JPH06297803A - Printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a printer capable of outputting text in an expression mode in accordance with a form without newly assigning expression mode instruction information related to an expression mode, such as enlargement or reduction, together with text information. CONSTITUTION:A form memory 18 is provided for previously storing form information composed of information related to the shape of a form and information of an instruction of a text expression mode at every position of the form. At the printing of the text, in accordance with the expression mode instruction information of the form information, the expression mode of the text is changed, and lap printing of the form is made. The form information is given to a printer 10 by communication.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing apparatus, for example, a printing apparatus which is used as an output device of a computer and performs overlay printing of forms and texts.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A printer used as a peripheral device of a computer is required to print text on a fixed form or print the text together with the form. In this case, it is often desired to change the expression form of the character of the text printed at a predetermined position of the form depending on the position. Examples of the expression form of characters used at this time include emphasis and enlargement,
Expressions by reduction, expressions by font specification and print color specification, etc. can be mentioned. Further, in recent years, a function of converting numbers and character strings into corresponding bar codes and expressing them has been desired.

A conventional printing apparatus holds information about the shape of a form such as drawing a ruled line, shading at a predetermined position, and printing characters as a form.
The form was printed with the text. In such a device, when printing is performed by changing the expression form of a part of text, text information including character information of text and instruction information of the expression form of the character is created, and the text information is sent to the device. Printing was done by giving.

Further, as a printing device for printing a bar code, a device for receiving and printing image information of a bar code, and a device for receiving a number or character string to be converted and converting this into image information of a bar code and printing it. 2 of the equipment to do
A variety of devices are known. The former merely prints the image information sent from the host computer, and in this case, the host computer performed the process of converting numbers and character strings into bar codes. In the latter case, the printing device performs the process of converting the barcode. In addition, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 64-56572 discloses that the printing apparatus is caused to perform a part of the conversion processing into the barcode.
There is a gazette. In this apparatus, a printer prints a bar code by receiving data in which a bar code pattern composed of black bars and white bars is represented by a row of bit patterns, and the printer repeatedly outputs the bit patterns.

Further, as a printing apparatus for performing multicolor printing at the time of form overlay printing, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-19337 is known.
There is one disclosed in Japanese Patent No. This is to overlay and print the form and the text in different colors, and not to change the print color of a part of the text.

[0006]

As described above, in any of the conventional printing apparatuses, when the expression form of text is changed, the character to be printed is specified and the expression form used for the character is changed to the text form. It was necessary to specify with. For example, in the case of enlarging and printing one line in the text, it is necessary to transmit the expression form instruction information for instructing the enlarging printing to the printing device before transmitting the one line of the text. The same applies to barcode printing and color designation printing.

In overlay printing of a form and a text, the expression form of the printed text is fixed for each position of the form, and one form is used in combination with a plurality of texts. Is. In this way, specifying the expression form that can be associated with the form together with each text not only increases the capacity of the text information, but also causes the following problems.

For example, consider the case where form overlay printing is performed on a text created using a word processor on a large computer. In this case, text information is often passed to a large-scale computer via a storage medium such as a magnetic disk, but the storage form of the text information differs depending on the system used, and there is also expression form instruction information for instructing expansion in a word processor. A printing device connected to the large-scale computer may instruct a different operation. As this storage form, there is one that is stored as one text file containing expression form instruction information, or as two files, a text file containing only character information and an expression information file that specifies that expression information. . Therefore, in printing such as this case, the user is familiar with the knowledge about the expression form instruction information and the storage form of both systems, and changes each expression form instruction information so as to be compatible with the printing apparatus that prints. There is a need. This work is very labor intensive.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an expression form such as enlargement, reduction, font selection, bar code conversion, etc., in which the text is associated with each position of the form without designating the expression form instruction information together with the text information. It is to provide a printing device capable of outputting.

Another object of the present invention is to expand even if the text information in which the expression form instruction information has already been inserted is used, without limiting to the expression form instruction information, and corresponding to each position of the form. Another object of the present invention is to provide a printing device capable of outputting text in a desired expression form such as, reduction, font selection, and bar code conversion.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing text information on the page and a position of the form. Form information storage means for storing the expression form of the text in the form as form information, text information expansion means for expanding the text information according to the expression form of the form information, and the expanded text information and the form corresponding to the expression form are overlapped. And a printing unit for printing together.

That is, according to the first aspect of the invention, the form to be superimposed on the text and the expression form of the text at each position of the form are stored in advance in the printing device, and when the text is printed on this form,
The text is processed, developed, and printed so that the form of expression stored at the position of the form is represented at each position. This achieves the purpose of printing the text in the expression form corresponding to the form without designating the expression form instruction information together with the text information. Here, the expression form of text means, for example, an expression form such as a size of a text character, a font type, a color to be printed, and bar coding.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing the text information on the page in a superimposed manner, and a text expression form at each position of the form. Form information storage means for storing as form information,
Text output format selecting means for selecting whether to convert the expression form according to the expression form stored in the form information storing means at the time of outputting the text information, and text for expanding the text information according to the selected text output form It is provided with a developing means and a printing means for printing by superimposing the developed text information and the form corresponding to the expression form.

That is, according to the second aspect of the invention, the form to be superimposed on the text and the expression form of the text at each position of the form are stored in advance in the printing device, and when the text is printed on this form,
In accordance with the output style selected by the text output style selecting means, the text is changed to the expression form indicated by the form information and expanded, or expanded in the default expression form and printed. This achieves the purpose of converting text to an expression form corresponding to the form and printing without specifying the expression form instruction information together with the text information, and enables text output that does not depend on the expression form of the form. There is.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, a text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form printable on the page by superimposing the text information on the page, and an expression form of the text at each position of the form. And form information storing means for storing the following as form information, text information expanding means for expanding the text information according to the expression form of the form information, and form printing acceptance / rejection selecting means for selecting whether or not to print the form in the form information. , When the printing of the form is selected by this form printing acceptance / rejection selecting means, the form is printed by being superimposed on the text information expanded by the text information expanding means, and in other cases, only the expanded text information is printed. And a printing means for performing.

That is, according to the third aspect of the invention, the form to be superimposed on the text and the expression form of the text at each position of the form are stored in advance in the printing device, and when the text is printed on this form,
According to the expression form at each position of the form stored together with the form, the expression form of the text is converted, expanded, and printed. At this time, whether or not to overlay the text on the form is selected by the print acceptance / rejection selection means. With these, it is possible to achieve the purpose of printing text in the expression form corresponding to the form without specifying the expression form instruction information together with the text information, and to print on the paper on which the form has already been printed. The present printing device can be used as a device for converting the expression form of characters.

According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing the text information on the page and a form of expressing the text at each position of the form. Form information storage means for storing as form information,
An expression form storage means for storing expression form information sent from the outside with respect to the text information, an output of the text information in the expression form sent from the outside, and an output of the text information in the expression form stored as the form information. A text output style selecting means for selecting, a text information expanding means for expanding the text information according to the selected text output style, and a printing means for printing by superimposing the expanded text information and a form corresponding to the expression form. It is equipped with.

That is, according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the form to be superimposed on the text and the expression form of the text at each position of the form are stored in advance in the printing apparatus, and the expression form information is sent together with the text information. In this case, the expression selecting unit selects an expression form to be used for expanding the text, and when printing the text on the form, the text is converted so that the expression form selected by the expression selecting unit is obtained. Unfold and print. As a result, even if the expression form instruction information is inserted in the text information, it is possible to achieve the purpose of printing the text in the expression form corresponding to the form with or without using the expression form instruction information. it can.

[0019]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of a circuit configuration of a printing apparatus which is an embodiment of the present invention. The printing apparatus 10 has a central processing unit 11 and is connected to each unit described below by a bus 12. The interface controller 13 is connected to a device such as a computer (not shown) by a cable 14. The font memory 15 stores bit pattern data of various font types. The text memory 16 is the interface control unit 1.
3 is a memory for storing text information input via 3, and the form memory 18 is a memory for storing form information. The page memory 19 is a memory that stores the bit pattern after expansion, and the operating environment memory 20.
Is a memory for storing the printing style. The operation program of the printing apparatus using these memories is stored in the program memory 21. The actual printing is performed by the printing unit 22.

The operation of the printing apparatus in this embodiment is as follows.
(1) Print mode setting, (2) Form information registration,
(3) Execution of printing.

First, (1) setting of the print mode will be described. The printing device 10 has a function of printing a form and text in an overlapping manner, that is, an overlay printing function,
It has the function of converting the expression form of text. Therefore, four print modes can be selected depending on whether the overlay print function is used or not, and the function of converting the text expression form is used. There are various methods of giving this mode selection information to the printing apparatus. Here, flag data (overlay flag) for instructing whether or not overlay printing is performed prior to transmission of text information and a text expression form are used. The computer transmits the flag data (conversion mode flag) instructing whether or not to convert the. The printing apparatus selects a processing step by checking the states of these flags during printing.

