JPH0730773A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of work by performing batch conversion at the time of outputting without necessity for performing a change each time in the case of document editing when changing a color to be outputted. CONSTITUTION:When it is desired to convert one part of the color to be outputted into document information, a user executes the designation processing of color conversion by using a batch color conversion designating means 1. A document read expanding means 2 investigates whether the color conversion is designated or not by fetching document data into a document data storage memory 2a. When the color conversion is designated and any color designating the conversion is existent in the fetched document data, the changed color is read from a memory, where that color is preserved, for converting the designated color by instructing it from a document color discriminating means 3 to a document color converting means 4, and the color is changed. Then, output information containing the changed information is expanded in a print data output memory 6 and printed out of a printer 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus, for example, a document processing apparatus capable of color document processing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional apparatus of this type, when a document is output, it is only printed as specified in the document. In addition, when printing a color document, the print color cannot be changed during the printing process. Furthermore, the color at the time of printing could not be confirmed on the screen, and it was necessary to reprint the document after printing once.

Further, in a device capable of inputting / editing and outputting a color document, once printing is instructed when outputting a document, the entire text is unconditionally output regardless of the content of the document. In addition, when printing a document with a color pattern or changing the color to a certain pattern, the user must create each as a graphic when creating the document. Such a function never existed.

[0004]

However, depending on the type of paper to be output and the type of output medium, the image may be poor and some colors may be unfavorable. In such a case, light printing is performed. , It was a very difficult document to read.
Also, as a result of printing, if you want to change a certain color to another color, once you return from the printing state to the document editing process, change the color one by one, and if you do not change the printing state again and print I couldn't make any changes. Therefore, work efficiency is significantly reduced.

Further, as described above, since a simple document or a complicated document is printed at the time of outputting a document, when a complicated document that cannot be confirmed on the screen is printed for confirmation, it is particularly displayed. Printing is very time-consuming and time-consuming when the container is a non-color document processing device or when checking the color condition at the time of printing. Further, in the related art, when printing a certain pattern as the background of a document, it is necessary to separately create a figure by superimposing it on the document in editing the document, and particularly in order to create a color document more beautifully, In many cases, the user's work becomes very large, and the end result is to create a document without any change.

[0006]

The present invention has been made for the purpose of solving the above-mentioned problems, and has the following structure as one means for solving the above-mentioned problems. That is, input editing means for inputting and editing a color document, output means for outputting an edited document by the input editing means, medium selecting means for selecting an output medium at the time of outputting a document by the outputting means, and the medium selecting means. When the output characteristics differ depending on the selected medium in
Output control means for outputting the document information to the output medium according to the output characteristics.

Alternatively, a document processing and output device comprising an input editing means for inputting and editing a document created in color and an output means for outputting an edited document by the input editing means, the output by the output means At the same time, the inputting / editing means includes a designating means for designating an output color of the edited color document, and the output means collectively outputs the edited color document into the designated color by the designating means.

Further, input editing means for inputting and editing the document, output means for printing out the edited document by the input editing means, output format designating means for designating the print output format by the output means, and printout In the case where simple printing is designated by the output format designating means, the output means specifies the information that takes a long time to print by the output means, such as graphic data, image data, and graph data. The information that the determination means determines that it takes time to print is output without distinguishing the area frame of the information, or only the information that the determination means determines that it takes time to print is printed out. Other parts are output as blank.

Further, the document processing apparatus having the printing means for printing the color document is provided with the synthesizing means for synthesizing and printing the pattern designated by the user on the back of the document when the color document is printed out.

[0010]

In the above structure, even if the output medium is different,
You can output a document that is natural and has no discomfort. Also,
When changing the color to be output, it is not necessary to make each change by editing the document, and by performing the batch conversion at the time of output, it is possible to greatly improve the efficiency of the work.

Further, by blanking out the area of the judgment information by the judging means or printing out the frame of the area, the time for the desired confirmation printing can be greatly shortened and the work efficiency can be improved. Alternatively, by printing only the portion that takes a long time to print, the confirmation-printed paper can be used as it is, so that further efficiency can be achieved. Furthermore, the specified pattern can be printed on the back of the created document to improve the work efficiency of the user, spread a more beautiful and easy-to-understand document to the world, and reduce the wasteful time due to the efficiency of the presentation etc. It is effective to improve personal interaction.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. [First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a collective color conversion designating means for designating collective color conversion including a display device and a key input device, which may be designated at any scene of print control, but in this embodiment, a print setting screen is displayed. It is provided above.
Reference numeral 2 denotes a document reading / expanding unit that has a built-in document data storage memory 2a, reads the document data for printing, and expands the read document data for printing from the printing device 7. The document reading / expanding means 2 includes a document color determining means 3 for determining the color of the document data and a document color converting means 4 for converting the document data into a designated color.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a print starting means for starting the printing device 7 for printing the document data expanded for printing by the document reading and expanding means 2. Reference numeral 6 denotes a print data output memory for transferring one line of the expanded data to the printing device 7 via the print starting means 5. A printing device 7 actually prints the expanded data transferred to the print data output memory 6.

In order to specifically achieve the above configuration, a display device forming a part of the collective color conversion designating means, a document processing device forming the document reading / developing means 2, etc. may be provided. The CPU may be configured to control the overall configuration of each of these. The operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of this embodiment. Further, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of conversion designation for performing collective color conversion in the collective color conversion designating means 1 in the present embodiment. The designating means 1 of this embodiment shown in FIG. 3 is displayed at the time of printing, and the color can be changed only by changing this setting after the printing is completed.

In this embodiment, the programs related to the flow chart shown in FIGS. 2, 7, 12, 15, 18, and 21 are stored in the ROM (not shown), and R
The CPU is controlled by the program stored in the OM.

FIG. 4 is an example of a document showing the change in the color of the created document as it is and the color output after the change. A1 is a printed document as it is before being changed, and A2 is a color-changed output. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the four colors of black, red, green and blue can be changed. This is because, in relation to the storage capacity of the document data storage memory 2a, the memory has a size capable of storing four colors.

The procedure up to the result output of FIG. 4 will be specifically described below using the flow chart of FIG. First, in step S1, the color conversion designation processing by the collective color conversion designation means 1 is executed. Here, for example, the print setting screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed to prompt the user to input the designation. Then, if there is a designation input by the user, the process proceeds to step S2. In this explanation, as shown in FIG.
An example will be described in which "red" is changed to "blue", "blue" is changed to "red", and the others are not changed.

In step S2, the color before the change and the color after the change designated in step S1 by the document reading means 2 are stored. In the subsequent step S3, after the above designation is completed, the print starting means 5 is instructed to start printing and output. In the next step S4, the document data storage memory 2a
Import the document data created in (1) for print development. Then, in step S5, it is checked in step S1 whether or not the color conversion is designated. If the color conversion instruction is not issued, the document remains as it is, so the process proceeds to step S8 without doing anything.

On the other hand, if the color conversion is designated, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6, and the document color discrimination means 3
Determines whether or not a color with a conversion designation exists in the document data fetched in step S4. If there is no color with the conversion designation, there is no need to do anything as in step S5, and therefore the process proceeds to step S8. On the other hand, if the color with the conversion designation exists, the process proceeds to step S7, and the document color conversion means 4 stores the changed color in order to perform the conversion of the color and reads it from the custom memory to change the color. To do. Then, the process proceeds to step S8.

In step S8, the document data fetched for printing is developed in the print data output memory 6 regardless of the presence or absence of color change. If it has been changed at this time, it will be developed with the changed color. In the subsequent step S9, the print data expanded in the print data output memory 6 is actually output to the printing device 7. Then, in the next step S10, it is checked whether or not the printing of all data is completed. If the printout of all data is not completed, the process returns to step S4, and the processes of steps S4 to S9 are repeated until all the data are completed.

When the printing output of all data is completed, the process is completed. As a result of the above processing, A1 in FIG.
The document information shown in FIG. 4 is printed out in the form shown in A2 of FIG. In this way, it is possible to change a specific color at the time of printing by simply adding the above-described processing to the existing color document processing and the processing of the output device, and when changing the color of the created document, It is possible to easily print with other colors without having to change the color information one by one on the edit screen.

[Second Embodiment] In the first embodiment described above, the four colors of black, red, green, and blue can be changed, but the designation method of step S1 is changed to increase the number of colors. By having a memory of a size that can store colors, it is possible to change seven colors or more. Depending on the color printer, this is 4 colors, 7
It is possible to output colors and output colors of more than that, and it is possible to change colors without being limited to a certain fixed printer.

A color conversion setting screen (an example of a print setting screen) in the collective color conversion designating means 1 in the second embodiment according to the present invention in which a large number of colors can be changed in this way is shown. Note that the basic configuration is the same as that of the above-described first embodiment, and it suffices that the document data storage memory 2a simply has a memory capacity capable of storing document data of a plurality of colors and the designated color is increased.

[Third Embodiment] In the following, a desired confirmation printing is performed by printing out only a portion that takes time to print or a portion excluding a portion that takes time to be blank or a frame of the area. A third embodiment according to the present invention capable of significantly shortening the time and improving work efficiency will be described.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the document processing apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 6, 1
Reference numeral 1 denotes a simple print / frame print designating means for designating whether or not the user performs simple print and frame addition. Whether the user performs simple print or normal print according to the printing situation. It is possible to specify and whether to print a frame in the simple print processing.

Reference numeral 12 is a document expanding means for expanding the created document for printing, and has a built-in document data storage memory 12a. Then, inside the document developing means 12, the main part of the third embodiment is controlled. Reference numerals 13, 14, and 15 are main parts thereof, and 13 is a discriminating means for discriminating whether or not a figure, an image, or a graph exists in an area developed for printing. Reference numeral 14 denotes a blank conversion unit that replaces the portion determined by the determination unit 3 with a blank when simple printing is designated, and reference numeral 15 denotes a blank portion frame for adding a frame to the portion converted to blank by the blank conversion unit 14. It is a means of attachment.

Reference numeral 16 is a print starting means for starting the printing device 18 when the development of all the printing portions is completed.
Reference numeral 17 is a print data output memory for transferring one line of the expanded data to the printing device 18 via the print starting means 16. A printing device 18 actually prints the expanded data transferred to the print data output memory 17. In order to specifically achieve the above configuration, it is sufficient to include a display device that constitutes a part of the collective color conversion designation means, a document processing device that constitutes the document reading / developing means 2 and the like. The configuration may include a CPU that controls the entire configuration.

The operation of this embodiment having the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the operation of this embodiment. FIG. 8 is an example showing how an actually created document in this embodiment is printed. Among these, A1 is an original text example of the created document, and if there is no simple print designation, it is printed as the original text. A2 is a print result when simple printing is designated without a frame. A3 is a print result when there is a frame and simple printing is designated. Figure 8
The procedure up to the result output is specifically described below using the flow chart of FIG.

In FIG. 7, first, in step S21, the user is instructed whether or not simple printing is to be performed, and the result of the designation is saved. Then in step S22, step S21
Similarly, the user is asked to specify whether or not to add a frame when performing simple printing, and saves the frame. In step S23, step S
The printing is started at the time when the designations of 21 and S22 are completed. In step S24, the created document data is retrieved from the document data storage memory 12a for printing.

Then, in step S25, the state designated in step S21 is judged. If the simple print is not designated, the process proceeds to step S30 and the subsequent steps to perform normal full-text print. That is, first, in step S30, the print data output memory 17 is expanded in the print-designated area of the document data, and in the subsequent step S31, the expanded part is sent to the print data output memory 17 to the printing device 18 for printing.

