JPH05314130A - Document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To recognize the number of pages at a glance by reading out the number of pages of a document file and a document name from a recorder, and displaying the number of pages and the document name by using an icon. CONSTITUTION:The number of pages of the document file recorded on the recorder is read out by a page number acquiring means 11, and display data can be generated by converting the number of pages to data of format being graphically displayed in the icon by a page number display data generating means 12. Also, the document name of the document file is read out by a document name acquiring means 14, and the display data can be generated by converting the document name to the data being displayed with the icon. Thence, an icon plotting means 13 displays the number of pages of the document file and the document name in form of icon by using the display data in which the number of pages is graphically displayed and the display data of the document name.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing system, and more particularly to a document processing system that manages document file information by converting it into icons on a bitmap display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document processing system, when displaying information of a document file, a document name or a document type is displayed in characters or a so-called icon using a specific figure or symbol. There is.

When a document file is displayed by an icon, the type of the document is expressed by the shape or design of the icon, and the document name is superimposed on the icon as shown in (7a) of FIG. 7 or (7b) of the same figure. ) Is displayed around the icon as shown.

On the other hand, in order to display the number of pages of a document, many are displayed in the form of a list as shown in FIG. 8 without using icons.

[0005]

However, when the number of pages of a document is displayed in the form of a list, the document name and the number of pages are displayed in a matrix, so it is intuitive that which document has which page. It was difficult to figure out if there was. Also,
When a screen showing the name and type of the document file is displayed by the icon and the number of pages of the document file is to be known, it is necessary to change the display screen to a screen of a list including the number of pages.

Further, a method of displaying the page number of the document in the vicinity of the icon is conceivable, but in this case, there is a problem that there is no area for displaying or the display becomes complicated even if there is an area.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and the number of pages of a document can be intuitively grasped by displaying the number of pages of a document using an icon, and the icon of the document file can be grasped. It is intended to provide a document processing system in which the display of is not complicated.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention is a document processing system for displaying information on a document file recorded in a recording device 16 on a display device 17, and a page number acquisition means 11 for reading the number of pages of a document file, and a read operation. The page number display data generating means 12 for generating the first display data for displaying the number of displayed pages as an icon, the document name acquisition means 14 for reading the document name of the document file, and the read document name as an icon. The document name display data generating means 15 for generating the second display data for displaying and the icon drawing means 13 for displaying the first and second display data in the form of an icon on the same screen.

A floppy disk, a hard disk or the like is used as the recording device 16 here, but it may be built in the document processing system or connected as an external device. A CPU is used to perform the functions of the page number acquisition unit 11, the page number display data generation unit 12, the icon drawing unit 13, the document name acquisition unit 14, and the document name display data generation unit 15.

[0010]

The recording device 16 is operated by the page number acquisition means 11.
The number of pages of the document file recorded in (1) is read, and the number-of-pages display data generating means 12 converts the number of pages into data in a format that can be graphically displayed in the icon to generate display data.

Further, the document name of the document file is read by the document name acquisition means 14, and the document name display data generation means 15 converts the document name into data of a format which can be displayed together with the icon to generate display data. To do.

Next, the icon drawing means 13 displays the page number and the document name of the document file in the form of an icon by using the display data for graphically displaying the page number and the display data for the document name.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the document processing system of the present invention. The keyboard 22 or the mouse 23 is for inputting an instruction to display the document information, and the disk 25 or the floppy disk 27 is for storing the content of the document file and the document information such as the document name, the type and the number of pages. Is.

The RAM 26 is a memory for temporarily storing the document name and the number of pages in order to display the document information, and the display 24 displays the document information.

The CPU 21 controls the entire document processing system in order to display the document information, and has a function to be performed by the present invention, that is, the acquisition of the number of pages and the document name from the recording device, Data is created to display the number of pages and the document name as icons, and the number of pages and the document name are displayed as icons on the display device.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment in which the number of pages is expressed by a document icon. Document icon 31 and icon 35
Both indicate the 23-page document icon. This is an example in which the number of pages is represented by painting the inside of the document icon according to the number of pages. The difference between the document icon 11 and the document icon 15 is that the document icon 31
Displays a scale (33, 34) indicating the number of pages inside the icon, whereas the document icon 35 does not display a scale.

