JPH0790656B2 - Document processing method - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document processing method for managing the output length of a document.

[Prior Art] A line feed pitch is individually specified for each line of a document separately from a conventionally known character processing device, particularly a standard format (the number of lines on one page and a line feed pitch) common to the entire document. In the apparatus having the means for obtaining, the number of lines on one page is invariable based on the specified standard format regardless of whether or not the line feed pitch is individually specified in the document.

Therefore, when a line feed pitch smaller than the standard format is specified in the document, the area actually printed (first
Figure (B)) is printed in standard format (first
However, when a line feed pitch larger than that in the standard format is designated, the line width becomes wider as shown in FIG. 1C. As described above, by specifying individual line feed pitches in the document, the areas printed on the paper are different for each page, which is often unsightly.

[Object] Therefore, in view of the above-mentioned point, the first object of the present invention is to output a document created in consideration of the fact that pages are divided by the output length of one page determined by the format information. An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing method capable of outputting in a state in which the page break intended at the time of creation is retained without the intention at the time of creating the document being ignored at the time of output depending on the size of the set paper.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a document processing method that suppresses variations in the output length of one page and enables good-looking output.

[Embodiment] In a document processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied, as shown in FIG. 2, a standard format setting means 2 for setting a standard format at the time of printing and a line pitch setting for designating a line feed pitch for each line of document data. Means 4, computing means 6 for calculating a standard print area based on a standard format, and print control means 8 for performing printing according to the line pitch setting means in the standard print area.
With.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the character processing device according to the present invention. In this figure, the CPU is a microprocessor,
Performs arithmetic / logical judgments and controls various devices connected to the bus (BUS).

BUS is a common bus, and transfers control signals and various data to the devices connected to it.

The ROM is a read-only memory, and stores a program of control procedures and fixed data as shown in FIG. 6, for example.

KB is a keyboard for inputting document data and setting print formats.

The CRT is a cathode ray tube and displays the input document, print format, etc.

DISK is an auxiliary storage device, and is used for storing input documents.

The PRT is a printer and prints the input document.

RAM is a random access memory and is used to temporarily store the input document data, print format data, and various variable data. FIG. 4 shows the contents of this RAM in more detail.

In FIG. 4, LOG-DATA is an area for storing the print format set by the keyboard KB, and the number of lines per page (PR
T-LNO) and standard line feed pitch (PRT-LPIT) are included here. DOC-DATA is an area for storing the input document data. The document data is stored line by line, and the details are as shown in FIG.

Control data is added to the beginning of the line data, and data indicating whether the line is a page break line is set in the "Page break line flag".
The line feed pitch specified individually for each line is stored in "line feed pitch".

PRT-XDOMAIN is an area for storing a standard print area, which is determined by PRT-LPIT and PRT-LNO. Also, PR
T-CRNTX is an area that holds the length from the print start position to the line currently being printed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. However, the keyboard
For setting the document data from KB and print format,
Since it is already well known, its explanation is omitted.

In the flowchart shown in FIG. 6, first, step S
Calculate the standard print area (PR-XDOMAIN) according to 1.1. The standard print area is the standard line feed pitch (PR
-LPIT) is the length from the center of the first line to the center of the last line when it is assumed that only the number of lines (PR-LNO) for one page is printed. it can.

PR-XDOMAIN = PR-LPIT * (PR-LNO-1) Next, the document pointer is made to point to the beginning of the document data (step S1.2), and then the length of the actually printed vertical direction (PR Clear the counter (PR-CRNTX) that holds -CRNTX) (step S1.3).

When printing, when the document pointer reaches the end of the document data (step S2.1), a page break process is performed (step S5), and the process ends. On the other hand, if the line is not the end of the document and the line is a page break line (step S2.2), the document pointer is advanced to the next line (step S4.1), and page break processing is performed. After (step S4.2),
Return to step S1.3.

Next, if it is not the end of the document and the line is not a page break line, it is checked whether the value of PR-CRNTX exceeds the value of PR-XDOMAIN (step S2.3). For example, page break processing (step 4.2) is performed, and the process returns to step 1.3.

If the value of PR-CRNTX does not exceed the value of PR-XDOMAIN, the line is printed (step S3.1). At this time, similarly, a line feed is performed by the line feed pitch designated for the line. After that, the line feed pitch of the line is added to PRT-CRNTX (step S3.2), the document pointer is advanced to the next line (step S3.3), and the process returns to step S2.1 (print control (See FIG. 8 showing the concept).

In the above-described embodiment, it is determined whether or not to print one line of document (FIG. 6; steps S1.3, S2.3, S3.1).
~ S3.3, S4.2) is performed by the character processing device itself,
The standard print area may be transferred from the character processing device to the printer, and the determination process may be performed on the printer side.

[Effect] As described above, according to the present invention, when a document created in consideration of the fact that pages are separated by the output length of one page determined by the format information is output, the number of sheets of paper loaded is reduced. Due to the size, the special effect that the intention at the time of creating the document is not ignored at the time of output and the page break intended at the time of creating can be output while being maintained is obtained.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, it is possible to suppress variations in the output length of one page and output with a good appearance.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 (A) to 1 (C) are diagrams showing an example of printing by a conventional method, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a detailed configuration diagram of a RAM used in the present embodiment, FIG. 5 is a data configuration diagram of one digit of document data according to the present embodiment, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the present embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the concept of a standard print area, and FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating the concept of print control. 2 ... Standard format setting means, 3 ... Document individual line pitch setting means, 6 ... Standard printing area calculation means, 8 ... Print control means, CPU ... Microprocessor, ROM ... Read-only memory, KB ... Keyboard, CRT …… cathode ray tube, DISK …… auxiliary storage device, PRT …… printer, RAM …… random access memory.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An output length of one page corresponding to a value obtained by multiplying the number of output lines of one page by the first line spacing information, which is set as a page format, is held as a format standard length, and a document is stored. The second line spacing information different from the first line spacing information, which is set in the middle of, and the cumulative output length of the document data output based on the first and second line spacing information is set. Deriving, determining whether the cumulative output length exceeds the stored format standard length, and when it is determined that the cumulative output length exceeds the retained format standard length, The page break processing is performed regardless of the number of output lines of one page set as the format, and when it is determined that the cumulative output length does not exceed the held standard format length, The cumulative output length is added to the paper length set for outputting the document data. Luke regardless whether, after continued output of the data until it is determined that exceeds format standard length, document processing method characterized by performing a page break processing.