JPH05303574A - Document preparing device and printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print out only a corrected or altered page of a source document by single easy operation by an operator. CONSTITUTION:A control part 5 after altering part of the document, stored in a document data storage buffer 6, in an editing buffer 7 according to operator's indications from a keyboard 1, puts the page information on the altered document part in an alteration table 4. Then a page information copying device 3 reads the altered document part out of the document data storage buffer 6 in page units according to the page information in the alteration table 4 and stores it in an altered document data storage buffer 8 through the editing buffer 7. Then when a printing indication for the altered document part is inputted on the keyboard 1, the control part 5 reads the altered document part out of the altered document data storage buffer 8 and sends it to a printer 10 through a printing controller 9, so that only the altered document part is all printed out.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a printing method for printing and outputting only a document part of an existing document that has been modified or changed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a document created by a document creation device or a part of a document called from an external storage device is modified or changed, it is sometimes desired to print only the modified or changed part in page units and output it. Occurs. At this time, the operator designates the page to be printed on the document creating apparatus and repeats the page printing to print only the corrected or changed page on the paper and output it. However, in such a conventional method, when one document has 100 pages and the modified or changed pages are P1, P15, and P100, the page printing operation is repeated three times to print out each page. However, there is a drawback that the operation efficiency is very poor because it must be done. In particular, if the original document has a very large number of pages and the modified or changed pages are discontinuously present in plural pages, the conventional page printing method as described above is used to repeat all corrections or It has a drawback that it takes a lot of time and effort to output the changed page.

[0003]

In the conventional document creating apparatus, when a user wants to print and output only the modified or changed page after modifying or altering a part of the original document, the operator must perform the modification or the modification. The page printing operation for the changed page has to be repeated, and the operability of the apparatus is very poor.

In view of the above, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and a document preparation apparatus capable of printing and outputting only pages in which corrections or changes have been made to an original document by a simple one-time operation by an operator. The purpose is to provide a printing method.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in a document creating apparatus, an extracting means for extracting page information of a modified or changed portion in a document, and a correction in the document according to the page information of the extracting means. Alternatively, it has a configuration including a print control unit that sends only the document portion of the changed page to the printer device, prints it on paper, and outputs it.

[0006]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the extracting means extracts the page information of the document portion of the document which has been modified or changed. The print control means sends only the document portion of the page in the document, which has been corrected or changed according to the page information of the extraction means, to the printer device to print it on paper and output it.

[0007]

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 keyboard on which key information such as document reading information and various function information is input by an operator by an operator, 2 is an input control unit that interprets key information input from the keyboard 1 and inputs the key information to a control unit 5, and 3 controls A document in the document data storage buffer 6 is read based on an instruction from the unit 5, and is written in the changed document data storage buffer 8 via the edit buffer 7. The page information copying apparatus 4 is a document in the document data storage buffer 6. Among them, a change table 5 in which information indicating a changed or modified page is stored and a document is created / created based on key input information from the input control unit 2.
A control unit that performs various controls when modifying or outputting, 6 is a document data storage buffer that stores all information that constitutes one document, 7 is an edit buffer that stores document data being edited, Reference numeral 8 denotes a changed document data storage buffer in which changed or corrected document data is stored, 9 denotes print data output to the printer 10, and the printer 1
0 is a print control device for starting / stopping, etc., 10 is a printer that prints an input document on a page-by-page basis and outputs it, 1
Reference numeral 1 is a display control unit for controlling the CRT 12 to display a document or the like, and 12 is a CRT for displaying the document or the like on a screen.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in each unit of the document creating apparatus shown in FIG. Reference numeral 21 is an example of information indicating the page of the modified or changed document portion written in the change table 4 shown in FIG. The numerical value on the left side indicates the page of the document, and when "1" is set in the column corresponding to this numerical value, it indicates that the document on the corresponding page is changed or modified. Reference numeral 22 is an example showing the data of one entire document stored in the document data storage buffer 6 shown in FIG. 1, which is composed of a document header and page information. Reference numeral 23 shows a detailed example of the document header, and reference numeral 24 shows a detailed example of the page information. Reference numeral 25 is an example of the document data of the modified or modified portion written in the modified document data storage buffer 8 shown in FIG. 1, and comprises a document header and modified or modified page information. Reference numeral 7 denotes an edit buffer used when correcting or changing any part of the document data 22, and is the same as that shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First, depending on whether the document is created by the operator's document creation operation from the keyboard 1 or is called from an external storage device (not shown), the document to be modified or changed (see FIG. 2).
Corresponding to the document data 22) of the document data storage buffer 6
It is assumed to be stored in. Further, it is assumed that an arbitrary part of the document stored in the document data storage buffer 6 is displayed on the screen of the CRT 12 by the control unit 5.
Here, when a part of the document stored in the document data storage buffer 6 is desired to be modified or modified, the operator uses the keyboard 1 to modify or modify the document while looking at the screen of the CRT 12. At that time, the control unit 5
Reads out the document part to be corrected or changed from the document data storage buffer 6 according to the operator's instruction, writes it in the edit buffer 7, corrects or changes this document part, and then writes the corrected or changed document part. Write to the document data storage buffer 6. At this time, the control unit 5 controls the change table 4 corresponding to the page of the document portion that has been corrected or changed.
Write "1" in the area. At this point, the data as indicated by 21 in FIG. 2 is written in the change table 4.

