JPH05274312A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To constitute the device so that only a suffix document part can be printed and outputted by only executing the printing designation once by an operator without considering a printing start page position of the suffix document part and the number of its pages. CONSTITUTION:When a suffix document printing command is inputted, a printing controller 2 actuates a suffix page recognizing device 1, and allows its device to check whether a main body document in a document buffer 5 is a suffix page document part or not by a page unit. When the suffix document part is detected, the suffix page recognizing device 1 informs it to the printing controller 2, therefore, the printing controller 2 sends only the suffix document part in the main body document to a printing controller 3 by putting the suffix page information concerned thereto. In such a way, a printer 4 puts a suffix page to the suffix document, and prints it to paper by a page unit and outputs it.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus having a function of adding a suffix page to a suffix document, inserting the suffix page into a designated page in a main document, and printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of document creating apparatus, when a suffix page is added to a suffix document portion and the document is inserted into a designated page of a main document and printed, an output document as shown in FIG. 3A, for example, is obtained. be able to. Page 1 of this document
-1, and pages 2-1 and 2-2 are suffix documents,
They are inserted after the first page and after the second page of the main document, respectively. By the way, when it is attempted to print only the suffix document portion by the conventional document creating apparatus instead of printing the entire body document including the suffix document, the second page of the document is printed by using the partial printing function. After obtaining the suffix document of the 1-1 page as shown in FIG. 3 (B), the third and fourth pages of the document are partially printed again and the suffix page 2- as shown in FIG. 3 (C). 1, 2-
Had to print 2. Therefore, if only the suffix document portion is to be printed, the operator must perform two print operations (1) printing the second page and (2) printing the third and fourth pages. However, there was a drawback that it was troublesome and the operability was poor.

Moreover, in the conventional document creating apparatus, since the suffix document portion and the body document portion are managed on the same document for editing, the suffix page and the page managed for editing are different. Therefore, for example, when printing the suffix document portion of the suffix page 1-1, it is necessary to issue a partial print instruction for the document of the second page in the above-mentioned editing, which also imposes a burden on the operator. there were.

[0004]

When the pages of the suffix document portion to be inserted in the main document are not continuous as described above, when the suffix document portion is printed and output, the operator creates a document. Since the apparatus has to be subjected to the partial printing operation a plurality of times, the operability is extremely poor. Moreover, in the above-described conventional document creating apparatus, since the suffix document part is managed on the same document as the main document, the suffix page attached at the time of printing and the page of the suffix document managed on editing are different, and the operator Had to issue a partial print instruction while taking this into consideration, which was very troublesome.

In view of the above, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an operator does not consider the print start page position of the suffix document portion and the number of pages, and only prints the suffix document portion by printing once and outputs it. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation device capable of doing the above.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has a function of inserting a suffix document into a main body document and printing it out, and an extracting means for extracting only the suffix document in the main body document, and this extracting means. And a printing unit that prints only the suffix document extracted by the method on a sheet and outputs the sheet.

[0007]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the extracting means extracts only the suffix document in the main document. The printing unit prints only the suffix document extracted by the extracting unit on paper and outputs it.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the document creating apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a suffix document recognition device for recognizing a suffix document portion in a main document in the document buffer 5, and 2 is a printer control device which extracts only the suffix document portion from the document buffer 5 based on the recognition information of the suffix document recognition device 1. A print control device 3 for sending to the device 3, a printer control device 3 for performing mechanical control of the printer 4, etc., and causing the printer 4 to output the document sent from the print control device 2 in page units, and 4 for printing the document on paper. It is a printer for outputting.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. When a suffix document print command is input from an input device (not shown), the print control device 2 activates the suffix document recognition device 1 in step 201 of FIG. As a result, the suffix document recognition device 1 operates in step 20 of FIG.
In step 2, one page is read from the main document in the document buffer 5, and it is determined whether or not this is a suffix document. As a result, if it is a suffix document, the process proceeds to step 203, and if not, step 204. Proceed to. In step 203, the print control device 2 reads out one page of the document determined to be the suffix document by the suffix document recognition device 1 from the document buffer 5, sends it to the printer control device 3 together with the suffix page information, and sends it to the printer 4 To print the suffix document on a sheet with a suffix page and output it. On the other hand, if the process proceeds to step 204, the print control device 2 determines whether the suffix document recognition device 1 has checked whether all pages of the main document in the document buffer 5 are suffix documents or not. If it does not exist, the process returns to step 201. If it does, the printing process ends.
In step 202, the suffix document recognition device 1
Checks from the first page of the main document in the document buffer 5 whether it is a suffix document, and the print control device 2
The page of the main document to be checked is advanced one page at a time each is started by.

According to this embodiment, when a suffix document print command is received from the operator, the apparatus thereafter searches the main body document for the suffix document portion, and sends the suffix page information corresponding thereto to the printer 4 sequentially. Therefore, the operator does not consider the print start page position of the suffix document portion and the number of pages, and simply issues the print command once, and prints only the suffix document portion in the main body document with the suffix page in page units. It is possible to print on and output it, and it is possible to remarkably improve the operability of the apparatus as compared with the related art.

In the above embodiment, only the suffix document portion is printed out. However, it is needless to say that the suffix document recognition device can print out only the main document excluding the suffix document. It is possible.

[0012]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the operator does not need to consider the print start page position of the suffix document portion or the number of pages, and only the suffix document portion can be designated by printing once. Can be printed and output.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a document creation device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a suffix document printing operation of the apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of printing and outputting only a suffix document portion in a conventional document creation device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Suffix Document Recognition Device 2 ... Print Control Device 3 ... Printer Control Device 4 ... Printer 5 ... Document Buffer

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A function for inserting and printing out a suffix document in a main body document, and extracting means for extracting only the suffix document in the main body document, and the suffix document extracted by this extracting means. A document creating apparatus, comprising: a printing unit that prints only the output on paper. 2. The document creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printing means adds a suffix page to the suffix document extracted by the extracting means, prints the suffix page on a sheet, and outputs the printed sheet.