JPH03282876A - Document preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the editing and the correction of a document by storing and setting a printing image of the document before synthesis and a printing image of the document after synthesis in a display memory and displaying and outputting them simultaneously. CONSTITUTION:In the case of synthesizing two pages, a reduction ratio of a printing image of two pages displayed on a screen of an indicator 15 is derived, and thereafter, a two-page portion of a dotted line for showing a paper size is displayed on the screen of the indicator 15. Subsequently, printing data of a page of a document of a synthesized side which is being generated at present is expanded, reduced in accordance with a reduction ratio and set to positions corresponding to the left side and the right side, respectively on the screen of he indicator 15 of a display RAM 17. Thereafter, this time, printing data of a document of a synthesizing side is called by a one-page portion from a floppy disk device 18, and the called document is expanded and reduced in accordance with the reduction ratio, and superposed and set together with data of the document of the synthesized side to a position corresponding to the right side on the screen of the indicator 15 of the display RAM 17. Next, it is displayed by holding data of the display RAM 17. In such a way, the editing and the correction of the document are facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a document creation device having a print image display function.

(Prior Art) One of the display functions of document creation devices that have been significantly developed and commercialized in recent years, especially Japanese word processors, is a print image display function. This print image display function displays the image as it is printed on the screen, and is used to judge the finished state of the printed document.

On the other hand, as an editing function of Japanese word processor,
There is a document composition function that combines two or more documents. This document composition function calls up a document that has been previously created and stored on a floppy disk, etc., and combines it with the document currently being created to create a new document. belongs to.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, when displaying the print image of the composite document on the display unit after performing document composition, in a conventional Japanese word processor, the "composition It only displays either the ``document being processed'', the called ``document being synthesized'', or the ``document after compositing''. Therefore, just by looking at the printed image of the "document after compositing", it is not possible to distinguish whether each part in the image is the "document to be composited" or the "document to be composited". , editing and proofreading the ``document to be synthesized'' that is being created becomes a breeze.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device capable of simultaneously displaying print images of a state before document synthesis and a state after document synthesis.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means and Effects for Solving the Problems) The present invention, when an instruction is given to display a print image of a composite document, displays both the print image of the document before composition and the print image of the document after composition. The settings are stored in the display memory and these print images are displayed and output at the same time.You can see the print images of the document before and after compositing at the same time. Editing and proofreading are also easier.

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

Figure 1 shows its circuit configuration, where lO is a microprocessor (CPU) and 11 is the microprocessor 10.
The RAM accessed by 12 is the same ROM.

A microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10 controls the entire device, and controls the RAM II and ROM described above.
12 and starts a program according to input instructions to execute document creation processing, external character creation processing, key manual control processing as shown in FIG. 2 above, and the like. RAMII
consists of areas for storing various control information such as a document area, line image area (print buffer), external character registration area, word/phrase registration area, and a cursor position register for storing the cursor position on the document display screen. ROM12 is CPU1
A program area 12g that stores a program that determines the operation of O and an input processing program that includes print image display as shown in FIG. It has a dictionary area 12c etc. in which various dictionaries for converting inputted readings into kanji are registered.

Also, 18 is the keyboard (KB), 1 is the display, 18
is a floppy disk device (FDD), and 20 is a printer (PRT). Keyboard (KB) 1 (Keyboard interface (KB) 1 (Keyboard interface)
It is input to the CPU 10 via the KB-IF) 14.

In addition to character keys, numeric keys, cursor keys, etc., this keyboard I3 has a "document composition" key for instructing document composition, a "print image" key for instructing display output of a print image, and various selection and execution keys. Various function keys including a "select/execute" key for giving instructions are provided. The display 15 is comprised of, for example, a 20-line liquid crystal display device. The display controller (display-CNT) 1B is
Display control of the display unit 5 is performed using the display RAM 17 under the control of the CPU10. Floppy disk device 1
8 is a disk interface (FDD-IF) 1
Under the control of the CPU 10 via the CPU 9, the created document is saved and external characters, second level characters, etc. are stored. The printer 20 has a printer interface (PRT).
-IF) Under the control of the CPU 10 via the IF) 21, the created document or character information read into the main body from the floppy disk device 18 is printed.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 2 shows a routine executed by the CPU 10 when print image display is specified for a document input from the keyboard I3.
As shown in the figure, a search is made to see if a composite document is specified in a document for which print image display is specified. If there is a designation, the process proceeds to step S2, where a message prompting the user to designate a display method for displaying the print image is displayed on the display 15.

FIG. 3 (1) shows the display state of the message, and the bottom line of the display 15 shows "1 page not combined", "1 page combined", "2 pages not combined", "2 pages combined". The four print image designation methods are displayed as a message, and the first designation method, ``No single-page composition,'' is displayed in reverse video. "1 page" and "2 pages" in the message are the number of pages to display the print image, and "no compositing"
“With composition” indicates whether or not document composition is performed.

Select any message from these messages on the keyboard 1.
3, by operating the cursor keys in the left/right direction and operating the "Select/Execute" key, and in response to that operation, the selection and designation in the next step S8 is "No 1 page composition" Determine whether or not.

