JPH0368066A - Documentation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print only required pages by changing the page to be printed just before printing each page after designation of first and last pages of the printing object at the time of printing a generated document. CONSTITUTION:When a second page and a fifth page are designated as the print start page and the print end page respectively and a down cursor move key 13 is depressed, it is checked whether the present page is the print end page or not. Since the present e is the second page but the print end page is the fifth page, the number of pages to be printed is set to 3; and when the present page is the print end page, the processing is terminated. When an up cursor move key 12 is depressed, it is discriminated whether the present page is the print start page or not, and the processing is terminated in the case of the print start page,but otherwsie, the page to be printed is changed to the just preceding page. Thus, only required pages are printed as the printing object pages.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device having a function of specifying pages to be printed in a system for creating and printing documents, such as an electronic word processor.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A document creation device of the present invention includes an input means for inputting and editing sentences, a means for printing the input sentences, and a page to be printed in the printing means. and means for changing each designated page immediately before printing.

[Conventional technique ηj] [Operation] In the print page specification method of the present invention, when printing a created text, after specifying the first page and last page to be printed, each page is printed. You can change the pages to be printed immediately before printing, allowing you to print only the pages you need.

[Example] Fig. 1 showing an example of changing a printed page according to the present invention is a keyboard used in the present invention, and one of the key buttons is
When 1 is pressed, the print page designation screen shown in FIG. 2 is displayed. Reference numeral 21 denotes a frame cursor for selecting setting items, and this frame cursor can be moved by pressing the up and down cursor movement keys h12 or 13. 22 is the print start page number, and the page number can be changed by aligning the frame cursor 21 with the print start page and pressing the left/right cursor movement key 14 or 15. 23 is the print end page number, and the page number can be changed by aligning the frame cursor 21 with the print end page and pressing the left/right cursor movement key. 24 displays the range of pages containing data to be printed, which is a range of pages that can be specified. When the start page and end page of printing are specified on this screen and the line feed key 16 is pressed, the print page confirmation screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. 31 is the page number to be printed next. When the line feed key is pressed here, printing of the page displayed on the confirmation screen starts, and when printing of this page is finished, the same confirmation screen is displayed with the next page number of the page that has finished printing. When printing of the specified end page is completed, the printing process ends. .

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the printing process described above, and shows, as a specific example, the case where the second and fifth pages of a document having seven pages in total are to be printed.

When key button 11 is pressed, the screen for specifying the page to be printed appears as shown in FIG. 2, as described above. If you set the print start page to page 2 and the print end page to page 5 and press the new line key, the start page number will be set to 2 and the end page number to 5 as internal data, and these values will be saved until the end of the print process. At the same time, 2, which is the start page, is set as the print page number (41). Next, the confirmation screen for the page to be printed shown in Fig. 5 is displayed, and 2, which is the print page number data set in step 41, is displayed on this screen (
42). Here, the second page will be printed, so if you press the line feed key, the second page will be printed on line 5 (4).
3). When printing of this page is finished, 1 is added to 2, which is the data set for the print page number, and V is added to 5.
Set this as the next print page number (44). Now, compare this 3 with the end page number 5 (45). Since the print page number does not exceed the end page number, set 42 again.
Display the confirmation screen for the page to be printed.

At this time, the screen displays 3, which is the print page number data. Here, the next page you want to print is the 5th page, so press the down cursor movement key twice to change this value to 5 and change the print page number data from 3 to 5.
When the line feed key is pressed, the page of the print page number data is printed (45), so the fifth page is printed. When the printing of the fifth page is completed, add 1 to 5, which is the data set for the print page number, to make 6 (44), and compare this 6 with the end page number 5 (45), and then print the next page. Since the number exceeds the end page number, the printing process ends here.

FIG. 5 shows 70 satyat steps for changing the page number to be printed on the confirmation screen shown in FIG. This shows the case where the down cursor movement key 13 is pressed on the screen shown in FIG.

First, if a key is available, a check is made to see if it is a cursor movement key (51). Since the down cursor movement key has been pressed, it is checked whether the current page is the print end page (52). Currently, there are 2 pages, but the number of pages to be printed is 5, so the number of pages to be printed is set to 5 (55). In step 52, if the current page is the print end page, the process ends.

Also, if the 12 up cursor movement key is pressed,
Determine whether the current page is the page to start printing (
54) If it is the print start page, end the process, and if it is the print start page, set the page to be printed one page earlier (55) If the cursor movement key was not used in 5.1, process end.

The above operation explanation has clarified this function. Conventionally, it was not possible to change the target page after printing started, but with the present invention, only the necessary pages are printed. It is now possible to print from.

[Effect of the invention] The present invention allows you to change the pages to be printed immediately before printing each specified page, so you can print only the necessary pages, print only a certain page on multiple sheets, or change the pages. Now I can do things like

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a print page designation display screen according to the present invention, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a print confirmation display screen according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram according to the present invention. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a 70-chart of the printing process, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a flowchart of the process of changing the page to be printed. 11...Print key 12,...Up cursor movement key 16...
......Down cursor movement key 14...
・・Left cursor movement key 15 ・・・Right cursor movement key 16 ・・・・・ Line feed key 21 ・・・・・Frame cursor 22 ・・・
...Printing start page number 23...
Print end page number 24...Settable page range 31...Next page number to be printed or higher

Claims (1)

[Claims] An input means for inputting and editing text, a means for printing the input text, a means for specifying a page to be printed in the printing means, and a means for changing each specified page immediately before printing. A document creation device characterized by comprising: