JPH056372A - Document forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document forming device capable of displaying the whole document in a window and forming/editing the document while observing the whole document and having high operability. CONSTITUTION:The document forming device is provided with a CRT 6 to be a display means, a mouse 5 for specifying the coordinates and size of a window and a display control means having a window management information storing area 3-3 to be a specifying means, a document data storing area 3-1 to be a storing means, a conversion coefficient storing area 3-2, a display scale storing area 3-4, and a display position storing buffer 3-5. Consequently the format data of a stored document are converted based upon the size of the window and the whole document can be displayed in the window.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a word processor or desktop publishing system (hereinafter referred to as DTP) capable of creating a document by opening a window of a desired size at a desired position on a display screen such as a CRT or LCD. , Etc.) and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, office automation has advanced and various OA devices have been developed. As one of the OA devices, there is a document creation device such as a word processor or DTP. In these devices, a window can be opened on a display device such as a CRT or LCD, and a document can be created or edited in the window. In the conventional document creation device,
When a document of a specified paper size is created in a window opened on the display device, the document is always displayed in a constant size based on the size of the display surface. Therefore, depending on the size of the window, only a part of the document is displayed at one time, and in such a case, the entire document is viewed by scrolling the document in the window.

[0003]

However, it is very inconvenient for the operator to scroll the document while the document is being created in the conventional document creating apparatus, and it is desired to see the layout of the entire document. At times, there is a problem in operability because it is necessary to separately display a reduced screen of the entire document by using a document layout display function or the like.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve these conventional problems and to provide a document creating apparatus having excellent operability.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention converts the format data of a document based on the size of a specified window and displays the entire document in the window. Was established.

[0006]

According to the present invention, by the above means, the display size of a document can be converted according to the size of the window opened on the display device, and the entire document can be displayed in the window for editing.

[0007]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) for controlling the apparatus and processing data, and 2 is a program instruction. A read-only memory (hereinafter, referred to as ROM) for storing data such as 3 is a random access memory (hereinafter, referred to as RAM) for storing data and the like, 4 is a keyboard, 5 is a mouse, 6 is a CRT display device (hereinafter,
CRT) and 7 are display RAMs.

Reference numeral 3-1 is a document data storage area in the RAM 3, which stores document data relating to a document to be created / edited. As shown in FIG. 4, the document data includes character information that is a code string of characters and the like, paper size, in-paper editing area (upper left coordinate of the area, horizontal size, vertical size), character size, character pitch, line pitch. It is composed of format information in units of millimeters.

A conversion coefficient storage area 3-2 stores a conversion coefficient (hereinafter referred to as t) for converting the format information expressed in millimeter units into dot units for display on the CRT 6.

A window management information storage area 3-3 stores the position and size of the window designated by the mouse 5 in dot units as shown in FIG.

A display magnification storage area 3-4 stores a display magnification (hereinafter referred to as k) obtained by converting the conversion coefficient t for displaying the entire document in the window.

3-5 is a display position storage buffer for storing a display position for displaying a character in the window, 3-6
Is a character counter used when reading characters from the document data storage area 3-1.

In this embodiment, the display means is the CRT 6 and the display RAM 7, and the designation means is the keyboard 4, the mouse 5 and the window management information storage area 3-3.
The storage means is the document data storage area 3-1, and the display control means is the conversion coefficient storage area 3-2 and the display magnification storage area 3
-4, display position storage buffer 3-5, and these and CPU
1 and ROM2.

The operation of the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 and 3.

(1) When opening a window for creating / editing a document on the display surface In FIG. 2, the mouse 5 is used to perform the racking on the display surface of the CRT 6 to specify the position and size of the window to be opened. Then, the upper left coordinate of the window and the size of the window (hereinafter represented by X and Y) are stored in dot units in the window management information storage area 3-3 (step s22). The CPU 1 looks at the window position and size in the window management information storage area 3-1, opens the window on the CRT 6 (step s23), and then the window size and conversion coefficient stored in the window management information storage area 3-3. The conversion coefficients t stored in the storage area 3-2 are integrated to obtain a display paper size (hereinafter, represented by x, y) (step s24), (x
/ X) and (y / Y) are calculated, and the smaller one is written in the display magnification storage area 3-4 as the display magnification k (step s2).
5).

