure, there are two modes.The first mode is when a figure code is given. The operation is the same as that for characters described above. The second mode is an operation for a figure to which no figure code is given. In this case, the processing unit 14 retrieves the external shape information of the figure from the storage unit 15 based on the given storage position information in the storage unit 15, and develops the retrieved external shape information into an image. As a method of providing information to the processing unit 14, for example, a figure name table storing figure names and information on storage positions in the memory unit 15 of external shape information of the corresponding figure is stored in the memory unit 15&C, and the information is transmitted from the outside. If there is a figure name that matches the specified figure name in the figure table, the corresponding memory location information is given to the processing unit 14 as information on the memory position of the external shape information of the figure to be retrieved from the memory unit 15. do.

Furthermore, for example, a figure number table storing figure numbers and information on storage positions in the storage unit 15 of external shape information of the corresponding figures is stored in the storage unit 15, and a figure number table specified from the outside is stored in the memory unit 15. Search the shape number table,
Information on the storage location corresponding to the figure number is given to the processing unit 14 as information on the storage position of the external shape information of the figure to be retrieved from the storage unit 15.The figure name table and the figure number table are The information displayed on the display section 11 and the information printed as a list on the printer of the output section 13 are displayed.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described using FIG. 5.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, the processing unit 14 is composed of a CPU 141 and a character/figure development unit 142. Of these, characters
The figure development unit 142 is a dedicated processor for developing the external shape information of characters and figures into images, and is capable of developing images much faster than general CPUs.CPU 1
41 controls the entire document processing system 1, and shares the functions with the characters/figures k[m142] In this disaster example, an opening 142 is provided for the CPU 141 and characters/figures, respectively. By dividing the functions, much faster table processing becomes possible. In particular, CPU14
1 and character/figure development 142 in parallel IC! When ILIJ is created, the effect is great.

FIG. 4 shows an example of enlarging/reducing the π chart according to this embodiment). According to this embodiment, there is no possibility of dot errors occurring during expansion.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the drawbacks of the prior art are eliminated, characters and figures are handled uniformly, and the characters and figures are expanded based on their external shape information, so even when greatly enlarged, This has the effect that it is possible to create a rough document without jagged edges.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, since characters and graphics are expanded by the same means, when processing such as enlargement/reduction, the relative relationship between characters and graphics is not impaired, and dot errors are eliminated during editing processing. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment, and FIGS.
The figure is an explanatory diagram of the operation of this embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

1... document processing system, 11... display m, 12.
...Input section, 13... Output section, 14... Processing section, 1
5...Storage unit, 141...CPU, 142...Character/figure development unit O'--\

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A document processing device that processes a document containing characters and figures, comprising means for storing external shape information of characters and figures, and a means for retrieving the external shape information of the characters and figures from the storage means and converting the information into an image. A document processing system comprising: means for expanding. 2. A claim characterized in that, when a character code or graphic code is designated, the developing means retrieves external shape information of a character or figure corresponding to the character code or graphic code from the storage means and develops it into an image. The document processing system according to item 1. 3. When the developing means is given information on a storage position of the external shape information of a figure in the storage means, the developing means takes out the external shape information of the figure stored in the storage position from the storage means and develops it into an image. The document processing system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: 4. The document processing system according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the storage means stores external shape information of characters and figures in association with character codes or figure codes. 5. A table for storing information specifying a figure and information on a storage position of the corresponding figure external shape information in the storage means, and when the information specifying a figure is specified from the outside, searching the table; 4. The document processing system according to claim 3, further comprising means for extracting information on a storage position in said storage means of external shape information of a corresponding figure and providing it to said expansion means.