JPH05314121A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a printer capable of obtaining printed matters for a text consisting of a character and a character string equipped with a frame with balanced curvature of frame corner R and line width. CONSTITUTION:When global framing is set, the height of the text is calculated from set character size data, and a frame line with line width of three dots and radius of 18 dots is printed (S73, S74) so as to enclose the whole text when a result of calculation shows dots >= 100 (S72: YES). The frame line with line width of two dots and radius of 13 dots is printed (S76, S74) so as to enclose the whole text when the result shows dots between 26 and 100 (S72: NO, S75: YES). When the result shows dots < 26(S75: NO), the frame line of rectangular frame is printed(S77, S74) so as to enclose the whole text.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing device, and more particularly to a character created by a text (document) creation input means,
The present invention relates to a printing apparatus suitable for printing in a state in which a rectangular frame-shaped frame is provided so as to entirely or partially surround a text including a character string or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a text (document) made up of characters and character strings is created by a text creating and inputting means, and the created text is entirely or partially surrounded by the characters and character strings. 2. Description of the Related Art There is known a printing apparatus that is capable of printing on a surface of a printing medium (printing paper or the like) with a rectangular frame-shaped frame provided. Further, there is already known a printing apparatus capable of imparting R to the corners of the respective corners of a frame when printing text.

[0003]

However, even in a printing apparatus capable of printing with a corner R of such a frame, there is only one curvature of the corner R,
It was not possible to choose from several curvatures.

For this reason, such a printing apparatus is usually provided with half-width, full-width, double-width, etc. as the character size, and prints a character string over a plurality of lines such as two lines, three lines, .... In such a case, the frame size naturally varies from a small frame to a large frame. However, since only one curvature of the corner R of the frame can be conventionally selected, the frame of the operator can be selected. There was less room to choose a print design.

Therefore, a printed matter (printed matter) having a well-balanced text and frame according to the operator's preference
There was a problem in that it could not be obtained.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is, when an operator prints a text consisting of characters, character strings, or the like, or the entire text. Partially suitable corner R
An object of the present invention is to provide a printing apparatus capable of providing a frame having a curvature of.

Another object of the present invention is to provide the corner R
It is an object of the present invention to provide a printing device capable of changing the line thickness (line width) of the frame according to the curvature of the. Due to these, the present invention provides a well-balanced frame corner R.
It is intended to obtain a printed matter (printed matter) of a text such as a character or a character string having a frame of curvature and a line width.

[0008]

In order to achieve this object, the printing apparatus of the present invention comprises, as described in claim 1, a text creating means for creating a text (document) composed of characters and character strings. , A character size setting means for setting the character size of the text, a framing setting means for instructing to add a frame to all or part of the text created by the text creating means, and based on an instruction by the framing setting means The framing range acquisition means for specifying the range to which the frame is set by the character size setting means, and the curvature of the corner R of the frame according to the character size of the text based on the instruction from the framing range acquisition means. Corner R
Printing for printing the text on the surface of the printing medium with the curvature selecting means and the frame having the curvature of the corner R selected by the curvature selecting means added to the text in the range specified by the framing range acquiring means. And means.

Further, in the printer according to the present invention, the line width (line width) of the corner R is further provided in the invention described in the above claims.
Has a line width selecting means for selecting the character size setting means according to the character size.

Further, in the printing apparatus of the present invention, in the invention described in claim 1, when any one of the frame height and width size is less than a certain dot value, the corner R curvature selecting means selects the corner R. Has a corner R releasing means for canceling and releasing the application.

[0011]

According to the printer of the present invention having the above-mentioned structure, in the first aspect of the invention, first, a text (document) consisting of characters, character strings, etc. is created by the text creating means, and the character size is the character. The size is set by the size setting means, but it is decided to add a frame to the created text in whole or in part according to an instruction from the framing setting means. Then, a command from the framing range acquisition means specifies to which range of the text the frame should be given, and further a command from the corner R curvature selection means determines the curvature of each corner R of the frame by the character size setting means. It is selected according to the set font size. The result is printed on the print medium surface by the printing means.

