JPH0719259B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document preparation device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a document creating apparatus capable of multicolor printing and excellent in operability.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, some document forming apparatuses have been capable of multicolor printing by exchanging ribbons. This kind of device stops the printing by pressing the designated key on the keyboard at the character position where the operator wants to print when there is something to be printed in a different color in the document.
Next, the color ribbon desired by the operator was exchanged, and then printing was restarted, thereby enabling multicolor printing.

Further, in other multi-color printable document creating apparatus, a "temporary stop code" for causing "temporary stop of printing" is inserted at the beginning of a character string to be printed in a different color when creating a document. However, by detecting the stop code at the time of printing, the printing is temporarily stopped, the ribbon is replaced with a color ribbon desired by the operator, and then the printing is restarted, thereby enabling multicolor printing.

[0004]

However, in any of the above-described conventional document creating apparatuses, in any case, the color cannot be determined at the time of creating the document, and which color will be used when the created document is reused. There was no display means for knowing whether or not it should be printed, and it was impossible to change the designation of color printing.

Therefore, according to the present invention, there is no correspondence between the display of the created document and the color designation of printing in the above-mentioned prior art, and the problem that the color printing designation cannot be displayed when the document is reused. And the problem that it is not possible to change the color specification of a created document, and to provide a document creation apparatus capable of multicolor printing that is easy to specify and change colors and has excellent operability. To aim.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the document creating apparatus of the present invention comprises display means and
Input means for designating a color to be printed, color identification code generation means for generating a color identification code for identifying a color, and a color identification display pattern associated with the color identification code. When a color designation mode is set by the input means, a plurality of color designation information corresponding to each color is displayed in the color designation area of the display means. Display,
When the desired color designation information in the color designation area is designated by the input means and the desired color is designated, a color identification display pattern for identifying the designated color is output from the color identification display pattern generation means. The color identification display pattern is displayed at the input position immediately before the color designation mode is set and the color identification code corresponding to the color identification display pattern is associated with the display position of the color identification display pattern. And a control means for storing in the document data storage means in the same format as the general graphic character code.

[0007]

According to the present invention, since the document creating apparatus is constructed as described above, it operates as follows.

The operator is in the middle of the document (it may be the beginning)
If you want to print in a color different from the previous one,
When the color designation mode is set by operating the input means, a plurality of color designation information corresponding to each color is displayed in the color designation area of the display means. The operator specifies the desired color. Then, the control means reads out the color identification pattern for identifying the designated color from the color identification display pattern generating means. Then, the read color identification display pattern is displayed at the input position immediately before the color designation mode is set. Further, the control means stores the color identification code corresponding to the color identification display pattern in the document data storage means in the same format as the general graphic character code in association with the display position of the color identification display pattern. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to determine the color to be printed when creating a document,
In addition, since the color once printed is displayed in the created document, it is convenient for reuse, and it is easy to change the color designation, and the problems of the prior art can be solved.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a document creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. There are an insert key, a delete key, an end key, a release key, a cursor movement key, a color designation key and the like. Here, the color designation key is a key for setting a color designation mode when a color is designated when creating a document, and the execution key establishes the color identification code designated in the color designation mode and executes the color designation processing. Is a key for. Reference numeral 2 is a display device for displaying the created document and the color identification graphic pattern, 3 is a printing device capable of multicolor printing for printing the created document, and 4 is for executing the color designation processing. A control unit having a control sequence, 5 is a program memory for storing a control unit program for executing the color designation process, and 6 is an external storage device for storing a prepared document, Reference numeral 7 is a graphic pattern generation device that stores a color identification graphic pattern to be displayed on the display device 2.

Next, the operation of the document creating apparatus of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described. Now, a case will be described in which the characters have been input up to the point shown in FIG. Reference numeral 21 in the drawing is a cursor indicating the next input position.

First, the "color designation key" provided on the input device 1 is pressed. The control unit 4 detects this depression,
The display device 2 is caused to display as shown in FIG. At this time, the cursor 21 is initially set to be automatically positioned at "1: black" which is the initial value for color designation. Then, the "cursor movement key" provided on the input device 1 is operated to move the cursor 21 to a desired color designation display position,
After that, the "execution key" also provided on the input device 1
Press to specify the color. For example, in the case of red designation, the cursor 21 is moved to "3: red" as shown in FIG. 4 and then the "execute key" is pressed.

