JPH04148369A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare a specification and the like from plural documents by applying consecutive page numbers covering the plural documents, and printing to apply the corresponding page numbers on the consecutive page numbers to specified documents. CONSTITUTION:When printing document data specified by a first specifying means 1, a first page number applying means 3 applies the consecutive page numbers to the respective pages of the document data successively. When printing the document data specified by a second specifying means 2, a second page applying means 4 asks for a starting page number on the consecutive page numbers, and applies the page numbers obtained by successively updating the starting page numbers to the specified documents. Thus, it is possible to apply the consecutive page numbers covering the plural documents, and printing to apply the corresponding page numbers on the consecutive page numbers to the specified documents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application 1] The present invention relates to a document printing device such as a word processor.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in a word processor or the like, a plurality of document data that have been individually created and registered on a magnetic disk are combined into one document to create a "book" format document (for example, specifications, etc.).
When creating , I did the following:

That is, one method is to load a plurality of documents from a disk and combine them into one document by one editing operation.

Another method is to call up multiple documents individually and print them individually.

By the way, if you combine multiple documents into one document as in the former method, automatic pagination can be done using a word processor that has the function. Although it is possible to add a number when printing a document, it is necessary to combine multiple documents into one before printing a document.

Also, in the latter method, as mentioned above! It does not require one task, but spans multiple documents.

It is necessary to enter a serial page number in a continuous number format on each page 1.

Furthermore, as in the former method, after a plurality of documents are combined into one 5-book document and the entire document is printed, the contents of the document in that section may be changed, printed, and replaced with the original document. In this case, it is not possible to add serial page numbers to some of the C documents when printing the document, so before printing the 4 documents, it is necessary to add the same serial page numbers to each page as the original document. I need.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] As described above, various operations are required, which is time consuming and troublesome, and moreover, requires the addition of documents and pages.

This method has the disadvantage that it is not possible to efficiently create a "tree" format document because the serial page numbers must be re-entered each time deletion or the like is performed.

The reason for this is thought to be that document data registered on a disk or the like is printed document by document.

If you do this, you can print multiple documents that were created separately as one document, add continuous page numbers to all pages across multiple documents, or print only a portion of the documents. When specified, if you can add and print the corresponding page number of the designated document with a serial page number, it will be possible to easily create specifications etc. from multiple documents, and even if you want to replace part of the specifications etc. It is clear that this can be done easily.

An object of this invention is to be able to print multiple documents that have been individually created as one document, to add continuous page numbers to all pages across multiple documents, and to print only a part of the documents. When printing is specified, a corresponding page number of a serial page number is added to the specified document so that printing can be performed.

[Means to solve the problem] The means of this invention are as follows.

The first specifying means 1 (see the functional block diagram of FIG. 1; the same applies hereinafter) is a key-powered device or the like that specifies in advance a plurality of document data to be printed.

The second specifying means 2 is a key manual device or the like that specifies some document data as the current printing object among the plurality of document data already specified as printing objects by the first specifying means 1.

The first page number adding means 3 sequentially adds consecutive page numbers to each page of the plurality of document data when printing the plurality of document data specified by the first specifying means 1.

The second page number adding means 4 is a starting page on the serial page number that the first page number adding means 3 should add to the specified document when printing the document data specified by the second specifying means 2. The page number obtained by calculating the starting page number and sequentially updating the starting page number is added to the specified document.

[Work] The operation of the means of this invention is as follows.

Now, among various kinds of document data created and registered on a disk etc., a plurality of document data are specified in advance as printing targets by the first specifying means 1. Then, the first page number adding means 3 When printing a plurality of document data specified by the specifying means 1 of 1, consecutive page numbers are sequentially added to each page of the plurality of document data.
For example, document A has two pages, document B has three pages, etc.
, 5-page document C... are printed sequentially, document A has serial page numbers rlJ, r2J, and document B.
has serial page numbers r3J, r4J "5", document C has serial page numbers "6", r7j, r8J, r9J,
rlOJ... is added.

On the other hand, if the second specifying means 2 specifies some of the documents to be printed this time out of a plurality of document data that have already been specified as print targets by the first specifying means l, then the second When the page number adding means 4 prints the document data specified by the second specifying means 2,
The first page number adding means 3 determines the starting page number on the serial page number to be added to the specified document,
The page number obtained by sequentially updating this starting page number is added to the designated document.

