JPH05101058A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the time for a printing process corresponding to a cut-off line by synthesizing the cut-off line to a divided printing image so as to arbitrarily designate a space between line segments in the case of printing a poster. CONSTITUTION:A storing means 102 stores an image inputted from an input means 101 and information such as the size of a printing paper sheet, the number of the divided images and the cut-off line. The image information is transformed to the printing image by a transforming means 103. The printing image is divided into the designated number of images by a dividing means 104. The divided printing images are enlarged corresponding to the designated size of the printing paper sheet by an enlarging means 105. Based on the size of the printing paper sheet and the number of divided images designated from the input means 101, a calculating means 106 calculates the position of the cut-off line. The cut-off line is synthesized to the enlarged printing image by the enlarging means 105 and printed by a printing means 108.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a word processor having a printing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional word processor, when an image to be printed is enlarged and divided into a plurality of sheets for printing, the distance between the line segments of the cut lines, which is a standard for joining the divided images, is small. It was fixed and the structure was not such that the operator could arbitrarily specify the interval.

[0003]

Therefore, in such a conventional word processor, for example, when a poster or a panel is created, a printing process corresponding to a cut line portion having a narrow space between line segments. There was a problem that it took time.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and corresponds to the part of the cut line by providing a function of arbitrarily widening the interval between the line segments of the cut line made of broken lines. The present invention provides a word processor for shortening the printing process time.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the word processor of the present invention includes an input unit 101 for inputting and designating an image, the size of a print sheet, the number of image divisions, and cut lines, and a storage unit 102 for storing the information input from the input unit 101. A conversion unit 103 for converting the information stored in the storage unit 102 into a print image; and a dividing unit 10 for dividing the print image converted by the conversion unit 103 by the division number designated by the input unit 101.
4, enlargement means 105 for enlarging the print image divided by the dividing means 104 in accordance with the size of the printing paper designated by the input means 101, and the size and division number of the printing paper designated by the input means 101. Calculating means 106 for calculating the position of the cut line based on the cutting line
Calculation unit 1 for the print image enlarged by
The combining means 107 for combining the cutting lines at the position calculated by 06 and the printing means 108 for printing the print image in which the cutting lines are combined by the combining means 107 are provided. This is a word processor in which the interval between the line segment and the line segment can be arbitrarily designated by the input means 101.

As the input means 101 in the present invention, a keyboard device, a tablet device, an input device such as a pointing device or a touch panel is used.

Further, the converting means 103, the dividing means 104,
It is convenient to use a microcomputer including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and an I / O port as the enlarging means 105, the calculating means 106, and the synthesizing means 107, and the RAM therein is usually used as the storing means 102. Be done.

As the printing means 108, a printer such as a thermal transfer printer, a laser printer, a dot impact printer or an ink jet printer is used.

[0009]

In FIG. 1, the image input from the input unit 101, the size of the printing paper, the number of image divisions, and the information of the cut line are stored in the storage unit 102. Then, the image information is converted into a print image by the converting means 103, and the print image is divided into the dividing means 104.
Is divided by the specified number of divisions. The divided print image is enlarged by the enlargement unit 105 according to the size of the designated printing paper.

At the same time, the position of the cutting line is calculated by the calculating means 106 based on the size and the number of divisions of the printing paper designated by the input means 101, and the enlarging means 10
The cutout line is combined by the combining unit 107 with the print image enlarged by 5, and the print image in which the cutout line is combined is printed by the printing unit 108.

The cutoff line is composed of broken lines, and the interval between the broken line segments is arbitrarily set by the input means 101. Therefore, by widening the interval between the broken line segments, the printing process time corresponding to the cut line portion can be shortened.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below based on the embodiments shown in the drawings. The present 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 word processor. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a keyboard provided with kana character keys, numerical keys, conversion keys, function keys, etc. From this keyboard 1, information such as documents, images, graphs and figures is input, and poster printing is performed. When performing, the size of the printing paper, the number of image divisions, the enlargement ratio, and the spacing between the cut line segments are specified. 2 is a CPU. Reference numeral 3 denotes a ROM in which a program for original document creation / editing of a word processor and a poster printing program capable of continuous printing on roll paper according to the present invention are stored.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a RAM, which is document data input from the keyboard 1, that is, document data generated by original document creation / editing of a word processor, and information such as documents, images, graphs, and figures input from the keyboard 1. Memorize In addition, the size of the printing paper designated by the keyboard 1, the number of image divisions, the enlargement ratio, and the interval between the line segments of the cut line are stored. This RAM 4 is used for poster creation position information and image development for poster printing in poster creation.

Reference numeral 5 denotes an LCD (liquid crystal display device) for displaying information such as documents, images, graphs and figures.
By rotating the display screen, the LCD 5 can change the orientation of the display screen between the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. As the LCD 5, other display devices such as a CRT display device and an EL display device may of course be used. A thermal transfer printer 6 prints data such as documents, images, graphs and figures.