According to the second aspect of the invention, when there is a command from the line width selecting means, the line thickness (line width) of the corner R of the frame is selected according to the character size set by the character size setting means. It Usually, the larger the font size, the larger this frame is, but
It can be considered that the line width of the corner R becomes large. As a result, the printed matter (printed matter) printed by the printing means is provided with the frame having the corner R having the selected line width in the text.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when a command is given from the corner R releasing means, the imparting of R to the corner of the frame is released, and as a result, the frame having a straight corner line is printed on the print medium surface. It is printed. When the height and width size (length in the character string direction) of the frame are small and R is added to the corner of the frame, this prevents the adjacent corner lines from intersecting.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings based on an embodiment in which the present invention is embodied in a tape printer. FIG. 1 is a plan view of the tape printing apparatus shown with the storage cover of the tape cassette storage section opened. In FIG.
In the tape printer 1, a character input key 2 for inputting characters such as characters over a plurality of lines, a print key 3, a global framing setting key 4a, a local framing setting key 4b, a corner selection key 4c, and a leftward cursor movement. A keyboard 6 provided with various keys such as a key 4d, a right cursor movement key 4e, a character size setting key 4f, a return key 5 for issuing a line feed command and for executing various processes, characters input from the keyboard 6 and the like. A liquid crystal display 7 for displaying and a cassette housing 8 for housing a tape cassette 13 described later are provided.

Further, the tape cassette 13 is rotatably driven by a pulse motor (not shown), and the tape cassette 13
The ribbon winding shaft 9 for winding the thermal ink ribbon 17 by rotating the ribbon winding spool 21 is installed upright.
Further, a tape feed roller shaft 10 for rotating a tape feed roller 27, which will be described later, is rotatably driven by a tape feed motor 40, which will be described later, via an appropriate transmission mechanism at an obliquely forward position (on the side of the keyboard 6). It is set up.

Further, a thermal head 11 for printing on a film tape 15, which will be described later, is fixedly installed in front of the cassette housing portion 8 via a thermal ink ribbon 17. Further, the cassette housing portion 8 is opened and closed by a housing cover 12 which is rotatably supported on the rear side of the tape printer 1, and the tape cassette 13 is exchanged in an open state.

Next, the structure of the tape cassette 13 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the state where the tape cassette 13 is stored in the cassette storage portion 8 (the tape cassette 13 is shown excluding the upper case).

In FIG. 2, a tape spool 16 on which a transparent film tape 15 is wound in a lower case 14,
A ribbon spool 18 around which the thermal ink ribbon 17 is wound, and an adhesive tape spool 20 around which a double-sided adhesive tape 19 with release paper is wound with the release paper side facing outward are provided. These spools 16, 18, 20 is rotatably supported by cooperation with a support portion provided on the lower surface of the upper case (not shown).

A ribbon take-up spool 21 is also rotatably supported between the spools 16, 18 and 20, and the ribbon take-up spool 21 is meshed with the above-mentioned ribbon take-up shaft 9 to carry out ribbon take-up. By driving the take-up shaft 9, the thermal ink ribbon 17 used for printing is taken up.

Further, the thermal head 11 is arranged in a recess 22 provided in the lower case 14, and a platen roller 24 rotatably supported by a roller holder 23 is opposed to the thermal head 11 at a position where it can be pressed. It is arranged. The thermal head 11 includes a large number of heating elements (the thermal head 1 of the tape printer 1 according to the present embodiment).
1 has 128 heating elements), and prints characters and the like on the film tape 15 via the thermal ink ribbon 17.

Further, the tape ejecting section 25 of the lower case 14
The tape pressure roller 26 is provided near (on the lower left side in FIGS. 1 and 2).
Is rotatably supported, and a tape feed roller 27, which is rotatably supported by the roller holder 23, is arranged opposite to the tape pressure contact roller 26 at a position where it can be pressure contacted.