In this embodiment, when the overlay flag is "1", overlay printing is performed, and when the overlay flag is any other value, only text printing is performed. When the conversion mode flag is "1", the text expression form is converted, and when the conversion mode flag is any other value, the text is printed without conversion. It should be noted that these state flags are stored in the operating environment memory, and the previous state is retained unless a new state flag is transmitted.

Next, the registration of form information (2) will be described. FIG. 2 shows an example of the configuration of the form information in this embodiment. The form information is composed of a form identifier 31, form drawing instruction information 32 and 33 that determines the form of the form, and text expression form instruction information 34 and 35 that determines the expression form of the text.

Here, a space is used as a delimiter, and the character string delimited by the space in the form information is information indicating the type of drawing, the information necessary for the drawing, and the expression form. For drawing and expression forms that require specification of the start point and size, such as expression form instruction information for instructing drawing to display a frame or enlarging characters, draw or write after the line number and column number that indicate the position of the printing start point. Information indicating the type of expression form is placed, and then the size is displayed in rows and columns. The presence or absence and the number of information (hereinafter, referred to as an operand) necessary for performing drawing or expression form depends on the type of the drawing or expression form.

For example, in the form drawing instruction information 32, "TEXT;" indicates that a character string is displayed,
"TEST FORM" indicates the character string to be displayed,
"1 CEN" indicates the character string display position. In addition,
"1 CEN" is an instruction to display such that the center of the character string is located at the center of the first line of the output page. In the form drawing instruction information 33, the starting point is 2 lines,
It is instructed to draw a frame having one digit and a size of 5 lines and 20 digits.

Similarly, the text representation form instruction information 34
Is the 3rd line text, 3 lines, 1 line from the 1st digit position, 1
Indicated in the 5-digit area ("KAKUDAIBOX")
However, at that time, it is instructed to use courier as the character font (“FONT Courier”). Here, if a value smaller than the length or height of the text character string is set as the operand of the "KAKUDAIBOX" instruction, reduction can be performed by this instruction. The fonts available are Courier, Pica, Italic, Mincho, and Gothic. The text representation form instruction information 35 includes the fifth line of the text as 5
Indicated as a bar code of the Jean standard (“JAN”) within the area of 2 lines and 10 digits from the line and 10 digit position (“BARB
OX ″) is performed. In addition to this, the code 39 and ITF (ITF) standard can be specified.

FIG. 3 shows the flow of form information registration. When the form information is input (step S101), the central processing unit stores the form information in the form memory (step S102). Next, select the drawing process according to the contents of the form drawing instruction information in the form information,
The form drawing instruction information is expanded into a bit pattern (step S103). This bit pattern is stored in an area different from the form information area of the form memory (step S104). Further, the text expression form instruction information is classified into the line number of the text to be converted and the contents of the expression form (step S105) and stored in the reference table (step S106). Here, the reference table is created in the operating environment memory.

FIG. 4 shows the contents of the reference table created when the form information of FIG. 2 is input. The reference table is composed of the line number of the text for which the expression form is designated, the content of the expression form, and the required operands. The line numbers of the non-expressive text do not exist in the table. Further, when a plurality of expression forms are designated for the same line of text, they are treated as a plurality of sets of data as shown in the figure.

Next, the operation at the time of printing (3) will be described. FIG. 5 shows the flow of the printing operation. It is assumed that the text information has already been input via the interface control unit and stored in the text memory.

First, the counter m is set to "0" (step S201). The counter m is a counter indicating the line number of the text currently being processed. Next, "1" is added to the counter m (step S20
2), the text of the m-th line is read from the text memory (step S203). If the text is not completed (step S204; N), it is selected by the conversion mode flag whether to convert the expression form (step S204).
205) Yes. Here, as described above, the conversion mode flag is set before the text information is received.
The selection is performed by checking whether the conversion mode flag in the environment memory is "1".

When the expression form is not converted (step S205; N), the text is expanded into a bit pattern using the font data in the font memory (step S206), and the expanded bit pattern is expanded into the page memory. It is stored (step S208). When the expression form is converted (step S205; Y), the expression form conversion process (step S207) is performed, and the bit pattern obtained as a processing result is stored in the page memory (step S2).
08) The details of the expression format conversion processing will be described later.