Therefore, in addition to printing multiple documents that were created separately as one document, it is also possible to add consecutive page numbers to all pages across multiple documents.
When printing only a part of the document is specified, the specified document can be printed with a corresponding page number added as a serial page number.

[Example] An embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 to 9.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a word processor.

The CPU II controls the operation of this word processor according to various programs, and the key human power device 11
The document data input from 2 is on the CRT display! 113, kana-kanji conversion, etc. are performed by the CPU 11, and stored in the document memory 14, read out from the document memory 14 in response to a registration command from the CRT display device M13, and sent via the disk control unit 15. and is registered on the magnetic disk 16.

The magnetic disk 16 is an external storage device for storing documents, and in the magnetic disk 16, document list, document A, document B, . . . , document N, starting from the illustration, are registered. Then, the document data in the magnetic disk 16 is read out in response to a print command from the key manual device 112, and is printed out from the print 8817. In this case, when printing multiple documents together into one document, the CPU II should refer to the print specification memory 18 and add a page number in advance! Continuous page numbers spanning one document are added to pages where this is specified.

The print specification memory 18 stores print control information when a plurality of documents are printed together into one document, and this print control information is arbitrarily set and registered when printing a document. FIG. 3 shows printing side control information that is set and registered in the print specification memory 18. In addition to setting and registering document defects corresponding to multiple documents to be combined into one document according to the calling order, Document No. (Document No. for specifying the first document to which a serial page number is added among multiple documents that are combined into one document)
, start page (the first page to which a serial page number should be added among the pages constituting the start document specified by the above-mentioned start document movement), number of print copies (combining multiple documents into one document), The number of copies to print) is registered.

Nao, the page number register Pn stores the serial page number that should be added when printing multiple documents as one document, and its contents are updated by plus rlJ every time the page number is printed. be done.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to FIGS. 4 to 9.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation when setting and registering print control information in the print specification memory 18.

First, the document list information is loaded from the magnetic disk 16 (Step 2 At), the document list is displayed and output from the CR1 display section 13 (Step A2), and a message indicating that one document M should be specified is displayed. (Step A3
), and specify the document defect accordingly (step A4).
, the specified document collapse is set and registered in the print spec memory 18 (step A5). Then, the process returns to step A3 and the desired document collapse is sequentially specified. Document defects are sequentially set and registered according to the order. Note that the setting registration order in this case represents the document recall order.

When the document collapse setting is completed in this way, the process proceeds to step A6, where the next item is set in order to move on to the setting registration of the next item, and when the pagination is specified as the start document collapse (step A7).
, the specified starting document characteristics are registered in the print specification memory 18 (step A8).

Next, for pagination, specify the start page (step A
9), the specified start page is registered in the print spec memory 18 (step Al0), and when the number of copies to be printed is specified (step A11), the specified number of print copies is registered in the print spec memory 18 (step A12). ).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation when printing a plurality of documents together as one document.

2. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, document D, document A, and document B are set and registered in the print specification memory 18 according to the calling order as a plurality of documents to be combined into one document, and the starting document status "A", Start page "2",
It is assumed that the number of print copies rlJ has been set and registered.

In this state, when the printing process shown in FIG. 5 is started, first, the contents of the page number register Pn are cleared in step Bl), and then the page number register Pn is cleared from the magnetic disk 16. (step B2), where the first document data is the document data loaded from the magnetic disk 16 according to the first document failure set and registered in the print specification memory 18; A single document is loaded. Then, in step B3, the first page of the loaded document is specified.

After recording, proceed to step B4 and set the page number register Pn.
It is checked whether the value of page number register Pn is rOJ or not, but first the value of page number register Pn is ro,+, so the process advances to step 2 B12 and it is checked whether the load document is equal to the start document set and registered in the print specification memory 18. Find out whether or not. In this case, the load document is a document, and the start document is document A. Therefore, since the load document is not a paginated start document, the process proceeds to step B7, and the document data of the specified page, in this case, the first page of the document, is transferred to one page. Print one page.

