JPH06166234A - Document preparing device and printing control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain easily a beautiful printing result where the arrangement of printing match lines in the use of format paper, in a document creating device provided with a printing function. CONSTITUTION:The head of a printer 23 is provided with a small scanner 25, lines printed on format paper is read by the scanner 25 to measure line spacing (the distance between the lines). This is stored as line information in the line information storage area 32 of a RAM 11, and a printing format, such as a line pitch, is defined based on the line information so that characters are positioned several dots above or below the line, for example. Subsequently, document information stored in a document buffer 31 is printed in the printing format on paper by the printer 23.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation apparatus having a printing function, and particularly to a document preparation suitable for printing using a specific paper (hereinafter, a format paper) on which line lines are printed in advance. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and a print control method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document creating apparatus having a printing function can print a created document on paper. In this case, by setting a print format (character pitch, line pitch, etc.) in advance before printing, printing according to the format is performed.

Here, as the paper used for printing, a paper on which nothing is printed is usually used, but depending on the application, a format paper such as a report paper on which line lines are preprinted is used. There are cases. When such a format paper is used, it is necessary to set the format so that the document is printed according to the line lines. In the past, this formatting was done by the user himself.

[0004]

As described above, conventionally, when the format paper is used, it is necessary for the user to set the format according to the line of the paper. Therefore, the setting operation is very troublesome, and the setting is difficult, and there is a problem that it is not possible to easily obtain a beautiful print result in line with the line.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a document creation apparatus and a print control method that can easily obtain a beautiful print result in line with a line when using a format sheet. The purpose is to do.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, in printing using a specific paper on which line lines are printed in advance, by reading the interval between line lines with a scanner or the like, printing according to the line line interval is performed. The format is set and printing is performed.

[0007]

According to the above construction, the line lines printed on the paper are read, and the print format is automatically set according to the line line intervals to perform printing. Therefore, even if the user does not set the print format, it is possible to easily obtain a beautiful print result that matches the line of paper.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a view showing the arrangement of the document creating apparatus according to the embodiment. In the figure, 10 is a microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU), and 11 and 12 are CPUs.
A memory (RAM, ROM) accessed by 10.

The CPU 10 controls the entire apparatus. The CPU 10 accesses the RAM 11 and the ROM 12 and executes a program according to an input instruction to execute a document creating process, a printing process as shown in FIG.

The ROM 12 has a program area 1 in which various processing programs for determining the operation of the CPU 10 are stored.
3, a character pattern area 14 in which font data is stored, a dictionary area 15 in which a standard dictionary for converting reading information input in kana or romaji into kanji information is provided, and the like. There is.

The RAM 11 is provided with an area for storing various kinds of information necessary for creating a document. Here, a document buffer 31 for storing the document information and line line information of a format sheet 41 described later are stored. A row line information storage area 32 for storing is provided.

Reference numeral 16 is a keyboard (KB), 17 is a keyboard interface (KB-IF), 18 is a display, 19 is a display controller (display-CNT), 20
Is a dot memory for display, 21 is a floppy disk device (FDD), 22 is an FDD interface (FDD-).
IF), 23 is a printer device (PRT), and 24 is a printer interface (PRT-IF).

A keyboard (KB) 16 receives input information necessary for creating a document and the like, and a keyboard interface (KB-).
IF) 17 to CPU 10. This keyboard 16 includes "character" key, "numerical value" key,
In addition to function keys such as a "function 1" key and a "function 2" key, a "print" key 16a for designating a print function is provided here.

The display unit 18 is composed of, for example, a 40-character, 20-line liquid crystal display with a backlight, and the bottom line (20th line) is set as an area (guide line) dedicated to guide display. The display-CNT 19 controls the display of the display device 18 using the display dot memory 20 under the control of the CPU 10.

Floppy disk drive (FDD) 21
Under the control of the CPU 10, saves the created document, stores external characters and second level characters, etc., via the FDD interface (FDD-IF) 22. The printer device (PRT) 23 is, for example, a serial printer.

