JPH0388063A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To collectively change the character colors of an output document by setting up format information consisting of color information and plural format elements and outputting document information based upon the set format information. CONSTITUTION:A specified document is temporarily read out from a floppy disk (FD) 10 or a hard disk (HD) 11 to a program memory (PMEM) 2, inputted and changed and information other than color information is inputted to the format information part of the specified document read out from the FD 10 or HD 11 to the PMEN 2. When the character color display part of the format information part is clicked by a pointing device 5, a pallet is displayed, and when the pointing device 5 is clicked on a color to be selected, a color number is displayed on the character color display part of the format information part and the color part of the format information is specified. Then the whole format information part is registered in the FD 10 or the HD 11 or updated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document processing device, and particularly to a document processing device for typesetting and editing documents.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, some advanced document processing devices have format information of a document separate from the document, and can change the output format of the document simply by changing the format information section.

[Problem that the invention is trying to solve]

However, in the conventional example described above, since the format information section did not have color information, there was a drawback that the font color of the output document could not be changed all at once by changing the format.

[Means to solve the problem]

According to the present invention, by adding font color information to the format, the font color of the output document can be changed all at once by simply changing the format information section.

Further, according to the present invention, by adding and providing font color information for each format element, which is the main text, heading, column, and folio, just by changing the format information section, the main text, heading, column, This allows the font color of each page number to be changed all at once.

Further, according to the present invention, by adding font color information to a format and creating a library of formats with different font color information, it is possible to change the font color of a document all at once by simply changing the format information section. This not only makes it possible to change the text color in the format information section, but also makes it easier to change the font color in the format information section by creating a library of formats.

Further, according to the present invention, by providing character color information in the format and selecting or specifying color or monochrome at the time of printing, it is possible to print in both color and monochrome.

Further, according to the present invention, by providing a means for specifying color information to be prioritized when color information is specified overlappingly, it becomes possible to process when color information of a format and color information of a frame attribute overlap.

Embodiment 1 [Changing the font color (single color) in a document all at once] A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a first block diagram showing the configuration of a document processing apparatus according to this embodiment. In FIG. 1, l is a C that controls the operation of the entire device according to a program on PMEM2, which will be described later.
Indicates PU. PMEM2 is a PMEM (program memory) that stores programs as shown in the flowchart in Figure 4.
(memory), 3 indicates a communication I/F (interface) that enables transmission/reception procedures such as R3232C. 4 is a keyboard, 5 is a pointing device, and 6 is a KEY I/F (keyboard interface) that allows connection between the keyboard and the pointing device. Reference numeral 7 indicates a system bus for transmitting address signals, data, and control signals within the device. 8 is a color CRT,
For example, 9 is a color CRT with a color screen of 4 bits per pixel.
This figure shows VRAM (color video RAM) developed in .

10 is a floppy disk drive, 11 is a hard disk drive, and 12 is a DISK I/F (disk interface) that allows the floppy disk drive or hard disk drive to be connected to the system bus 7. Reference numeral 13 denotes an IMEM (color image memory) for storing color image data corresponding to, for example, 4 bits per pixel and a resolution of 400 dpi, which develops a color image to be output to a printer 14, which will be described later, and 14 denotes a color printer with a resolution of 400 dpi, for example.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration between the system bus 7 and color CRT 8 shown in FIG. 1 in more detail. In FIG. 2, 9 is a VRAM (video RAM) that stores, for example, color image data of 4 bits per pixel, and 21 is, for example, 4 bits per pixel.
22 is a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) that converts a 4-bit digital image signal for each color of R (red), G (green), and B (blue) into an analog image signal; 23
is the horizontal/vertical synchronizing signal for CRTg (H5YNC, VS
3 shows a synchronous signal superimposition circuit for superimposing green image signal (YNC) on a green image signal. 24(7) CRTC (CRT controller 0--y) controls the VRAM 9, controls rewriting of the color palette 21, and controls the synchronization signal superimposition circuit 23.

Figure 3 shows the system bus 7 and color printer 1 in Figure 1.
This figure shows the configuration of the four spaces in more detail.

In Figure 3, 13 is, for example, 1 pixel 4 bit resolution 40
IMEM (color image memory) for storing color image data equivalent to 0 dpi, 31 is, for example, 4
A color palette is shown in which 16 colors are selected from 096 colors.

32 is a printer I/F for connecting the color printer 14
(interface). 33 control circuits are IMEM
13, controls rewriting of the color palette 31, and sends a printer control signal to the printer I/F 32.

