JPH0652158A - Document processor with frame editing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To designate the frame numbers of cards and the number of the cards in a printing order at the time of printing plural pieces of card data, to improve operability and to generate the various cards. CONSTITUTION:An input means 101 inputting paper information for generating the frame of a paper layout on a screen, frame information including the frame numbers and printing information for printing data within a prescribed frame, an input information storage means 102 storing respective pieces of information, a data development means 103 developing printing information of the frame number concerned into printing data, a printing means 104 printing developed printing information, a selection means 105 selecting the frame numbers in the printing order, a frame number storage means 106 exchanging the frame numbers in the printing order and storing them, a number designation means 107 designating the corresponding number for the respective frame numbers, a number storage means 108 storing the number of data, a counting means 109 counting a numeric value whenever printing data is printed and a judgement means 110 comparing the number of data on the frame number concerned with the counted numeric value and judging whether the printing of the number of data on the frame number concerned is terminated or not 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 processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor or a computer capable of creating documents in Japanese, and more particularly, it sets a frame on the screen and edits information in the frame. The present invention relates to a document processing device with a frame editing function capable of printing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a document processing apparatus as described above,
A frame with a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper is set on the screen, the frame is divided into the desired size, and the divided sections are edited as if they were one page. Usually, it is possible to perform editing in units of sections called column editing and block editing.

Further, in such a document processing apparatus, in order to print on a card, a ticket, etc., a text for one section is input, and the text is copied and printed in a plurality of sections, so-called repetitive printing. Some cards have the function of, and when performing such repetitive printing, the basic format and the number of copies of the card are specified and the repetitive printing is performed.

That is, during repetitive printing, normally, a roll paper is used as a printing paper, and the same data (for example, the same pattern for a card) is repeatedly printed on the roll paper, and after printing, the user uses a cutter. The printed cards are cut into pieces one by one.

[0005]

However, in such a conventional document processing apparatus, when the pattern of the card is repeatedly printed on the roll paper as described above, for example, when there are cards of different types. Since the number of copies can be specified for only one type of card, the number of copies must be specified for each card after the printing process is completed. In addition, although the patterns on the card are stored in the order in which they were input, when changing and printing the patterns, it was not possible to change the order of the partitions and print, which complicates the operation. It took a lot of time.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and allows the number of copies to be printed for each card before printing, and the layout (section) order of the cards to be printed is selected. A document processing device with a frame editing function is provided.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention sets a plurality of frames on a screen, and information is set within the frame. In a document processing apparatus capable of editing and printing a frame, frame information including a frame information including a frame number and a frame number for creating a frame of a sheet layout on a screen, and a predetermined frame based on the sheet information and the frame information. The input means 101 for inputting print information for printing on the input, the input information storage means 102 for storing each information input from the input means 101, and the respective information stored in the input information storage means 102 Expansion means 1 for reading out the print information of the frame number and expanding it into print data
03 and printing means 10 for printing the expanded print data
4, selection means 105 for selecting the frame numbers in the order of printing in order to change the paper layout to be printed, frame number storage means 106 for storing the selected frame numbers in the order of printing, and the stored frame numbers. A copy number designating unit 107 for designating a corresponding copy number, a copy number storage unit 108 for storing the number of copies for each designated frame number, a counting unit 109 for counting a numerical value each time print data is printed, and a copy number storage unit. A determination unit 110 that determines whether or not printing of the number of copies of the corresponding frame number is completed by comparing the number of copies of the corresponding frame number read from the unit 108 and the counted value is provided. When the printing is completed, the determination unit 110 reads out the number of copies of the frame number to be printed next from the copy number storage unit 108, initializes the numerical value of the count unit 109, and expands it. A frame editing function document processing apparatus characterized by an instruction to sequentially deploy the print information of the read frame number to the stage 103 to the print data.

The input information storage means 102, the frame number storage means 106, and the number-of-copies storage means 108 according to the present invention.
For this purpose, an internal memory such as a RAM or an external memory such as a floppy disk device or a magnetic disk device is mainly used.

An input device such as a keyboard device, a tablet device, a pointing device, or a touch panel is used as the input device 101, the selection device 105, and the copy number specification device 107.

As the expanding means 103, the counting means 109 and the judging means 110, a CPU, a ROM, a RAM and an I
It is convenient to use a microcomputer consisting of an / O port.

As the printing means 104, a dot matrix type thermal printer, a laser printer, an ink jet printer or the like is used.

