JPH07262286A - Slip preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a slip preparing device capable of actually looking at a printing example even in the middle of preparing a slip based on design. CONSTITUTION:A computer 8 is provided with a slip preparing part 10 specifying the printing form expressing at which part of the printed slip an index line, a line to which data is repeatedly outputted, etc., are printed at the time of preparing a slip image based on the design of the slip, a test data insertion part 12 fetching the slip image and inserting test data to a data field on the slip image, and a slip printing part 14 making a printer 4 print the slip prepared in the state of inserting test data to the data field, so as to insert and print test data on the slip even in the middle of preparing the slip. Test data is stored in a test data storage part 6 in advance.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a book table creating apparatus for printing a book table using a computer system to confirm the validity of the book table and complete the book table. Regarding the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when creating a book table, a program for creating the book table is created based on the design of the book table, or a program for directly importing the book table image created based on the design of the book table is created. There was a way to do it. Further, as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-151731, there is a method of inputting a sheet in which ruled lines are printed in advance by OCR or the like to create a book. Then, it is possible to confirm the correctness of the book, that is, the correctness of the design of the book or even if the book is designed correctly, whether the book is created and printed as designed. After creating a program for printing a book and creating test data to be output to the book, the book is actually printed.

[0003]

However, in the conventional apparatus, the validity of the book can be confirmed only after the program for printing the book is completed and the book is actually printed as described above. However, there was a problem that it took a lot of time to check the book.

Further, when the book table is modified, the created program also needs to be modified, which means that unnecessary work is spent and more time is required.

Further, the test data used for outputting as a book table must be passed to the program after being made into a format that can be loaded by a program for creating and printing the book table. There was a problem that it took a lot of time to check the book.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to create a book table in which a print example can be actually viewed even while a book table based on a design is being created. It is to provide a device.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a book table creating apparatus for printing a created book table to check the validity of the book table. Book table creating means for designating a print format of a book table when creating a table image; test data inserting means for taking in the book table image and inserting test data in a predetermined data field based on the print format; A book table printing means for printing a book table created with the test data inserted in the data field on the printing device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the book table creating apparatus according to the first aspect, there is provided test data storage means for storing test data, and the test data insertion means comprises:
It is characterized in that the test data is taken out from the test data storage means and inserted into each of the data fields.

According to a third aspect of the invention, in the book table creating apparatus according to the first aspect, the test data insertion means inserts test data into the selected data field.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the book table creating apparatus according to the first aspect, the test data inserting means checks the data attribute when inserting the test data into the data field. .

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the book table creating apparatus according to the first aspect, the book table printing means sends a special control code corresponding to the type of the printing apparatus to the printing apparatus in advance. And

[0012]

According to the present invention having the above configuration, when the book table creating means is made to specify the print format of the book table when creating the book table image, a plurality of different data having the same print format can be displayed on the book table. It is possible to know in advance whether or not the line should be printed. The test data inserting means takes in the book table image and inserts the test data in the data field. Since the book table printing means prints the book table on the printing device with the test data inserted in the data field, it is possible to print a printing example using the test data. This allows
Even if the program for creating and printing a book is not completed, the validity of the book can be confirmed.

Further, the test data insertion means fetches test data from the test data storage means and inserts it into each data field. In this way, by storing the test data in the test data storage means, it is not necessary to input the test data every time.

On the other hand, the test data inserting means can select the data field into which the test data is to be inserted.

Further, the test data inserting means can confirm the validity of the data attribute by checking the attribute of the data before printing the book.

Further, the book table printing means judges the type of the printing apparatus on which the book table is to be printed, and sends a special control code peculiar to the printing apparatus in advance to the printing apparatus, thereby performing normal and good printing. Can be done.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the book table preparation apparatus in this embodiment. This device is a terminal device 2 which is used for creating / displaying a book table image and for inputting test data used when printing a book table and having a normal display 2
A printing device 4 for printing the created book, a test data storage unit 6 for storing test data used for test printing, and a computer 8 for controlling the above devices 2, 4, 6. And. The computer 8 creates a book table image based on the book table design, and a book table creating unit 10 for designating a print format of the book table indicating what is output to which part on the book table to be printed. , A test data insertion unit 12 that takes in a book image and inserts test data at the actual data output position (hereinafter referred to as a data field) on the book image, and a book created with the test data inserted in the data field And a book table printing unit 14 that prints the print data on the printing device 4. These means are usually realized by software executed by the CPU of the computer 8.

The characteristic feature of this embodiment is that by using the above means, test data can be inserted and printed on the table up to the point where the table has been created, even while the table is being created. That is. As a result, the validity of the book can be confirmed without waiting for the completion of the program for creating and printing the book.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart up to the step of printing a book using the test data in this embodiment. The operation in this embodiment will be described below with reference to this figure.

In step 101, first, a book table image is created based on the designed book table. The book table image is displayed on the terminal device 2 in the book table creating unit 10 and created by using the input unit included in the terminal device 2. For example, specify a position on the book table image with a pointing device and input characters. It is determined whether the input character is data such as a constant, which is simply printed as a print character, or a data field is designated.
A position to be printed as a print character (hereinafter referred to as a text field) may be described by an arbitrary number of character strings to be printed. This includes the headings on the book and the items of data to be output. If it is a data field, it is described by the type of data input to that data field. For example, when written with "X", the data field is a character type, and when written with "9", it is a numeric type, and the number of character strings represents the number of digits. Furthermore, if "," is described in the numeric data field, the output data will be "," every 3 digits.
Can be printed with. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a book table image created in this embodiment.