In the cassette housing portion 8, a roller holder 23 is rotatably supported by a support shaft 28 in front of the tape cassette 13 (lower side in FIGS. 1 and 2), and the roller holder 23 is not shown. It is possible to switch between the print position and the release position by a manual switching mechanism (FIGS. 1 and 2 both show a state in which the print position is switched to the print position).

In the roller holder 23, the platen roller 24 and the tape feed roller 27 described above can be rotated, respectively, and when the roller holder 23 is switched to the printing position, the thermal head 11 and the pressure contact roller 26.
It is arranged to be pressed against. The tape feed roller 27 is rotationally driven by the tape feed roller shaft 10 described above, and at the same time, the pressure contact roller 26 is rotationally driven in conjunction with the tape feed roller 27 by a gear mechanism (not shown). In addition, the pressure contact roller 26 and the tape feed roller 27
Cooperate with each other to press the adhesive surface of the double-sided adhesive tape 19 to the film tape 15 on which characters and the like are printed by the thermal head 11 via the thermal ink ribbon 17 to finally form the tape T. At the same time, the tape T is sent in the direction of arrow J.

Next, the control system of the tape printer 1 thus constructed will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows a control block diagram of the tape printer 1, and the controller 3
It is configured with 0 as the nucleus. The controller 30 is the CPU 3
1, ROM 32, CGROM 33, and RAM 34, which are connected to each other via a bus 35 and also to an input / output interface 36.

Here, the ROM 32 is for recording various programs, and includes a tape print control program, a print processing control program, a global framing setting program, a local framing setting program, a corner selection program, a framing creation program, which will be described later. In addition, various programs necessary for controlling the tape printer 1 are stored. Then, the CPU 31 performs various calculations based on various programs stored in the ROM 32.

Further, the CGROM 33 stores dot pattern data corresponding to each character input from the keyboard 6, and the dot pattern data is CGR.
It is read from the OM 33 and transferred to the expansion buffer 43 described later. Further, the RAM 34 is the CPU 31
This is for temporarily storing various calculation results calculated by the above. The RAM 34 is provided with various memories as shown in FIG.

In FIG. 4, the text memory 41 sequentially stores code data corresponding to characters input from the keyboard 6 as document data.
Further, the text pointer 42 stores the document data input as described above by the pointer value P in the text memory 4
The storage area to be stored in 1 is designated.

Further, the expansion buffer 43 expands and stores the dot pattern data read from the CGROM 33 corresponding to the character code data stored in the text memory 41.

The image buffer 44 is an expansion buffer 43.
When the global framing or the local framing is set and the dot pattern data stored in the image buffer 44 is stored, the dot pattern data of the global framing or the local framing is stored. The printing is performed according to the dot pattern data stored in.

The character size memory 45 stores the character size determined by the operation of the left and right cursor movement keys 4d and 4e and the return key 5 which are operated immediately after the operation of the character size setting key 4f.

The flag memory 46 stores flag data of a global framing flag, a local framing flag, and a corner R flag, which will be described later.

Now, returning to FIG. 3 and continuing the description of the control block diagram, the keyboard 6 controls the input / output interface 36, and the liquid crystal display 7 and the display controller 37 control the input / output interface 36, respectively. When a character is input from the keyboard 6 which is connected to the device 30, the character data described above is sequentially stored in the text memory 41, and the character data is sequentially stored in the text memory 41 via the keyboard 6 based on the dot pattern generation control program and the display control program. A dot pattern corresponding to the input character is displayed on the liquid crystal display 7.

The thermal head 11 has a drive circuit 38.
Is driven via the drive circuit 39 to print dot data, and in synchronization with this, the tape feed motor 40 controls the feed of the tape T via the drive circuit 39.

Next, various control programs in the printer of the present invention will be described. First, FIG. 5 shows an entire control program from document creation to printing execution in this printer. When various key input operations are performed from the initial processing state, it is determined whether or not the key input operations are appropriate (step 1 (in the figure, simply displayed as "S1". The same applies hereinafter)) and key input is performed. If it is determined that the operation has been performed (S1: YES), it is next determined whether or not the edit input key (character input key) 2 has been operated (step 2). If it is determined that the edit input key 2 has been operated (S2: YES), the edit input process is performed (step 3), and the next key input operation is awaited. Character data corresponding to a character or the like input by repeating the key input operation to the edit input processing is sequentially stored in the text memory 41, whereby the text (document) creation processing is performed. This text is displayed on the liquid crystal display 7.

