JPH0612478A - Method and device for documentation - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the documentation device which can easily generate or correct a desired graphic even in the case of difference between a graphic form to be displayed and that to be printed. CONSTITUTION:At the time of graphic generation or correction, a CPU 1 reads out print format set values from an area 21 of a memory 2 and obtains an aspect ratio of the screen on a display device 5 in accordance with these set values and screen display characteristic values of the display device 5. The CPU 1 generates longitudinal and transverse scale data indicating the aspect ratio and expands these scale data on a dot memory 7 through a display control part 6 and displays these scales on the screen of the display device 5. A user sees these scales to generate or correct a graphic.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus capable of creating / editing documents and figures, and more particularly to a drawing method of figures.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some document creating apparatuses having a function of creating a document including a graphic can display the graphic on the screen in a similar form to the print result. It is generally displayed on the screen in a different shape. Therefore, for example, although the print result is a square, it may be displayed in a rectangle on the screen of the document creation device. Even in such a case, it is possible to make the figure displayed on the screen and the print result thereof substantially similar by appropriately setting the print format of the document creation device. However, if the print format is set in this way, there is a drawback that the character spacing and the line spacing of a document become unnatural at the time of printing. Therefore, when creating a graphic, the shape of the graphic displayed on the screen of the document creation device will be different from the actual shape (the shape at the time of printing). There was a drawback that it did. In addition, there is a drawback in that it is similarly troublesome to correct the graphic thus created. As a specific example, when trying to create a square using the document creation device, a rectangle is displayed on the screen, so the user must think that this is a square and create it. However, there is a drawback that it is time-consuming and time-consuming and that it is easy to make a mistake.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional document creating apparatus, the figure shape that the user intends to create (the same as the figure shape to be printed) and the figure shape displayed on the screen of the apparatus are displayed. Different cases were common. In this case, the shape of the figure actually created and the shape of the displayed figure will be different, so it will take time and effort to create and modify the figure, and the wrong figure will be created or incorrect modification will be made. There was a drawback that it ended up.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and provides a document creating apparatus capable of easily creating or modifying a desired figure even when the figure shape to be displayed is different from the figure shape to be printed. Is intended.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in a document creating device for creating or editing a graphic and a document by displaying it on a display device, the above-mentioned data from a predetermined data relating to the display and data set arbitrarily can be used. Calculating means for obtaining an aspect ratio, which is a ratio of the length vertically displayed on the screen of the display device and the length horizontally displayed on the screen which is equal to this length at the time of printing; and the vertical and horizontal directions obtained by the calculating means. Scale creating means for creating a vertical scale and a horizontal scale indicating a display ratio, a vertical scale created by the scale creating means in the vertical direction of the document / graphic creation / editing screen of the display device, and a horizontal scale of the same screen. And a display means for displaying in a horizontal direction.

[0006]

In the document creating apparatus of the present invention, the calculating means calculates the length vertically displayed on the screen of the display device and the length at the time of printing from the predetermined data relating to the display and the arbitrarily set data. Then, the aspect ratio, which is the ratio to the length of the screen displayed horizontally, is calculated. The scale creating means creates a vertical scale and a horizontal scale indicating the vertical / horizontal display ratio obtained by the calculating means. The display means displays the vertical scale created by the scale creating means in the vertical direction of the document / graphic creation / editing screen of the display device and the horizontal scale in the horizontal direction of the same screen.