[0012]

According to the present invention, the input means 1 shown in FIG.
When the frame information including the frame information for creating the frame of the sheet layout and the frame number and the print information for printing within the predetermined frame based on the sheet information and the frame information are input from 02, Each input information is stored in the input information storage means 102. After that, the print information of the corresponding frame number is read out from each information stored by the expanding unit 103 and expanded into print data, and the expanded print data is printed by the printing unit 104. And before printing
When the frame numbers are selected in the order of printing in order to change the paper layout to be printed by the selection unit 105, the selected frame numbers are replaced in the order of printing and stored in the frame number storage unit 106. When the number of copies corresponding to each frame number stored is specified by the number-of-copies designating unit 107, the number of copies for each designated frame number is stored in the number-of-copies storage unit 108. At the time of printing, a numerical value is counted every time the print data is printed by the counting unit 109, and the number of copies of the corresponding frame number read from the number-of-copies storage unit 108 is compared with the counted number to print the number of copies of the corresponding frame number. The determination means 110 determines whether or not the process has ended.

Therefore, when the printing of the number of copies of the corresponding frame number is completed, the determining means 110 reads the number of copies of the frame number to be printed next from the number of copies storing means 108 and the counting means 10
Since the numerical value of 9 is initialized and the expansion means 103 is instructed to sequentially expand the read print information of the frame numbers into the print data, it becomes possible to print the specified number of copies for each frame number. The frame number can be selected in the order of printing in order to change the paper layout to be printed by the selection unit 105.

For example, when the print information in each frame is a ticket or a card, if the number of copies and the cut position are designated for each card to be printed, a plurality of cards of a plurality of types are automatically generated. It will be possible to create. Further, since the printing order of the frame numbers can be selected without complicated operations, various cards can be created.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. The present invention is not limited to this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor. This Japanese word processor can set a frame on the screen, edit information in the frame, and print.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a keyboard provided with kana character keys, numerical keys, kana-kanji conversion keys, function keys and the like. During the frame editing process, a frame having a size corresponding to the maximum print area of the paper is divided, and various kinds of information that can be printed on the card as the divided block are input from the keyboard 1 and the card When printing, the character strings, graphics, images, etc. printed on each card
The frame number to be printed, the number of copies for each frame number, the card number, and the cut position are specified.

Reference numeral 2 is a control unit composed of a CPU for controlling the operation of this system. Reference numeral 3 denotes a program memory including a ROM, which is a program for original document creation / editing of a Japanese word processor, a card creation program of the present invention, a program for printing the number of copies of each card, and a frame number. Stores the program for changing. The control unit 2 performs various data processing by these programs written in the program memory 3.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a card format memory including a RAM, which stores layout information and cut position information of a card, which is a divided section. Reference numeral 5 denotes a card data memory including a RAM, in which card creation data input from the keyboard 1 is stored. Reference numeral 6 is a number memory composed of a RAM, and is composed of an area for storing a card number to be attached to a card when the cards are continuously printed and an area for storing the number of copies for each frame number. Further, since the frame number is stored in one area of the card format memory 4 in which layout information is stored (see FIG. 4), an area for storing the number of copies for each frame number may be further provided and stored. .

Reference numeral 7 denotes a frame number table pointer composed of a RAM, which stores a frame number to be printed. Reference numeral 8 is a printing memory including a RAM for expanding card data for actual printing. Reference numeral 9 denotes a display device including a CRT display device and an LC (liquid crystal) display device, on which various card data and a series of operations are displayed.
Reference numeral 10 denotes a printing device such as a dot-matrix type thermal printer or laser printer that outputs a printing result.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view showing the external appearance of the printing apparatus 10. As shown in the figure, when the printing apparatus 10 uses roll paper, the roll paper is cut in the middle. It has a built-in cutter.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the stored contents of the card format memory 4. As shown in this figure, the card format memory 4 stores paper information and frame information 1 to m. The paper information is information on format setting and tab setting, and information such as paper size and left / right / upper and lower margins is set.

The frame information 1 to m are set by the number of frames to be set, and the frame start information, the frame size information, the frame attributes, and
It is composed of frame numbers. The frame start information represents the coordinate value of the upper left corner on the printing paper of the divided section in millimeter units. The frame size information represents the vertical length and the horizontal length of the divided section in millimeters. The frame attribute indicates the property of the section such as an input prohibited frame as a section in which no data is input, or graphic data such as a graph or an image. The frame number is the order of the divided sections, and is set for the case where the frames are sequentially numbered.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the stored contents of the card data memory 5. As shown in this figure, the card data memory 5 stores character string information, graphic information, and image information.

The character string information is composed of actual character string data such as kanji and kana, and coordinate data indicating where the character string data is located. The graphic information is divided into various graphic data such as line segment data, band data, circle data, and parabolic data, each of which is composed of coordinate data and graphic data. The image information is composed of coordinate data and image data. The image data is image data formed by dots, and actually the numerical value of the pointer is stored, and the image data indicated by the dot is stored at the position on the memory indicated by the pointer.