Edit input key 2 in step 2 described above
If it is determined that the edit input key 2 has not been operated (S2: NO), it is determined whether the print key 3 has been operated next (step 4). Then, the print key 3 is operated (S4: YE
If it is determined to be S), the printing process is executed (step 5). The execution program for this printing process will be described in detail later.

If it is determined that the print key 3 has not been operated (S4: NO) in the determination as to whether or not the print key 3 has been operated in step 4, the global framing setting key 4a is operated next. It is judged (step 6). If it is determined that the global framing setting key 4a has been operated (S6: YES), the entire text including the characters or character strings created by the above-described edit input process (step 3) is set to 1
A global framing setting process surrounded by one frame line is executed (step 7). The execution program for this global framing setting process will also be described in detail later.

If it is determined that the global framing setting key 4a has not been operated (S6: NO) in the determination as to whether or not the global framing setting key 4a has been operated in step 6, the local framing setting key 4b is next selected. It is determined whether or not it has been operated (step 8). If it is determined that the local framing setting key 4b has been operated (S8: YES), the local framing setting process for the character or character string created by the above-described edit input process (step 3) is executed ( Step 9). The execution program of this local framing setting process will also be described in detail later.

If it is determined in step 8 whether or not the local framing setting key 4b has been operated (S8: NO), then the corner selection key 4c is operated. It is determined whether or not it has been done (Step 1
0). Then, the corner selection key 4c is operated (S1
If it is determined to be 0: YES, the corner selection process is executed (step 11). The execution program for this corner selection process will also be described in detail later.

If it is determined in step 10 that the corner selection key 4c has not been operated (S10: NO), then it is determined whether the character size setting key 4f has been operated (step 12). .. If it is determined that the character size setting key 4f has been operated (S12: YES), the character size setting process is executed (S1).
3). When the character size setting process is executed, the number of points indicating the character size, for example, "10N" is displayed on the liquid crystal display 7, and when the right cursor movement key 4e is operated, the number of points is "10M" → " 10W "
→ "11N" → "11M" ... It becomes larger in sequence, and by operating the return key 5 when the desired point number is displayed, the character size code indicating the desired point number is displayed in the character size memory. 45. If it is determined in S12 that the character size setting key 4f is not operated (S12: NO), other processing is performed (step 14). Incidentally, the above S3, S
When the processes of S5, S7, S9, S11, S13, and S14 are completed, the key input waiting state is resumed.

Next, FIG. 6 shows an execution program of the global framing setting process (step 7) in the flow chart shown in FIG. First, as described above, when the global framing setting key 4a is operated, the global framing setting screen is displayed on the liquid crystal display 7 (step 20). FIG. 7 shows the contents of the global framing setting screen displayed on the liquid crystal display 7.

Next, according to the display of this global framing setting screen, the numeric key "0" or "1" is input and operated. When the key input operation is performed by returning to the flowchart of FIG. Whether it is a valid key, that is, the key of the number "0" or "1" (S
21: YES), it is next determined whether the effective key is the number "0" key or the number "1" key (step 22). When an invalid key other than the number “0” or “1” key is operated, the input of the invalid key is ignored and the key input waiting state is entered.

If it is determined that the effective key is the number "1" key (S22: YES), the global framing is set so that it is also displayed on the global framing setting screen of FIG. In the program of FIG. 6, the global framing flag is set (step 23).

On the other hand, if it is determined that the effective key in step 22 is the number "0" key or the number "1" key, it is the number "0" key (S22: NO). Since the global framing of FIG. 7 is not set, the global framing flag is not set (reset) in the program of FIG.
(Step 24).

The execution program of the global framing setting process (step 7 in FIG. 5) is completed by the above program flow.