Then, in step S32, it is checked whether or not the print processing of all the data is completed. If the print output of all the data is not completed, the process returns to step S24, and step S24 is executed.
The processing from 24 to step S31 is repeated until the printing of all document data is completed. When the printing of all document data ends, the process ends. As a result of printing the entire text, the state shown by A1 in FIG. 8 is obtained.

On the other hand, if the simple printing is designated in step S25, the process proceeds to step S26, and graphic data which causes the printing to be delayed in the designated area for further printing expansion,
It is determined whether image data and graph data exist. If these factors do not exist, the process proceeds to step S30 and subsequent steps as in the case of no simple print designation, and the normal full-text printing described above is performed. As a result of printing the entire text, the state shown by A1 in FIG. 8 is obtained.

If there is a factor that the printing is delayed in step S26, the process proceeds to step S27, and the entire area of that portion is replaced with a blank space. It is well known that the time to replace document data with blanks is very fast. When the work of replacing with blanks is completed, the process proceeds to step S28, and it is confirmed whether or not frame printing is designated. If there is a frame print designation, the flow advances to step S29 to add a frame to the blank-converted portion. Then, the process proceeds to step S30. On the other hand, if the frame printing is not designated in step S28, the process directly proceeds to step S30.

In step S30, the document data converted into the blank is expanded in the print data output memory 17, and the part which has been expanded in step S31 is printed out from the printer 18. Then, in step S32, it is checked whether or not the print processing of all data is completed. If the print output of all data is not completed, the processing returns to step S24,
The processing from step S24 to step S31 is repeated until the printing of all document data is completed. When the printing of all document data ends, the process ends.

As a result of performing the full-text printing, the state shown in A2 in FIG. 8 is obtained when the frame printing is not designated, and the state shown in A3 in FIG. 8 is obtained when the frame printing is designated. Will be obtained. As described above, according to the third embodiment, simple printing can be performed by simply adding the above-described processing to the conventional color document processing and the processing of the output device, and in particular, the entire document is displayed on the screen. When you can't see, use colors in a document, and check the layout when you want to print, you can print without spending a lot of time on printing as before, and you can greatly improve work efficiency.

[Fourth Embodiment] The third embodiment described above
In the embodiment, the printing is performed by omitting the portion that takes a long time to print, but the present invention is not limited to the above example. For example, only the portion that takes a long time to print is designated when simple printing is designated. It may be possible. By enabling such operation control, for example, the above-mentioned third
It becomes possible to output the parts other than those printed in the embodiment, and
Since it is possible to print on the paper output in the embodiment, it is possible to use the same paper when there is no problem in the confirmation printing.

A fourth embodiment according to the present invention having the above-mentioned structure will be described below. Also in the fourth embodiment, the basic configuration can be the same as that of the third embodiment shown in FIG. Then, as the operation control, in the control of FIG. 7 of the third embodiment, an item for designating the printing of only the time-consuming portion is added to the designation of the simple printing in step S21. If printing of only the time-consuming part is designated in step S21, the parts other than the figures, images and graphs are changed to blanks in the process of step S27 so that printing is performed in the third embodiment. It is possible to output the parts other than the marked part. The print result is shown in FIG.

The original text of the document in which A1 in FIG. 9 is created is A
2 is a simple print example when no frame print is specified,
A3 shows an example of simple printing when the frame printing is designated. The above control also enables the print output shown in FIG. 9 of the fourth embodiment to be overlapped by using the print result shown in FIG. 8 printed out in the above-described third embodiment. By controlling in this way, it is possible to use the same paper when there is no defect in the confirmation printing in the third embodiment.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a print image in the case where the printout is performed in such a manner. As shown in FIG. 10, since only the remaining portion can be additionally printed, useless printing paper can be prevented and useless printing time can be eliminated. As described above, the third and fourth
According to the embodiment, when a document is created, especially when a color document is created, confirmation printing is often performed by checking the color and layout, but the confirmation printing time is greatly reduced. Also, if there are no problems with the confirmation printed paper, it is possible to improve the work efficiency by overlapping and printing.
This has the effect of saving paper.

