JPH07134709A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow this document preparing device to correspond to multiform printing expression by forming a printing inhibiting area in a specified part. CONSTITUTION:The document preparing device is provided with a RAM 3 having a page memory for storing the printing data of a document displayed on a display screen for displaying a document in each dot, a KB 4 for specifying an optional area on the screen as a printing supressing area in each previously set mm unit, a man-machine interface such as a cross cursor, an area information buffer for storing the coordinate information of the printing suppressing area, and a CPU 1 for erasing printing data in a corresponding area stored in the page memory based upon the printing suppressing area information stored in the area information buffer.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation apparatus having a printer for printing a prepared document such as a word processor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, it has been desired that a document creating apparatus such as a word processor has a variety of printing functions.

A conventional word processor is provided with a function of printing a document or figure created on a display screen at once or by removing one of the document and the figure. It also has a function of printing a document in different colors for each character.

Further, a target printing function has been devised which enables printing by matching a desired document on the display screen with a paper printing point, and the word processor has become capable of various printing expressions.

By the way, in recent years, the usage of word processors on the user side has been diversified, and a document created by the word processor is printed on a sheet of paper or the like, and then a graphic or the like is additionally printed or a comment sentence or the like is printed. Sometimes.

In this case, while a document is being created by the word processor, a paper space is provided on the display screen in advance, the document is printed on the paper, and the print position is accurately adjusted by the aiming print function in the empty space of the paper. To print the figure.

However, in the conventional word processor, since the paper space for additional printing can be freed only for each character, even if the aiming and printing function is used, the character spacing, line spacing, etc. of the printed document may be different from that of the figure. Often the size does not fit. For this reason, too much paper space for graphic printing is taken, or too small, and print expression does not work well.

[0008]

As described above, in the above-described conventional document creating apparatus, the printing function cannot cope with the user's diversified print expression methods such as additional printing of figures and comment sentences after printing the document. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document creating apparatus which can cope with diversified print expressions of users.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a document creating apparatus of the present invention has a display unit having a display screen for displaying document data in dot units, and document data displayed on the display screen. Is stored as print data, a designating unit that designates an arbitrary region on the display screen as a print restraining region in units of a preset number of dots, and the print restraining designated by the designating unit. The first storage unit stores the information of the area, and the first storage unit based on the print inhibition area information stored in the second storage unit.
And erasing means for erasing the print data in the corresponding area stored in the storage means. Further, the document creating apparatus of the present invention includes a display unit having a display screen for displaying the document data in dot units, and printing for printing the document data according to print data corresponding to the document data displayed on the display screen. Means for designating an arbitrary area on the display screen as a print inhibition area in units of a preset number of dots; and storage means for storing information on the print inhibition area designated by the designation means. And erasing means for erasing the print data in the corresponding area based on the print inhibition area information stored in the storage means.

The document creating method of the present invention is a document creating method of displaying document data on a display screen and printing the document data, which corresponds to the step of displaying the document data on the display screen and the document data displayed on the display screen. Storing the print data to be stored in the first storage means, designating an arbitrary area on the display screen as a print inhibition area in units of a preset number of dots, and information on the designated print inhibition area. In the second storage means, and erasing the print data in the corresponding area stored in the first storage means based on the print inhibition area information stored in the second storage means. Have

According to the document creating method of the present invention, in the document creating method of displaying and printing document data on a display screen, a step of displaying the document data on the display screen and printing an arbitrary area on the display screen. Based on the step of designating a predetermined number of dots as the inhibition area, the step of storing the information of the designated print inhibition area in the storage means, and the print inhibition area information stored in the storage means,
Printing the document data excluding the print data in the corresponding area of the display screen.

[0013]

According to the present invention, at the time of printing a document, the print data of the document stored in the first storage unit is applicable based on the information of the print inhibition area on the display screen designated by the number of dots by the designation unit. The print data in the area is erased.

That is, in the document displayed on the display screen,
The print inhibition area specified by the number of dots is not printed, and the space for additional printing can be opened in the paper without considering the character spacing and line spacing of the document.

Therefore, it becomes possible to lay out a document, a figure, etc. on the paper without a feeling of strangeness, and a print expression works well. In addition, if you also use the aiming printing function, you can print better sentences.