Next, FIG. 8 shows an execution program of the local framing setting process (step 9) in the flow chart shown in FIG. First, as described above, when the local framing setting key 4b is operated, the character at the cursor position on the display screen on the liquid crystal display 7 is highlighted as shown in FIG. 9A (step 30).

In this state, the left cursor movement key 4
d or the right direction cursor movement key 4e or the return key 5 is operated. When the key input operation is performed, whether the input key is a valid key, that is, the left or right direction cursor movement key 4d or 4e, or the return key First, it is judged whether or not it is the key 5 (step 31), and if it is judged that it is the valid key, that is, the left / right direction cursor movement key 4d or 4e or the return key 5 (S31: YES), then the valid key is moved to the left / right direction cursor. Key 4
It is judged whether it is d or 4e (step 3).
2). When an invalid key other than the return key 5 and the left and right cursor movement keys 4d and 4e is operated, the invalid key input is ignored and the key input waiting state is entered.

If it is determined that the valid key is the left / right cursor movement key 4d or 4e (S32: YES), the cursor is then operated by the operation of the cursor movement key to the left or right direction. It is determined whether or not it is possible to move to (step 33).

In the step 33, the leftward or rightward instructed cursor is judged in the judgment as to whether the cursor can be moved leftward or rightward by operating the leftward / rightward cursor movement key 4d or 4e. If it is determined that the cursor can be moved (S33: YES), the cursor moves to the indicated left or right direction while operating the cursor movement key, and the above-mentioned cursor start position is highlighted. All the characters from the selected character to the character at the cursor position of the moving destination are highlighted as shown in FIG. 9B (step 34).

In the above-mentioned step 33, it is judged that the cursor cannot be moved (S33: NO) in the judgment as to whether the cursor can be moved leftward or rightward by operating the left and right cursor movement keys 4d or 4e. If so, the first cursor position is at the position of the first character or the last character of the display screen on the liquid crystal display 7, and at that time, an alarm sounds (step 35) to notify the operator to that effect. It

At that time, the operator can specify the range of the character string to be highlighted by moving the cursor in the opposite direction by repeating the operation from the beginning.

If it is determined in step 32 whether the left / right cursor movement key 4d or 4e has been operated, it is determined that the return key 5 has been operated if the left / right cursor movement key 4d or 4e is not operated. Therefore, framing range marks are inserted and displayed at the front and rear ends of the reverse character group on the display screen on the liquid crystal display 7 (step 36), and the reverse display of the reverse character string is canceled (step 37). FIG. 9C shows that state.

The state of the display screen on the liquid crystal display 7 in the local framing setting processing operation shown in FIGS. 9A to 9C will be described in more detail. FIG. 9A shows step 30 in FIG. The character "C" in which the cursor of the text composed of the character group of each character of "ABCDEF" is located is highlighted.

FIG. 9B shows the processing state of step 34 in FIG. 8 when the cursor is moved from the position of the character "C" to the position of the character "E" by the operation of the right cursor movement key 4e. The state where "CDE" in the character group of the text is highlighted is shown. Then, FIG. 9C shows a state in which the processing of steps 36 and 37 of FIG. 8 is performed, and when the return key 5 is operated in the state of FIG. 9B, before and after the reverse character group “CDE”. Shows a state in which a framing range mark designating a framing processing range is inserted and the reverse display of the reverse character group "CDE" is canceled.

Next, FIG. 10 shows an execution program of the corner selection process (step 11) in the flow chart shown in FIG. First, as described above, when the corner selection key 4c is operated, the corner selection screen is displayed on the liquid crystal display 7 (step 40). FIG. 11 shows the contents of the corner selection screen displayed on the liquid crystal display 7.

Next, in accordance with the display of this corner selection screen, the number key "0" or "1" is input and operated.
Returning to the flow chart of FIG. 10, when the key input operation is performed, it is first judged whether or not the input key is a valid key, that is, the number "0" or "1" key (step 41). If it is determined that the key is the number "0" or "1" key (S41: YES), then whether the effective key is the number "0" key or the "1" key, that is, each framing It is judged whether or not the corner is rounded (step 42). When an invalid key other than the number “0” or “1” key is operated, the input of the invalid key is ignored and the key input waiting state is entered.