These processes are repeated as long as there are data lines, and after the end of the text (step S204), if the overlay flag is "1" (step S211;
Y), the bit pattern of the form is combined with the bit pattern of the page memory (step S212), and printing (step S213) is performed. If the overlay flag is not "1" (step S211; N), the bit pattern in the page memory is printed (step S213) without performing bit pattern synthesis.

FIG. 6 shows an expression form conversion process (step S
207) is shown. The text of one line is processed together with the counter m, and first, the reference table is searched for expression form instruction information regarding the m-th line of the text (step S301). If it does not exist (step S30)
2; N) develops the text to be processed into a bit pattern by normal processing (step S308).

When the expression form instruction information is present (step S302; Y), it is judged whether or not the instruction information is a bar code conversion instruction (step S303). If the instruction is bar code conversion (Y), the bit pattern is expanded so that the text to be processed becomes a bar code (step S307). In the case of conversion processing to another expression form (step S303; N), a font type is selected (step S304), and bit pattern expansion is performed using the selected font data (step S3).
05) is performed. If no font type is specified, the default font type is used. Then, enlargement / reduction processing is performed on the bit pattern expanded text based on an operand indicating the size (step S30).
Perform 6).

Although not shown in the flow chart for simplification, this printing apparatus is capable of two-color printing, and the second color can be designated by the expression form instruction information "COLOR". In this case, at the time of printing, a bit pattern of a color designated portion and a bit pattern of a non-color designated portion are created, and each bit pattern is printed in a designated color.

The text information in which the first line shown in FIG. 7 is composed of five lines of empty character strings is used as the form information in FIG.
8 and 9 show the print results when the operation shown in FIG.

In FIG. 8, the overlay flag is set to "1",
This is the print result when the conversion mode flag is set to "1", that is, when the text is expressed in the form of the form information and the text is superimposed and output.
As instructed by the form information, the third line of the text is enlarged and the fifth line is converted into a barcode. The second and fourth lines of text are printed in the default expression form of the printing apparatus because there is no instruction of the expression form in the form information. In FIG. 9, the overlay flag is set to “0”,
This is the print result when the conversion mode flag is set to "1". In this way, form overlay printing is not performed. This setting is used when it is desired to print only the text in the instructed form specified in the form information without printing the form, as in the case where the form has already been printed.

Further, in this embodiment, the mode selecting means based on the overlay flag and the conversion mode flag is provided, but it is also possible not to provide this means. In this case, by correcting the form information, the same result as when the above-mentioned selecting means is provided can be obtained. For example, when form information that does not include form drawing instruction information but only text expression form instruction information is created and the overlay flag is set to a value other than "1" by using this, that is, form overlay printing is performed. If not, the same result as is obtained.

Further, each memory in this embodiment does not have to be an independent memory element, and it is possible to allocate some of the memories to one memory element and divide the area for use. Further, in the present embodiment, the text expression form instruction information is received as form information together with the form drawing instruction information from the external device such as the host computer, but the text expression form instruction information may be received separately from the form drawing instruction information. It is also easy to do.
Furthermore, by incorporating an auxiliary storage device such as a magnetic disk device, storing font data that requires a large storage capacity in the auxiliary storage device, and transferring only the data required for printing to the memory, more It is also possible to configure a printing device that can use the font type.

Second embodiment

In the printing apparatus of the second embodiment described below, the intended print result can be easily obtained even if the expression form instruction information is present in the text information. The outline of the configuration of the printing apparatus according to the present embodiment is the same as that of FIG. 1, and according to which expression form instruction information, the expression form instruction information in the text information or the text expression form instruction information of the form information,
A text output style selection means for deciding whether to perform a text expression form is added.

Here, the operation of the printing apparatus will be described by taking the case where the expression information is included in the text information as an example. When there are two expression form instruction information for the text on the same line, the following four modes can be selected.

(B) When the text expression form instruction information specified in the form information is preferentially used, and the text expression form instruction information does not exist in the form information for the target text line, the text information Even if there is the expression form instruction information inside, the expression form is not performed.

(B) The text expression form instruction information specified in the form information is preferentially used, and when there is no text expression form instruction information in the form information for the target text line, the text information The expression form instruction information in the inside is used.

(C) When the expression form instruction information specified in the text information is preferentially used and there is no expression form instruction information in the text information for the target text line, the form information The text representation form instruction information in the inside is used.

(D) When the expression form instruction information specified in the text information is preferentially used and there is no expression form instruction information in the text information for the target text line, the form information Even if there is the text expression form instruction information inside, the expression form is not performed.

