JPH05151216A - Document processor with frame editing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for an instruction considering the lateral width of a sheet, to improve operability and to save the sheet by automatically developing data to be printed out to so-called vertical writing or horizontal writing based upon the lateral width of the sheet. CONSTITUTION:A judging means 104 compares the longitudinal size of a frame with its lateral size to judge whether the frame is longitudinally long or laterally long and when the frame is longitudinally long as the result of the judgement, a comparing means 105 compares the longitudinal size of the frame with the lateral width of the sheet which is stored in a sheet size storing means 101. When the frame is laterally long, the means 105 compares the lateral size of the frame with the lateral width of the sheet stored in the means 101. When the frame is longitudinally long and the lateral width of the sheet is longer as the result of the comparison or when the frame is laterally long and the lateral width of the sheet is shorter, a rotating means 106 converts the information of the frame stored in an input information storing means 103 into a printing image, rotates the converted image by 90 deg. and a printing means 107 prints out the rotated image.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating documents in Japanese, and more particularly to setting a frame on a screen and editing information in the frame. The present invention relates to a document processing device with a frame editing function capable of printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a document processing apparatus as described above,
A frame with a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper is set on the screen, the frame is divided into desired sizes, and the divided sections are edited as if they were one page. Usually, it is possible to perform editing in units of sections called column editing and block editing.

Further, in such a document processing apparatus, in order to print on a card, a ticket, etc., a text for one section is input, and the text is copied into a plurality of sections and printed, so-called repeated printing. Some printers have the function of, and when performing such repetitive printing, a basic format is specified, and the same format is repeatedly printed in the horizontal and vertical directions.

That is, during repeated printing, normally,
Roll paper is used as the printing paper, and the same data (for example, the same pattern if it is a ticket) is repeatedly printed on the roll paper, and after printing, the user separates the printed tickets using the cutter one by one. I'm trying to cut it.

[0005]

However, in such a conventional document processing apparatus, when the pattern of the ticket is repeatedly printed on the roll paper as described above, for example, the width of the ticket is the width of the roll paper. If the size is too wide, it cannot be printed, so you have to rotate the ticket design 90 degrees and instruct the so-called "vertical writing" in the Japanese word processor to print. Was complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a document with a frame editing function is provided in which the method of expanding the data to be printed is switched to the vertical or horizontal direction based on the set paper width. A processing device is provided.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention is
In a document processing device capable of setting a frame on the screen, editing information in the frame, and printing the information, a paper size storage unit 101 storing the size of the printing paper and printing in the frame are possible. The input unit 102 for inputting various information, the input information storage unit 103 for storing the information input from the input unit 102, and the vertical size and the horizontal size of the frame are compared,
If the result of the determination is vertical, the determination unit 104 that determines whether the frame is vertically long or horizontally long is compared, and if the determination result is vertically long, the vertical size of the frame is compared with the horizontal width of the paper stored in the paper size storage unit 101 to make determination. If the result is horizontal, the comparison means 105 that compares the horizontal size of the frame with the horizontal width of the paper stored in the paper size storage means 101, and the comparison result by the comparison means 105 shows that the frame is vertically long and the horizontal width of the paper. Is larger or the frame is horizontally long and the width of the paper is smaller, the information in the frame stored in the input information storage means 103 is converted into a print image, and then the image is converted to 90 degrees. A document processing apparatus with a frame editing function, which includes a rotating unit 106 for rotating and a printing unit 107 for printing an image rotated by the rotating unit 106.

As the paper size storage means 101 in the present invention, an internal memory such as a RAM or an external memory such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device is mainly used.

As the input means 102, a keyboard device, a tablet device, a pointing device,
An input device such as a touch panel is used.

As the judging means 104, the comparing means 105 and the rotating means 106, there are a CPU, a ROM, a RAM and an I / O.
It is convenient to use a microcomputer having a port, and the RAM therein is usually used as the input information storage means 103.

As the printing means 107, a dot matrix type thermal printer or laser printer is used.

