JPH07162566A - Distribution copy system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To realize a simple copy command and input operation similar to that on a platen of a conventional copying machine even under the environment of the distributed system. CONSTITUTION:When a copying machine connecting to a LAN 10 is selected, an output enable size inquiry section 5a inquires of the selected copying machine about a maximum paper size able to be outputted to acquire paper size information and gives it to an output edit section 5b. When an original to be copied is selected, an electronic original size extract section 5c extracts the original size and gives it to an output edit section 5b as original size information. The output edit section 5b displays a virtual platen resulting from emulating a platen of the copying machine based on the paper size information in a predetermined reduction rate and displays an electronic original icon corresponding to the electronic original based on the original size information, executes edit such as movement to the electronic original icon on the virtual platen and provides an output of the edit result to a job generating section 7, which generates jobs including the edit result.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a distributed copying system in which various functions of copying / printing are distributed on a network, and in particular, it realizes a user interface emulating the platens of distributed copying machines. The present invention relates to a distributed copying system that executes a reliable copying process from distributed copying instruction units.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional copying machine, a desired document (output medium) selected on a setting panel of the copying machine is set by placing an original to be copied in a predetermined area on a platen or by automatically placing the original. Was being copied to.

For example, when copying an A4 size original document to an A4 size output medium, the same size copying is performed by aligning the A4 size original document with the origin position on the platen.

Here, a part of an A4 size original is A4 size.
When it is desired to copy onto a size output medium, a part of the original can be copied by moving the A4 size original on the platen from the A4 size copy area on the platen by a desired amount. That is, copying could be performed by a simple operation of overlapping a part of the original document on the selected output medium in the area where copying is possible.

By the way, by distributing and merging various functions of a conventional copying machine, that is, a document input function, a copy instructing function, a copy processing execution function, etc. on a network, the conventional easy-to-use copying function can be used as a network system. A distributed copying system has been proposed.

[0006]

As described above, there has been proposed a distributed copying system in which various functions such as a document input function, a copy instructing function, and a copying process executing function of a conventional copying machine are distributed and arranged on a network. However, in this distributed environment, unlike the conventional copying machine, there is a case where the platen of the copying machine that desires the copy output does not exist, and it is easy to use like the conventional copying machine. Can not always say.

Here, it is considered that a device having a document input function and a copy instructing function in a distributed environment realizes a setting instruction panel included in a conventional copying machine as a user interface.

However, for example, when the distributed copying system attempts to perform the same processing as moving a document to be copied on a platen in a conventional copying machine to perform copying, the above-mentioned setting instruction is used in the distributed copying system. It is necessary to select the shift key for movement selection on the panel user interface, enter the shift amount using the numeric keypad, or edit the original document to be copied and then issue a copy instruction. However, there is a problem that it does not have various operability and cannot easily realize various copying processes.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates such a problem and realizes the same operation as the operation on the platen of a conventional copying machine even in a distributed environment, so that various copying processing instructions can be easily issued. It is an object of the present invention to provide a distributed copying system that can be used.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises a document input means for inputting information relating to a document to be copied, a copy processing content instruction means for instructing the content of copy processing for the input information as a job, and A copy process executing means for executing a copy process for the input information in accordance with the instructed content of the job, and each of the means is arranged in a distributed manner on a network and functions independently, and via the network. In the distributed copying system that executes the respective processing while exchanging information related to the copying processing, the copying processing content instruction means is an area acquisition means for acquiring the output possible area of the copying processing execution means of the designated copying destination. A document size extracting means for extracting information on the document size from the information on the document to be copied; Editing for controlling the display of the document size, and editing for editing the output format of the document by superposing and placing the document to be copied in a desired state within the outputable area displayed by the display control unit. It is characterized by comprising: a means and a generation means for generating a job including the editing information edited by the editing means.

[0011]

According to the present invention, the contents of the copying process instructed by the copying process content instruction means connected to the network with respect to the information relating to the original to be copied, which is input from the original input means or stored, is used as a job. The job is generated, the job is sent to the copy processing execution means distributed over the network via the network, and the copy processing execution means that receives this job responds to the input information according to the instructed content of the job. Execute the copy process.