The case (a) is a case where all the expression form instruction information in the text information is ignored, which is particularly effective when printing the text information including the expression form instruction information created by using another system. . This is because the expression form instruction information for instructing enlargement in another printing apparatus does not always instruct enlargement in this printing apparatus. (B) and (c)
Is effective when a part of the expression form content is changed. For example, if you want to change the expression form content for one line of text information that already contains expression form instruction information,
Using (b), the expression form instruction information for the line may be inserted in the form information. Note that (c) is suitable for correcting the output result by partially correcting the text information when the output result is corrected.

Of these, (d) is normal printing of text information including expression form instruction information, and can be executed by setting the conversion mode flag to other than "1" in this printing apparatus. , The other three selection procedures are set by the selection mode flag, and here,
Selection mode flags for (a), (b), and (c) respectively
1 "," 2 ", and" 3 "are associated with each other. The setting of the selection mode flag employs a method of receiving data by communication from the outside prior to receiving the text.

FIG. 10 shows the flow of the printing operation in this embodiment, which is performed until the text is developed into the bit pattern and stored in the page memory. The text information is read in the text memory and the conversion mode flag is "
1 "and the counter m is set to" 0 ". For simplicity of description, the expression form instruction information in the text information indicates the expression form of the text of the next line. It is limited to what you do.

First, "1" is added to the counter m (step S401), and one line of text is read from the text memory (step S402). If the text has not ended (step S403; N), it is determined whether the read text is control information such as expression form instruction information (step S404). This criterion will be described later. If it is not the control information (N), the read text is character data to be printed, so the expression form conversion process (step S412) is performed, and after storing in the page memory (step S408), the process of the next line is performed. The process returns to step S401 to perform. The expression form process (step S412) is an expression form conversion process for searching the reference table already described with reference to FIG.

When the read text is the control information (step S404; Y), the process is branched by the selection mode flag (step S405). When the selection mode flag is "1", the read control information is not processed and the text of the next line is read (step S402). At this time, the process does not return to step S401 because the counter m indicates the number of lines of the text that does not include the control information, and the process of adding 1 is unnecessary.

When the selection mode flag is "3",
The text information read in step S402 is stored as expression form instruction information, and the text information to be read next (step S406) is converted into the expression form indicated by the expression form instruction information (step S4).
07) and store it in the page memory (step S408). After that, the process returns to step S401 for the processing of the next row.

When the selection mode flag is "2", the text information read in step S402 is temporarily stored as expression form instruction information, and m in the reference table is stored.
It is determined whether or not there is text representation form instruction information regarding the line (step S410). When there is no text expression form instruction information regarding the m-th line (N), a series of processes from step S402 is performed according to the temporarily stored expression form instruction information. The series of processes at this time is the same as when the selection mode flag is "3". When the text representation form instruction information regarding the m-th line is present in the reference table (step S410; Y), the text is set to 1
The line is read (step S411), the read text expression form processing (step S412) is performed in accordance with the retrieved text expression form instruction information, and the text is stored in the page memory (step S408). The selection as described above is performed by such a flow.

Here, it is judged whether or not it is the control information (step S404), the first byte of the read data is "01" to "1F"("0A","0" in hexadecimal notation).
Judgment is made based on whether it is "C" or "0D".
This is because many of the control instructions of existing printers begin with these codes. Note that "0A" and "0
C "and" 0D "are generally used to mean line feed, form feed, and carriage return, respectively, although not described in detail.
Again, since it is used as a line break command and a delimiter for text information, it is not judged.

When text information including control information created by another system using the printing apparatus shown in the present embodiment is printed with the selection mode flag set to "1", the control statement in the text information is ignored. It was confirmed that printing was possible with the expression form specified in the form information.

In this embodiment, the case where the information indicating the expression form is included in the text and sent is described. However, in this printing apparatus, the expression form instruction information is sent separately from the text. The same processing can be carried out even in the case of being received. In this case, the second reference table is created from the sent expression form instruction information, this is compared with the existing reference table, and the reference table to be finally used is created from these.
Printing is performed by converting the expression form based on this.

In the two embodiments described above, each flag is set by receiving the flag data from the host computer. However, an input device such as an operation panel may be provided on the printing device. It is also easy to provide and set the flag accordingly. Further, it is possible to set the text representation form instruction information in the form information by using the operation panel.