(2) Display of Document In FIG. 3, the CPU 1 causes the upper left coordinates of the in-paper edit area in the document data storage area 3-1 and the display magnification storage area 3-4.
The display magnification k in the above is integrated and written in the display position storage buffer 3-5 as the display start position of the character (step s3
1). Next, the character counter 3-6 is set to "1" (step s32), and the first character of the character code string in the document data storage area 3-1 is read (step s3).
3), at the position stored in the display position storage buffer 3-5 of the CRT 6 with the upper left coordinates of the window as a reference, the character size in the document data storage area 3-1 is multiplied by the display magnification k. It is displayed (step s34).

After displaying the characters, the CPU 1 calculates the X direction component of the character display position data in the display position storage buffer 3-5 by the value obtained by multiplying the character pitch in the document data storage area 3-1 by the display magnification k. It is updated (step s35), the value of the character counter 3-6 is incremented by 1 (step s39), and the next character is read from the document data storage area 3-1 (step s33).

After repeating reading and displaying of characters as described above, when the character string table for one line is completed (step s
37), the CPU 1 returns the X-direction component of the display position in the display position storage buffer 3-5 to the initial value set in step s31, and sets the Y-direction component to the line pitch in the document data storage area 3-1 at the display magnification k. Is updated by the value multiplied by and a line feed is performed (step s38), and reading and display of characters is continued.

The above processing is performed in the document data storage area 3-1.
The entire document can be displayed in the window by repeating the process until the character code string in is exhausted.

(3) When changing the size of the window In FIG. 2, when the mouse 5 is instructed to change the size of the existing window (step s26), the CPU 1 acquires the size of the changed window, The window management information storage area 3-3 is changed (step s27).
After that, the window after the change is displayed on the CRT 6 by the processing from step s23, and the entire document is displayed in the window by the processing shown in FIG.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the display size of the document is changed according to the size of the window, and the CRT is displayed.
Since the document can be created and edited by displaying the entire document on the screen, the operator can work on the entire display screen while looking over the entire document, and the operability of creating the document is improved.

Further, in the present embodiment, the display magnification is set so that the window becomes full in the direction of the larger size in consideration of both the horizontal size and the vertical size of the document. Irrespective of whether or not, you can get the maximum overall view in the open window.

In the present embodiment, the display size of the document is converted so as to display the entire document according to the size of the window, but the display magnification k is set to "1" or a desired value according to the operator's designation. If it can be set, the operator can freely select the editing by displaying the entire document and the editing by displaying a part of the document in an enlarged manner.

Further, in the present embodiment, the description has been given by limiting the document data to characters, but this is also applicable to the table data, image data, etc., and is not limited to characters. ..

[0026]

According to the present invention, display means, designation means for designating coordinates and size of a window displayed on the display means, storage means for storing character data of a document and format data thereof, and the designation means. Display control means for converting the format data of the document stored in the storage means based on the size of the window specified by and displaying the entire document in the window, according to the specified window size. Since the entire document can be displayed in the window, the operator can always perform the document creation / editing work while overlooking the entire document, which has an excellent effect of improving the operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of character display according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of document data.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of window management information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 central processing unit 2 read-only memory 3 random access memory 3-1 document data storage area 3-2 conversion coefficient storage area 3-3 window management information storage area 3-4 display magnification storage area 3-5 display position storage buffer 3-6 Character counter 4 Keyboard 5 Mouse 6 CRT display device

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. Display means, specification means for specifying coordinates and size of a window displayed on the display means, storage means for storing character data of a document and format data thereof.
A document including a display control unit for converting the format data of the document stored in the storage unit based on the size of the window designated by the designation unit and for displaying the entire document in the window. Creation device.