In step 102, a print format is designated as to which position of the created book table image 20 is to be output and how. As shown in FIG. 3, a print format designation area 22 is provided in a part of the book table image. In the present embodiment, the book table creation unit 10 can specify the print format for each line. It can be seen from the figure that each line for which the print format is specified contains multiple fields. Here, in the print format designation area 22, "R" is displayed in the heading line 24 and the total line 26 which are always output when the book table is printed.
Is specified. Further, in the head line 28 among the lines including the data field for outputting the repeated data, "R" is designated as the line defining the data printing format as in the above.
On the other hand, "X" is designated in the line 30 to be repeatedly printed with different data in the same format as the line 28. This "X"
Will not be printed if there is no data to be output on the specified line.

By thus designating the print format in the book table image, it is possible to know in advance whether or not a plurality of lines of different data should be printed in the same print format on the book table. The line 30 to be repeatedly printed may be printed in the same format as the line 28 defining the print format, which means that it need not be sourced. In addition,
When sourcing, the format is sourced only for the lines for which "R" is input. In this way, a book table image is created.

Next, in the test data insertion unit 12,
Test data is inserted into the data fields provided in the book table image up to the created place, and a printing example of the book table is printed on the printer 4.

In step 103, a file containing test data is stored in the test data storage section 6, and it is designated whether or not to use this file. When the file name is specified, the test data and the data field are associated with each other by specifying in which data field the byte data of the record in the file is to be inserted (step 104). The record format of the file can be one row of the book table as one record,
A record may be provided in a large size and may be divided into data lengths and inserted into a data field, and can be provided in various formats. In this case, the test data insertion unit 12 needs to be created so that the data can be taken in according to the record format of the file. In this way, by storing the test data, you can use the data as many times as you like,
Since it can also be used for testing other books and tables, there is no need to create test data.

When the file is not designated, in this embodiment, the data field in which the test data is to be inserted is arbitrarily selected, and the test data having the desired value is input (step 105). The data field selection is
This can be easily performed with the pointing device described above. In this way, test data having a desired value can be inserted into an arbitrary data field.

As described above, the test data is inserted into each data field (step 106).

Here, in step 107, the data attribute entered in the data field is checked. One of the data attributes is the data type when the data field is specified. The test data insertion unit 12 makes an error when a number is inserted into the character type data field, and is displayed on the terminal device 2 or the printing device 4.
Conversely, if a character is inserted into the numeric data field, an error will occur. Other data attributes include upper and lower case letters, kanji, etc. In this way, by checking the input data in advance, it is possible to prevent errors and input only the data having the correct data attribute.

As described above, in the case of numeric type data, the data is converted into a character string of an edit pattern. That is, if 4-digit or more data is input to the data field of "9,999", the character string is added with ",".

In step 108, when there are a plurality of printing devices, the printing device 2 which outputs a printing example is designated. The book table printing unit 14 judges the type of the printing device 4 from the printing device name designated by the terminal device 2, for example, and previously outputs a special control code peculiar to the printing device 4 in order to perform normal and satisfactory printing. It is transmitted (step 109). Then, a print example is printed (step 110). For example, if the selected printing device 4 is a page printer, it is possible to excellently print the book table in which the test data is inserted by transmitting the data of the printing example after transmitting the special control data stream of the reduced printing. .

As described above, according to this embodiment, it is possible to output the print example of only the book table before completing the program for creating and printing the book table. Therefore, the validity of the book can be confirmed without waiting for the completion of the program to be created / printed.

The characters "X", "9" and "R", which are the data type and print format designated in the book table image in the above embodiment, are not limited to these.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the book table is created, the print format is designated, so that different lines of the same book format can be printed on the book table. It becomes possible to know in advance whether or not.

Since the test data is stored, the data can be used any number of times. In addition, since it can be used for testing other books and tables, it is efficient because it does not take time and effort for creating test data.

On the other hand, since the data field into which the test data is to be inserted can be arbitrarily selected, the test data having a desired value can be inserted into the arbitrary data field.

Since the data attribute is checked when the data is input, it is possible to input only the data having the correct data attribute.

Further, since the special control code peculiar to the printing device to be printed is transmitted in advance, it is possible to print the book table normally and satisfactorily in correspondence with any printing device.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to output a printing example of a book even when the book is being created, so that it is possible to efficiently design and create the book. Become.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a book table image designed in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 terminal device 4 printing device 6 test data storage unit 8 computer 10 book table creating unit 12 test data inserting unit 14 book table printing unit 20 book table image 22 print format designation area

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A book table creating device for checking the validity of a book table by printing the created book table, and a book table creating means for designating a print format of the book table when creating a book table image, Test data insertion means for taking in the book table image and inserting test data in a predetermined data field based on the printing format, and a book for printing a book table prepared with the test data inserted in the data field on a printing device. A book table creating apparatus comprising: a table printing unit. 2. The book table creation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a test data storage unit that stores test data, wherein the test data insertion unit extracts the test data from the test data storage unit. A book table creating device characterized by being inserted into a data field. 3. The book table creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the test data inserting means inserts test data into the selected data field. 4. The book table creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the test data inserting unit checks the data attribute when inserting the test data into the data field. 5. The book table creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the book table printing means sends a special control code corresponding to a type of the printing apparatus to the printing apparatus in advance. .