[0012]

According to the present invention, when printable information is input into the frame from the input means 102, the input information is stored in the input information storage means 103. Then, the judging means 1
By 04, the vertical size and the horizontal size of the frame are compared,
Whether the frame is vertically long or horizontally long is determined, and if the result of the determination is vertically long, the comparison unit 105 compares the vertical size of the frame with the horizontal width of the paper stored in the paper size storage unit 101, If the result of the determination is horizontal, the comparison unit 105 causes the horizontal size of the frame and the paper size storage unit 10 to be displayed.
The width of the sheet stored in 1 is compared.

As a result of the comparison, when the frame is vertically long and the width of the paper is larger, or when the frame is horizontally long and the width of the paper is smaller, the rotating means 106
After the information in the frame stored in the input information storage unit 103 is converted into a print image, it is rotated by 90 degrees, and the rotated image is printed by the printing unit 107.

Therefore, since the data to be printed is automatically developed into so-called vertical writing or horizontal writing based on the width of the paper set in the apparatus, there is no need to give an instruction in consideration of the width of the paper. Operation becomes easy.

[0015]

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 Japanese word processor. This Japanese word processor can set a frame on the screen and edit and print information in the frame.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 is a keyboard provided with kana character keys, numerical keys, kana-kanji conversion keys, function keys and the like. During the frame editing process, a frame having a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the sheet is divided, and various kinds of information that can be printed on the card as the divided section is input from the keyboard 1.

Reference numeral 2 is a control unit composed of a CPU for controlling the operation of this system. Reference numeral 3 denotes a program memory including a ROM, which stores a program for original document creation / editing of a Japanese word processor and a program for switching the data expansion method of the present invention. The control unit 2 performs various types of data processing described below by using these programs written in the program memory 3.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a card format memory composed of a RAM, in which layout information of a card which is a divided section is stored. Reference numeral 5 denotes a card data memory including a RAM, in which card creation data input from the keyboard 1 is stored. Reference numeral 6 denotes a display device including a CRT display device and an LC (liquid crystal) display device, on which various card data and a series of operations are displayed.
Reference numeral 7 is an RA for expanding the card data for actual printing.
M is a printing memory, and 8 is a printing device such as a dot matrix type thermal printer or laser printer that outputs a printing result.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view showing the external appearance of the printing device 8. As shown in the drawing, when the printing device 8 uses roll paper, the roll paper is cut in the middle. It has a built-in cutter.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the stored contents of the card format memory 4. As shown in this figure, the card format memory 4 stores paper information and frame information 1 to n. The paper information is information about format setting and tab setting, and information such as paper size and left / right / upper and lower margins is set.

The frame information 1 to n are set by the number of frames to be set, and the frame start information, the frame size information, the frame attribute,
It is composed of frame numbers. The frame start information represents the coordinate value of the upper left corner on the printing paper of the divided section in millimeter units. The frame size information represents the vertical length and the horizontal length of the divided section in millimeters. The frame attribute indicates the property of the section such as an input prohibited frame as a section in which no data is input, or graphic data such as a graph or an image. The frame number is the order of the divided sections, and is set for the case where the frames are sequentially numbered.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the stored contents of the card data memory 5. As shown in this figure, the card data memory 5 stores character string information, graphic information, and image information.

The character string information is composed of actual character string data such as kanji and kana and coordinate data indicating where the character string data is located. The graphic information is divided into various graphic data such as line segment data, band line data, circle data, and parabolic data, each of which is composed of coordinate data and graphic data. The image information is composed of coordinate data and image data. The image data is image data formed by dots, and actually, the numerical value of the pointer is stored, and the image data indicated by the dot is stored at the position on the memory indicated by the pointer.

The character string information, the graphic information, and the image information are each provided with a flag indicating whether the data is common to each card or is changed for each card. “0” is recorded when the data is common to each card, and “1” is recorded when the data is changed for each card.

The control unit 2 includes a card format memory 4
Refer to to compare the vertical size and horizontal size of the card,
It is determined whether the card is vertically long or horizontally long. If the result of the determination is portrait, the portrait size of the card is compared with the width of the paper stored in the card format memory 4. If the determination result is horizontally long, the horizontal size of the card is compared with the horizontal width of the paper stored in the card format memory 4.

Then, as a result of the comparison, when the card is vertically long and the width of the paper is larger, or
When the card is horizontally long and the width of the paper is smaller, the information in the card stored in the card data memory 5 is converted into a print image, and then the image is converted into a print image.
The image is rotated by 0 ° and the rotated image is printed via the printing device 8.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control unit 2 will be described with reference to the flowchart of the printing direction determination routine shown in FIG. At the time of printing, the paper selection instruction or the paper size automatically set in the printing device is recognized, and this paper size is compared with the size of the frame information of the card data to be printed, and the printing direction is determined. To do.
First, as shown in FIG. 7, the vertical size x and the horizontal size y of the frame are
Are compared (step 11), and it is checked whether the card data to be printed is vertically long or horizontally long (step 12).

In the case of the vertically long size, the horizontal width m of the paper shown in FIG. 8 is compared with the vertical size y (step 13), and it is checked whether or not printing is possible in the vertical direction (step 14). Here, if m> y, it is possible to print in the vertical direction (step 22), and the check routine ends. If it is other than m> y, the paper width m is compared with the horizontal size x (step 15), and it is checked whether printing in the horizontal direction is possible (step 16). If m> x, printing can be performed in the horizontal direction (step 17), and the check routine ends. If it is other than m> x, it is determined that printing is not possible (step 23), and the process ends.

Similarly, processing is performed for the horizontally long size.
That is, in step 12, in the case of the horizontally long size,
Compare the width m of the paper with the width x (step 1
8) Then, it is checked whether printing is possible in the horizontal direction (step 19). If m> x, printing can be performed in the horizontal direction (step 17), and the check routine ends.
If m> x is not satisfied, the paper width m is compared with the vertical size y (step 20), and it is checked whether or not printing is possible in the vertical direction (step 21). Here, if m> y, it is possible to print in the vertical direction (step 22), and the check routine ends. If it is other than m> y, it is determined that printing is not possible (step 23), and the process ends.

Based on the result of this check, the printing direction, that is, the vertical direction or the horizontal direction, is automatically determined during the printing process, and printing is performed.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of printing a vertically long card. As shown in FIG. 9, when printing a vertically long card such as a business card, the vertical size y of the business card is y.
Is wider than the lateral width m of the paper, printing is performed in the vertical direction, and if the paper is roll paper, it is cut at a cutting position K indicated by a chain line by a cutter installed in the printing device 8.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of printing a horizontally long card. As shown in FIG. 10, when printing a horizontally long card such as a ticket, the horizontal size x of the ticket is the paper size. When the width is narrower than the horizontal width m, printing is performed in the horizontal direction, and if the paper is roll paper, it is cut at a cutting position K indicated by a chain line by a cutter installed in the printing device 8.

In this way, by automatically switching the method of expanding the data to be printed based on the width of the set paper, it becomes possible to save the paper and facilitate the operation.

[0035]

According to the present invention, the data to be printed is automatically developed into so-called vertical writing or horizontal writing based on the horizontal width of the paper set in the apparatus. Instructions that take into consideration are unnecessary, and operability is improved. In addition, it is possible to save paper.

[Brief description of drawings]

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 in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view showing the outer appearance of the printing apparatus.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card format memory.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card data memory.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing vertical and horizontal sizes of a card.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the width of the printing paper.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of printing a vertically long card.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of printing a horizontally long card.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Keyboard 2 Control Unit 3 Program Memory 4 Card Format Memory 5 Card Data Memory 6 Display Device 7 Printing Memory 8 Printing Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document processing apparatus capable of setting a frame on a screen, editing information in the frame, and printing the information, in a document size storage means for storing the size of a print sheet. The input means for inputting printable information inside, the input information storage means for storing the information input from the input means, and the vertical size and horizontal size of the frame are compared, and whether the frame is portrait or landscape If the result of the judgment is vertical, the vertical size of the frame is compared with the horizontal width of the paper stored in the paper size storage unit. The comparison means for comparing the horizontal size with the width of the paper stored in the paper size storage means, and the result of the comparison by the comparison means is that the frame is vertically long and the width of the paper is larger, or the frame is horizontally long and the paper is wide. If the width of is smaller, A frame provided with rotating means for rotating the information stored in the force information storage means into a print image and then rotating the image by 90 degrees, and printing means for printing the image rotated by the rotating means. Document processing device with editing function.