Then, in the next step B8, when it is detected that there is a next page, the process proceeds to step B9, and after specifying the next page, returns to step B4, and repeats the same operation.
As a result, if the document consists of, for example, three pages, the document will be printed one page at a time, but no page number will be added to each page of the document ($6 (see figure).

However, when all pages of the document have been printed, the stage 2
Since no next page is detected in block B8, step 81
Proceed to 0 and check whether the next document is registered, if so, the next document,
In this case, document A is loaded from the magnetic disk 16 (
Step B11).

Then, returning to step B3, after specifying the first page of document A, it is checked whether the value of page number register Pn is rOJ (step B4), but even in this case, the value of page number register Pn is rQJ. Since it remains as it is, the process advances to step B12.

Now, load document A is the starting document with pages, so
Proceeding to step B13, it is checked whether the specified page is a start page registered in the print specification memory 18.

Here, the specified page is the first page and is not the first page registered in the print specification memory 18 as shown in FIG. Let it print.

After that, the next page of document A is specified (steps B8 and B9), but even in this case, the value of the page number register Pn remains "0", and since the load document is the start document, Proceed to step B13 on that condition.
In this case, the specified page matches the start page in print spec memory 18. Therefore, the process advances to step B14, and the page number register Pn is set to the initial value rl of the page number.
Print the page number rlJ in n. Step B6) Add rlJ to the value of the page number register Pn to update the page number, then proceed to step 2 B7 and print one page of one document data. .

Thereafter, document data is printed page by page while adding page numbers to document A until the next page is detected to be missing. In this case, if one document A consists of three pages as shown in Figure 6, a serial page number will be added from the second page, the serial page number rlJ will be added to the second page, and the serial page number will be added to the third page. "2" is added.

When document A is printed in this way, document B is loaded (step B11), and the first page of document B is specified (step B3), but in this case, the value of page number register Pn is is r2'', l, so step B
4, the process proceeds to step B5, and the process of printing one page at a time while adding serial page numbers is repeated.As a result, as shown in FIG. "4" and "5" are added and printed.

When all pages of one document B have been printed, step BIO detects that there is no next document and the process stays.

Proceeding to block B15, it is checked whether printing for the number of print copies registered in the print specification memory 18 has been completed. Now, as shown in Figure 6, the number of printed copies is rlJ, so the end of printing is detected and the process ends, but the number of printed copies is "2".
If the above is the case, the process returns to the first step Bl, and the above-described printing process is repeated until printing of the registered number of copies is completed.

In this way, multiple pieces of document data that have been arbitrarily specified in advance are printed together as one document, and pages are printed from the start page of the start document that is arbitrarily specified in advance among each page of the multiple document data. Numbers are added sequentially.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of arbitrarily designating and printing one of a plurality of documents to be printed as one document as described above.

Here, it is assumed that print control information as shown in FIG. 8 is set and registered in the print specification memory 18.

First, a document list is loaded from the magnetic disk 16 (step ci), and it is displayed and output (step C2).
, In this state, the desired document name is designated as the print document (step C3).

Now, assume that document B is designated as a print document. Then, the process proceeds to step C4, where the designated document error and the starting document error in the print specification memory 18 are compared; in this case, 1
Since a mismatch between the two is detected, the process proceeds to step C5.
Document data corresponding to the start document collapse (in this case, 1 document A)
Load. Then, to count the total number of pages of this loaded document (Step C6), subtract the start page from this total number of pages, add r21 to this value, and set it in the page number register Pn (Step C7). In this case, The total number of pages of document A is r3'', therefore, r3-2+2=34 is stored in the page number register Pn by 7-2.

Next, the process proceeds to step C8, where the next document defect registered in the print specification memory 18 is compared with the designated document defect. If a mismatch between the two is detected, the process proceeds to step C9, and the document data corresponding to the next document defect registered in the print specification memory 18 is transferred to the magnetic disk 16.
, count the total number of pages of this loaded document (Step 7 Cl0), add that value to the page number register Pn (Step C11), and return to Step C8. The above operations are repeated until .

Now, when the start document A is loaded, the next document registered in the print speed memory 18 is document B, which matches the specified document movement, so this is detected in step C8 and the process proceeds to step C12. Proceed to load the designated document from the magnetic disk 16 and designate its first page (step C13), then print the page number (in this case "3") in the page number register Pn (step C14).
, "1" is added to the value of the page number register Pn to update the page number register Pn (step C15),
Then, the document data of the specified page is printed (step C16).

Then, check whether there is a next page (step C17)
, if there is, the process proceeds to step C18, where the next page is designated, and then returns to step CI4, where the specified document is printed page by page while adding page numbers until ν down and no next page is detected.

FIG. 9 shows an example of printing when document B is designated as a designated document, and each page of document B has page numbers r3, 1, .
r4" and "5" are printed.

If it is detected that there is no next page, it is checked whether printing of the registered portion in the print specification memory 18 has been completed (step C31), and the process returns to step C4 until the registered number of copies has been printed. Repeat the action.

On the other hand, if the specified document is the start document, the following operation will be performed.

That is, when it is detected in step C4 that the specified document is the start document, that is, if document A is specified as shown in the first cause, the process proceeds to step C20 and clears the contents of the page number register Pn. Next, document data (document A) corresponding to the starting document collapse is loaded from the magnetic disk 16 (
The process then proceeds to step C21), the first step C22, and specifies the first page of the loaded document.

After that, the process advances to step C23, and the page number register P
It is checked whether the value of n is rOJ or not. Initially, the value of the page number register Pn is rOJ, so the process proceeds to step C24, and it is checked whether the specified page is equal to the start page set and registered in the print specification memory 18. investigate. now,
"2" is stored as the start page in the print spec memory 18.
has been set, the process advances to step C26 to print one page of the specified page of document data, in this case the first page of document A.

If the presence of the next page is detected in the next step C27, the process proceeds to step C28, where the primary page is designated, and then the process returns to step C23. In this case, the value of page number register Pn remains rQJ, so step 2 C29
However, since the specified page matches the start page, the process proceeds to step C3o, sets the initial value rlJ of the serial page number in the page number register Pn, and then prints that page number (step C24). After updating the serial page number by adding "1" to the value of the page number register Pn, step C25), one page of document data is printed (step C26).

Furthermore, if the presence of the next page is detected in the primary step C27, the process returns to step C23 after specifying the primary page, but in this case, the value of the page number register Pn is r2J, and therefore, the serial page number will be Print the document data one page at a time while adding (steps C24 to C
28).

As a result, when all pages of document A have been printed, step C
Since no next page is detected in step C27, step C31
Then, the process returns to step C4 and repeats printing of the specified document until printing of the registered number of copies is completed.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to print a plurality of documents that have been individually created as one document, and also to add consecutive page numbers to all pages of the plurality of documents. When only part of a document is specified to be printed, the corresponding page number on the serial page number can be added to the specified document and printed, making it easy to replace part of the specifications etc. This has the effect of making it possible to

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, Figures 2 and 9 show embodiments, Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of a word processor, and Figure 2 is a block diagram of the invention. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation for setting and registering mark #A information in the print spec memory 18, and FIG. 5 shows how multiple documents are combined into one document 2.
(Flowchart showing the operation when printing all files at once)
, Fig. 16 is a diagram showing an example of printing when multiple documents are combined and printed as one document according to the registered contents of σ in the print specification memory 18, and Fig. 7 is a diagram showing an example of printing when multiple documents are combined and printed as one document. A flowchart showing the operation when arbitrarily specifying one of a plurality of documents to be printed and printing it. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of printing when the designated document is the start document A. 11...CPU, 12...Key manual device, 15...Disk control section, 16...
・Magnetic disk 17...Printing device, 18...
...Print spec memory. Patent applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A first specifying means for specifying in advance a plurality of document data as objects to be printed, and a part of the documents among the plurality of document data already specified as objects to be printed by the first specifying means. a second specifying means for specifying data to be printed this time; and when printing a plurality of document data specified by the first specifying means, sequentially assigning consecutive page numbers to each page of the plurality of document data. a first page number adding means to add; and a first page number adding means to add a page number on the serial page number to be added to the specified document when printing the document data specified by the second specifying means; A document printing device comprising: second page number adding means for obtaining a start page number and adding the obtained page number to a specified document by sequentially updating the start page number.