JPH078559B2 - How to specify the typeface on the display - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for designating a character typeface on a display, and more particularly to a method for designating a character typeface for allocating characters on a display for a printed matter.

[Prior art and its problems]

With the development of computers, attempts have been made to incorporate a process of allocating characters on a graphic display as part of the printing process. Characters include various typefaces such as Gothic typeface and Mincho typeface, and deformed forms such as long typeface, flat typeface, and italic typeface, and it is required to use these various typeface types properly in printing. However, it is difficult for the conventional character allocation on the display to specify these various typefaces on the display.

[Object of the Invention]

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a character font designating method capable of easily designating various fonts for a character assigned on a display.

[Outline of Invention]

A feature of the present invention is a method of designating a font of characters allocated on a display, wherein a reference font for each character is prepared in a vector data format, and the allocated characters are displayed in the reference font on the display. Along with displaying
A menu for designating the type of deformed body and the degree of the deformed body for the assigned character is displayed on the display, and the shape of the deformed body corresponding to the designation contents regarding the type of the deformed body and the degree of the deformed body is displayed in a square shape. By designating the menu displayed on the display by the instruction means while performing the transformation display, the font designation for each character is performed, and after the font designation is completed, the reference font is specified based on the font designation. A desired character font is created by performing a predetermined calculation with respect to, and the characters assigned by the reference typeface are displayed in the designated typeface on the display for confirmation.

Example of Invention

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on illustrated embodiments. It is assumed that characters are currently assigned to the display in the standard typeface. In order to display a character on the display, font data for that character must be prepared. In this embodiment, a Gothic character having a predetermined size is used as a reference typeface, and font data of the character of this typeface is prepared as vector data. Similarly, font data of Mincho type characters of a predetermined size is also prepared as vector data. Generally, the font of characters displayed on the display is often prepared as raster data, but in order to create various typeface fonts based on the standard font prepared as described below, it is used as vector data. It is more convenient to leave it.

The operator designates the typeface of a necessary portion while observing the characters of the reference typeface (Gothic reference typeface character of a predetermined size in this embodiment) assigned on the display.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of an operation panel used for designating this typeface.
This operation panel is displayed on a part of the display, and a point on the operation panel can be designated by using a coordinate input device such as a digitizer.

The Mincho typeface and the Gothic typeface are designated by designating one point in the Mincho type designation region 1 or the Gothic type designation region 2 with a digitizer. Gothic font is specified by default. Although each area of the operation panel is normally displayed in green, when the Mincho font is designated, the Mincho font designation area 1 changes to red and when the Gothic font is designated, the Gothic designation area 2 becomes red. Since it changes, the operator can confirm at a glance which typeface is currently specified. In this way, the operator can designate the typeface of the desired character allocated on the display as either Mincho or Gothic. However, at this point in time, the characters on the display are still displayed in the standard typeface (Gothic standard typeface).

Designation of a long font is performed by designating one point in the long designation areas 3a and 3b with a digitizer. FIG. 2 (a) shows the relationship between the reference body (left) and the elongated body (right). There is a degree expressed in the long body ratio in the long body, and the higher the long body ratio, the longer the characters become vertically long. Each time the region 3a is designated, the major body ratio becomes high, and each time the region 3b is designated, the major body ratio becomes low.

Designation of a flat font is performed by designating one point in the flat designating areas 4a and 4b with a digitizer. Fig. 2 (b)
Shows the relationship between the reference body (left) and the flat body (right). The flat body has a degree expressed by a flat body rate, and the higher the flat body rate, the smaller the length becomes. The flatness rate increases every time the area 4a is designated, and the flatness rate decreases every time the area 4b is designated.

The italic typeface is designated by designating one point in the italic designation areas 5a and 5b with a digitizer. Fig. 2 (c)
The relationship between the reference body (left) and the right italic body (right).
The relationship between the reference body (left) and the left italic body (right) is shown in FIG. Each time the area 5a is designated, the degree of right italic is increased, and each time the area 5b is designated, the degree of left italic is increased.

Designation of the typeface of the deformable body is performed by designating one point in the deformable body designating regions 6a and 6b with a digitizer. 2 (e) shows the relationship between the reference body (left) and the right deformable body (right), and FIG. 2 (f) shows the relationship between the reference body (left) and the left deformable body (right). Shown respectively. The degree of the right deformable body increases every time the area 6a is designated, and the degree of the left deformable body increases each time the area 6b is designated.

The transformation display 7 is provided so that the designation of transformation as described above can be visually grasped. This transformation display 7 displays the transformation of characters in a quadrangle, and in the case of a reference body, a square is displayed. For example, when the region 3a is designated to increase the length ratio, the modified display 7 also becomes vertically long according to the length ratio. If italic is designated, the transformation display 7 becomes a parallelogram. As described above, during the designation of the type of transformation and the degree of transformation, the transformation display 7 is displayed in response to the designation input.
The image of the state of the modified body corresponding to the specified content regarding the type of the modified body and the degree of the modified body is displayed. Therefore, while the characters themselves on the display are still displayed in the standard typeface, the operator can recognize the approximate shape of the characters designated for modification by looking at this modification display 7. FIG. 3 shows an example of the display screen at this time. The figure shows the type of transformation by the parallelogram displayed on the transformation display 7 with respect to the character “big sale” assigned on the display. The display state when the degree is designated is shown.

The transformation display 8 shows the length ratio, italic ratio, and
The flat body ratio and the deformed body ratio are displayed as percentages.
By looking at this display, the operator can confirm the shape of the specified typeface on the numerical values.

During the above-described font designating operation, the characters themselves on the display are still displayed in the standard font as described above.
Therefore, at this stage, the operator cannot confirm how the characters are actually displayed on the display. However, the typeface of each character is taken in by the computer as numerical data. Therefore, once the typeface has been specified, registration is performed. This operation is
This is an operation to redisplay each character on the display in the specified typeface. This is done by editing the font of the specified typeface based on the numerical data about the typeface that has already been captured by the computer. As described above, the standard fonts of Mincho and Gothic are prepared as vector data. Therefore, a predetermined typeface font can be obtained by performing a predetermined calculation process on the reference typeface font. For example, when a typeface having a Mincho type long body ratio of α% is specified, an arithmetic operation may be performed to reduce the width of the Mincho typeface standard font at a rate corresponding to α. The reference font is prepared in the form of vector data instead of raster data in order to facilitate this arithmetic processing. When the registration operation is performed in this manner, each character is displayed on the display in the designated actual typeface. Therefore, the operator can confirm at this stage whether or not each character has an optimal typeface. FIG. 4 shows an example of the display screen at this time, and FIG. 4 shows the display state when the type and degree of the transformation are registered in the parallelogram displayed in the transformation display 7 in FIG. There is.

At the stage of designating the typeface for each character, the reference typeface is displayed on the display as it is, and it is not possible to collectively display the display on the display after the registration operation when the typeface is specified. This is to speed up the responsiveness of. In order to display the characters in the designated typeface, the arithmetic process for creating the font of the typeface is necessary as described above. Therefore, at the stage of designating a typeface, if the designated typeface is displayed each time the designation is made, it takes a long time to perform a calculation process for creating a font, and the responsiveness of the typeface designation operation becomes extremely poor. Therefore, as described above, the state of the transformation is displayed as transformation display 7 by a simple pattern transformation process such as a quadrangle, and thus it is possible to provide a real-time display for the transformation designation input. Of.

Finally, the features of this embodiment are summarized as follows.

(1) Display display in various fonts such as Mincho, Gothic, long, and flat can be performed by a registration operation.

(2) Since only the reference typeface is displayed during the typeface designation operation, an interactive typeface designation operation with high responsiveness is possible.

(3) Since the character fonts to be prepared in advance need only be the fonts of the standard fonts of the Mincho font and the Gothic font, the required memory capacity can be saved.

(4) Since the transformation display with a rectangle is performed during the font designating operation, the approximate shape of the font designating character can be confirmed.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, when inputting a deformable body,
The shape change of the deformed body due to the designation is displayed on the display as a rectangle. Therefore, the operator can specify the type and degree of deformation from the menu screen while capturing the image after the character is deformed by looking at the deformed character when using the character that is deformed from the standard typeface in design creation. , You can design efficiently.

Further, since the transformation display is performed by the transformation processing of the quadrangle, it can be provided in real time in response to the transformation designation input. As a result, the operation can be smoothed, and the work efficiency can be improved also from this point.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a typeface-designating operation panel used in the method according to the present invention, and FIGS. 2A to 2F are explanatory views of each typeface designated by the method according to the present invention, and FIG. And FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display screen. 1 …… Mincho font designated area, 2 …… Gothic font designated area, 3
a, 3b ...... long body designation area, 4a, 4b ... flat body designation area, 5a, 5b
…… Italic designation area, 6a, 6b …… Transformation designation area, 7 ……
Transform display, 8 …… Display of transformation rate.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Yasunori Tomoda 3-8-10 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo (56) References JP-A-59-124855 (JP, A) JP-A-54-149522 (JP, A) JP-A-57-69534 (JP, A) JP-A-59-218856 (JP, A)

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A method for designating a font of characters allocated on a display, wherein a standard font for each character is prepared in a vector data format, and the allocated characters are displayed on the display in the standard font. In addition, a menu for designating the type of deformed body and the degree of deformed body for the assigned character is displayed on the display, and the type of deformed body corresponding to the specified content regarding the type of deformed body and the degree of deformed body is displayed. While performing transformation display that displays the situation in a square,
By designating the menu displayed on the display by means of the designating means, the typeface for each character is designated, and after this typeface designation is completed, a predetermined operation is performed on the reference font based on this typeface designation. Due to
A method for designating a character typeface on a display, wherein a desired character font is created, and characters assigned by the standard typeface are displayed on the display in the designated typefaces for confirmation. 2. A method for designating a character typeface on a display according to claim 1, wherein Gothic font and Mincho font are prepared in vector data format for each character. 3. A method of designating a character typeface on a display according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the typeface is specified by inputting coordinate values using a coordinate input device. 4. A font according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the typeface is a Gothic typeface, a Mincho typeface or a deformed type, and the deformed type is an elongated type, a flat type or an italic type. How to specify the typeface on the display described in Kani