Here, in the embodiment, the small scanner 2 is used.
Have 5. The scanner 25 is provided in the head 23a portion of the printer 23 as shown in FIG.
The line line 42 of the format paper 41 as shown in FIG. 2 is read, and the line line image is output to the CPU 10 via the scanner interface (scanner-IF) 26. Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, description will be given on the assumption that printing is performed using the format paper 41 in which a plurality of row lines 42 are printed in advance at the same interval.

As shown in the flow chart of FIG. 2, first, the print function is instructed by depressing the "print" key 16a of the keyboard 16 (step S1). By this instruction, the CPU 10 displays a print menu (not shown) on the display device 18 (step S2). In this print menu, a plurality of items indicating the type of printing are shown, and among them, the item of "designated paper print" is selected (step S
3). By selecting this item, the CPU 10 causes the printer 23
The paper feed motor is activated to feed the format sheet 41 set in the printing mechanism section in the row direction, and the line lines 42 printed on the format sheet 41 are read by the scanner 25 (step S4).

Here, the CPU 10 calculates the line spacing (row line interval) inside the memory at the time when the two line lines 42 are read, and measures a more accurate length (steps S5 to S5).
S9). In this case, the first line spacing and the second line spacing match and the second line spacing and the third line spacing match, or the second line spacing and the third line spacing match. When, and the third line spacing and the fourth line spacing match, the CPU 10 determines the line length by the rotation angle of the paper feed motor of the printer 23. This is because, for example, the first line of a report paper or the like has a large line spacing for writing a subject and the like, and line lines are printed at the same intervals from the second line onward.

When the line-to-line length is measured in this manner, the CPU 10 stores it as line-line information in the line-line information storage area 32 of the RAM 11 and then, for example, based on the line-line information. Alternatively, the print format such as the line pitch is set so that the characters are located at a few dots from the bottom (step S10). Next, the CPU 10 reads out the document information to be printed from the document buffer 31, and prints this document information on the format sheet 41 by the printer 23 in the above print format (step S11).

As described above, when the format sheet 41 is used, the line lines 42 printed on the format sheet 41 are read, and the print format corresponding to the interval is automatically set and printing is performed. Therefore, unlike the related art, the user does not need to perform a troublesome work such as setting a print format by himself, and it is possible to easily obtain a beautiful print result according to the row line 42. The printing result at this time is shown in FIG. FIG. 5A is an enlarged view of the entire sheet, and FIG. 5B is an enlarged view of a part thereof.

In the above embodiment, the case where the format paper having the constant line spacing is used has been described. However, for example, when the format paper having the non-uniform spacing of the line is used, the format paper is used. It is assumed that all the printed line lines are read and printing is performed while adjusting the paper feed for each line based on the line line information.

When the character size exceeds the line line, a message such as "Please lower the character point" is displayed, or the character size that fits between the lines is automatically set. Set and print. In this case, for the format paper in which the line spacing is not constant, the character size is determined by selecting the one having the smallest line spacing.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the line lines printed on the paper are read, and the print format corresponding to the line line intervals is automatically set for printing. You can easily obtain beautiful print results that match the line lines of paper, without the need for complicated work such as setting formats. This makes it possible to print using various types of paper in a document creation apparatus having a printing function, which is very convenient.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a printing mechanism unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a format sheet in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a printing result of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... CPU, 11 ... RAM, 12 ... ROM, 16 ... Keyboard (KB), 16a ... "Print" key, 18 ... Display, 21 ... Printer (PRT), 25 ... Scanner, 31
... document buffer, 32 ... line / line information storage area.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A specific sheet on which line lines are printed in advance, a scanner unit for reading the interval between the line lines on the sheet, and a print format based on the interval between the line lines read by the scanner unit. A document creating apparatus comprising: a format setting means for setting; and a printing means for printing on the paper based on the print format set by the format setting means. 2. When printing is performed using a specific paper on which line lines are printed in advance, the interval between the line lines is read, a print format is set based on the line line interval, and the print format is set based on the print format. A printing control method, wherein printing is performed on the paper.