As a result, it becomes possible to deal with diversified print expressions of the user.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

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

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a microprocessor (hereinafter referred to as CPU), which controls the entire apparatus. Two
Is a ROM, which contains programs, dictionaries, font data,
Other various data and the like are stored. A RAM 3 includes a document memory for storing code information of an input document, a control information memory for storing various control information such as a document format, a page memory for storing image data for printing, and the like. Reference numeral 4 denotes a keyboard (hereinafter referred to as KB), which is used to input characters for creating a document to the CPU 1 and
A keyboard interface (hereinafter referred to as KB-IF) 5 is used to give an instruction to activate an edit processing program or the like.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a display dot memory in which image data for display such as document data stored in the RAM 3 is stored for each screen. A display device 7 displays a document or the like on the display screen. 8 is a display control device (hereinafter referred to as display CNT)
The display device 7 is controlled to display the image data of the display dot memory 6 at a predetermined position on the display screen. 9
Is a printer (hereinafter referred to as PRT) and prints the image data stored in the page memory of the RAM 3 under the control of the printer interface (hereinafter referred to as PRT-IF) 10 and the CPU 1. Reference numeral 11 denotes an external storage device such as a floppy disk and a hard disk, which stores and reads document data stored in the RAM 3 under the control of a disk interface (hereinafter referred to as FDD / HDD-IF) 12 and the CPU 1.

Next, the operation of the document creating apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the document creating apparatus, FIG. 3 is a view showing a document currently being created, and FIG. 4 is a view showing a case where a print inhibition area is designated in the document in FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of the area information buffer, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing coordinates on the paper corresponding to the data of the area information buffer, FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of partial inhibition printing, FIG. 8 is another partial inhibition printing. It is a figure which shows an example.

In this document creating apparatus, when the character information is input by the KB 4 to print the document displayed on the display screen 7a of the display unit 7, as shown in FIG.
When the print key on KB4 is operated (step 201),
The print command from KB4 is sent to CP through KB-IF5.
Input to U1, the display device 7 is controlled by the CPU 1 and the display CNT8, and a menu for partial inhibition printing is displayed on the display screen 7a (property).

When "partially suppressed print" is selected from the property menu (step 202), the edit screen for selecting media is displayed (step 203), and if the saved sentence that has already been created and saved is to be printed. (Step 20
4) By designating the file name of the document by operating the KB4 (step 205), the document currently being displayed and being edited on the display screen 7a is stored, and the document to be printed is called up on the editing screen ( Step 206).

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, if a document currently being created, for example, a document such as "12th birthday! Congratulations" is to be printed (step 204), the execution key of KB4 must be selected. Then, the CPU 1 directly shifts to the inhibition print processing, and a man-machine interface such as a partial inhibition print range setting area A1 or a cursor (hereinafter referred to as a cross cursor) A2 for designating coordinates in dot units on the display screen 7a in the figure ( A screen (hereinafter referred to as MMI) is displayed (step 207). Here, as instructed on the MMI screen, K
When the end key or the cancel key of B4 is operated (steps 208 to 209), the CPU 1 ends the partial inhibition printing process or the inhibition area setting process.

Then, when the cross cursor A2 is moved to the upper left corner of the character string "12 years old" on the display screen 7a where the partial inhibition printing is performed by the cursor movement key of KB4 and the execution key is operated, the CPU 1 causes the partial inhibition. The starting point of the print range is set (step 210).

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 4, the CPU 1 displays an area A3 for setting the partial inhibition print range end point on the display screen 7a.
Is displayed (step 211), the cancel key is not operated (step 212), and the character string “12
When you move to the lower right corner of "Year" and press the Enter key, CP
U1 sets the end point of the partial inhibition print range (step 21).
3).

By this end point setting, the partial inhibition printing range A4
Is determined, the CPU 1 determines that the partial inhibition printing range A4
The area information of is stored in the area information buffer 51 (step 214).

As shown in FIG. 5, in the area information buffer 51, page information is stored in association with coordinate information such as start point coordinates and end point coordinates as page information.

As shown in FIG. 6, the start point coordinates and the end point coordinates are used to specify absolute coordinates with respect to the upper left end 62 of the paper 61 printed by the PRT 9 in units of mm, for example. , 1mm is calculated from multiple dot coordinates.

Then, since a partial inhibition print range may be designated in another screen, the processing of the CPU 1 returns to the start point setting MMI display (step 207). If it is not necessary to set the partial suppression print range here (step 209).
), The CPU 1 clears a partial area of the image data in the page memory based on the coordinate data of the partial inhibition print range A4 of the area information buffer 51.

The image data in which the partial area has been cleared is output to the PRT 9 under the control of the PRT-IF 10, and as shown in FIG. 7, the characters "12 years old" within the partial inhibition printing range A4 are printed on the paper 71. The document "Happy Birthday! Congratulations" is printed in the state where there is no blank (no range specification frame line, etc.) (step 215). After the printing is completed, for example, if the printed document is not a document being created (a saved sentence is printed) (step 216), the CPU
1 is a display screen 7a for displaying the original edited document before the partial inhibition printing is executed.
Call up (step 217) and end the process.

Here, another example of partial inhibition printing will be described with reference to FIG.

A print inhibition area is set so as to surround the entire document "12th birthday! Congratulations" displayed on the display screen 7a shown in FIG. 3, and diagonal printing is instructed on the entire display screen 7a. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, when the partial inhibition printing process is executed, the document “12th birthday! Congratulations” is erased on the paper 81, and diagonal lines are also present in the region where the characters are erased. Only the diagonal lines are printed around the area when there is no image.

At this time, the area line or the like designating the print inhibition area is not printed, and thereafter, the figure or the like can be neatly additionally printed in a state where there is no frame line in the empty area of the paper 81.

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of this embodiment, when the document is printed, a character string and a diagonal line which are not printed in the document displayed on the display screen 7a of the display unit 7 are displayed by the cross cursor A2 in mm. You can finely specify the print suppression range A4 without being restricted by the line spacing and character spacing of the document by specifying the unit of 2 points. Therefore, after printing the document with the character strings in the range A4 excluded, you can draw a graphic or Layout printing can be performed so that comment sentences and the like can be matched. That is, it is possible to specify a range in which a graphic or the like is additionally printed within a range smaller than the size of the font, so that the entire print text can be improved.

Further, according to this document creating apparatus, when the document is printed, only a part of the image data for printing is erased from the page memory, and the code information of the document being created or edited is held in the RAM 3. Therefore, the document creation and editing work can be continued after the partial inhibition printing.

[0037]

As described above, according to the document creating apparatus of the present invention, at the time of printing a document, the print data in the area is created based on the information of the print inhibition area designated by the number of dots by the designating means. Since the data is erased, it becomes possible to print a blank area in the document by matching a figure and the like without being restricted by the character spacing or line spacing of the document being displayed on the display screen.

As a result, it becomes possible to deal with a variety of print expressions of the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this document creation device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a document currently being created.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of designation of a print inhibition area on a display screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of an area information buffer 51 of the document creating apparatus.

6 is a diagram showing coordinates on a sheet corresponding to coordinate data in an area information buffer 51 in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which partial inhibition printing is performed on a sheet.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating another example in which partial suppression printing is performed on a sheet.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Microprocessor, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4
… Keyboard, 5… Keyboard interface, 6…
Display dot memory, 7 ... Display device, 8 ... Display control device, 9 ... Printer, 10 ... Printer interface,
11 ... External storage device, 12 ... Disk interface, 51 ... Area information buffer.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A display unit having a display screen for displaying document data in dot units, a first storage unit for storing the document data displayed on the display screen as print data, and an arbitrary region on the display screen. As a print inhibition area, designation means for designating in units of a preset number of dots, second storage means for storing information of the print inhibition area designated by the designation means, and the second storage means. And a delete unit that deletes the print data in the corresponding region stored in the first storage unit based on the print inhibition region information. 2. A display unit having a display screen for displaying document data in dot units, a printing unit for printing the document data according to print data corresponding to the document data displayed on the display screen, and the display. Designating means for designating an arbitrary area on the screen as a print inhibition area in units of a preset number of dots, storage means for storing information on the print inhibition area designated by the designating means, and the storage means A document creating apparatus comprising: an erasing unit that erases print data in a corresponding area based on the stored print inhibition area information. 3. A document creating method for displaying document data on a display screen and printing the document data, wherein the step of displaying the document data on the display screen and the print data corresponding to the document data displayed on the display screen Storing the information in a storage unit, designating an arbitrary region on the display screen as a print inhibition region in a unit of a preset number of dots, and storing information on the designated print inhibition region in the second storage unit. And a step of erasing the print data in the corresponding area stored in the first storage means based on the print inhibition area information stored in the second storage means. How to create a document. 4. A document creation method for displaying document data on a display screen and printing the document data, wherein the step of displaying the document data on the display screen and presetting an arbitrary area on the display screen as a print inhibition area. A specified area in the display screen based on the print restriction area information stored in the storage means; And a step of printing the document data excluding the print data in the document.