JPH06251012A - Document preparing device and printing control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily obtain an adjusted printing result without expert knowledge by automatically setting a print format in accordance with the document volume. CONSTITUTION:When the automatic format setting function is indicated through an automatic format setting key 16a provided on a keyboard 15, a CPU 14 detects the last page or a page having a form feed code from document information stored in a document buffer 11 and executes the processing to put information within the preceding page or the processing to uniformly allocate information throughout the page dependently on whether the number of lines existing in the pertinent page is smaller than 1/2 of the number of intrapage lines preliminarily set by the format or not. The number of lines and the line space obtained by this processing are set to a format information table 13 as new format information, and information is printed based on this format information.

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 having a printing function, and more particularly to a document creating apparatus and a print control method suitable for printing a document having a plurality of pages.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document creating apparatus has a printing function (printer) inside, and a created document can be printed as needed. In this case, at the time of printing, it is necessary for the user to set in advance the format (character pitch, line feed pitch, etc.) to be printed, and the printing will be performed in this set format.

By the way, when printing a document consisting of a plurality of pages, since it is desired to obtain a proper print result, as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 8, a document that is less than the full page may be evenly allocated to the full page. In such a case, the user himself or herself calculates the character pitch, the line feed pitch, etc. from the paper size, character size, number of lines, and number of digits, and sets the print format to print in the previous page or fill the page. Printing was performed by evenly allocating.

[0004]

However, it is necessary to set a print format in order to perform printing such as the above-described printing that fits within the previous page, or printing such that the pages are evenly distributed. Users have difficulties. In addition, it is not always possible to set an appropriate print format at once, which is very troublesome work.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and can automatically set a print format according to the amount of a document, and a document creating apparatus that can easily obtain a printed result without special knowledge, and An object is to provide a print control method.

[0006]

A document creating apparatus according to the present invention stores a storage unit for storing document information consisting of a plurality of pages and a final page or page break information from the document information stored in the storage unit. A detecting means for detecting the page having, and a comparing means for comparing the number of lines existing in the page detected by the detecting means with the number of lines in a page which has been preformatted,
As a result of the comparing means, if the ratio of the number of lines existing on the page to the number of lines in the page that has been preformatted is less than a predetermined value, the document information existing on the page is included in the previous page. If the print format is set to, and the ratio is equal to or more than the predetermined value, the print format is set so that the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated in the page, and a format setting control unit. A printing unit that prints the document information based on the print format set by the setting control unit is provided.

Further, the document creating apparatus of the present invention detects the storage means for storing the document information consisting of a plurality of pages and the page having the last page or the page break information from the document information stored in the storage means. Detecting means, comparing means for comparing the number of lines existing on the page detected by the detecting means with the number of lines in the page which has been preformatted, and the result of the comparing means, the number of lines existing on the page. According to the ratio of the number of lines in a page that is pre-formatted and the print format is set so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, or
Formatting control means for setting a print format so that the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated within the page,
A printing means for printing the document information based on the print format set by the format control means is provided.

The print control method of the present invention detects the last page or the page having the page break information from the document information consisting of a plurality of pages, and determines the number of lines existing in the page and the number of lines in the page that has been preformatted. If the ratio is less than the specified value, the print format is set so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, and if the ratio is equal to or more than the specified value, the page exists on the page. The print format is set so that the document information is evenly allocated within the page, and the document information is printed based on the set print format.

Further, the print control method of the present invention detects the last page or the page having the page break information from the document information consisting of a plurality of pages, and determines the number of lines existing in the page and the preformatted page. Depending on the ratio with the number of inlines, set the print format so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, or the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated within the page. A print format is set, and the document information is printed based on the set print format.

[0010]

According to the above configuration, the document information existing on the page is determined according to the ratio of the number of lines existing on the last page or the page having the page break information to the number of lines in the page which is preformatted. A print format that fits within the previous page or a print format that evenly allocates the document information on the page to the page is automatically set, and printing is performed based on the automatically set print format. Be seen.

[0011]

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 the circuit arrangement of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
The document buffer 11 stores document information to be printed. In this embodiment, this document information consists of multiple pages. The register group 12 is a register A for temporarily storing various information necessary for the automatic formatting process shown in FIG.
It has B and C. The format information table 13 stores print format information.