[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 a document creating apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a CPU that performs individual control such as document creation and graphic drawing and control of the entire apparatus, and 2 is a CP
A print format storage area 21 and a display program storage area 22 are set in the memory for storing various data such as a program for controlling U1 and documents and figures. Reference numeral 3 is a keyboard for inputting character information, input of graphic drawing information, various function commands, etc. by a user, 4 is a printer for printing and outputting a created document or graphic on paper, and 5 is a created document or A display device that displays graphics, 6 is a display control unit that controls the display device 5, and 7 is a dot memory in which display data for one screen displayed on the display device 5 is written. Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. When drawing a figure, the user first operates the keyboard 3 to execute CP.
After setting U1 to the print format setting mode, a desired print format is set. As a result, the CPU 1 transfers the print format value input from the keyboard 3 to the print format storage area 2 of the memory 2.
Store in 1. After that, when the user operates the keyboard 3 and inputs the graphic drawing information to the CPU 1, the CPU 1 creates graphic data using the graphic drawing program stored in the memory 2 and outputs it to the display control unit 6. .
The display control unit 6 develops the graphic data passed from the CPU 1 in the dot memory 7, and displays the dot data developed in the dot memory 7 on the screen of the display device 5. By such an operation, a graphic is displayed on the screen of the display device 5.
In this example, when the graphic is created after setting the print format, the CPU 1 executes the display program stored in the display program storage area 22 of the memory 2 so that the screen shown in FIG. The vertical and horizontal scales 11 and 12 for creating a graphic are displayed as shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 shows the vertical and horizontal scales 11 and 12 described above.
6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the CPU 1 for displaying on the screen of the display device 5. First, in step 201, C
The PU 1 retrieves the line pitch and character pitch data from the print format storage area 21 of the memory 2 and then executes step 20.
Proceeding to step 2, based on the line pitch, character pitch, and display area ratio data for one character, the length vertically displayed on the screen of the display device 5 and the horizontal length equal to this length at the time of printing are displayed horizontally on the screen. A vertical / horizontal display ratio K, which is a ratio with the length, is obtained. Here, a method for obtaining the vertical / horizontal display ratio will be described in detail. When the vertical / horizontal dot pitch ratio of the display device 5 and the printer 3 shown in FIG. 1 is 1: 1 and the display character is 16 dots and the print character is 24 dots, the display area for one character is 20 dots vertically. It is assumed to be 16 dots wide. Moreover, it is assumed that the character pitch at the time of printing by the printer 3 is specified as 30 dots and the line pitch is specified as 45 dots in the printing format. Under such conditions, the aspect ratio K is calculated by the following equation. First, the general expression for obtaining K is K = (formatted character pitch and line pitch) × (display area ratio for one character)
... represented by (1). Substituting the specific format setting value and the display area ratio for one character into this equation (1), K
= 30 ÷ 45 × 20 ÷ 16 = 5/6 (2) That is, this value of K = 5/6 is the vertical 5 displayed on the screen.
It shows that the length of cm and the width of 6 cm are equal at the time of printing. When this K is obtained, the CPU 1 proceeds to step 203, creates vertical scale data and horizontal scale data based on the K, and sends these data to the display control unit 6. The display control unit 6 develops the sent vertical scale and horizontal scale data on the dot memory 7, displays the vertical scale 11 and the horizontal scale 12 on the screen of the display device 5 as shown in FIG. finish. The user creates a figure by referring to the vertical scale 11 and the horizontal scale 12 shown in FIG. That is, one scale of the vertical scale 11 and the horizontal scale 1
Since the 1st scale of 2 shows the same length, for example,
If you try to create a square, one side is a vertical scale of 5
If a quadrangle is created on the screen of the display device 5 so that the scale, the other side perpendicular to the side, becomes 5 scales on the horizontal scale,
This quadrangle becomes a square when printed. However, as described above, since the aspect ratio K is 5/6, the square is displayed on the display device 5 as a rectangle having a side ratio of 5: 6.

According to this embodiment, the vertical scale 11 indicating the vertical and horizontal display ratios of the vertical and horizontal screens of the display device 5 at the time of creating a figure.
Since the horizontal scale 12 and the horizontal scale 12 can be displayed, the user can recognize that one scale of the vertical scale 11 and one scale of the horizontal scale 12 have the same length at the time of printing. A graphic can be created on the screen by referring to each scale. Therefore, even if the shape of the displayed figure is different from that at the time of printing, by reading the scales of the vertical / horizontal scales 11 and 12, it is possible to easily imagine the true shape of the displayed figure and obtain the desired shape. A figure can be drawn easily and accurately.

[0010]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, a desired figure can be easily created or modified even when the displayed figure shape and the printed figure shape are different.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a vertical / horizontal scale display operation of the CPU shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a vertical / portion displayed on the screen of the display device shown in FIG.
The figure which showed the display example of a horizontal scale.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... CPU 2 ... Memory 3 ... Keyboard 4 ... Printer 5 ... Display device 6 ... Display control unit 7 ... Dot memory

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document creation device for creating or editing a graphic and a document by displaying the graphic on a display device, and a predetermined data related to the display and arbitrarily set data are displayed vertically on the screen of the display device. A calculating means for obtaining an aspect ratio which is a ratio of a displayed length and a length displayed beside the screen which is equal to this length at the time of printing; and a vertical scale showing the aspect ratio obtained by the calculating means. A display for displaying a horizontal scale in the vertical direction of the document / figure / creation / edit screen of the display device and a horizontal scale in the same screen for creating a horizontal scale and a vertical scale created by the scale creating means. A document creation device comprising means. 2. A document creation device for creating or editing a graphic and a document by displaying the graphic on a display device, and a predetermined data related to display and arbitrarily set data are displayed vertically on the screen of the display device. After obtaining the aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the displayed length and the length displayed beside the screen that is equal to this length at the time of printing, create a vertical scale and a horizontal scale indicating this aspect ratio, A method of creating a document, characterized in that the vertical scale and the horizontal scale are displayed at predetermined portions in the vertical and horizontal directions of a document / graphic / creation / edit screen.