[Configuration Diagram of Printer 14] Next, an overview of the color printer 14 shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 will be explained with reference to FIG. 15. f78 is a pulse width modulation circuit that converts the multi-value digital image signal from the printer I/F 32 shown in Fig. 3 into an analog image signal, and also adjusts the pulse width by comparing this analog image signal with a triangular wave of a predetermined period. It forms a modulated signal. This pulse width modulation signal is applied to the laser output section 711 at the subsequent stage to perform on/off modulation of the laser to form a gradation image. 711 is a scanner, (PW
A laser output unit that converts an image signal from M778) into an optical signal, a polygon mirror 712 of a polyhedron (for example, an octahedron)
, a motor (not shown) for rotating this mirror 712, an f/θ lens (imaging lens) 713, and the like. 71
4 is a reflecting mirror that changes the optical path of the laser beam, and 715 is a photosensitive drum. The laser beam emitted from the laser output section is reflected by a polygon mirror 712, passes through a lens 713 and a mirror 714, and linearly scans (raster scan) the surface of a photosensitive drum 715, forming a latent image corresponding to the original image. .

In addition, 717 is a primary charger, 718 is a full exposure lamp,
723 is a cleaner section that collects residual toner that has not been transferred; 724 is a pre-transfer charger; these members are arranged around the photosensitive drum 715.

726 is a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum 715 by laser exposure, and 731Y, 731M, 731C, and 7318 are developing sleeves that directly contact the photosensitive drum 715 and perform development; 7
30Y, 730M, 730C, 730Bk are toner hoppers that hold spare toner, 732 is a screw that transports the developer, and these sleeves 731Y
~731Bk, Toner hopper 730Y~730Bk
A developer unit 726 is constituted by the screw 732 and the screw 732, and these members are arranged around the rotation axis P of the developer unit. For example, when forming a yellow toner image, yellow toner development is performed at the position shown in this figure, and when forming a magenta toner image, the developing unit 726 is rotated around the axis P in the figure, and the photoreceptor is rotated. Developing sleeve 731M in the magenta developing device is placed in contact with 715.
be arranged. Cyan and black development operate in the same way.

Further, 716 is a transfer drum that transfers the toner image formed on the photosensitive drum 715 onto paper, 719 is an actuator plate for detecting the moving position of the transfer drum 716, and 720 is a drum that is in close proximity to this actuator plate 719. 725 is a transfer drum cleaner, 727 is a paper pressing roller, 728 is a static eliminator, and 729 is a transfer charger. These members 71
9.720.725.727°729 is the transfer roller 71
It is arranged around 6.

On the other hand, 735 and 736 are paper feed cassettes that store paper (paper sheets), and 737 and 738 are cassettes 735.73'6
Paper feed roller that feeds paper from 739.740.74
Reference numeral 1 denotes a timing roller that takes the timing of paper feeding and conveyance.The paper fed and conveyed via these rollers is guided by a paper guide 749, and its leading edge is held by a gripper (to be described later) while being wound around a transfer drum 716, forming an image. Shift to the formation process.

Further, 550 is a drum rotation motor, which rotates the photosensitive drum 715.
and the transfer drum 716 are rotated synchronously. 750 is a peeling claw that removes the paper from the transfer drum 716 after the image forming process is completed; 742 is a conveyance belt that conveys the removed paper; and 743 is an image fixing unit that fixes the paper that has been conveyed by the conveyance belt 742. The image fixing section 743 has a pair of heat pressure rollers 744 and 745.

Next, the overall flow of processing in this embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart explaining the processing operation of the CPUI. First, in a document processing device that specifies documents by displaying existing document and new document paper icons on the CRTB, a document is specified by clicking the icon to be worked on using the pointing device 5 (S
l). The specified document is once read from the floppy disk 10 or the hard disk 11 to the PMEM 2,
Document input.

Changes are made (S2). Next, FDlo or H of the specified document
In the format information section read from Dll to PMEM2,
Subheading 1, Subheading 2. Subheading 3. Column 1゜Column 2. Pillar 3. Folios, etc. (These are called format elements. However,
The number of subheadings and columns can be singular or plural. ) size, one line spacing, and two font colors can be specified. Format elements that are not specified are displayed in a single color, for example black. Here, if you click on the display part of the text color in the format information section using the pointing device 5, the palette will be displayed as shown in Figure 8 (S4), and if you click the pointing device 5 on the color to be selected, the format information will be displayed. A color number is shown in the text color display section of the section (S5), and the color portion of the format information is designated (S6). Here, the entire format information section is registered or updated in FDIO or HDII (S7).