At this time, the area acquisition means of the copy processing content instructing means inquires the copy processing execution means of the output destination area of the instructed copy processing execution means and acquires it.
Further, the document size extracting means extracts information on the document size from the information on the document to be copied. And
The display control means performs control to display and output the outputable area acquired by the area acquisition means and the document size extracted by the document size extraction means on a display screen. After that, the editing means arranges the originals to be copied in a desired state in a superimposed manner in the displayable output area, and outputs the originals such as moving, enlarging / reducing, rotating, merging, and overlaying. And the like, and the generating unit generates a job by including the edited result as editing information in the content of the job.

With this, even from the dispersed locations, the same simple copying operation as that on the platen of the conventional copying machine can be performed.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a distributed copying system which is an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
The end systems A to D are distributed and arranged on a local area network (LAN) 10, respectively. Each of the end systems A to D has a copy processing execution unit 21,
One or more of the paper document input unit 22, the electronic document input unit 23, and the processing content instruction unit 24 are combined.

The end system A is composed of a computer 11 and a printer 12, and functions as a copy processing execution unit 21. The end system B is composed of a computer 11 and a copying apparatus 13 or a copying apparatus 14, and functions as a copying process executing section 21 and a paper manuscript input section 22,
It also functions as the electronic document input unit 23 and the processing content instruction unit 24.

The end system C comprises a computer 11, and includes an electronic manuscript input section 23 and a processing content instruction section 2
Function as 4. The end system D includes a computer 11 and a scanner 15, and the paper document input unit 2
2. Functions as the electronic document input unit 23 and the processing content instruction unit 24.

In each of the end systems A to D, the computer and the printer or the scanner are shown separately for convenience of explanation, but the computer may be built in the printer or the scanner. .

The end systems A and B have commonality in that they have the copy processing execution unit 21, and are compared with the end systems C or D. In order to make this point easy to understand, in FIG. 1, the end systems A and B are surrounded by a broken line 31.

The end system D also includes both a paper document input section 22 (scanner 15) and an electronic document input section 23. On the other hand, the end system C includes only the electronic document input unit 23. In order to make this difference easy to understand, the end systems C and D are indicated by broken lines 3 respectively.
It is shown surrounded by 2, 33.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the end system D. In each block shown in FIG. 3, the paper document input unit 22, the electronic document input unit 23, and the processing content instruction unit 24 shown in FIG. 2 are realized.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the end system A. The copy processing execution unit 21 is realized by each block shown in FIG. Each unit (21 to 24) of the end system B is realized by each block shown in both FIG. 1 and FIG.

Now, in FIG. 1, the process starting section 3 is provided with a selection window 51 shown in FIG. The selection window 51 is a user interface displayed on the display screen of the display 16 of each computer 11, and includes icons 52 to 56.

The icon 52 of the selection window 51 represents the copying machine 13 shown in FIG. Similarly icon 5
Reference numerals 3 to 56 represent the copying apparatus 14, the printer 12, the scanner 15, and the electronic document holder 4, respectively. The electronic document holder 4 corresponding to the icon 56 is realized by an external storage device (not shown) in each computer 11 and holds a file of an electronic document.

The process starting part 3 is provided with each of these icons 52.
The user's operation on the items 56 to 56 is detected, information regarding the operation content is supplied to the processing content input unit 5, and the processing content input unit 5 is activated.

The processing content input section 5 includes a copying machine panel window 61 shown in FIG.

The copier panel window 61 is displayed on the display screen of the display 16 of each computer 11, and various buttons and a display section are provided in the window. That is, reference numerals 62 to 68 denote copy processing content selection buttons, which are the same as those provided in a conventional copying machine. A copy processing content can be selected by placing a cursor (not shown) on each button and clicking the button 18 of the mouse 17.

The copy processing items which can be operated by the buttons 62 to 68 are displayed corresponding to the respective buttons. Also,
A default value is set for each copy processing item, and this default value is stored in a copy parameter table (not shown). When the default value is updated, the updated value is set as the default value.