If it is determined that the effective key is the number "1" key (S42: YES), R is set at the framing corner so that it is also displayed on the corner selection screen of FIG. In the program of FIG. 10, the flag of the framing corner R is set (step 43).

On the other hand, if it is determined that the effective key in step 42 is the number "0" key or the number "1" key, it is the number "0" key (S42: NO). As displayed on the corner selection screen of FIG. 11, the framing corner R is not set, and therefore the framing corner R flag is not set (reset) in the program of FIG. 10 (step 44).

The execution program of the framing corner selection process (step 11 in FIG. 5) is completed by the above program flow. Next, FIG. 12 shows an execution program of the printing process (step 5) in the flow chart shown in FIG.

First, as described above, when the print key 3 is operated, the address value indicating the beginning of the text memory 41 is set in the pointer value P of the text pointer 42 (S).
49). Then, it is determined whether or not there is text in the text memory 41 (step 50), and if it is determined that there is text in the text memory 41, the first character from the text is read (step 51).

Next, in step 51, it is judged whether or not the one read out is a character (this also judges whether or not it is a framing range mark) (step 52). (S52: YES), the dot pattern data corresponding to the character is read from the CGROM 33 and stored in the expansion buffer 43, and the dot pattern data stored in the expansion buffer 43 is the character size. It is enlarged or reduced according to the character size data stored in the memory 45 and developed in the image buffer 43 (step 53).

Then, after incrementing the point value P of the text pointer 42 to move to the next position, whether or not there is text at the position indicated by the text pointer P, that is, to the image buffer 44 for all texts, It is judged whether the expansion is completed (step 54), and if it is judged that the expansion is not completed yet (S54: NO), the process returns to step 51 and the next 1 from the text.
Read a character.

In this way, the characters in the text are sequentially read out, but when it is judged in step 52 that the character is not a character (S52 :).
Since NO is a framing range mark read from the text, it is next determined whether or not the framing range mark means the start point (step 5).
5).

If it is determined in step 55 whether or not the framing range mark means the start point (S55: YES), the image buffer 4 indicating the start point of the framing range mark.
The positional information on 3 is stored in the RAM 34 (step 5).
6).

Next, it is judged whether or not the framing range mark means the end point (step 57), and if it is judged in this step 57 that the framing range mark means the end point (S57: YES), the framing is created next. The execution program of is working (step 58),
If it is determined in step 57 that the framing range mark does not mean the end point (S57: NO), the process proceeds to step 54 and it is determined whether or not the process is completed.

If it is determined in step 55 that the framing range mark does not mean the start point (S55: NO), the process proceeds to step 57 and the framing range mark is changed. It is determined whether it means the end point. In this case, it is judged in step 55 that the framing range mark does not mean the start point, that is, the framing range mark means the end point.
In step 57, it is determined to be YES, and the process proceeds to step 58, in which the execution program for creating the framing works. Next, description will be made regarding a case where it is determined that the processing has been completed (S54: YES) in the determination in step 54 described above. In this case, it is determined whether or not there is global framing (step 59), and there is global framing (step 59). If it is determined that S59: YES), the execution program for creating the framing described above operates (step 60). After the execution program for creating the framing is completed, the printing of the trailing edge indicated by the dot pattern data stored in the image buffer 44 is executed (step 61).

If it is determined in step 59 that there is no global framing (S59: NO), printing is executed in step 61. The execution program of the printing process (step 5 in FIG. 5) is completed by the above program flow.

Finally, FIG. 13 shows the framing creation process (step 5) in the flowchart shown in FIG.
8 and the execution program of step 60) are shown.

In the program shown in FIG. 13, it is first determined whether global framing is created (step 70), and if it is determined that global framing is created (S70: YES), then the image buffer is created. From 43, the global framing range of the entire text is acquired (step 71).