Further, the control unit 5 reads the document header of the document which has been modified or changed from the document data storage buffer 6 into the edit buffer 7 in step 301 of FIG. 3 and handles the correction or modification of the document. Then, the document header in the edit buffer 7 is edited. Next, the control unit 5 proceeds to step 302 in FIG. 3 to write the document header edited in the edit buffer 7 as described above into the changed document data storage buffer 8 and activate the page information copying apparatus 3. The page information copying apparatus 3 refers to the change table 4, reads out the document portion of the changed or modified document from the document data storage buffer 6 into the edit buffer 7 page by page,
Further, the read changed or corrected document portion is processed in step 3
At 04, it is stored in the changed document data storage buffer 8. After that, when the operator inputs a print instruction for only the changed or corrected document portion from the keyboard 1, the control unit 5 proceeds to step 305 and reads the changed or corrected document portion stored in the changed document data storage buffer 8 page by page. This is passed to the print control device 9. The print control device 9 sends the delivered document in page units to the printer 10 and activates the printer 10 to print the changed or corrected document in page units on paper and output it. Therefore, there is one document of 100 pages, and after correcting the pages P1, P15, and P100 in this document, when the operator issues a print instruction for only the corrected document portion from the keyboard 1, the printer 10 outputs the above-mentioned information. Three
Only the page-corrected document portion is printed on paper and output.

According to the present embodiment, when the existing document portion is changed or modified, the page information in which the changed or modified in the document is added is written in the change table 4 and the page information is referred to. Only the changed or modified document portion is extracted and stored in the changed document data storage buffer 8. Therefore, when a command to print only the modified or modified document portion is input from the keyboard 1, only the modified or modified document portion written in the modified document data storage buffer 8 is given to the print control device 9. Thus, only the changed or modified document portion can be printed page by page from the printer 10 and output. Therefore, when printing only the modified or modified document portion in one document, the operator only needs to input a printing instruction for the modified or modified document portion from the keyboard 1 to the device once, and the device thereafter prints the modified or modified document part. Since all pages from 10 are printed on a sheet and output, the operability of the apparatus at the time of printing only the corrected or changed document portion can be significantly improved.

When the control unit 5 causes the printer 10 to output only the corrected or changed document portion via the print control unit 9 as shown in the above embodiment, the output document is sequentially output from the first page. Pagination can be performed, or page information in the change table 4 can be used to print out the original document with pagination.

[0013]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus and the printing method of the present invention, only the page in which the original document is modified or changed is printed and output by a simple one-time operation by the operator. Can be made

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of data stored in each unit of the document creation device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation relating to printing a changed or modified document portion of the apparatus of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Keyboard 2 ... Input control part 3 ... Page information copy device 4 ... Change table 5 ... Control part 6 ... Document data storage buffer 7 ... Editing buffer 8 ... Change document data storage buffer 9 ... Print control device 10 ... Printer 11 ... Display Control unit 12 ... CRT

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus, and an extracting means for extracting page information of a modified or changed portion in one document,
A document creation apparatus comprising: print control means for sending only a document portion of a page in the document, which has been modified or changed according to the page information of the extraction means, to a printer device for printing and printing on a paper sheet. .. 2. A document creation device extracts page information of a document portion of a document, which has been modified or changed, and then corrects or changes the page information of the document based on the extracted page information. A printing method in which only the page portion is sent to a printer to print and output.