Buttons 69 to 73 are operation buttons,
Similarly, operate with the mouse. An area 81 is a device status display section, and like the conventional copying machine, whether or not copying is possible, the number of copies,
Display the details of the error. An area 82 is an electronic manuscript display section used to display the selected electronic manuscript. The file name of the electronic document is displayed here, and when there are many electronic documents to be displayed, the display can be scrolled by the buttons 84 and 85 to display all the selected file names.

In the area 87, a name of the processing execution section name display section, in which the names of the currently selected copy processing execution sections 12 to 14 are displayed. In FIG. 4, the copying machine 13 is selected and its name “copier 13” is displayed.

Now, returning to FIG. 1, the electronic manuscript management section 6
The image data read by the scanner 15 is stored in the electronic document holder 4 and read out. The electronic manuscript management unit 6 serves as a user interface, and an image storage window (not shown) used when storing image data in the electronic manuscript holding unit 4 as an electronic manuscript file,
Further, it has an electronic manuscript selection window 92 shown in FIG. 5 which is used for listing, searching and reading out electronic manuscript files stored in the electronic manuscript holder 4. In order to register the electronic manuscript selected in the electronic manuscript selection window 92 in the processing content instruction section, the electronic manuscript selection section 83 of the copier panel window 61 of FIG. 4 is used.

The image reading section 1 is composed of a scanner 15 and its driver, and reads an image of a paper original placed on the scanner 15. The image processing unit 2 performs predetermined image processing such as noise removal and data compression on this image data. The processed image data is supplied to the electronic manuscript management unit 6 when stored as an electronic manuscript,
Further, when the copying process is performed, it is supplied to the job generating unit 7.

When the area E1 (platen display) of the copying machine panel window 61 of the copying machine (copying process executing section) selected and designated by the processing content inputting section 5 is selected by the output possible size inquiry section 5a, the LAN 10 is displayed. The selected copy processing execution unit is queried via to obtain sheet size information that can be output from the copying machine. Then, the obtained paper size information is supplied to the output editing unit 5b. In addition, the acquisition of the paper size information that can be output by this copier is
Instead of inquiring directly to the individual copy processing execution units, an inquiry may be made to the management device that centrally manages the information of the copying machine.

When the document to be copied is selected in the electronic document selection window 92 of the electronic document management unit 6, the electronic document size extraction unit 5c supplies the document data which is the text data of the document to the job generation unit 7. At the same time, it is supplied to the electronic document size extracting section 5c. Further, even when the image processing unit 2 does not process the document read by the image reading unit 1, this document data is supplied to the job generation unit 7 but also to the electronic document size extraction unit 5c. To be done.

The electronic document size extracting section 5c extracts the size of the document data from the inputted document data. For example, Postscript is a page description language.
"%% BoundingBox" if the data is written in pt)
The size of the manuscript data can be extracted from the size. If the description "%% BoundingBox" does not exist, the postscript data content is parsed to extract the document size. Also, if the page description language or print language other than Postscript is used, similarly, if there is a description indicating the size, refer to it.
If there is no description indicating the size, parsing is performed to extract the document size. On the other hand, in the case of the image information read by the image reading unit 1, the size of the document size when the document is read is detected by a sensor or the like of the document reading unit 1, and the detected document size is set as the image size. By adding the document size information to the information and supplying the document data to which the document size information is added to the electronic document size extracting unit 5c, the electronic document size extracting unit 5c extracts the document size.

When outputtable paper size information is input from the outputable size inquiry unit 5a, the output editing unit 5b opens a virtual platen window 91 shown in FIG. 4 and based on the input paper size information. Window 91
The virtual platen 93 of the inquired copying machine is displayed and output. The virtual platen 93 emulates the platen of the inquired copying machine, and the size displayed on the display screen is a reduction ratio R of a predetermined similar shape to the inquired actual platen of the copying machine. . Here, the arrow displayed at the lower left of the virtual platen 93 indicates the registration position of the electronic document. Therefore, when performing normal copy output, the original is placed with the registration position as the origin. On the outside of the virtual platen 93, position information such as B5, A4, A3, etc. is displayed as in the case of being displayed on a conventional copying machine. This position information is also displayed and output at the same reduction ratio as the reduction ratio R of the platen of the actual copying machine.

For example, the display screen of the processing content instruction section is 15
In the case of an inch screen, it is possible to reduce the display to a reduction ratio of 1/4. In this case, the A3 size of “297 mm × 420 mm” is displayed and output as the size of “74 mm × 105 mm”. If the screen has a size of 17 inches, a reduction ratio of 1/2 will result in an appropriate virtual platen.

When the document size information is input from the electronic document size extraction unit 5c, the output editing unit 5b displays an electronic document icon 94 of the document size obtained by reducing the document size by the reduction ratio R in the virtual platen 93. Output to. The display output timing of the electronic manuscript icon 94 is after the desired electronic manuscript is clicked in the electronic manuscript selection window 92 with the mouse and the manuscript size is extracted by the electronic manuscript size extraction unit 5c. Then, using a mouse etc.,
By instructing edit processing such as moving, enlarging / reducing, rotating, etc. of the electronic document icon, the same copy output editing instruction can be performed by operating on the actual platen. This editing instruction is supplied to the job generating unit 7 as editing information.

The transfer original processing unit 8 performs data compression and other processing for efficiently performing data transfer.

The job generation unit 7 processes the transfer original document, if necessary, based on the original document data and the edited data input from the image processing unit 2, the electronic original document management unit 6, the output editing unit 5b and the like. The unit 8 performs processing such as data compression to generate a job, and supplies the generated job to the designated copy processing execution unit 21 via the LAN 10.

Next, the structure of the copy processing execution unit 21 shown in FIG. 3 will be described. The job receiving unit 41 receives a job sent from the job sending unit 9 on each end system, normalizes it, and supplies it to the job control unit 42. Here, normalization means unifying the jobs sent in various formats into the job formats defined by the copy processing execution unit 21.

There are n job accepting units 41 (job accepting units 41-1 to 41-n), and the job sent from the job sending unit 9 on each end system conforms to the job format. The job receiving unit 41 receives the job.

With such a configuration, the job generation unit 7 placed on the side of each processing content instruction unit 24 can generate and transmit a job in the existing job format defined by the end system, etc. System development is unnecessary.

Next, when the normalized job is delivered, the job control unit 42 analyzes the contents of this job and uses each job processing unit 43 to execute a process corresponding to the instructed copying process. Run. What kind of processing is possible is arbitrary.

Here, n job processing units 43 are arranged (job processing units 43-1 to 43-n), format conversion of documents and the like (job processing unit 43-1), image processing (job processing unit 43). -2), notify processing (job processing unit 43-n) and the like.

The data to be copied, which has been subjected to the necessary processing by the job processing unit 43, is supplied to the designated job output unit 44 and is copied and output here. Of course, when the processing by the job processing unit 43 is unnecessary, the job output unit 44 is designated as it is.

There are n job output units 44 (job output units 44-1 to 44-n) for outputting jobs, that is, recording on an output medium (job output units 44-1 and 44-).
2), redirect output (job output unit 44-n) and the like are executed.

Here, the recording on the output medium means the actual copying and outputting on a sheet, that is, the formation, development, transfer, fixing and the like of an electrostatic latent image. An output unit for executing this exists corresponding to the recording device controlled by the copy processing execution unit. In the end systems A and B of FIG. 2, an example in which one recording device is attached is shown. However, even if a plurality of recording devices are attached, the copying process execution unit activates the corresponding job output unit to Can be controlled.

Further, the term "redirect" means that when the copy processing execution unit 21 cannot process the job, when the other copy processing execution unit 21 is not operating, the job is executed on the other end system. Transferring to the section 21.

Next, the editing function of the output editing unit 5b will be described. The output editing unit 5b mainly has the following four editing functions.

(1) Moving Function This is a function of moving the position of the electronic original to be copied on the platen in parallel. FIG. 6A is a diagram for explaining the moving function. Whether or not the moving function is selected is determined from the position where the electronic document icon 94a is placed. The origin (0, 0), which is the registration position of the document, is located at the lower left of the virtual platen 93a, and when the origin and the position of the electronic document icon 94 are different, the relative movement amount from the origin is the movement amount (X , Y), the move function is selected. In the calculation of the movement amount, the reduction ratio R of the virtual platen 93a is used to perform the inverse conversion to calculate the actual movement amount. For example, when the reduction ratio is 1/4 and there is a relative movement of 10 mm on the virtual platen, the actual movement is 40 mm.

(2) Enlargement / reduction function This function enlarges / reduces an electronic document. FIG.6 (b) is
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an enlargement / reduction function, and the enlargement / reduction function is selected and instructed by performing an enlargement / reduction instruction on the copier panel window 61. Then, the electronic manuscript icon of the enlargement / reduction size designated on the copy panel window 61 is edited. This point is different from the case of operating on the actual platen. That is, the size of the enlarged / reduced finished image is displayed and output on the virtual platen.

(3) Rotation Function This is a function of rotating an electronic document. FIG. 6C is a diagram for explaining the rotation function, and the virtual platen window 91.
The rotation is selected by clicking the rotation button B1 of the mouse with the mouse, and the desired electronic document icon is clicked to move the cursor, so that the lower left corner of the electronic document icon is rotated as the rotation center point P1.

(4) Merge / overlay function This is a function for merging / overlaying two types of electronic originals. FIG. 6D shows the merge function as shown in FIGS.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an overlay function. Normally, the mode is a transparent mode (transparent mode). In this transparent mode, both the image of the original document below and the image of the original document superposed on this original document are copied and output. On the other hand, in the opaque mode (opaque mode), the image of the original document superimposed on the original document is copied and output, but the portion of the original document hidden by the superimposed original document is not copied and output. When the electronic manuscript icon is clicked to select the opaque mode, the electronic manuscript of the clicked electronic manuscript icon is changed from the transparent mode to the opaque mode, and when the electronic manuscript icon is clicked again, the opaque mode is changed to the transparent mode.

Next, the editing procedure in the output editing section 5b will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the editing processing procedure of the output editing unit 5b. In FIG. 7, first, it is determined whether or not there is an instruction to open the virtual platen window (step S1), and if there is an instruction, the virtual platen window is displayed (step S2). Then, it is determined whether or not the paper size information is input from the printable size inquiry unit 5a (step S3), and if it is input, the virtual platen is set in the virtual platen window based on the maximum printable paper size information. Is displayed at a predetermined reduction ratio (step S4). Further, it is determined whether or not the document size information is input from the electronic document size extraction unit 5c (step S5), and if it is input, the electronic document icon is displayed and output on the virtual platen at a predetermined reduction rate ( Step S6). Here, when the default value of the copier panel window is set, the electronic document icon is corrected by this default value.

Next, it is judged whether or not there is a movement editing operation (step S7), and if there is an operation, the movement amount is calculated and set (step S8). Further, it is judged whether or not there is an edit operation for enlarging / reducing (step S9), and if there is an operation, magnification calculation and its setting are performed (step S10). Next, it is determined whether or not there is a rotation edit operation (step S11), and if there is an operation, the rotation amount is calculated and set (step S12). Further, it is determined whether or not there is a merge or overlay editing operation (step S13), and if there is no operation, the process proceeds to step S18, and if there is an operation, one original is registered as a form (step S14). ). Further, it is determined whether or not the opaque mode is selected (step S15), and if selected, the opaque mode is set (step S16). Then, the form overlay process is performed, the setting is performed (step S17), and the process proceeds to step S18.

In step S18, it is determined whether or not there is an instruction to end the editing process. If there is an instruction to end, the editing settings so far are sent to the job generating section 7 as editing information (step S19). , This process ends.

As described above, in this embodiment, even if the functions of the copying machine are arranged in a distributed manner, the virtual platen performs the same simple editing operation as if operating on the platen of the conventional copying machine. It can be realized by providing the user interface.

In the above-described embodiment, the electronic manuscript icon is displayed and output with the size of the electronic manuscript being displayed as a frame. However, the electronic manuscript icon is not simply an icon but a simple display of all or part of the contents of the electronic manuscript. You may do it.
As a result, the editing operation in the transparent mode and the opaque mode can be edited in a more finished form.