[Fifth Embodiment] A back pattern suitable for a document created with a simple structure and control can be printed, and a more effective document can be created very easily according to the present invention. The fifth embodiment will be described below. Figure 11
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the document processing apparatus of the fifth embodiment according to the present invention. In FIG. 11, reference numeral 21 is a display unit for displaying guidance for designating a pattern, color, and density of the backing composition and a designated result, which can be constituted by an arbitrary display unit such as a CRT display device or an LCD. Reference numeral 22 is a designating means for the user to input designating a pattern, color, and density of the back composition, and can be constituted by an arbitrary input device such as a key input device. Reference numeral 23 is a CPU that controls the entire apparatus of the fifth embodiment.

Reference numeral 24 is a back pattern storage memory for storing back patterns prepared in advance. 25
26 is a back pattern synthesizing means for synthesizing a back pattern in accordance with designation into document data created in advance, 26
Is a composite data storage memory for storing composite document data, 27 is a color output device for outputting the data stored in the composite data storage memory 25, a printer,
Any output device capable of visually displaying the combined data, such as a copying machine or a display, can be used. Further, 28 is a document data storage memory for storing the created document information.

In the fifth embodiment having the above construction,
The flow chart of FIG. 12 shows the process until the user designates the composition of the back pattern and outputs it. Below, FIG.
The combining process of the fifth embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Note that FIG. 13 shows a display example for designating the pattern, color, and density of back composition on the display means 21 in the fifth embodiment. In addition, in the fifth embodiment,
FIG. 14 shows an example of the result when the designated back pattern is combined with the document created by the user and is output. In FIG. 14, A1 is an original document created, A2 is an example of a designated back pattern to be synthesized with the original document shown in A1, and A3 is
Shows an output example in which the designated result of A2 is combined and output with A1.

Control up to the result output of FIG. 14 in the fifth embodiment will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. First, in step S41, the CPU 23 displays the screen for designating the back print in the example of FIG. 13 on the display means 21 and waits for the completion of the designation input by the designation means 22 by the user. When the designation by the user is completed, the process proceeds to step S42, and the designation content designated in step S41 is stored in the built-in memory. In a succeeding step S43, the document data already created and stored in the document memory 28 is read.

Then, in step S44, step S4 is executed.
The specification contents stored in 2 are checked to check whether the back printing is specified. If no designation is made, the document is created by the existing printing method because it is not combined. On the other hand, if specified, step S
At 45, the designated pattern data is read from the storage memory of FIGS. 1 and 3 according to the designated contents. Each data is added to the read pattern data according to the color and density information stored in step S42. with this,
All the preparations for the backing pattern have been completed, so step S
At 47, this pattern is combined with the document created as a figure. This completes all the data to be printed, so step S48, step S4
9. This is repeated until printing of all data is completed using the existing printing method in step S410.

As described above, a back pattern suitable for a created document can be printed by simply adding the above-described process to the conventional color document process and the process of the output device, so that a more effective document can be obtained. Can be created very easily. [Sixth Embodiment] In the fifth embodiment described above, an example in which the back pattern is printed as it is on the document is described. However, by overwriting only the overlapping portion of the back pattern and the document with the color designated in step S41, the color of the document in that portion can be changed.

The sixth embodiment according to the present invention having the above-mentioned structure will be described below. Also in the sixth embodiment, the basic configuration is the same as that of the fifth embodiment described above, and for example, the hardware configuration shown in FIG. 11 can be used. An operation flow chart of the sixth embodiment is shown in FIG. In FIG. 15, the same steps as those shown in FIG. 12 of the fifth embodiment described above are designated by the same step numbers, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In FIG. 15, the display screen in step S41 is the screen example shown in FIG. In FIG. 16, the designation of "back print mode" is added at the top,
An OR (logical sum) composition or an AND (logical product) overwrite can be designated. Then, the back print mode is also designated here. For this reason, in the sixth embodiment, the back print mode is checked in step S55 following step S46. If OR is selected, the process is the same as that of the fifth embodiment, and the process proceeds to step S47 and subsequent steps.

