JPH04268918A - Document processor having curtain printing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print out characters with proper character intervals by correcting printing patterns by a correcting means prior to printing when an interval between characters to be printed out by a printing means is wider than a reference character interval. CONSTITUTION:Various characters and format information such as the sizes of the characters and vertical/horizontal writing are inputted from an input means 102. The inputted characters and format information are respectively written in a character storing means 103 and a format information storing means 104. Printing patterns corresponding to the characters stored in the means 103 are read out from a printing pattern storing means 101 by a reading means 105. The read printing patterns are successively printed out in a line by a format stored in the means 104 so that each character is printed out in each line in the feeding direction of paper. When the interval between characters to be printed out is wider than the reference character interval, the printing patterns are corrected by the correcting means 105a prior to printing so as to be set up to the reference character interval.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] This invention relates to document processing devices such as Japanese word processors and computers capable of creating documents in Japanese, and in particular, to document processing devices such as Japanese word processors and computers capable of creating documents in Japanese, and in particular to The present invention relates to a document processing device capable of instructing character rotation such as vertical printing. [0002] Conventionally, in this type of document processing device, a so-called "banner" is created, for example, with words written to call people's attention, using a character enlargement printing function. If you want to print the input string in large font in a line on a vertically or horizontally long roll paper, enter the string you want to print on the banner in normal document input mode,
Enlargement processing is performed for each character and then printed. [0003]However, when creating a banner using such a document processing device,
Enlargement processing must be performed for each character, and the processing is complicated. Furthermore, when creating a banner using such a document processing device, characters are input and printed one by one per line, and when creating a vertically long banner, a normal Create a vertically long banner using the font for horizontal writing stored in the character generator. [0005] For this reason, for example, the long sound symbol "-" or the parentheses "
(Characters such as ", which have different printing patterns for horizontal and vertical writing, are printed using the printing pattern for horizontal writing as is, so these long symbols and parentheses are There is a problem that it cannot be used as a banner. [0006] Also, when creating a vertically long banner,
Conventionally, printing was performed so that the outer frame (body face) of the letters and the outer frame were evenly spaced, but in reality, the size of the pattern differs depending on the letter, so as shown in Figure 9, banner A The spacings B1, B2, and B3 between the characters become uneven, and the balance between the characters becomes unbalanced. [0007] The present invention was made in consideration of the above circumstances, and allows for proper printing of vertically long or horizontally long banners without having to specify the magnification factor for each character or having to perform complicated input procedures. Enabled printing with character spacing,
A document processing device having a banner printing function is provided. [Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention includes a printing pattern storage means that stores printing patterns for various characters in advance, and a standard character spacing storage that stores in advance the standard character spacing corresponding to the type of character. an input means for inputting various characters and format information such as the size of the characters and vertical/horizontal writing; a character storage means for storing input characters; and a character storage means for storing input format information. a format information storage means; a reading means for reading out a print pattern corresponding to the character stored in the character storage means from the print pattern storage means; If the interval between the characters printed by the printing means is wider than the standard character interval, the interval between the printed characters becomes the standard character interval. The present invention provides a document processing device having a banner printing function, which is equipped with a correction means for correcting a print pattern before printing. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention, and this document processing device includes a print pattern storage means 1 that stores print patterns for various characters in advance.
01, a standard character spacing storage means 101a that stores in advance the standard character spacing corresponding to the type of character, and an input means 102 for inputting various characters and format information such as the size of the characters and vertical or horizontal writing. , a character storage means 103 for storing input characters, a format information storage means 104 for storing input format information, and a character storage means 103 for storing input format information.
A reading unit 105 reads out a printing pattern corresponding to the characters stored in the printing pattern storage unit 101 from the printing pattern storage unit 101, and format information is stored in the printing pattern read out by the reading unit 105, one character per line in a line in the paper feeding direction. A printing means 106 sequentially prints in the format stored in the means 104, and when the interval between characters printed by the printing means 106 is wider than the standard character interval, printing is performed so that the interval between the printed characters becomes the standard character interval. A correction means 105a for correcting the print pattern is provided beforehand. 0010
In addition, in this invention, the print pattern storage means 101
, as the reference character interval storage means 101a, an internal memory such as a ROM, or an external storage device such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device is used. [0011] As the input means 102, a keyboard device, a pointing device, etc., which can input kana characters, alphabets, various format information, etc., is used. A RAM is mainly used as the character storage means 103 and the format information storage means 104. A CPU consisting of a microprocessor is mainly used as the reading means 105 and the correction means 105a. The printing means 106 is of an impact type,
A dot printer such as a thermal transfer type is mainly used. [Operation] As shown in FIG. 1, when various characters and format information such as the size of the characters and vertical/horizontal writing are input from the input means 102, the input characters are stored in the character storage means. 103
Then, the format information is stored in the format information storage means 104, respectively. Then, the reading means 105 reads out the printing pattern corresponding to the character stored in the character storage means 103 from the printing pattern storage means 101, and the readout printing pattern is read out by the printing means 106, one character per line. Each sheet is sequentially printed in the format stored in the format information storage means 104 in a line in the feeding direction of the paper. Furthermore, if the spacing between the printed characters is wider than the standard character spacing, the printing pattern is corrected by the correction means 10 before printing so that the spacing between the printed characters becomes the standard character spacing.