Further, in the above embodiment, the surface of the virtual platen is the exposed side, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it is assumed that the side to be copied faces downward like the platen of the embodiment. It may be a virtual platen,
This may be set arbitrarily.

Further, in the above embodiment, the editing function mainly including the moving function, the enlarging / reducing function, the rotating function and the merge / overlay function has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and various editing functions can be performed. May be allowed. This added editing function can be realized by adding a selection menu to the user interface, for example, the virtual platen window.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the editing function to be added. 8A and 8B are views for explaining the merge function and the overlapping function of a plurality of originals, and FIG.
Then, by displaying a plurality of electronic manuscript icons and one electronic manuscript icon, the merging and overlay functions can be edited. Thus, it is possible to edit a plurality of electronic manuscripts.

Further, FIG. 8B shows editing when a plurality of electronic manuscripts have different sizes, and it is possible to edit even if the electronic manuscripts have different sizes.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining a copy instruction by the virtual automatic document feeder. In FIG. 9, a graphic user interface called a virtual automatic document feeder I10 is provided, and a desired electronic document icon is dragged and released to the virtual automatic document feeder so that a plurality of documents or a plurality of jobs can be designated at one time. You can instruct copying. In this case, a mixed original mode button and a normal button are provided, and by selecting the mixed original mode, it is possible to output all originals in a specific paper size even if the original sizes are different.

[0065]

As described above, according to the present invention, the area acquisition means of the copy processing content instruction means inquires the copy processing execution means of the instructed copy destination execution means of the copy processing execution means and acquires it. Then, the document size extracting means extracts the information on the document size from the information on the document to be copied. Then, the display control means performs control to display and output the outputable area acquired by the area acquisition means and the document size extracted by the document size extraction means on the display screen, and then the editing means displays and outputs. The originals to be copied are placed in a desired state in an overlapped manner in the outputable area, and the output format of the originals, for example, movement or enlargement /
Editing such as reduction, rotation, merging, and overlay is performed, and the generation unit generates the job by including the edited result as the editing information in the content of the job.

Thus, there is an advantage that a simple copy instruction input operation similar to the operation on the platen of the conventional copying machine can be realized even from the distributed locations.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing configurations of a paper original input unit 22, an electronic original input unit 23, and a processing content instruction unit 24.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a distributed copying system which is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a copy processing execution unit 21.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display screen on which a selection window, a copying machine panel window, and a virtual platen window including a virtual platen are displayed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display screen on which a virtual platen selection window including an electronic document selection window, a virtual platen, and an electronic document icon is displayed.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an editing function.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an editing processing procedure of the output editing unit 5b.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an extended editing function.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a copy instruction by a virtual automatic document feeder.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 image reading unit 2 image processing unit 3 process starting unit 4 electronic manuscript holding unit 5 processing content input unit 6 electronic manuscript management unit 7 job generation unit 8 transfer manuscript processing unit 9 job sending unit 5a printable size inquiry unit 5b output Editing unit 5c Electronic manuscript size extracting unit 10 LAN 21 Copying process executing unit 22, 23 Manuscript input unit 24 Processing content instruction unit 41
Job reception unit 42 Job control unit 43 Job processing unit 44 Job output unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An original input means for inputting information on an original to be copied, a copy processing content instruction means for instructing a content of a copy processing for the input information as a job, and the above-mentioned content according to the instructed content of the job. A copy process executing means for executing a copy process for the input information, wherein each of the means is distributedly arranged on a network and functions independently, and exchanges information about the copy process via the network. Meanwhile, in the distributed copying system that executes each processing, the copy processing content designating means obtains the output possible area of the copy processing executing means of the designated copy destination, and the information about the document to be copied. Original size extracting means for extracting information about the original size from the display, and the display of the outputable area and the original size Display control means for performing control, the original to be the copied to the display output can region arranged superimposed in a desired state by said display control means,
A distributed copying system comprising: an editing unit that edits the output format of the original document; and a generating unit that generates a job including the editing information edited by the editing unit.