On the other hand, in the state of FIG.
Data as shown in FIG. 5 is stored in the document storage buffer 51 as a general graphic character string representing the document data being created. In the document storage buffer 51, kanji, hiragana, alphanumeric characters and symbols are stored as a 2-byte graphic character code 5, and alphanumeric characters, symbols and characters that can be expressed as half-width characters occupying half the space of a normal character pitch. Is stored as a 1-byte graphic character code. In this embodiment, 5100 and 5101 in FIG.
It is byte data and represents the "sentence" in FIG.
Similarly, the graphic character codes 5102 and 5103 represent “chapter”, the graphic character codes 5104 and 5105 represent “ga”, and the graphic character codes 5106 and 5107.
Expresses ",".

In the state shown in FIG. 4, the input device 1 described above is used.
When the "execution key" provided above is pressed down, the control unit 4 detects this pressing down, and the support of the control unit 4 causes the color identification code 510 corresponding to "3: red" as shown in FIG.
8 is stored in the document storage buffer 51. Here, the color identification code is a 1-byte code that is distinguished from a graphic character code that represents half-width characters such as alphanumeric characters, symbols, and kana, and is a code as shown in FIG. 7, for example. In FIG. 7, “1” indicates that there is data, and “0” indicates that there is no data. Then, as shown in FIG. 8, the color identification graphic pattern 22 corresponding to the color identification code 5108 is read from the graphic pattern generation device 7 and displayed on the display device 2 by occupying a half-width character sentence.

Next, the general character "red" is input from the input device 1, and the color designation "1: black", the general characters "ya""," and the color designation "2: blue" are sequentially performed in the same procedure. , General character "blue",
Color designation "1: black", general characters "no""multi""color""mark"
Enter "print". At this time, the data shown in FIG. 9 is stored in the document storage buffer 51. In the figure, graphic character codes 5100 and 5101 represent “sentence”, graphic character codes 5102 and 5103 represent “chapter”, graphic character codes 5104 and 5105 represent “ga”, and graphic character code 5106. And 5107 represent ",", the color identification code 5108 represents the color designation "3: red", the graphic character codes 5109 and 5110 represent "red", and the color identification code 5111 represents the color designation "1:". “Black” is expressed, the graphic character codes 5112 and 5113 represent “ya”, the graphic character codes 5114 and 5115 represent “,”, and the color identification code 5116 represents the color designation “2: blue”. Graphic character code 5
117 and 5118 represent “blue” and the color identification code 51
Reference numeral 19 represents the color designation “1: black”, and the graphic character code 512
0 and 5121, 5122 and 5123, 5124 and 5125, 5126 and 5127, 5128 and 512
9 are "no", "many", "color", "mark", and "print", respectively.
Express

In this state, FIG.
The color identification graphic pattern 22 displaying the color designation "3: red", the color identification graphic patterns 23 and 25 expressing the color designation "1: black", and the color designation "2:
The color identification graphic patterns 24 expressing "blue" occupy single-byte characters.

Next, the procedure for sending the data in the document storage buffer 51 created as described above to the printer 3 will be described.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing this procedure. First, a process 41 for setting an initial address value of the document storage buffer 51 is executed, and then the document storage buffer 51.
A process 42 for reading out the graphic character string in is executed, and a determination 43 is made as to whether or not the next read graphic character string is an identification code.
To execute. If it is determined that there is no color identification code,
The process proceeds to a process 44 for transmitting the graphic character code of the general character data to the printer 3, and after the process 44 is performed, the process proceeds to 47, which will be described later. On the other hand, if it is determined in the determination 43 that the code is the color identification code, the process 45 of transmitting a “color designation command” to the printing apparatus 3 is executed. Here, the "color designation command" is a control character code string defined in advance by the printing device 3 in order to output a color corresponding to the color identification code. Process 4
After executing 5, the process 46 for transmitting the graphic character code of the half-width space data to the printer 3 is executed, and then the process 47 for updating the address to the document storage buffer 51 is executed. Next, a determination 48 is made as to whether the graphic character string has ended. If the graphic character string has not ended, the process returns to step 42 and this processing routine is repeatedly executed. If it is determined that the graphic character string has ended, the procedure ends.

