JPH06208554A - Method and device for document data processing of document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the program capacity of the whole document processing system and to speed up the processing. CONSTITUTION:Rectangular area information 2a1 on common formats by data kinds and individual information 2a2 are held in respective data files 2a in a data holding part 2 while classified, and a common processing program 1a which processes the rectangular area information 2a1 on the common formats irrelevantly to the data kinds and processing programs 1b which are characteristic to the data kinds and process the individual information 2a2 are provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document data processing method and apparatus in a document processing system, and more specifically, it processes document data containing a plurality of types of data to create a document having a desired layout. Creating document data in a document processing system that edits as necessary,
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing processing such as editing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document processing system represented by desktop publishing (hereinafter abbreviated as DTP), in order to create a high quality document,
A text processing program for processing text mainly composed of character strings, a graphic processing program for processing graphics such as tables and graphs, and an image processing represented by an image captured by a video camera. An image processing program, a frame area processing program for processing a document area, a graphic area, and a frame for partitioning the image area are installed in advance. The data to be processed by each processing program is held as a separate data file.

Therefore, for example, when an instruction to create or edit a sentence is given, the sentence processing program is started,
It is possible to create and edit a sentence by accessing the sentence file in which the character string is stored. The same applies when other processing is instructed. As a result, it is possible to create a document as the operator intended.

[0004]

In the above document processing system, the capacity of each processing program becomes large,
Moreover, it is necessary to determine which kind of processing should be performed and to start the corresponding processing program.
There is an inconvenience that the processing time becomes long.
It will be described in more detail.

For example, the text data file contains the coordinate values of the text writing position, the width and height values of the text area, the character attributes including the character decoration, the number of characters, the character code, etc. In addition to the coordinate values of the start and end points if it is a line segment, the coordinate value of one vertex, the width value and the height value if it is a rectangle, the coordinate value of the center and the radius if it is a circle,
The image data file contains graphic attributes such as line type and line width. The image data file contains color data in pixel units in addition to the coordinate value, width value, and height value of one vertex of the rectangular area. Contains frame attributes such as edges and margins in addition to the coordinate value, width value, and height value of one vertex of the frame.
As is clear from the above, since data that is common to all data files does not exist, it is necessary to create a processing program in advance for each data file, and the capacity of each processing program is It becomes big. Further, not only does the processing speed decrease as the capacity of each processing program increases, but also the processing program must be started according to the type of data file to be processed, which also reduces the processing speed. Will fall.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and can reduce the capacity of each processing program,
Moreover, it is an object of the present invention to provide a document data processing method and its apparatus in a document processing system that can achieve high speed of each processing.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a document data processing method according to a first aspect of the present invention divides all data into rectangular information and type-specific information, and a common rectangular information. The processing means and the individual processing means for the information by type are prepared in advance, and the processing by the common processing means is performed on condition that the processing for the rectangular information is instructed, and the processing for the information by type is instructed. This is a method of performing the processing by the corresponding individual processing means on the condition that it has been done.

According to another aspect of the document data management apparatus of the present invention, an information holding unit that holds all data divided into rectangular information and type-specific information, and a rectangle in response to an instruction to process the rectangular information. It includes common processing means for performing processing on information, and individual processing means for performing processing on information by type in response to an instruction to process information by type.

[0009]

According to the document data management method of claim 1, when the document data including a plurality of types of data is processed, a document having a desired layout is created, and the document is edited as necessary, all the data are rectangular. In addition to dividing into information and information by type, a common processing means for rectangular information and an individual processing means for information by type are prepared in advance,
The common processing means performs the processing on the condition that the processing for the rectangular information is instructed, and the corresponding individual processing means performs the processing on the condition that the processing for the type-specific information is instructed. The capacity of the individual processing means can be reduced by the capacity of the individual processing means, and when the most frequent processing such as movement processing, deletion processing, and pick processing is instructed, the type of data is not taken into consideration immediately. Since the processing can be performed by the common processing means, the overall document processing speed can be significantly improved. Further, since the capacity of the individual processing means itself is small, the program capacity of the entire document processing system can be greatly reduced.

According to the document data management device of claim 2,
When processing document data containing multiple types of data, creating a document with a desired layout, and editing as necessary, all data is divided into rectangular information and information by type, and The common processing means and the individual processing means for each type of information are prepared in advance, and the processing by the common processing means is performed on condition that the processing for the rectangular information is instructed. Since the processing is performed by the corresponding individual processing means on the condition that the instruction is given, the capacity of the individual processing means can be reduced by the capacity of the common processing means, and the moving processing and the deletion processing with the highest processing frequency are possible. When pick processing is instructed, the processing can be immediately performed by the common processing means without considering the type of data at all. The document processing speed as a whole can be remarkably improved. Further, since the capacity of the individual processing means itself is small, the program capacity of the entire document processing system can be greatly reduced.

More specifically, the present inventor
Of the various processes for sentences, graphics, images, frames, etc. that compose a document, the move process, delete process, pick process, etc. have the highest frequency, and these processes are the same regardless of the type of data. I found that there is. And
In order to commonly perform the moving process, the deleting process, and the picking process, the present invention has been completed by retaining the rectangular information necessary for performing these processes separately from all the individual data. is there.

[0012]

Embodiments will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings showing embodiments. FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a document processing system of the present invention. A document processing unit 1 having a common processing program 1a and a data type-specific processing program 1b, and a data file for each data type. Data holding unit 2 having 2a.

The common program 1a is a program that performs a moving process, a deleting process, a picking process, etc. as processes that can be commonly applied to all types of data, and the data to be processed is rectangular area information. Is assumed to have. The data type-specific processing program 1b is a program that performs processing unique to the data to be processed. Specifically, a program that processes text data sets, changes, and
A program that sets and changes the character string itself, processes graphic data, sets and modifies graphic attributes, sets and modifies the graphic itself, and a program that processes image data sets and modifies the image itself. A program for performing frame data processing, for example, sets and changes frame attributes, and sets and changes frame itself. Since each frame set by the program that processes the frame data has attributes set so that only a text, a figure, or an image can be poured, for example, the movement of the frame is tracked. The data that was poured in will also move.

As shown in FIG. 2, each data file 2a held in the data holding unit 2 has rectangular area information 2a1 in a common format so that it can be processed by a common processing program 1a. In addition, the individual information 2a in a unique format so that the processing by the processing program 1b unique to the data type can be performed.
Have two. Specifically, the rectangular area information 2a1 of the common format has, for example, the coordinate value of one vertex of the rectangular area, the width value, and the height value of the rectangular area. Then, as the individual information 2a1 of the unique format, for example, the document data file has a character attribute, the number of characters, a code of each character forming a character string, and the graphic data file has a graphic attribute and direction designation data (for example, , Data for determining the direction of the line segment with respect to the rectangular area), the image data file has color data in pixel units, and the frame data file has frame attributes. However, if a positive or negative value is adopted as the width value or the height value in determining the direction of the line segment, the direction designation data can be eliminated.

The operation of the document processing system having the above configuration is as follows. For example, when the move process is selected on the menu screen, the common process program 1a is immediately started without considering the type of data, and waits until the move target data and move destination are instructed. And
If these are instructed, the common processing program 1a is based on the rectangular area information 2a1 of the instructed movement target data.
Performs a moving process to move the rectangular area to the designated moving destination. Of course, since each data included in the rectangular area as the movement target data in the original document is set corresponding to the rectangular area, moving the rectangular area also moves the included data. When the deletion of the rectangular area is instructed, the corresponding rectangular area information is deleted in response to the instruction of the data to be deleted. Therefore, the original data set corresponding to the rectangular information is also deleted. To be deleted. If rectangular area picking is instructed, select the rectangular area specified by the cursor,
The data set corresponding to the rectangular area is highlighted, for example.

As is apparent from the above description, the common processing program 1a has a moving process and a deleting process for a rectangular area defined by the coordinate value of one vertex of the rectangular area, the width value and the height value of the rectangular area. Since it suffices to be able to perform pick processing, the program capacity can be reduced, the load on the processor can be reduced, and high-speed processing can be achieved. Further, since these processes can be performed without considering the type of data, it is possible to speed up the process also from this aspect.

Of course, the processing program 1b peculiar to the data type also has a considerably small capacity because the common processing part is omitted, and the program capacity of the entire document processing system can be greatly reduced.
It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and for example, the coordinate values of diagonal vertices can be adopted as the rectangular area information, and various other values are possible without changing the gist of the present invention. It is possible to change the design of.

[0018]

As described above, the invention of claim 1 can reduce the capacity of the individual processing means by the capacity of the common processing means,
Moreover, when the movement processing, the deletion processing, the pick processing, or the like having the highest processing frequency is instructed, the processing can be immediately performed by the common processing means without considering the type of data at all. Since the document processing speed can be remarkably improved and the capacity of the individual processing means itself is reduced, the program capacity of the document processing system as a whole can be significantly reduced.

Also in the invention of claim 2, the capacity of the individual processing means can be reduced by the capacity of the common processing means, and further, when the moving processing, the deletion processing, the pick processing and the like having the highest processing frequency are instructed. Since the processing by the common processing means can be immediately performed without considering the type of data at all, the document processing speed as a whole can be remarkably improved, and the capacity of the individual processing means itself is reduced. Therefore, it has a unique effect that the program capacity of the entire document processing system can be significantly reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a document processing system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing a configuration of each data file held in a data holding unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

1a Common processing program 1b Data type specific processing program 2 Data holding unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document processing system for processing document data including a plurality of types of data, creating a document of a desired layout, and editing the document as necessary, all of the data being rectangular information and type-specific information. Along with the division, a common processing means for the rectangular information and an individual processing means for the type-specific information are prepared in advance, and the processing by the common processing means is performed on condition that the processing for the rectangular information is instructed. A document data management method in a document processing system, characterized in that processing is performed by a corresponding individual processing means on condition that processing for information by type is instructed. 2. A document processing system for processing document data including a plurality of types of data, creating a document having a desired layout, and editing the document as necessary, all data being rectangular information and type-specific information. Information holding means (2) for separately storing, common processing means (1a) for performing processing on rectangular information in response to an instruction for processing for rectangular information, and processing for information for each type are instructed. A document data management device in a document processing system, comprising: an individual processing means (1b) for performing processing on information of each type in response to the fact.