The CPU 14 controls the entire apparatus including the document creating process, and executes the automatic formating process as shown in FIG. Keyboard 1
Reference numeral 5 denotes an input device for inputting various information such as document information. The keyboard 15 includes "character" keys, "number" keys, etc., and here, an "automatic format" key 1 for instructing an automatic format setting function for automatically setting a print format.
5a is provided. The input control unit 16 controls input of information input by the keyboard 15. The display 17 is a display device for displaying various information such as document information. The display control unit 18 uses the display 17
Controls the display of information displayed in. The printer 19
A printing device for printing document information and the like. The print control unit 20 controls printing of information printed by the printer 19.

FIGS. 2 to 4 are views for explaining the automatic formating function of the embodiment. FIGS. 2 and 3 show the case where the page is stored in the previous page, and FIG. 4 shows the case where the page is evenly distributed. Shows. Here, assuming that the number of lines in a page that has been preformatted is 8 lines and the number of the last page or the page having the page break code is less than 4 which is ½ of that line, the previous page as shown in FIG. 2 or FIG. It is set to execute printing that fits within a page. Of these, FIG. 2 shows a printing example in which the line spacing is not changed and only the number of lines is changed, and FIG. 3 is a printing example in which the line spacing and the number of lines are changed. If the last page or the page having a page-break code is 4 lines or more,
It is set so as to execute printing which is evenly allocated to the full page as shown in FIG. Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described.

When the "automatic format" key 15a provided on the keyboard 15 is depressed to instruct the automatic format function while the document information to be printed is stored in the document buffer 11, the CPU 14 is shown in FIG. Perform the automatic formatting process as shown.

That is, the CPU 14 first detects the last page or the page having the page feed code from the document information stored in the document buffer 11 (step S1), and the number of lines existing on the page is pre-formatted. 1/2 of the number of lines in the page
It is determined whether or not it is less than (step S2), and in accordance with the result, a process of fitting within the previous page or a process of equally allocating to the full page is performed by the following procedure. (A) Processing to fit within the previous page

1. If the number of lines existing on the page is less than 1/2 of the number of lines in the preformatted page, the number of lines per page required to put the number of lines on the page into the previous page is calculated, and The result is set in the register A (step S3).

2. By comparing the number of lines set in the register A with a preset maximum number of lines of the page,
If the number of lines is larger than the maximum number of lines on the page, it is determined that the line spacing needs to be changed, and the following process is performed (step S4). 3. The line interval in which the number of lines set in the register A enters is calculated, and the result is set in the register B (step S
5).

4. By comparing the line spacing set in the register B with the preset character spacing, the following process is performed only when the line spacing is larger than the character spacing to set the print format using the value. Is performed (step S6).

5. A new format value is set using the number of lines set in the register A and the line spacing set in the register B, and if the value is within the printable range, it is registered in the format information table 13 as the format information used at the time of printing. If it is within the printable range, the entire process is stopped (step S7). (B) Processing to allocate evenly to the full page

1. If the number of lines existing on the page is 1/2 or more of the number of lines in a pre-formatted page, calculate the number of lines per page (average value) from the number of pages up to the final page (total number of pages). , The result is set in the register A (step S
8). 2. The line interval is calculated based on the number of lines set in the register A, and the result is set in the register B (step S9).

3. Here, a condition for the line spacing set in the register B is set (here, a multiple of the character size is set), and the value is set in the register C (step S10).

4. By determining whether the line spacing set in the register B is less than C times the character size, the following process is performed only when the line spacing is less than C times to set the print format using that value.

5. A new format value is set using the number of lines set in the register A and the line spacing set in the register B, and if the value is within the printable range, it is registered in the format information table 13 as the format information used at the time of printing. If it is within the printable range, the entire process is stopped (step S7).

Thus, depending on whether or not the number of lines existing in the last page or the page having the page-break code is less than 1/2 of the number of lines in the pre-formatted page, the process of filling the previous page or filling the page is completed. The process of evenly allocating the print formats is performed, and a new print format is set. As a result, in the case of less than 1/2, by the format setting as shown in FIG. 2 or FIG. 3 (FIG. 2 changes only the number of lines, FIG. 3 changes the number of lines and line spacing), the result is shown in FIG. Print result like
If it is less than 3, the print result as shown in FIG. 8 is obtained by the format setting as shown in FIG.

When there are a plurality of pages having a page break code, one break up to a page break is set as one document and even one page is included in the previous page (the number of lines on the page is less than 1/2). If the condition is satisfied, it is more rational to save the paper, and therefore, the process to fit in the previous page is executed. In this case, the one having the largest number of lines (the number of lines overflowing to the next page) is used as a reference. Similarly, if the condition of the page having the page feed code and the condition of the last page are different, and if one of them has a condition to be accommodated in the previous page, the process for accommodating the code in the previous page is executed.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the process of storing the data in the previous page or the process of evenly allocating it to the full page is executed on the basis of 1/2 of the number of lines in the page which is preformatted. As shown in FIG. 6, each process can be switched and printed according to the ratio of the number of lines existing on the final page or the page having the page break code to the number of lines in the page that has been preformatted.

In the example of FIG. 6, the ratio of the number of lines existing on the last page or the page having the page feed code to the number of lines in the preformatted page is divided into 1/3 and 2/3, If the number of lines on the page is less than ⅓, processing to fit in the previous page is executed. If ⅓ or more and less than ⅔, the print format is not changed and ⅔ or more. , Is configured to execute the process of evenly allocating to the full page.

When the automatic format setting function of the present invention is applied to a document having a large number of pages, the influence may occur somewhere. Therefore, the present invention is preferably applied to a document with a small number of pages that requires a neat print result.

[0030]

According to the above configuration, the document existing on the page concerned is determined according to the ratio of the number of lines existing on the last page or the page having the page break information to the number of lines in the page which is preformatted. Set the print format so that the information fits within the previous page, or set the print format such that the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated within the page, and perform printing based on the set print format. As a result, the print format can be automatically set according to the amount of documents, and a well-printed result can be easily obtained even without specialized knowledge. As a result, the burden on the user during printing can be significantly reduced.

[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 diagram for explaining an automatic format setting function included in the previous page of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an automatic formatting function included in the previous page of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining an automatic format setting function of evenly allocating a full page in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of automatic format setting processing of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an automatic formatting function according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a print result obtained by an automatic formatting function to be included in the previous page.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a print result obtained by an automatic formating function that is evenly allocated to a full page.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Document buffer, 12 ... Register group, 13 ... Format information table, 14 ... CPU, 15 ... Keyboard, 15a
... "automatic format" key, 16 ... input control section, 17 ... display, 18 ... display control section, 19 ... printer.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. Storage means for storing document information consisting of a plurality of pages, detection means for detecting the last page or a page having page break information from the document information stored in the storage means, and this detection means. Comparing means for comparing the number of lines existing in the page detected by the above and the number of lines in the page which has been preformatted, and the result of the comparing means, the number of lines existing in the page and the preformatted page If the ratio to the number of inner lines is less than the predetermined value, the print format is set so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, and if the ratio is equal to or more than the predetermined value, the page And a print control for setting the print format so that the document information existing in the page is evenly allocated in the page, and a print for printing the document information based on the print format set by the format control means. Means and Document creating apparatus characterized by Bei was. 2. Storage means for storing document information consisting of a plurality of pages, detection means for detecting the last page or a page having page break information from the document information stored in the storage means, and this detection means. Comparing means for comparing the number of lines existing in the page detected by the above and the number of lines in the page which has been preformatted, and the result of the comparing means, the number of lines existing in the page and the preformatted page Depending on the ratio with the number of inlines, set the print format so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, or the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated within the page. A document creating apparatus comprising: a format setting control unit that sets a print format; and a printing unit that prints the document information based on the print format set by the format setting control unit. 3. A final page or a page having page break information is detected from the document information consisting of a plurality of pages, and the ratio of the number of lines existing on the page to the number of lines in a page that has been formatted in advance is a predetermined value. If it is less than, the print format is set so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, and if the ratio is equal to or more than the predetermined value, the document information existing on the page is A print control method is characterized in that a print format is set so as to be evenly distributed within the document, and the document information is printed based on the set print format. 4. A final page or a page having page break information is detected from document information consisting of a plurality of pages, and the number of lines existing on the page is determined according to the ratio of the number of lines existing in the page and the number of lines in a page that has been preformatted. , Set the print format so that the document information existing on the page fits within the previous page, or set the print format so that the document information existing on the page is evenly allocated within the page. A printing control method characterized in that the document information is printed based on the printed format.