The CPU 2 is a document stored in the RAM 4,
Convert data such as images, graphs, and graphics into print images. For this conversion, in the case of document data, a character pattern is continuously output from a character generator (not shown), and in the case of graphs, graphic data, etc., image data is calculated by an arithmetic processing program written in ROM 3, and if it is an image, As it is, create a print image for each,
It is stored in RAM4.

At the same time, the enlargement ratio stored in the RAM 4 is read out and it is determined whether or not the enlargement ratio exceeds 1. This determination is made for both vertical and horizontal magnifications. If the vertical or horizontal enlargement ratio exceeds 1, the division number is read from the RAM 4, and the converted print image is divided by the division number.
The divided print images are stored in the RAM 4.

Next, one of the divided print images is taken out, and the taken-out print image is enlarged at a designated enlargement ratio. At this time, when only the poster printing is instructed without specifying the enlargement ratio, the print image is enlarged to a size printable on the specified size of printing paper. This expansion is a simple expansion. That is, for example, when the enlargement ratio of 4 times in the horizontal direction and 2 times in the vertical direction is designated, the size is simply increased to 1 dot and 2 dots in the vertical direction.

Further, the size and the number of divisions of the printing paper are read from the RAM 4, and the positions of the cutting line and the margin are determined based on the size and the number of the divisions of the printing paper and stored in the RAM 4. Then, using the position information, a cutout line is combined with the enlarged print image, and the print image combined with the cutout line is printed by the printer 6 in accordance with the size of the printing paper designated from the keyboard 1.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the processing contents in poster printing according to the present invention. In FIG. 3, after the image data for poster printing is created, a poster printing instruction is given from the keyboard 1, CPU 2
Is in a waiting state for specifying which part to be designated for division, for specifying the enlargement ratio, and for designating the interval between the line segments of the cut line in the present invention.

When the operator specifies the distance between the cut line segments from the keyboard 1 (step 1), the distance millimeter information is stored in the RAM 4 (step 2), and the enlargement ratio is further increased. When designated (step 3), the enlargement ratio information is stored in the RAM 4 (step 4).

Thereafter, when a print execution instruction is given (step 5), the enlargement ratio information is read from the RAM 4 (step 6). If the enlargement ratio exceeds 1 (step 7), the poster printing process is performed. Then, print image data for poster printing is created (step 8). If the enlargement ratio is 1 or less, print image data for normal printing is created (step 9).

Next, the millimeter information, which is the line segment interval of the cut line, is read from the RAM 4 (step 10), and the cut line image is created according to the designated number of millimeters (step 11). The cut line image data is combined (OR) with the created print image data (step 12), and the print image data is output (printed) to the printer 6.
(Step 13). In this way, the interval between the line segments of the cut line in the poster printing is input means 1
It is possible to arbitrarily specify by 01.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of poster printing. FIG. 4A shows the contents to be printed as a poster. For example, when an enlarged image on a vertically long roll paper having a constant width is divided into four parts P-1 to P-4 and printed, FIG. As shown in (), the cut lines are combined and printed at the portions dividing the images P-1 to P-4. Reference numeral 7 in FIG. 4 indicates a cut line.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a conventional example and an example of a cut line in the present invention. In FIG. 5 (a), the dot interval of the cut line is fixed, and the operator cannot arbitrarily specify the dot interval. A conventional example is shown. On the other hand, FIG. 5B shows an example of the present invention in which the operator can arbitrarily specify the intervals between the cut line segments. In FIGS. 5A and 5B, 8 and 9 indicate cut lines, and 10 indicates line segment intervals of the cut lines designated by the operator.

[0026]

According to the present invention, in poster printing, since it is possible to combine cut lines that can arbitrarily specify the intervals between line segments in the divided print image, the cut line portions can be combined. The time of the printing process corresponding to can be shortened.

[Simple explanation of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a word processor.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing contents in poster printing according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of poster printing.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing an example of a cutting line according to the related art and the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Keyboard 2 CPU 3 ROM 4 RAM 5 LCD (Liquid Crystal Display Device) 6 Printer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting and designating information of an image, a size of printing paper, an image division number, and a cut line, a storage unit for storing information input from the input unit, and a storage unit stored in the storage unit. Conversion means for converting the information into a print image; division means for dividing the print image converted by the conversion means by the division number designated by the input means; and a print image divided by the division means designated by the input means Enlarging means for enlarging according to the size of the printing paper, calculating means for calculating the position of the cutting line based on the size of the printing paper and the number of divisions specified from the input means, and the printing image enlarged by the enlarging means. On the other hand, a synthesizing means for synthesizing the cutting line at the position calculated by the calculating means and a print image synthesizing the cutting line by the synthesizing means A word processor comprising a printing means for printing, a cutoff line consisting of broken lines, and an interval between the broken line segments can be arbitrarily designated by the input means.