In the document icon 31, the maximum number of pages of the document determined by the system is set to 70 pages, the height of the document icon is divided into 7, and 10 pages are represented by the height and the full width band of the icon (32). If there are 30 pages,
The three bands are stacked and displayed from the bottom. For fractional pages less than 10 pages, the horizontal width of the icon is divided into 10 equal parts and the fractional part is displayed. In addition, a solid line indicates that the maximum number of pages of a document is 70 pages.

A processing flow for displaying the number of pages of the document file and the document name as an icon will be described with reference to FIG.
When the display of the document information is instructed by the command from the keyboard 22 or the command from the mouse 23 (step 41), the page number acquisition unit 11 determines the number of pages of the document as the document file of the disk 25 or the floppy disk 27. Alternatively, from the document file management unit to the RAM 26
Above (step 42). From the obtained number of pages, the page number display data generating means 12 generates display data for displaying an icon representing the number of pages as shown in FIG. 3 (step 43).

On the other hand, the document name acquisition means 14 reads the document name from the document file or document file management unit (step 44). The display data is generated by the document name display data generation means 15 from the read document name (step 45). The display data of the number of pages and the document name are displayed on the display 24 by the icon drawing means 13 (step 46).

Next, a processing flow for expressing the number of pages in the icon as shown in FIG. 3 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the outline of the relevant document icon is drawn on the screen (step 51). Next, the number of pages of the relevant document is acquired from the document file (step S52). The obtained page number is decomposed into decimal digits (step 53).
The icon is filled from the bottom with the width of the icon by the number of tens digits (step 54). The horizontal width of the icon is filled from the left by a ratio according to the value of the unit digit (step 55). In this way, the document icon 35 of FIG.
An icon that represents the number of pages as a bar graph is displayed.

Furthermore, by arbitrarily defining the vertical and horizontal divisions within the icon by the system, it is possible to represent as many pages as possible. Further, in the present embodiment, the portion corresponding to the number of pages is painted, but conversely, the entire icon may be first painted over to make the portion corresponding to the number of pages white. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the portion corresponding to the number of pages is painted horizontally, but it may be painted vertically instead.

As another embodiment, as shown in FIG.
As shown in a), (6b), and (6c), the number of pages may be displayed by the thickness of the border of the icon. in this case,
The thickness of the border line is increased in units of 10 pages, and the fractional number of pages is cut off.

As described above, by expressing the page number of the document file by the color of the icon and the thickness of the border of the icon, the page number of the document can be grasped intuitively at a glance, and the document icon 31 If the area of the maximum number of pages that can be created is shown, the remaining number of pages can be known.

[0024]

In a document processing system for displaying information on a document file recorded in a recording device on a display device, the number of pages and the document name of the document file are read from the recording device and the number of pages and the document name are used by an icon. By displaying the document information on the screen where the document information is displayed as an icon, the number of pages of the document file can be grasped intuitively at a glance.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the number of pages by the icon of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the number of pages displayed by an icon.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a process for expressing the number of pages in an icon.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of another embodiment of the icon display expressing the number of pages of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a conventional document icon.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the number of pages of a conventional document file.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 CPU 22 Keyboard 23 Mouse 24 Display 25 Disk 26 RAM 27 Floppy Disk

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document processing system for displaying information on a document file recorded in a recording device on a display device, wherein a page number acquisition means for reading the number of pages of a document file and an icon for displaying the read number of pages. First for
A page number display data generating means for generating display data, a document name acquiring means for reading the document name of the document file, and a document name display for generating second display data for displaying the read document name with an icon. A document processing system comprising data generating means and icon drawing means for displaying the first and second display data in the form of icons on the same screen.