FIG. 14 schematically shows the acquisition of the framing range. When the text developed in the image buffer 43 has two columns of characters A to G as shown in the figure, the start point of the global framing is defined at the head position of the character group, and the global framing is located at the rear end position of the character group. The end point of is determined. As a result, the character groups A to G
A rectangular global frame is acquired so as to surround the whole of.

Returning to the program of FIG. 13, when the global framing range is acquired, the height of the character size of the text is the text stored in the text memory 41 and the character size stored in the character size memory 45. It is calculated from the data and it is judged whether the result is 100 dots or more (step 72), and the height is 10
If it is determined that it is 0 dots or more (S72: YES), the R at each corner of the global framing is the line width 3
Specify that the dots have a radius of 18 dots (step 7
3) The corner R framing of the selected line width and radius is created in the image buffer (step 7).
4).

In the above-mentioned step 72, it is determined that the height is 100 dots or more, the height is not 100 dots or more, that is, 100 dots or less (S72:
If NO), it means that the character size is small, but in this case, it is 26 dots or more for each of the height and width size of the frame surrounding the character or character string in the text next. It is judged whether or not it is 26 dots or more (S75: YE).
If it is determined to be S), R of each corner of the global framing is selected to have a line width of 2 dots and a radius of 13 dots (step 76), and the corner R framing of the selected line width and radius is performed as described above. The dot pattern data indicating is created in the image buffer 44 (step 74).

When it is determined that the height and the width of the global framing are 26 dots or more in step 75, it is not 26 dots or more, that is, 26 dots or less (S75: NO). Is the R of the framing corner
Would result in a frame with intersecting corner lines. Therefore, in this case, the corner framing is changed (returned) to the original right angle frame (step 77), and the dot pattern indicating the right angle frame is changed to the image buffer 44. It is created above (step 74).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 70 that the global framing is not the global framing (S70: NO), the local framing is created in this case, so the framing of the local framing is performed next. The range is acquired (step 78).

The acquisition of the local framing range is performed in the same manner as the case of acquiring the global framing range described above with reference to FIG.
That is, the starting point and the ending point of the local framing are defined at the front end and the rear end of the character group defined in the above-mentioned local framing setting program (FIG. 8), and a rectangular frame-like frame having the starting point and the ending point as diagonal lines is created. As a result, the local frame is transferred to the image buffer 43.
Will be obtained.

Then, similarly to S72, it is judged whether the character size of the text is 100 dots or more in height (step 79), and if it is judged that it is 100 dots or more in height (S79: YES). Next, it is judged from the character size data stored in the character size memory 45 whether the set character size is within the range of 10 points to 13 points (step 80), and the character size of 10 points to 13 points is determined. Range (S8
0: YES), the R of each corner of the local framing is selected to have a line width of 3 dots and a radius of 13 dots (step 80).
Dot pattern data indicating the corner R framing of the radius is created on the image buffer 44 (step 74).

On the other hand, in the judgment of whether the character size in the above-mentioned step 80 is in the range of 10 points to 13 points, it is not in the range of 10 points to 13 points, that is, 13 points or more (S80: N).
If it is judged to be O), the R of each corner of the local framing is selected to have a line width of 3 dots and a radius of 18 dots (step 82), and the dot pattern data indicating the local framing of the selected corner R is imaged. It is created in the buffer 44 (step 74).

In the above-described step 79, it is determined that the height is 100 dots or more, the height is not 100 dots or more, that is, 100 dots or less (S79:
Even if it is determined to be NO), it is next determined whether or not the character size is within the range of 10 points to 13 points as in S80 (step 83), and the character size is 10 points.
The range is from 13 points to 13 points (S83: YE
If it is determined to be S), R at each corner of the local framing is selected to have a line width of 2 dots and a radius of 13 dots (step 84), and a dot pattern indicating the corner R framing of the selected line width and radius is selected. Data is created in the image buffer 44 (step 74).