5a, printing with well-balanced spacing can be obtained. [Embodiments] The present invention will be described in detail below based on embodiments shown in the drawings. Note that this invention is not limited to this. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor. In this figure, 1 is a keyboard equipped with kana character keys, numerical keys, conversion keys, function keys, etc. From this keyboard 1, various character strings are input, and when creating a banner, the characters to be printed on the banner, the size of the characters, and the printing direction in the case of vertical or horizontal writing, that is, the rotation direction of the characters. Enter format information such as ``banner information'' as banner information. 2 is a CPU consisting of a microprocessor, and has a kana-kanji conversion function. [0021] 3 is a ROM, and this ROM 3 contains a program for creating and editing texts that is inherent to a word processor, a program for creating banners, and a program for calculating character spacing (the number of dots between characters). The CPU 2 uses these programs to perform various types of data processing, which will be described later. [0022] The ROM 3 further contains standard character spacing (dots between characters) data predetermined depending on the type of character (Kanji, Kana, alphanumeric characters, etc.) and typeface (Mincho font, calligraphy font, etc.), and various types of data. A character generator for horizontal writing characters (hereinafter abbreviated as CG) that generates horizontal writing printing patterns for characters, and a character generator for horizontal writing characters (hereinafter abbreviated as CG), for example, a long sound symbol “-”, parentheses “(”,
Or C for vertical writing characters that generates a printing pattern for vertical writing for characters that have different printing patterns and printing positions for horizontal writing and vertical writing, such as the period "." and the comma ",".
G is included. A RAM 4 stores characters input from the keyboard 1, and stores text data generated by text creation and editing inherent in a word processor. Also,
When creating a banner, a table of character spacing (dots between characters) data, character strings input from the keyboard 1, and banner information are stored. Reference numeral 5 denotes a CRT display device, which displays various input character strings or banner information. This C
Of course, the RT display device may be an LC (liquid crystal) display device, an EL display device, or the like. Reference numeral 6 denotes a thermal transfer type dot printer, which prints ordinary documents as a word processor. Also,
Using the text enlargement printing function, for example, a so-called "banner" with words written to call people's attention can be created. That is, when a vertically long or horizontally long roll paper is set, the input character string is printed in a line in large fonts on the roll paper. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the input screen display when creating a banner. As shown in this figure, when creating a banner, various format information such as the following is input as banner information. Ru. [0027] First, the character string to be printed on the banner is input in square brackets [...], the magnification of the character is specified, and whether it is to be printed vertically on vertical paper or horizontally long paper is specified. The printing direction (vertical or horizontal) is specified, i.e. whether to print horizontally. Then, the type of enlarged decoration is selected, and finally a typeface such as Mincho font or calligraphy font is selected. [0028] The CPU 2 stores these banner information in the RAM.
Store in 4. Then, when the printing direction of the characters in the banner information stored in RAM 4 is vertical, the RAM
From among the input characters stored in 4, characters with different printing patterns for horizontal writing and vertical writing are selected, and a printing pattern corresponding to the selected character is generated from the CG for vertical writing characters in ROM 3. , A print pattern corresponding to the unselected characters is generated from the CG for horizontal writing characters in the ROM 3. [0029] When creating a banner, if a vertically long roll paper is set in the printer 6, the generated printing pattern is printed on the roll paper, one character per line, in a line in the paper feeding direction. A vertically long banner is created by sequentially printing characters in the font size specified in the banner information. Furthermore, when the printing direction of the characters in the banner information is horizontal writing, a printing pattern corresponding to the input characters stored in the RAM 4 is generated from the CG for horizontal writing characters, and the generated printing pattern is rotated clockwise. Rotate it 90 degrees. [0031] When creating a banner, if a vertically long roll paper is set in the printer 6, a print pattern rotated 90 degrees clockwise is printed on the roll paper, one character per line as the paper is advanced. A horizontally long banner is created by sequentially printing characters in the size specified by the banner information in a line in the direction. FIG. 6 shows an example of a character string for creating a vertically long banner. For characters L1, L2, and L3, F is the outer frame (body face) of the character, and S1, S2, and S3 are the front lines unique to each character. The spacing (front space), T1, T2, and T3 are the trailing spacing (back space) specific to each character. In FIG. 7, R
It shows data of standard character spacing (number of dots) corresponding to character classifications (character types) and fonts stored in OM3. When the character string shown in Figure 6 is printed vertically,
From the character pattern generated from the CG, dot data of front and rear intervals unique to each character is read out, and a table shown in FIG. 8 is stored in the RAM 4. Characters L1 and L2 in Figure 6
, L3 are the character codes 3866 and 306 in Figure 8, respectively.
C, 3954, the front intervals S1, S2, and S3 are 1 dot, 23 dots, and 1 dot, respectively, and the rear interval T
1, T2, and T3 are 0 dot, 28 dot, and 0 dot, respectively. For example, the character L shown in FIG.
Regarding the character spacing between 1 and character L2, if the sum (T1+S2) of the rear interval T1 of character L1 and the front interval S2 of character L2 is larger than the standard character interval in FIG. 7, the character interval between character L1 and character L2 is It is replaced with the standard character spacing and printed. Next, the contents of such processing operations of the CPU 2 will be explained according to the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. When the banner creation mode (function) is instructed by the user, the CPU 2 first displays the input screen for banner creation shown in FIG. 3 on the screen of the CRT display device 5 (
Step 11). On this screen, when the user inputs a character string to be printed on the banner (step 12), the character string is stored in the RAM 4 (step 13), and the banner information for printing the character string is stored. When inputted (step 14), the banner information is stored in the RAM 4 (step 15). Next, it is checked whether or not the user has issued a print instruction from the keyboard 1 (step 16).
If there is a printing instruction, the banner character string, which is a character string to be printed on the banner, is read from the RAM 4 (step 17), and the banner information is read from the RAM 4 (
Step 18). Then, the content of the read banner information is checked, and if vertical writing is specified as the printing direction (step 19), characters with different printing patterns for horizontal writing and vertical writing are checked for horizontal writing. Convert the printing pattern of characters from to vertical writing, that is, for those characters, use C for vertical writing.
Generate a print pattern by G (step 20)
. Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the printing pattern (
character pattern), read out the dot data of the front interval and rear interval for each character, create a table as shown in FIG. 8, and store it in the RAM 4 (steps 31 to 34).
. Next, for two consecutive characters, the trailing interval (dots) of the previous character and the leading interval (dots) of the succeeding character are read out from this table, and the sum is calculated, and the sum is calculated. Compare with the standard character spacing (dots). If the sum is larger, the printing interval of those two characters is replaced with the standard character interval (steps 35 to 39).
. Note that if the sum is not larger than the standard character spacing, replacement cannot be performed. In this way, the character spacing is corrected. Next, the corrected character spacing is multiplied by the character enlargement rate (step 40), and enlarged print (character) pattern data including the actual printing character spacing is created (steps 41, 42). This print pattern data is then output to the printer 6, and all input characters are printed (steps 43, 44). [0040] Furthermore, if vertical writing is not specified as the printing direction, that is, horizontal writing is specified (step 19),
), without converting the printing pattern in step 20, for each character, a printing pattern is generated entirely using CG for horizontal writing characters, and image data for banner printing is created (step 21), and the image data of each character is generated. The data is rotated 90 degrees clockwise (step 22) and output to the printer 6 (step 23). [0041] In this way, it is possible to automatically convert the input character pattern according to the specified print direction, and easily create a vertically long or horizontally long banner with a simple operation. [0042] According to the present invention, character strings with well-balanced spacing can be printed on a vertically long banner.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a display of an input screen when creating a banner.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of character spacing in banner printing.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between character classification, typeface, and standard character spacing.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a table of character codes and character spacing.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing the character spacing of conventional banner printing.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Keyboard 2 CPU 3 ROM 4 RAM 5 CRT display 6 Printer

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: Printing pattern storage means that stores in advance printing patterns for various characters; standard character spacing storage means that stores in advance standard character spacings corresponding to character types; an input means for inputting format information such as vertical writing and horizontal writing;
A character storage means for storing input characters, a format information storage means for storing input format information, and a reading means for reading out a print pattern corresponding to the characters stored in the character storage means from the print pattern storage means. , a printing means for sequentially printing the printing pattern read by the reading means in a format stored in the format information storage means one character per line in a line in the feeding direction of the paper, and an interval between characters printed by the printing means; A document processing device having a banner printing function, comprising a correction means for correcting a printing pattern before printing so that the spacing between printed characters becomes the standard character spacing when the spacing is wider than the standard character spacing.