Based on the information in the format information section registered in this way, the document data is specifically developed in the VRAM 9 including color information, and the C
Output to RT8 (S8). This process will be explained in detail with reference to FIG. 2. First, color image data of 4 bits per pixel, for example, is expanded into the VRAM 9 by the aforementioned CPU. The color image data on the VRAMQ is read by the CRTC 24 in synchronization with the display timing of the CRT 8, and is applied to the CRT 8 via the color palette 21, DAC 22, and synchronization signal superimposition circuit 23 for display. Since a CRT8 can only hold an image for the afterimage time of the phosphor on its display screen, VRA
The image data of M9 is read out and applied to CRT8, and is constantly refreshed. The VRAM 9 is configured, for example, by a dual port memory having a random access port and a serial access port, and is capable of displaying, for example, 1024 dots x 768 lines, with 16 pixels per 4 bits.
Color display is possible. The image data read from the VRAM 9 is converted into a serial signal in accordance with the display order of the CRT 8 and applied to the color palette 21. The color palette 21 is constituted by a look-up table, and one palette is created by selecting 16 colors out of 4096 colors expressed by 4 bits each for R, G, and B, for example. By changing the color palette 21 via the CRTC 24, the 16 selected colors can be switched. The image signal converted by the color palette 21 is R
,G.

B is applied as a 4-bit digital image signal for each color to the DAC 22 and converted into an analog image signal. DAC22
The digital-to-analog converter is composed of three circuits of a ladder resistance type, and converts, for example, a 4-bit digital image signal for each of R, G, and B colors into an analog image signal that has 16 gradations for each of R, G, and B colors. The analog image signal converted by the DAC 22 is applied to a synchronization signal superimposition circuit 23. C
The RTC 24 generates, for example, a 50kHz horizontal synchronization signal and a 60Hz vertical synchronization signal as synchronization signals for controlling the display timing of the CRT8, and the synchronization signal superimposition circuit 2
3. The synchronization signal superimposition circuit 23 has R, G, S
Of the three colors, the horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal are superimposed on a G (green) image signal and applied to the CRT 8. C
The RT8 separates the synchronization signal superimposed on the G (green) image signal, synchronizes the display timing with the horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal, and displays a color image based on the RGB image signal.

Now, returning to the flowchart in FIG. 4, check the colored document image displayed on the CRT 8 (S9).
If the color is not OK, change the contents of the document's format information section to C.
The RT 8 is displayed as shown in FIG. 7(a), and the character color is clicked using the pointing device 5 to display the palette as shown in FIG. 8 and the character color is selected again. In FIG. 9, the parts other than the text color designation part are part of the format information that is also necessary for ordinary black and white documents.

According to some of this formatting information, the height of the hanmen is dan-taka, and the width is (
Step height x number of steps) 10 steps x (number of steps - 1).

In addition, character attributes are format elements such as main text and major headings.

Subheading, subheading 1. Subheading 2. Subheading 3゜Column l
, Pillar 2. Pillar 3. The font size and line spacing can be set differently depending on the folio, and the line typesetting can be set by selecting one of left side, right side, center, and adjustment set. Also, the number of lines that can be displayed within the printing plate is the column height - (character size in mm, 10 lines in mm), rounded down.

Now, the contents of the format information section of the document are transferred to the CRT8 as shown in Figure 7 (a).
At the same time, as shown in FIG. 8, a color palette for displaying character colors is displayed. If the text color that you wish to change is in this palette, point to that color with the pointing device 5 and click. If not, click on the previous palette designation area 401 or the next palette designation area 402 to flip through the palettes and search for the desired color that is suitable for the text. Once found, point to the colored part with the pointing device 5 and click. The clicked text color information is set as palette number 2512 color number 252 in the text color information section of FIG. 7(a).

FDIO or HD with this set new text color information
Update the font color information section in the format information section of Figure 7 (b) in II and the font color information section in the format information section on PMEMZ (S7), and color CR the document with the new font color.
Display on T8 (SIO). Repeat this process until the text color adjustment is complete.

If the font color displayed on the CRTS is appropriate (
S9), and output to the color printer 14 (SIO).