[0059]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the text is displayed together with the form in a form corresponding to the form such as enlargement or bar code conversion without designating the form form instruction information together with the text information. Since overlay printing is possible, text information can be easily created, and the text information file can be created by another system.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the text can be overlay-printed with the form in an expression form such as enlargement or bar code conversion corresponding to the form without designating the expression form instruction information together with the text information. Therefore, the text information can be easily created, and the text information file can be created by another system. Further, since it is possible to select whether or not to use the expression form in the form information as the expression form of the text, it is possible to perform test printing in which the text information is printed as it is.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the text can be overlay-printed with the form in an expression form such as enlargement or bar coding corresponding to the form without designating the expression form instruction information together with the text information. Therefore, the text information can be easily created, and the text information file can be created by another system. In addition, you can select whether or not to print the form overlaid, so you can print on the paper on which the form is already printed, and convert the expression form of the text.
For example, it can be used as a printing device that performs conversion such as enlarging or reducing the whole.

According to the invention of claim 4, form overlay printing accompanied by expression forms such as text enlargement and bar code conversion can be performed without designating the expression form instruction information together with the text information, and the expression form instruction is also possible. Form overlay printing can be performed in various modes on the text information in which the information is inserted. As modes, there are a mode in which all the expression form instruction information in the text information is ignored, and a mode in which both of the expression form instruction information in the text information and the expression form instruction information in the form information are used. The former is effective when printing text information created by another system with this printing device, for example, when printing text information created by designating an expression form in a word processor. This is because when the expression form instruction information in the text information created by another system indicates an operation different from the intention of the creator of the text information in this printing device, in a normal printing device, While it is necessary to edit the expression form instruction information in the text, this printing device can ignore all the expression form instruction information in the text, so you can print in the desired expression form without editing the text information. It can be done. The latter is effective when a part of the print result is corrected.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a printing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing one format of the contents of form information in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of registration of form information in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of a reference table created based on the form information of FIG. 2 in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of a printing operation of the printing apparatus according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of an expression form process for converting a text character into an expression form instructed by form information in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of text information used in the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a print result when the expression form is converted using the text information of FIG. 7 and the form information of FIG. 2 in the first embodiment, and the forms are overlapped and output. .

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a print result when the expression form is converted using the text information of FIG. 7 and the form information of FIG. 2 in the first embodiment and output is performed without overlapping the forms. is there.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a branch of a text representation form conversion process by a selection mode flag in the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Printing device, 11 ... Central processing unit, 12 ... Bus, 1
3 ... Interface control unit, 14 ... Cable, 15 ...
Font memory, 16 ... Text memory, 18 ... Form memory, 19 ... Page memory, 20 ... Operating environment memory, 21 ... Program memory, 22 ... Printing section, 31 ... Form identifier, 32, 33 ... Form drawing instruction information, 3
4, 35 ... Text representation form instruction information

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[Claims] 1. A text information storage unit for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing text information on this page and a representation form of text at each position of this form are stored as form information. The information processing apparatus further comprises form information storage means, text information expansion means for expanding the text information according to the expression form of the form information, and printing means for superposing the expanded text information and the form corresponding to the expression form for printing. A printing device characterized by the above. 2. A text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing the text information on the page and a representation form of text at each position of the form are stored as form information. Form information storage means, text output style selecting means for selecting whether to convert the expression style according to the expression style when outputting the text information, and text expansion for expanding the text information according to the selected text output style. A printing apparatus comprising: a printing unit and a printing unit that prints by superposing the developed text information and a form corresponding to the expression form. 3. A text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form printable on the page with the text information and a text representation form at each position of the form are stored as form information. Form information storing means, text information expanding means for expanding text information according to the expression form of the form information, form print acceptance / rejection selecting means for selecting whether or not to print the form in the form information, and this form printing When the printing of the form is selected by the adoption / non-adoption selecting means, the form is printed by being superimposed on the text information expanded by the text information expanding means, and in other cases, a printing means for printing only the expanded text information. A printing apparatus comprising: 4. Text information storage means for storing text information of a page to be printed, a form for printing text information on this page and a text representation form at each position of this form are stored as form information. Form information storage means, expression form storage means for storing expression form information sent from outside with respect to text information, output of text information according to the expression form sent from the outside, and expression form stored as form information Text output style selecting means for selecting output of text information by, text information expanding means for expanding text information according to the selected text output style, and the expanded text information and the form corresponding to the expression form are overlaid. And a printing means for printing together. Printing apparatus.