Further, the character string information, the graphic information, and the image information are respectively provided with flags indicating whether the data is common to each card or the data changed for each card. "0" is recorded when the data is common to each card, and "1" is recorded when the data is changed for each card.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the frame numbers of the paper layout of the card to be printed. As shown in the figure, a plurality of cards with frame numbers # to # 1 are laid out on the card edit screen, and the frame information is the card format memory 4
Card data such as character string information, graphic information, and image information corresponding to the frame numbers 1 to 4 is stored in the card data memory 5.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a print sample of a card. As shown in the figure, for example, the frame numbers stored in the card data memory 5 and the card data of the frame numbers are read, and the card data stored as the frame numbers shown in FIG. Copy the stored card data to the next three cards and add 00
An example of a print sample of a card in which the card numbers 1 to 003 are read out from the card number memory 6 and added is shown.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a display example of an input screen for designating the number of copies of the frame number. As shown in the figure, in the pre-processing of print designation, use the [Convert] key or the cursor [↓] key to move to the next frame number, and the [Previous candidate] key or the cursor [↑] key to move to the previous frame number. Switch and enter the number of copies of the frame number with the numeric keys. After that, in the print process, if you press the Enter key,
The data of the specified frame number of the card is sequentially expanded.

When the number of copies is specified for each card and the cutting position is further specified in the printing process, the cutting position notation is printed, so an automatic cutter or the like for automatically cutting the set roll paper is used. It is possible to create a card as shown in FIG. It is also possible to sequentially add numbers to the same print data that is repeatedly printed, such as an admission ticket, and print.

Next, the contents of the processing operation of the control unit 2 for performing such copy number printing for each card will be described with reference to the flowchart of the print development routine shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the print expansion processing in the present invention. In the figure, when printing, the frame number of the card to be printed first (initial value)
Is set to the frame number table pointer that stores the frame number to be printed (step S01). Then, it is checked whether the frame number of the frame number table pointer is the frame number to be printed (step S02), and if the frame number to be finally printed is completed, the process thereafter is ended. If the frame number to be printed finally has not ended, the process proceeds to step S03.

Next, the number of copies of the relevant frame number is read from the number memory 6, and the number of copies is set in the number counter for counting the number of copies (step S04). Then, it is checked whether the number of copies of the set frame number is printed and the numerical value of the number counter is "0" (step S04),
If it is not "0", the process proceeds to step S05.

The card data of the relevant frame number is read from the card data memory 5 (step S05), and the read card data is expanded in the print memory 8 (step S0).
6). Then, the expanded card data (print data) is printed via the printing device 10 (step S07). Then, the copy counter is counted down by 1 (step S0
8) and returns to step S04. Following steps S04 → S05 → S
Repeat 06->S07-> S08 to finish printing for the number of copies of the relevant frame number.

If the copy counter reaches "0" in step S04, the frame number table pointer is raised (step S09), the process returns to step S02, the frame number to be printed next is checked, and in step S03, The number of copies of the next applicable frame number is set. In this way, steps S02 to S09 are repeated to print the number of copies corresponding to each card of the specified frame number.

That is, in the repetitive printing in which a plurality of card data can be input, the order of the cards to be printed is designated, and the number of copies of each card having the designated frame number can be printed.

[0037]

According to the present invention, in the repetitive printing in which a plurality of card data can be input, the order of the cards to be printed and the number of copies for each frame number of the cards can be specified to print a plurality of sheets. Therefore, it is not necessary to specify the frame number and the number of copies every time printing is completed, operability is improved, and various cards can be created.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view showing the outer appearance of the printing apparatus 10.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card format memory 4.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing stored contents of a card data memory 5.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing frame numbers of a paper layout of a card to be printed.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a print sample of a card.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of an input screen for designating the number of copies of a frame number.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing print expansion processing according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Keyboard 2 Control Unit 3 Program Memory 4 Card Format Memory 5 Card Data Memory 6 Number Memory 7 Frame Number Table Pointer 8 Printing Memory 9 Display Device 10 Printing Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a document processing apparatus capable of setting a plurality of frames on a screen, editing the information in the frames and printing the information, paper information for creating a frame of a paper layout on the screen, and Input means for inputting frame information including a frame number and print information for printing in a predetermined frame based on the sheet information and the frame information, and an input information storage means for storing each information input from the input means. , Data expansion means for reading out the print information of the corresponding frame number from the information stored in the input information storage means and expanding it into print data, a printing means for printing the expanded print data, and a paper layout for printing. A selection unit for selecting the frame numbers to be changed in order to change the frame number, a frame number storage unit for storing the selected frame numbers in the order of printing, and a designated number of copies for each stored frame number Copy number specifying means, a copy number storing means for storing the number of copies for each specified frame number, a counting means for counting a numerical value each time print data is printed, and a copy number of the corresponding frame number read from the copy number storing means When the printing of the number of copies of the corresponding frame number is completed, the determining unit determines whether the printing of the number of copies of the corresponding frame number is completed or not. It is characterized in that the number of copies of the frame number to be printed is read from the number of copies storing means, the numerical value of the counting means is initialized, and the expansion means is instructed to sequentially expand the read print information of the frame number into print data. Document processing device with frame editing function.