If it is "no one page composition", then in step S4 the reduction ratio of the one page print image to be displayed on the screen of the display 15 is determined, and then in step S5 the paper size is set in the center of the screen of the display 15. Displays one page indicated by the dotted line. and,
(The print data of the page specified in step S6 is expanded, reduced according to the reduction ratio, set in the display RAM 17, and displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (2). Since "No composition" of "1 page" is selected and specified, the displayed print image is only the page of the document currently being created as shown in the figure.After this, go to step S1 above again. return.

Note that if the designation of a composite document is not found anywhere as a result of the search in step S1 above, step S2. The process of SS is omitted and the process directly proceeds to step S4.

If it is determined in step S3 that the selected message is not "without one-page composition", then the process proceeds to step S7, and it is determined whether or not it is "with one-page composition".

If it is "with 1 page compositing", then in step S8 the reduction ratio of the 1 page print image to be displayed on the screen of the display 15 is determined, and then in step S9 the paper size is displayed in the center of the screen of the display 15. A dotted line indicating one page is displayed. Then, in the following step S10, the print data of the page of the "document to be combined" currently being created is expanded, reduced according to the above-mentioned reduction ratio, and set in the display RAM 17. Thereafter, in step Sll, one page of print data of the "document to be synthesized" is called from the floppy disk device 1B, and in the subsequent step S12, the called document is expanded and reduced in size, and the "document to be synthesized" is stored in the display RAM 17. document from the party
This data is stored and set together with the data of , and displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (3).

Here, we have selected and specified ``with compositing'' for ``1 page'', so the displayed print image is the ``document to be composited'' that is currently being created, and the ``document'' that was recalled from the floppy disk device 18. It will only be the result of composing the ``document on the side of compositing''. After this, the process returns to step S1.

Further, if it is determined in step S7 that the selected message is not "with 1 page composition", then the process proceeds to step 513, and it is determined whether "2 pages without composition" is present.

If it is "no 2-page compositing", then step S14
After determining the reduction ratio of the print image of two pages to be displayed on the screen of the display device 15 in step S15, the two pages are displayed on the screen of the display device 15 with dotted lines indicating the paper size. Then, in the following step 81B, the print data of the page of the "document to be combined" that is currently being created is expanded, reduced according to the above reduction ratio, and placed in the display RAM 17 at a position corresponding to the left side of the display 15 screen. Set. Thereafter, in step S17, one page of print data of the "document to be combined" is called from the floppy disk device 18, and in the subsequent step 81g, the called document is expanded and reduced according to the reduction ratio, and then used for display. Set the RAM 17 at a position corresponding to the right side of the display 15 screen. And this display RAM 17
The retained data is displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (4). Here, we have selected and specified "2 pages" and "no compositing", so the displayed print image will display the "document to be composited" currently being created on the left side of the display 15 screen, and the floppy disk. The "documents to be synthesized" called up from the device 18 are arranged on the right side of the display 15 screen. After this, the process returns to step S1.

If it is determined in step 813 that the selected message is not "without 2-page composition", then the process proceeds to step 519, and it is determined whether or not "with 2-page composition".

If it is “with 2-page composition”, then step 820
After determining the reduction ratio of the print image of two pages to be displayed on the screen of the display device 15 in step S21, the two pages are displayed on the screen of the display device 15 with dotted lines indicating the paper size. Then, in the following step S22, the print data of the page of the "document to be combined" that is currently being created is expanded and reduced according to the reduction ratio to correspond to the left and right sides of the display 15 screen of the display RAM 17. Set each position. Thereafter, in step S23, one page of print data of the "document to be synthesized" is called from the floppy disk device 18, and in the subsequent step 818, the called document is developed and reduced according to the reduction ratio, and the display RAM 17 is Display 1
5. Set it in a position corresponding to the right side of the screen, overlapping it with the data of the above-mentioned "document to be combined". The data held in the display RAM 17 is then displayed as shown in FIG. 3 (5). Here, we have selected and specified ``with compositing'' for ``2 pages'', so the print image will display the ``document to be composited'' that is currently being created on the left side of the display 15 screen, and ``with compositing''. Documents obtained by combining the "side document" and the "composition side document" retrieved from the floppy disk device 18 are displayed simultaneously on the right side of the display 15 screen.

After this, the process returns to step S1.

Furthermore, if it is determined in step S19 that the message selected and specified is not "with 2-page composition", it means that it is not one of the four print image designation methods described above, and the process then proceeds to step S25. It is determined whether or not the "cancel" key operation is for canceling the display of the print image.

If you press the "Cancel" key, the process will end immediately.
If it is not the "cancel" key, the process returns to step S2.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, when an instruction is given to display a print image of a composite document, both the print image of the document before composition and the print image of the document after composition are stored in the display memory. Since the memory settings are set and these print images are displayed and output together, you can see the print images of the document before and after compositing at the same time, and it is easy to edit and proofread the document that is being created. It is possible to provide a document creation device that can:

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic circuit configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing content when displaying a print image, and FIG. 3 is a display state of the print image. FIG. lO...CPU, 11...RAM, 12...RO
M, 13...keyboard (KB), 15...display device, 17...display RAM, 1g...floppy disk device (FDD), 20...printer (PRT).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A display section, a display memory for storing display data of the display section, an instruction means for instructing display of a print image of a composite document, and printing of a document before composition according to the instruction means. a creation means for creating an image and a print image of the document after combination; and a creation means that stores and sets in the display memory together with the print image of the document before combination and the document after combination created by this creation means, and simultaneously displays the image on the display unit. A document creation device characterized by comprising display control means for displaying and outputting.