FIG. 12 shows the contents printed on the printer 3 by such means. On the output medium 410 of the printing apparatus 3, the areas 411, 415, and 419 are output in the color expressing the color designation “1: black”, and the area 413 is output in the color expressing the color designation “3: red”. , Area 417
Is output in a color expressing the color designation “2: blue”. Further, the area 412, the area 414, the area 416, and the area 418 marked with "small" in the figure are output as half-width space data.

This output format is expressed in exactly the same format as the output format displayed on the display device 2 shown in FIG.

Generally, in a document creating apparatus, it is necessary to manage the number of characters in one line, the total number of lines in one page, and the total number of pages in one document when a document is created or proofread. There is a display device as one of means for the operator to confirm the state of the document management carried out by the document creation device, and it is necessary to check the display device especially during the document creation. With respect to this problem, according to the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment, the number of characters in one line confirmed by the operator at the time of creating the document, the total number of lines in one page, and the layout within one page are shown in FIG.
By outputting the color identification code in accordance with the display size of the color identification graphic pattern as shown in (in this embodiment, since the color identification graphic pattern is displayed in half-width characters, it is output as a half-width space). The data is output to the printing device 3 in the same format as the display device 2, which facilitates document creation, document editing, and document proofreading.

According to the procedure described above, each process of inputting, displaying and printing of multicolor printing is executed in the document creating apparatus of the present embodiment. Next, editing / proofreading of the color designation document created by such means. The processing procedure will be described.

In FIG. 10, if the color identification pattern 22 to the graphic pattern "," of general characters are deleted, the data is displayed on the display device 2 as shown in FIG. 13, and the data in the document storage buffer 51 shown in FIG. The color identification code 5108 to the graphic character code 5115 are deleted. When this data string is output to the printing device 3 in the procedure shown in FIG.
Is output. Here, the areas 420 and 424 are output in a color expressing the color designation “1: black”, and the area 422
Is output in a color expressing the color designation “2: blue”. Further, the areas 421 and 423 marked with "small" in the figure are output as half-width space data.

This output format is also displayed in exactly the same format as the output format displayed on the display device 2 shown in FIG.

[0024]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the color identification pattern display pattern associated with the color identification code corresponding to the designated color is displayed on the display device. , Specify the color when creating the document,
It is possible to check the color designation when editing and proofreading documents,
Operability is improved. Moreover, by setting the color designation mode, a plurality of color designation information corresponding to each color is displayed in the color designation area, and the desired color designation information is designated from these to designate the desired color. Easy to do. In addition, since the color identification code is treated as general character data and is stored in the storage means (document storage buffer) in the same format as general characters, it is not necessary to separately prepare the color designation modification data, and the price is low. A device can be provided.
Further, since the color identification code is treated as general character data, it is possible to change, add, or delete the color designation by a simple operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing how data is stored in a document storage buffer.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing how data is stored in a document storage buffer.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a color identification code.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing how data is stored in a document storage buffer.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for sending data in a document storage buffer to a printing apparatus.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an output format during printing.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a display example of a display device.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an output format during printing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Input Device 2 Display Device 3 Printing Device 4 Control Unit 5 Program Memory 6 External Storage Device 7 Graphic Pattern Generator 21 Cursor 51 Document Storage Buffer

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document creating apparatus having a printing apparatus capable of multicolor printing, a display means, an input means for designating a color to be printed, and a color for generating a color identification code for identifying the color. Identification code generation means, color identification display pattern generation means for generating a color identification display pattern associated with the color identification code, document data storage means for storing document data, and color designation mode by the input means. Is set, a plurality of color designation information corresponding to each color is displayed in the color designation area of the display means, and the desired color designation information in the color designation area is designated by the input means to designate a desired color. Then, the color identification display pattern for identifying the designated color is read from the color identification display pattern generating means, and the color identification table is displayed at the input position immediately before the color designation mode is set. Control means for displaying the display pattern and for storing the color identification code corresponding to the color identification display pattern in the document data storage means in the same format as the general graphic character code in association with the display position of the color identification display pattern. A document creation apparatus comprising: