JPH06348693A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a document processor capable of easily grasping page arrangement or the like in the case of surface assembly printing a document. CONSTITUTION:In the case of surface assembly printing the document edited by this document processor, a printing form 21 is displayed on a display device. Respective editing forms 22 are displayed based on information for performing surface assembly printing such as a surface assembling number or the like inside the printing form 21. Further, a registers 23, binding margins and the page numbers of respective pages are displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus capable of improving work efficiency when imposing and printing a created document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional document processing apparatus, a print preview display is provided so that a print actual image of a created document can be confirmed on a display screen.

[0003]

However, in the above-described conventional document processing apparatus, the print preview display is intended only for printing each page in the document on the print sheet, and the print sheet is printed during imposition printing. It has been difficult to know how each page is arranged in the paper, whether the print data fits on the printing paper, and the like.

In view of this point, an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of displaying and confirming print results of a plurality of pages in advance.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has means for displaying a part of the elements of a print image to be imposition printed as a print preview.

[0006]

According to the present invention, by the above means, it is possible to display, as a print preview, some elements of the print image to be imposition printed.

[0007]

EXAMPLES Examples according to the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a control section for controlling the entire apparatus, 2 is an input section for inputting data, and 3 is this document. A data storage unit 4 that stores information about a document edited by the processing device as a document file 11 as shown in FIG. 2 is a document edit processing unit that performs document edit processing under the control of the control unit 1. Reference numeral 5 denotes a print control unit that creates print data based on the document file 11 stored in the data storage unit 3 and outputs the document to the printer 6. Reference numeral 7 denotes a document edited by the document edit processing unit 4. CRT8
Is a display control unit for displaying.

Next, the document file 11 stored in the data storage unit 3 will be described with reference to the data structure diagram of the document file 11 shown in FIG.

The document file 11 is stored in the data storage unit 3 with a document name attached to each document edited by the document edit processing unit 4. Each document file 11 has the above-mentioned document name, format information relating to the appearance of the document such as character size, document data including character codes, and print information for printing the document.

The print information includes a print paper size indicating the size of the paper on which the document is printed, an edit paper size indicating the page size of the edited document, and a surface for imposition printing the document on the paper having the above-mentioned print paper size. Number of pages, distance between pages for arranging each page of a document on printing paper in imposition printing, number of printing plates to be printed (for example, set from 1st plate front to 3rd plate back), flat plate Right binding, left binding, saddle stitching, bag binding,
It has a binding type that indicates the binding method at the time of binding, such as top-opening. The page layout in the printing paper for imposition printing is determined according to the binding type and the number of impositions.

The operation of the document processing apparatus of the present embodiment constructed as above will be described below.

When a document to be printed is designated from the input unit 2, the control unit 1 reads out the designated document from the data storage unit 3 and instructs the print control unit 5 to print. The print control unit 5 expands the document data in an image memory (not shown) included in the print control unit 5 based on the format information and the print information in the document file 11 and outputs it to the printer 6.

However, at this time, the boundary of the editing paper, the page number,
Since binding white etc. is not printed, it is difficult to grasp the balance of page layout in the printing paper when imposition printing is performed. Also, check whether the print data is stored in the printing paper without actually printing. Hard to do. Therefore, the document processing apparatus of this embodiment can display or print these pieces of information as a print preview.

The process of displaying the print preview will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3 and the display example of FIG.

When the document for print preview display and the edition number to be displayed are designated from the input unit 2, the control unit 1 reads the corresponding document file 11 from the data storage unit 3 and sends it to the display control unit 7. Instruct print preview display.

First, in step 1, the display control unit 7 causes a display memory (not shown) included in the display control unit 7 to
In accordance with the print paper size in the print information, the print paper 21 is drawn in a solid rectangle, and then in step 2, the edit paper 22 is drawn in a dashed rectangle in the print paper 21 drawn in step 1 according to the edit paper size and the inter-page distance. draw. Further, in step 3, the registration mark 23 is drawn.

The display control unit 7 determines the number of pages to be printed in the print information, the binding type, and the version number designated by the input unit 2.
After determining which page is to be laid out in which direction (the page layout within a plate is uniquely determined depending on the number of pages to be printed and the binding type), as shown in FIG. The corresponding page number is drawn in the rectangle in the direction in which each page is printed. Then, in step 5, the position of the binding white is determined based on the page arrangement determined in step 4, and the binding white mark 24 is drawn.

After the processing up to step 5, in step 6, the display control section 7 causes the CRT 8 to display the print preview data drawn in the display memory. Here, in step 7, the display control unit 7 determines whether to display the print preview displayed from the input unit 2 and the display control unit 7 displays the print preview in Step 8 only when there is an instruction to print. The data in the memory is transferred to the print control unit 5 via the control unit 1, and the printing on the printer 6 is performed.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the work layout is improved because the page layout to be printed, the orientation of each page, etc. can be confirmed by the print preview before imposition printing.

[0021]

According to the present invention, storage means for storing a document file containing imposition printing information, and a print control section for performing imposition printing based on the document file stored in the storage means are provided.
The document is imposition printed because it has a display unit that displays a part of the elements of the print image that is imposition printed by the print controller based on the document file stored in the storage unit as a print preview. When doing so, the page layout and the like can be easily confirmed, and the work efficiency is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a data configuration diagram of a document file of the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a print preview display process of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a print preview in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 control unit 2 input unit 3 data storage unit 4 document edit processing unit 5 print control unit 6 printer 7 display control unit 8 CRT

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for storing a document file containing imposition print information, a print control unit for performing imposition printing based on the document file stored in the storage unit, and a document stored in the storage unit. A document processing apparatus, comprising: a display unit that displays a part of elements of a print image to be imposition printed by the print control unit based on a file as a print preview.