On the other hand, when AND is selected, the process proceeds from step S55 to step S56, and only the overlapping portion of the back pattern and the document is overwritten with the color designated in step S41, and the portion of that portion is overwritten. It is possible to change the color of the document. That is, instead of synthesizing as it is, the logical product is obtained with the document data, and the figure is changed to leave only that part.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when printing a created color document, the specified pattern can be printed on the back of the created document by simply specifying the back pattern, color and density. , It is effective to improve the working efficiency of users, spread more beautiful and easy-to-understand documents to the world, reduce wasteful time due to efficiency improvement of presentations, etc., and enhance personal interaction.

[Seventh Embodiment] The seventh embodiment of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing the seventh embodiment according to the present invention. In FIG. 17, reference numeral 31 is a document expanding unit for expanding a color document, 32 is a print expanded document memory (document data storage memory) for temporarily storing the document expanded by the document expanding unit, and passing it to the printing device 36.
Is a printing paper selection print starting means for selecting a printing paper as an output medium and starting the printing device 36, and is constituted by an input device such as a keyboard and a display device capable of displaying input guidance, which will be described later. Similarly, the operator inputs instructions.

Reference numeral 34 denotes a means for discriminating an output color of a document to be printed in the printing process, and a document color discrimination twice for controlling so that a predetermined color among the printing colors discriminated by the means is printed twice. It is a printing means, and is provided with a print buffer 34a for fetching print data from the expanded print document memory 32 and temporarily storing it for sending to the printing device 36.
Further, 35 is a color memory which is not suitable for each paper, in which the color that each output paper is not good is registered in advance, and 36 is a printing device which prints out the document information sent to the selected output paper.

To specifically achieve the above configuration, CP
The configuration may include U, an input device, a display device, and a printing device. The operation of the seventh embodiment having the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. FIG. 18 is a flow chart showing the operation of the seventh embodiment. Further, FIG. 19 shows a print paper selection print activation unit 33.
7 shows a display example of a display screen on a display device for selecting a printing paper when selecting a printing paper in FIG. The printing paper is not limited to the display example of FIG. 19, various types can be designated, and the output medium is not limited to paper, and the plastic film,
It goes without saying that various types such as metal flakes can be designated.

Further, in FIG. 20, A1 shows an example in which printout is performed without any conventional control, and A2 shows an example in which printout is performed by the control described later in this embodiment. . In the example shown in FIG. 20, the color of yellow is difficult to be seen, and this output paper is a color that is weak. Therefore, when the printout is performed in the same manner as the others, the yellowish printout is performed as shown in A1, but according to the present embodiment, the printout is performed in a desired darkness.

The procedure up to the result output of A2 shown in FIG. 20 will be specifically described below using the flow chart of FIG. First, in step S61, the print sheet selection print starting means 33 selects and inputs which print sheet is to be printed out by the printing device 36 prepared in advance, for example, while looking at the print sheet selection screen shown in FIG. . When the selection is completed, the process proceeds to step S62, and after the selection and designation is completed, the print paper selection print activation means 33 is instructed to select the print paper, develop the print, and activate the print output.

Then, in the subsequent step S63, the document color discrimination 2
The degree printing means 34, if there is a color that the recording paper selected in step S61 is not good, the color is stored in the color memory 3
It is read from 5 and acquired. Next, in step S64, the document data expanded and created in the expanded print document memory 32 is fetched into the print buffer 34a, and when the one line has been fetched, the printing device 36 is controlled to 1 in step S65.
Print out lines. When the temporary printout image for one line is completed, the process proceeds to step S66, and it is checked whether or not the bad color acquired in step S63 is printed out. If there is no bad color, the print output for the one line is finished and step S6 is executed.
Proceed to 9.

On the other hand, if there is a bad color, step S
From 66, the process proceeds to step S67, and the document color discrimination twice printing means 34 deletes the data in the print buffer 34a other than the poor color part. Then, in the subsequent step S68, only the bad colors remaining from the printing device 36 are printed again, that is, the same data is printed twice at the same place for the bad colors. Then, the process proceeds to step S69.

In step S69, it is checked whether printing of all data has been completed. If the printout of all data is not completed, the process returns to step S64, and the processes of steps S64 to S68 are repeated until all the data are completed. Then, when the printing output of all the data is completed, the process is completed. As a result of the above processing, it is printed out in the form shown in A2 of FIG.

As described above, according to the seventh embodiment, even in the case of printing out a color that the output paper is not good at,
It is possible to perform output that is equivalent to other colors and has no discomfort compared to other colors. [Eighth Embodiment] In the seventh embodiment described above, printing quality is ensured by changing and optimizing the print density by performing printing twice for colors that the output sheet is not good at. However, the present invention is not limited to the above example, and control may be performed so that the print quality is ensured by changing the output pattern (character font pattern to be printed out) only in the portion of the color that is not good. By controlling in this way, it is possible to print out the document information with good print quality without any discomfort in one printing. An eighth embodiment of the present invention having the above structure will be described below.

In the eighth embodiment, a document color discriminating / printing means is provided instead of the document color discriminating twice printing means 34, and the width of the output pattern (character font pattern to be printed out) is reduced by the means. Change to control to ensure print quality. The operation of the eighth embodiment will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. In FIG. 21, the same steps as those shown in FIG. 18 of the seventh embodiment described above are designated by the same step numbers, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In the eighth embodiment, when a bad color is found in step S66, steps S67 and S of the seventh embodiment are used.
Instead of the process of 68, the process shifts to the process of step S70, and the print output pattern for the poor color is changed by the above-mentioned document color discrimination printing means in accordance with the output characteristic of the output paper,
The process of thickening the width of the output pattern in proportion to the poor image quality is executed. For example, a process of thickening the output character font for several dots is performed and stored in the print buffer together with print information of another color.

The document information changed in this way is 1
It is possible to print out the document information with good print quality without any discomfort by printing one line once. Further, even in this case, by changing the degree of change of the pattern in accordance with the output characteristics of the output paper, it is possible to perform finer correction and achieve excellent print quality. In each of the embodiments described above, the character code and the like are stored in a format in which modification information for modifying the character code is added. For example, when the character code is printed in black, it is stored in the format shown in FIG. That is, the bit indicating the black of the modification information is turned on. Therefore, if the original character code information remains unchanged and the modification information is changed, for example, the bit corresponding to black is turned off and the bit corresponding to red is turned on, the character code information can be output in red.

From the above, for example, in order to confirm the layout of a color document, the original information is left as it is and the black 1
It is possible to easily output in color. The present invention may be applied to a system including a plurality of devices or an apparatus including a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a system or apparatus with a program for executing the processing defined by the present invention.

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As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to output a document that is natural and has no discomfort even if the output medium is different. Further, when changing the color to be output, it is not necessary to make each change by editing the document, and by performing the batch conversion at the time of output, it is possible to greatly improve the work efficiency.

Further, by blanking out the area of the judgment information by the judging means or printing out the frame of the area, the time for the desired confirmation printing can be greatly shortened and the work efficiency can be improved. Alternatively, by printing only the portion that takes a long time to print, the confirmation-printed paper can be used as it is, so that further efficiency can be achieved. Furthermore, the specified pattern can be printed on the back of the created document to improve the work efficiency of the user, spread a more beautiful and easy-to-understand document to the world, and reduce the wasteful time due to the efficiency of the presentation etc. It is effective to improve personal interaction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a color document processing and output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an example of an operation procedure when changing a color according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a setting screen for designating a color change in the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a document showing a difference in a result of printing using the present embodiment on a created color document.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a setting screen that enables conversion of more colors shown in the second embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a color document processing apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an example of an operation procedure for performing normal printing and simple printing according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a print image of an example of an original document to be printed and a document after printing according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an image of a print result when only a portion that takes a long time to print is printed in the fourth embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an image of a print result obtained by performing control of the fourth and third embodiments in an overlapping manner and combining a portion that does not take much time to print and a portion that does not take time in simple printing.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a color document processing and output device according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flow chart showing an example of an operation procedure when changing colors in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a setting screen for designating a color change in the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a document showing the difference in the printing results of the created color document using the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a flow chart showing an example of an operation procedure when changing a color according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a setting screen in which an item for designating whether to take a superimposed AND is added in the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a color document processing and output device according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a flow chart showing an example of the operation procedure of the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a setting screen for designating and selecting an output sheet in the seventh embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example showing a difference between a print result obtained by using the seventh embodiment and a conventional print result.

FIG. 21 is a flow chart showing an example of the operation procedure of the eighth embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram for explaining an example of a storage format of document information and the like in each of the above embodiments.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 batch color conversion designating means 2 document reading and developing means 2a, 12a document data storage memory 3 document color determining means 4 document color converting means 4 5,16 print starting means 6,17 print data output memory 7, 18, 36 printing device 11 Simplified printing, frame printing designation means 12, 31 Document expansion means 13 Discrimination means 14 Blank conversion means 15 Blank part frame placement means 21 Pattern, color, density designation display means 22 Pattern, color, density designation means 23 CPU 24 Back pattern storage Memory 25 Back pattern synthesizing means 26 Synthetic data storage memory 27 Color output device 28 Data storage memory 32 Printed document memory 33 Printing paper selection / printing activation means 34 Document color discrimination twice printing means 34a Printing buffer 35 Disadvantageous color memory for each paper

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Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. An input editing means for inputting and editing a color document, an output means for outputting an edited document by the input editing means, and an output of an edited color document by the input editing means when the document is output by the output means. A document processing apparatus comprising: a designation unit for designating a color, wherein the output unit collectively converts the edited color document into a color designated by the designation unit and outputs the color. 2. The input color document is designated with one color, and the designating means designates another color different from the designated one color. Document processing device. 3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of colors are designated in the input color document, and the designating means designates a plurality of other colors. 4. An input editing unit for inputting and editing a document, an output unit for printing out an edited document by the input editing unit, an output format designating unit for designating a print output format by the output unit, and a printout. Of the information to be printed by the output means, the output means specifying the simple print is designated by the output format designating means. A document processing apparatus, which does not print the information determined to be affected and outputs only the area frame of the information in a distinguishable manner. 5. An input editing unit for inputting and editing a document, an output unit for printing out an edited document by the input editing unit, an output format designating unit for designating a print output format by the output unit, and a printout. Of the information to be printed by the output means, the output means specifying the simple print is designated by the output format designating means. A document processing apparatus, which prints out only information that is determined to be affected and outputs blanks in other portions. 6. The document processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the input edit document input by the input edit means is monochrome document information. 7. The document processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the input edit document input by the input edit means is color document information. 8. The document processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the determination unit determines that it takes time to print a graphic, an image, and a graph. 9. A document processing apparatus comprising a printing means for printing a color document, comprising a synthesizing means for synthesizing a pattern designated by a user on a back of the document when printing out the color document and printing. Characteristic document processing device. 10. The synthesizing means includes pattern condition designating means for designating an enlargement / reduction ratio of a pattern to be printed on a back, a print density and a color, and performs pattern synthesis under the designated conditions. Document processing device described. 11. An input editing unit for inputting and editing a color document, an output unit for outputting an edited document by the input editing unit, a medium selecting unit for selecting an output medium at the time of outputting a document by the output unit, A document processing apparatus, comprising: output control means for outputting document information to the output medium in accordance with the output characteristic when the output characteristic varies depending on the medium selected by the medium selecting means. 12. The document according to claim 11, wherein the output control means prints out the poorly-printed color at least twice if there is a poor-printed color due to the medium selected by the medium selection means. Processing equipment. 13. The output control means changes the output pattern so that the output of the color with poor image quality is emphasized when there is a color with poor image quality due to the medium selected by the medium selection means. The document processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the document processing apparatus is a document processing apparatus.