On the other hand, when it is judged whether the character size is in the range of 10 points to 13 points in step 84, it is not in the range of 10 points to 13 points, that is, it is 13 points or more (S84: N).
If it is judged to be O), then it is judged whether or not each of the height and width size of the frame surrounding the character or character string in the text is 26 dots or more (step 85), 26.
If it is determined that the number of dots is greater than or equal to the dots (S85: YES), the R of each corner of the local framing is specified to have a line width of 2 dots and a radius of 13 dots (step 86).
As described above, the dot pattern data indicating the corner R framing of the selected line width and radius is created on the image buffer 44 (step 74).

In the above-mentioned step 85, it is judged that the height and width size of the local framing are 26 dots or more, respectively, and it is not 26 dots or more.
That is, when it is determined that the number of dots is 26 dots or less (S85: NO), if the corner framing R is adopted as it is, a frame in which the corner lines intersect is formed as in the case of the global framing described above. The frame is changed (returned) to the rectangular frame (step 87), and dot pattern data indicating the rectangular frame is created in the image buffer 44 (step 74).

Returning to FIG. 14 and explaining in more detail, in this figure, the state in the image buffer 44 to which the global framing with corners and the local framing are finally given by the execution of the framing creation program shown in FIG. Is shown.

In both the global framing and the local framing, the corner R is the same as in step 7 above.
The corners are formed by rotating the R pattern selected in each of 6, 81, 82, 84, and 86 at each corner. Further, the line width of the linear portion of the frame has a size adapted to the line width of the selected corner R, and a frame with a desired corner R is created. Incidentally, the above-mentioned step 80 or step 8
"10N" as point display of character size in 3
Alternatively, although displayed as "13N", the character "N" means a half-width character and is not directly related to the present invention.

The above embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and it goes without saying that various modifications and improvements can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0083]

As is clear from the above description, according to the printing apparatus of the present invention, when the framing with the corner R is added to the whole or a part of the text consisting of characters and character strings, Since the curvature of the corner R and the thickness of the line can be changed according to the size and the size of the framing, it is possible to obtain a good-looking printed material in which the character group and the frame are well balanced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a tape printer showing a storage cover of a tape cassette storage unit opened.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a state where a tape cassette is stored in a cassette storage portion.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the tape printer.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing the contents of RAM.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an entire control program from document creation to printing according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an execution program of global framing setting processing according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of a global framing setting screen displayed on the liquid crystal display.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of an execution program of a local framing setting process according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a change state of a display screen on a liquid crystal display in a local framing setting processing operation.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of an execution program for corner selection processing.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the contents of a corner selection screen displayed on the liquid crystal display.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a print processing execution program according to the present invention.

13 is a flowchart of an execution program of a framing creation process in the execution process of the print process shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an acquisition state of a framing range in an image buffer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Tape printing device 2 Character input key 3 Printing key 4a Global framing setting key 4b Local framing setting key 4c Corner selection key 4d Left cursor movement key 4e Right cursor movement key 4f Character size setting key 5 Return key 7 Liquid crystal display 11 Thermal Head 15 Film tape 31 CPU 32 ROM 33 CGROM 34 RAM 41 Text memory 43 Expansion buffer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A text creating means for creating a text (document) composed of characters, character strings, etc., a character size setting means for setting a character size of the text, and an entire text created by the text creating means,
Alternatively, the framing setting means for instructing to partially add a frame, the framing range acquisition means for specifying the range to which the frame in the text is added based on the instruction by the framing setting means, and the instruction by the framing range acquisition means A corner R for selecting the curvature of the corner R of the frame based on the character size set by the character size setting means
Curvature selecting means and printing in which the frame having the curvature of the corner R selected by the corner R curvature selecting means is attached to the text within the range specified by the framing range acquiring means and the text is printed on the print medium surface. And a printing device. 2. The line width selecting unit according to claim 1, further comprising a line width selecting unit for selecting a line thickness (line width) of the corner R according to the character size set by the character size setting unit. Printing device. 3. The corner R releasing means for canceling and canceling the impartation of the corner R selected by the corner R curvature selecting means when either the height or the width size of the frame is equal to or less than a certain dot value. A printing device comprising: