JPH0535727A - Automatic line space adjustment system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To evade such a case where the characters are out close to each other or overlap each other by printing the characters on plural pages if the printing line space is induced less than the prescribed limit to the character size when the even layout is instructed in a page. CONSTITUTION:An input part 1 is provided to input the characters together with a display part 2 which displays the inputted character, a document file control part 3 which controls the input/output of a document file 7, a print part 4, an editing control part 5 which controls the parts 1-4, and a line space adjusting part 6 which works with an instruction of the part 5. The part 6 includes a line space calculating means 8 which calculates the printing line space based on the sum total of line spaces of a document obtained in a designated line range and the size of the print area in a single page of a form, a comparison means 9 which compares the printing line space with the set character size of the file 7, and a recomputing means 10 which increases the number of form pages and repeats the calculation until the printing line space exceeds its limit value if this line space is smaller than the prescribed limit value to the set character size.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic line spacing adjusting method, and more particularly to an automatic line spacing adjusting method for printing a document file created by a document creating apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a document file created by a document creation device is printed, it is usually printed with a document image (paper size, character size, character spacing, line spacing) set at the time of document creation. However, in order to print a document that slightly exceeds one page within one page, or to print a document that is less than one page to the full page, the document in the specified line range in the document file is printed at the time of printing. There is a type that employs an automatic line spacing adjustment method (also referred to as even page allocation) in which printing is performed by re-arranging the entire print area of one page. According to this method, it is possible to print a document, which is normally created at a set line interval and exceeds one page, on one page of paper at an even line interval.

[0003]

The above-described conventional automatic line spacing adjustment method has the function of rearranging the documents in the specified line range within one page and printing them. Therefore, when the original document file is created, If the set line spacing is set narrow and the specified line range for page even allocation is enlarged, the line spacing when printed becomes too narrow, making it difficult to see, and in extreme cases, characters may overlap. ..

An object of the present invention is to automatically print by increasing the number of printed pages and rearranging them into a plurality of pages when the line spacing at the time of printing becomes smaller than a predetermined standard so that the printed document is not easily read. It is to provide a line spacing adjustment method.

[0005]

According to the automatic line spacing adjustment method of the present invention, a document within a designated line range in a document file created by a document creating device is rearranged over the entire print area of a sheet at the time of printing. In the automatic line-spacing adjustment method for printing by printing, the line-spacing corresponding to the set line-spacing at the time of creating the document file is calculated from the sum of the line-spacings of the documents within the specified line range and the size of the print area for one page of the paper. Line spacing calculation means for calculating a standard printing line spacing, and comparison means for comparing the printing line spacing with a set character size of the document file,
When the line spacing during printing is less than or equal to a predetermined limit value compared to the set character size, 1 is added to the number of pages of the sheet and the recalculation of the line spacing during printing is repeated until it exceeds the limit value. And means.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

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

As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic line-spacing adjusting method of the present embodiment has an input unit 1 for inputting characters for creating a document, a display unit 2 for displaying the input characters, and a document. Document file control unit 3 for controlling input / output of file 7
And a print section 4 for printing a document on paper, an edit control section 5 for controlling these, and a line spacing adjustment section 6 which operates according to instructions from the edit control section 5. The line-spacing adjusting unit 6 calculates a standard printing line-spacing 8 based on the sum of the line-spacings within the designated line range and the size of the printing area of one page of paper.
And a comparing means 9 for comparing the calculated line spacing at printing with the set character size of the document file, and adding 1 to the number of pages of the paper when the line spacing at printing is less than a predetermined limit value compared to the set character size. Then, the recalculation means 10 repeats the recalculation of the line spacing during printing until the limit value is exceeded.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

First, when the user specifies a line range and issues an instruction for evenly allocating within a page, the line space calculating means 8 of the line space adjusting section 6 causes the length of the print area of one page of paper to be printed in the vertical direction. (L) is read from the document file 7. Next, in order to obtain the vertical length of the document in the specified line range, the total sum (W) of all line intervals in the specified range is read from the document file 7. From these, the printing line spacing (D) corresponding to the set line spacing specified when the document file 7 was created is calculated by the following formula.

D = (L / W) × Setting Line Interval of Document File (1) Next, the comparing unit 9 reads the set character size (M) set at the time of creating the document from the document file 7, and the line space calculating unit 8 Compare with D obtained in. As a result, if the predetermined limit value is a and D> aM, D is notified to the edit control unit 6. If the result of the comparison is D ≦ aM, the recalculation means 10 is activated to add 1 to the number of pages of the paper to make 2 pages, and the reordering is performed in the printing area for 2 pages. The distance D2 is recalculated by the equation (2).

D2 = (2L / W) × set line interval of document file (2) As a result, if D2> aM, the value is notified to the edit control unit 6 to execute printing, but if D2 ≦ aM, If so, the same processing is repeated until Dn> aM (n is an integer of 2 or more).

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view schematically showing an example of a printing situation according to the present invention. (A) shows a case where the set line spacing C1 of the document file is narrow and the specified line range is divided into two pages for printing, and (b) shows a set line spacing C2 of the document file.
Shows a wide range and prints within one page.

Here, the limit value a may be a = 1 so that characters do not overlap each other, but in consideration of legibility, a =
It may be set to about 1.2. At this time, if the set line spacing of the document file is 1.5 times the character size, 1.2
If the line range is within 5 pages, it will be printed on 1 page, but if the line range is more than that, it will be printed on 2 pages.

Note that when a document file is created, if the line spacing is changed to a specific line or line range in the middle of the document, the same change is proportional to the line spacing during printing. Therefore, care must be taken when such a document range is included in the designated line range of the page justification.

[0016]

As described above, according to the automatic line spacing adjustment method of the present invention, when the even spacing within a page is instructed and the line spacing during printing becomes smaller than the predetermined limit for the character size, a plurality of pages are printed. Since it is divided into two parts and printed, there is the effect that the characters will not be difficult to see because they are connected or overlapped.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing an example of a printing situation according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 input section 2 display section 3 document file control section 4 printing section 5 editing control section 6 line spacing adjustment section 7 document file 8 line spacing calculation means 9 comparison means 10 recalculation means

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. An automatic line-spacing adjustment method for printing a document within a specified line range in a document file created by a document creation device by rearranging it in the entire print area of a sheet when printing. In, the standard line spacing at printing corresponding to the line spacing set at the time of creating the document file is calculated from the sum of the line spacing of the documents within the specified line range and the size of the printing area for one page of the paper. Line spacing calculation means, comparing means for comparing the printing line spacing with the set character size of the document file, and the paper when the printing line spacing is less than or equal to a predetermined limit value compared to the set character size 1 for the number of pages
And a recalculation unit that repeats the recalculation of the line spacing during printing until it exceeds the limit value.