Describing the color printer output in detail as shown in Figure 3,
First, color image data of 4 bits per pixel, for example, is developed into the IMEM 13 by the aforementioned CPU. The color image data on the IMEM 13 is read by the control circuit 33 in synchronization with the print timing of the color printer 14, and the color image data is read out by the control circuit 33 in synchronization with the print timing of the color printer 14.
The signal is then applied to the color printer 14 and printed. For example, IMEM13 is composed of 4692 dots x 6614 lines x 4 bits, and has a resolution of 400 dp on A3 paper.
i can develop a 16-color image. IM
The image data read out from the EM 13 is converted into a serial signal in accordance with the printing order of the color printer 14 and applied to the color palette 31. The color palette is made up of lookup tables, such as RG
B Select 16 colors from 4096 colors expressed with 4 bits each. Via the control circuit 33, the color palette 31
By changing the color, it is possible to switch between 16 selected colors. The image signal converted by the color palette 13 is applied to the printer I/F 32 as a digital image signal of 4 bits for each color of RGB. The printer ■/F 32 sends the above-mentioned RGB image signal and a printer control signal from the control circuit 33 to the color printer 14 . The color printer 14 is, for example, a color printer capable of reproducing 4096 colors, and various color printers such as a color LBP (color laser beam printer), a thermal transfer color printer, and an inkjet color printer can be used. The color printer 14 actually prints Y(
yellow).

Prints using a combination of the three primary colors M (magenta) and C (cyan). Therefore, a color image signal input as an RGB additive color image signal is converted into an MMC subtractive color image signal and then printed.

The above is the printer output process.

Next, check whether the character color output to the color printer 14 is appropriate (5ti), and if it is not appropriate, return to S4 and make corrections. Once you have finished adjusting the printer output text color (
Sll), if there are other documents to be input (S12),
Return to and perform processing. In FDIO or HDII, document data and its format information section are stored as shown in FIG. 7(b). That is, the document data starts from the address indicated by the document data first position in the header of each document. In the document data, for example, in FIG. 7(b), first there is a large heading instruction command indicating that large heading data will follow, followed by the main body of the large heading data. Next, there is a subheading instruction command indicating that subheading data follows, followed by the main body of the subheading data. Next, there is a text instruction command that indicates that the text data continues, and then the text data continues.

Further, the format information section starts from the address pointed to by the format information head position in the header of each document. For example, in FIG. 7(b), the format information section includes the format information shown in FIG. 7(a), that is, top information, throat information, tier information, tier information, tier height information, crotch information, and main text, main heading, It has subheading, subheading 1, subheading 2, subheading 3, column 11 column 2, column 3, font size for each page number, line spacing typesetting information, and information such as palette number 2511 color number 252 is stored as text color information. There is.

Embodiment 2 [Changing text colors (multiple colors) in a document all at once] A second preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, 2, and 3 show the structure of the character processing device of this embodiment, and the explanation has been given above in connection with the first embodiment.

Next, the flow of processing in this embodiment will be explained. FIG. 4 is a flowchart explaining the overall processing operation of the first embodiment. The difference between the processing operations of the first embodiment and this embodiment is that in the first embodiment, the selection of colors is limited to one color for the entire document. In contrast, in this embodiment, colors can be selected individually for each format element such as the main text, headings, columns, and folio, so the difference in processing operation from embodiment 1 shown in FIG. to 86, and the processing operations of this embodiment during that period will be explained in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 5(a).

As mentioned above, after inputting anything other than color to the format information section read into the PMEM 2 (S3), the character color display section in the format information section displayed as shown in FIG. Click to display the palette as shown in FIG. 8 (S20).

Pointing device 5 at the color to select on the palette
Click to select the font color (S21).

Then, it is difficult to judge whether the selected color is for the main text or not.52
2) If it is the main text, set the font color of the main text in the format information section (S23). After setting the text color (S23),
Display the palette again 520), select a color in the palette 521), determine whether the selected color is the main text 522), if it is not the main text, determine whether it is a heading 524), if it is a heading, Another big headline.

Heading color selection process for selecting subheadings and subheadings (S2
Do 5). The detailed flow of the heading color selection process (S25) is shown in FIG. 5(b). Here, if it is a major heading (S29), the font color of the major heading in the format information section is set (S30). After setting, display the palette 520) and select a color 521), and continue this operation until the color specification for the main text, heading, column, and folio is completed. Here, the detailed process flow of the column color selection process (S27) is shown in FIG. 5(C). FDIO or HDII
Inside, the document data and its format information section are stored as shown in FIG. 10, roughly as explained in the first embodiment. Example 1
The difference is that the first
As shown in Figure 0, the font color information is divided into body font color information, large heading font color information, subheading font color information, subheading 1 font color information, subheading 2 font color information, and subheading 3 font color information.

Pillar 1 character color information, pillar 2 character color information, pillar 3 character color information.

The reason is that the folio text color information and details are stored in FDIO or HDII.

Embodiment 3 [Save format information as a library] A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, 2, and 3 show the structure of the character processing device of this embodiment, and the explanation has been given above in connection with the first embodiment.

Next, the overall flow of processing in this embodiment will be explained.

Figure 6(a) shows the CPU used when registering a format library.
1 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the entire process of FIG.

First, an existing document or new document paper icon displayed on the CRTS is clicked using the pointing device 5 (S51). The contents of the format information section as shown in FIG. 9 are displayed (S52). After inputting anything other than the font color in the format information field (S53), click the font color on the CRTS with the pointing device 5 to display the palette.
54), specify an appropriate color 555), and set the font color of the format information section (S56).

When the setting of the format information section is completed, a format library index name for registering the contents of the format information section in the format library is added (557), and the contents of the format information section are registered in the format library (S58). Check here if registration is complete5
59), if the process does not end, return to S52 and repeat until it ends.

Next, FIG. 6(b) shows a flowchart illustrating the entire processing operation of the CPU when calling a format library, and will be described in detail.

First, the user clicks on the existing document or new document paper icon displayed on the CRTS using the pointing device 5 to designate the document (560), and inputs and changes the document (S61). Here, the format library that has already been registered is called up based on the reference name (562), and it is confirmed whether the process is finished (S63). If it is not finished, the document is displayed on the CRTS according to the format (S64).

Here, if it is not OK, the process returns to S64 and repeats from calling the format library until it becomes appropriate.

Alternatively, the format called from the -degree library may be partially modified. Then, it may be registered according to the flowchart of FIG. 6(a). If it is OK, S
Proceed from 65 to 366, output to the color printer 14 (566), if OK (S67), check if there are any other format libraries to call (368), if there are, S60
Go back and repeat.

Document data and its format library are stored in FDIO or HDII as shown in FIG. 7(b). The method of storing document data is the same as described in the first embodiment. Further, the plurality of format information sections constituting the format library start from the address indicated by the format information head position in the header of each document. For example, in FIG. 13, each format information section in the format library includes the format information shown in FIG. 12, that is, top information and throat information.

Column number information 2 Inside film information 1 Column height information 1 Column spacing information, main text, main heading, subheading, subheading l, subheading 2. Subheading 3. Pillar l, pillar 2. Pillar 3. It has character size and line spacing typesetting information for each folio, and information such as palette number 2511 and color number 252 is stored as character color information. Further, here, the font color of the document is changed all at once in one color, but it is also possible to specify a color for each format element separately and create a library.

After reading the document data stored in this way and the first format information part in the format library into PMEM2, the document data is specifically developed in VRAM9 including color information based on the information in the format information part. , output to CRT8 (104)
. This process was explained in Example 1 using FIG.

Example 1. Example 2. The explanation of Example 3 is above, but
Here, as a method of displaying the contents of the format information section on the CRT 8, in addition to the method of displaying the character color by palette number and color number as shown in FIGS. 7(a), 9, and 12, There is also a method of displaying the color itself as shown in FIGS. 11 and 14.

Embodiment 4 [Selection of character color during output] Another preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings.

FIG. 16 shows a part of a flowchart showing the flow of operation of this embodiment. The flow of this embodiment is different from the flowchart of FIG. 4 described above in Embodiment 1.
Therefore, only the printed portion in this embodiment is extracted and shown in FIG. By S9, the input of the document and format and the registration to FDIO (!: HD11) are completed, the format is displayed on the color CRTS, and the color is also checked.Here, the print is done in color (one color or multiple colors). or a single color, for example, black (S201).

If the document is to be printed in color, the document is printed according to the format (5202), and if the document is to be printed in a single color, for example black, the document is printed in a single color (S203).

Also, as shown in the flowchart 5201 of FIG.
It is also possible to make it valid only on the TB and output everything in a single color, for example black, when printing.

After setting the frame attribute, it is determined whether the range specified by the frame attribute and the range specified by the format element overlap or not by sequentially extracting characters from the document one by one (S106).

If the character is not within the frame (S107), a character color selection process (S108) is performed. Whether a character is inside or outside a frame can be determined by whether the coordinates of the start and end of the character are inside or outside the coordinates of the start and end of the frame, respectively. The flow of the character color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(b). If the text is text in this text color selection process (S121)
, set the text and font color according to the format information 5122)
, if the text is the main text ((S121), if it is a heading (S1
23) Perform heading color selection processing (S124), and if the text is not a heading ((S123) or column (S125), perform column color selection processing (S126), and if the text is not a column (S125), perform column color selection processing (S126);
125) For characters, set the folio character color according to the format information. Here, the heading color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(C). In this heading color selection process, if the text is a large heading (
S131), set the large heading text color according to the format information 5132), and if the text is not a large heading ((S131) if it is a small heading (S133) set the subheading text color according to the format information 5134), etc. Repeat the process until you reach 5139. Further, the column color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(d), and in this column color selection process, it is confirmed whether it is column 1, column 2, or column 3, and the color is set, as in the heading color selection process. Once the character color setting process is completed, the process moves on to determining the next character.

Returning to the explanation of FIG. 17(a), if the character being judged in 5107 is within the frame specified by the frame attribute, the character color is specified by the color specified by the frame attribute and the format information. Since the designated color overlaps with the specified color, it is determined which designation should be prioritized (S109). If you decide the font color according to the format,
A character color setting process (3108) is performed, and if priority is given to the color specified by the frame attribute, the color of the corresponding character is set as the frame specified color (Silo). For example, referring to Figure 20, when the format information specifies the subheading ``Dear Customer'' as red (shown in bold in the figure) and the color specified in the frame attribute is green (shown as a hatching pattern in the figure), the text If the color is set according to the format, the result will be as shown in FIG. 20(a), and if the color is set according to the frame attribute, the result will be as shown in FIG. 20(b).

Here, when the font color specified by the frame attribute and the color specified by the format information overlap, we used 5109 to select which one to give priority to, but the operator does not have to make a selection. There is also a condition that gives priority to the color specified by the frame attribute.

Embodiment 5 [Text color selection when font color designations are repeated in a document] Another preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 17(a) is a flowchart showing the overall flow of processing operations in this embodiment. The flow from Sl to 87 is as described above in Example 1. Since the document and format have been registered up to S7, the next step is to set the font color for part of the text of the document. When the frame icon on the color CRTB is clicked using the pointing device 5 (SIOI), the 18th
A frame attribute screen as shown in Figure (a) is displayed. The character color on the frame attribute screen can be displayed numerically, such as the palette number and color number, as shown in Figure 18 (a), or the color itself can be displayed directly on the CRTB, as shown in Figure 18 (b). It is also possible to display the Specify the range for setting the text color using a frame (sioz). Areas for which no font color is set will be a single color, such as black. For the frame, press the click button on the pointing device 5, set that as the starting edge, move the pointing device 5 to the lower right while holding down the click button, and release the click button when the frame ends. Then, a frame is determined whose starting edge is the upper left corner of the frame and the ending edge is the lower right corner of the frame. Here, the starting end and ending end are not limited to the upper left and lower right, respectively. These designated frame information sections are stored in the FDIO or HDII as shown in FIG.

The document and format information section shown in FIG. 19 has been described above in the first embodiment, so it will not be described here. The frame information section starts from the address pointed to by the frame information first position in the header of each document. The frame information section contains the number of frames, coordinate component 11 coordinate component 2
, coordinate component 3, coordinate component 4, and designated color within the frame are stored. As shown in Figure 20, these coordinates are the coordinates of the starting end of the range for which you want to specify the color (inside the frame indicated by the hatching pattern), and the coordinates of the ending point are the coordinate components 3 and 1. This is shown by coordinate component 4.

Next, the palette is displayed on the color CRTB as shown in FIG. 8 (5103), the pointing device 5 is clicked on the color to be selected (5104), and the frame attribute color portion is specified (S105). 5108 and Sil.

After setting the font color, check whether the search for the entire document has been completed with 5111, and if it has not been completed with 5106.
Go back to and move on to the next character. If you finish here,
Display documents on a color CRT according to the specified color and format 5
112), check the font color 5113), print the document according to the format if appropriate 5114), and check the font color (S115). If the font color is not appropriate in 5113 and 8115, the process returns to S4 and the color is selected again. If the font color is appropriate in step 5115, check if there are any other documents to input (step 5116); if not, the process ends; if there are, return to Sl and input the document.

Also, here we have shown an example of color information as shown in Example 2, but this can also be done in a way that does not specify colors individually as in Example 1, but all at once. It is.

Further, the range in which the font color of a part of the text of the document is set is not limited to the frame, and may be a shape outside the frame.

Example 6 [Color display method when selecting text color] When specifying color information stored in FDIO or HDII, a palette is displayed on the CRTB, but the CRT
The number of colors that can be displayed on a is limited to 16 colors in total, so if n colors are displayed in a document etc. in addition to the palette, the number of colors that can be displayed on the palette screen is (16 - n). becomes. Therefore, the remaining n colors of the same palette that are not displayed on the CRTB can be sequentially displayed on the CRTB by clicking the icon on the next screen of the palette with the pointing device 5, and all the colors of the palette can be displayed on the CRTB. It becomes possible to see.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, by setting and adding character color information to the format information, there is an effect that the color of the characters in a document can be changed all at once.

Also, as explained above, the format includes text, headings, columns,
By setting and adding color information for each folio, it is possible to change the text color of the document for the main text, headings, pillars, and folios all at once.

In addition, as explained above, by having font color information in the format information section and creating a library of formats that have font color information, it is possible to change the font color of a document all at once, and to change the font color. This has the effect of making it easier to specify changes.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing device showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a more detailed block diagram of the color CRT portion of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a more detailed block diagram of the color printer portion of FIG. 1. 4 is a flowchart showing the first text color changing process, FIG. 5(a) is a flowchart showing the second text color changing process, and FIG. 5(b) is a flowchart showing the second text color changing process. Heading color selection processing, Figure 5 (C) is a heading color selection process for changing the second font color, Figure 6 (a) is a flowchart showing format library registration processing, Figure 6 (b) is format library calling processing. 7(a) is a first display example of the document format information section on the CRT; FIG. 7(b) is a first example of the disk file format of the document; FIG. C) is a diagram illustrating the second display method of the document format information section on the CRT, FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the display example of the color palette on the CRT, and FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a second disk file format of a document. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a fourth method of displaying a document format information section on a CRT. is a diagram illustrating the fifth display method of the document format information section on the CRT, FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating the third disk file format of the document, and FIG. 14 is the sixth display method of the document format information section on the CRT. 15 is a configuration diagram of the color printer section, FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing color specification processing during printing, and FIG. 17(a) is a flowchart showing third text color changing processing. , FIG. 17(b) is a flowchart showing the text color selection process for the third text color change, FIG. 17(C) is a flowchart showing the heading color selection process for the third text color change, FIG. 17(d) ) is a flowchart showing the column color selection process for changing the third character color, FIG. 18(a) is a diagram illustrating the first display method of the frame attribute format information section on a CRT, and FIG. 18(b) is a flowchart showing the column color selection process for changing the third character color. FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating the second display method of the frame attribute format information section on the CRT; FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating the fourth disk file format of the document; FIG. FIG. 20(b) is a second example of display of a document on a CRT. 1 is CPU, 2 is program memory (PMEM), 3
is the communication I/F, 4 is the keyboard, and 5 is the pointing/
device, 6 is the keyboard interface, 7 is the system bus, 8 is the color CRT, 9 is the video RAM (V
RAM), io is a floppy disk drive, 11
12 is a hard disk drive, 12 is a disk interface, 13 is a color image memory, 14 is a color printer, 21 is a color palette, 22 is a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), 23 is a synchronous signal superimposition circuit, 24 is CRT controller (CRTC), 3
1 is a color palette, 32 is a printer I/F, and 33 is a control circuit. Color scheme Figure 77 (d) Limb color arrangement Figure 76 (Q) Winning horse performance screen Figure 78 Display of incident Relationship with address name case Patent applicant 3-3O-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo (100) Canon Co., Ltd. Representative Takashi Yamaji Three persons Address: 3-30-25 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146, Specification subject to amendment 6. Contents of amendment (1) Page 27, line 3 of the specification “After setting frame attributes...”
From page 31, line 8 “...specify (S 105)
. '' are corrected as follows. Embodiment 5 [Text color selection when font color specifications overlap in a document] Another preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings. a) is a flowchart showing the overall flow of processing operations in this embodiment.The flow from SL to 87 is as described above in Embodiment 1.Since the document and format have been registered at the stage up to s7, next Set the font color for part of the main text of the document.When you click the frame icon on the color CRTg using the pointing device 5 (SIOI), the 18th
A frame attribute screen as shown in Figure (a) is displayed. The text color on the frame attribute screen can be displayed numerically such as the palette number and color number as shown in Figure 18(a), or the color itself can be displayed directly on the CRTS as shown in Figure 18(b). It is also possible to display the The range in which the text color is to be set is designated by a frame (S102). Areas for which no font color is set will be a single color, such as black. For the frame, press the click button on the pointing device 5, set that as the starting edge, move the pointing device 5 to the lower right while holding down the click button, and release the click button when the frame ends. Then, a frame is determined whose starting edge is the upper left corner of the frame and the ending edge is the lower right corner of the frame. Here, the starting end and ending end are not limited to the upper left and lower right, respectively. These designated frame information sections are stored in the FDIO or HDII as shown in FIG. The document in Figure 19,
The format information section has been described above in the first embodiment, so it will not be described here. The frame information section starts from the address pointed to by the frame information first position in the header of each document. The frame information section stores information such as the number of frames, coordinate component 1, coordinate component 2, coordinate component 3, coordinate component 4, and specified color within the frame. These coordinate components are, as shown in Figure 20, the coordinates of the start end of the range for which you want to specify the color (within the frame indicated by the hatching pattern) are coordinate component 1 and coordinate component 2, and the coordinates of the end point are coordinate component 3. This is indicated by coordinate component 4. Next, the palette is displayed on the color CRTg as shown in FIG. 8 (5103), the pointing device 5 is clicked on the color to be selected (5104), and the frame attribute color is specified (S105). After setting the frame attribute, it is determined whether the range specified by the frame attribute and the range specified by the format element overlap or not by sequentially extracting characters from the document one by one (S106). If the character is not within the frame (S107), a character color selection process (S108) is performed. Whether a character is inside or outside a frame can be determined by whether the coordinates of the start and end of the character are inside or outside the coordinates of the start and end of the frame, respectively. The flow of the character color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(b). If the text is text in this text color selection process (S121)
, set the text and font color according to the format information 5122)
, if the text is not the main text (S121) but a heading (S1
23) Perform heading color selection processing (S L 24), and if the text is not a heading (S123) or a column (S125), perform column color selection processing (S126), and if the text is not a column (Si20), the text is Set the folio text color according to the format information. Here, the heading color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(C).
Shown below. In this heading color selection process, if the text is a large heading (S131), the main heading text color is set according to the format information (5132), and if the text is not a large heading (3131), a medium heading (S133) is a medium heading according to the format information. Set the font color (5134), and repeat this process until it reaches 5139. Further, the column color selection process is shown in FIG. 17(d), and in this column color selection process, it is confirmed whether it is column 1, column 2, or column 3, and the color is set, in the same way as the heading color selection process. Once the character color setting process is completed, the process moves on to determining the next character. Returning to the explanation of FIG. 17(a), if the character being judged in 5107 is within the frame specified by the frame attribute, the character color is specified by the color specified by the frame attribute and the format information. Since the designated color overlaps with the specified color, it is determined which designation should be prioritized (S109). If you decide the font color according to the format,
A character color setting process (slo8) is performed, and if priority is given to the color specified by the frame attribute, the color of the corresponding character is set as the frame specified color (SLio). For example, in Figure 20, the format information indicates that the middle heading ``Dear Customers'' is red (indicated by bold letters in the figure), and the color specified in the frame attribute is set to green (indicated by a hatching pattern in the figure). Figure 20 (a) if the font color follows the format, Figure 20 (b) if the frame attribute is followed.
become that way. Here, when the font color specified in the frame attribute and the color specified in the format information overlap, we used 5109 to select which one to give priority to, but the operator does not have to make a selection. There is also a condition that gives priority to the color specified by the frame attribute.

Claims (8)

[Claims] (1) Setting means for setting format information consisting of color information and a plurality of format elements in order to output document information in a desired format, and setting the document information based on the format information set by the setting means. 1. A document processing device comprising: an output means for outputting an output. (2) a setting means for setting format information consisting of color information and a plurality of format elements in order to output document information in a desired format; a format storage means for storing a plurality of types of format information set by the setting means; A document processing device comprising: (3) The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising designating means for designating and calling desired format information from among the stored format information. (4) A storage means for storing format information consisting of color information and a plurality of format elements, a setting means for setting color conditions when outputting document information, and a setting means for setting color conditions when outputting document information, the document information based on the color conditions set by the setting means. A document processing device characterized by having an output means for outputting. (5) When outputting the document information, the setting means outputs the document information in a single color regardless of the color information included in the format information, or outputs the document information based on the color information included in the format information;
5. The document processing device according to claim 4, wherein: (6) Setting means for setting color information related to document information to be output, format information consisting of a plurality of format elements, and area information including color information, the format information set by the setting means, and the area A means of determining which information to prioritize;
A document processing device comprising: output means for outputting the document information based on the priority information determined by the determination means. (7) Claims (1) and (2) characterized in that the format elements are body text, headings, columns, folios, etc.
, (4), and (6). (8) The color information is at least one of the plurality of format elements.
Claim (1) characterized in that it can be set for one;
The document processing device according to (2), (4), or (6).