JPH08138073A - Device and method for document editing - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a document editing device capable of easily editing an object fetched in document data. CONSTITUTION: This document editing device is equipped with a controller 101, an input device 102, a storage device 103 and an output device 104. When print is executed, the controller 101 judges from a user interface panel whether or not color correction should be performed, and performs ordinary print processing when no color correction is required. When the color correction is required, color correction information set by a user to transfer color correction information is acquired, and the application of an object is started, and acquired color correction information is transferred to the application of the object. The application updates data for plotting based on reported color correction information. When the data for plotting is updated, the application is completed, and the plotting processing of updated data for plotting is performed, and the print processing is executed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus capable of inputting and editing a document, a figure and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of document editing apparatus, it is possible to perform color correction processing according to the printer when performing printing or print preview. Further, at the time of input editing, data such as figures and images created by other applications can be taken in as objects.

Since the data of these objects are different from the original character strings, they are managed in a storage location different from the document data, and the objects can be edited by activating an application corresponding to the object.

[0004]

However, in the above-described conventional document editing apparatus, although the data created by another application can be captured as an object, the captured object is subjected to color correction processing according to the printer. To print or print preview.

Further, when the corresponding application is started in editing an object, the started application has an edit area of its own size regardless of the frame size of the object in the document, so that the object to be edited is It was not reflected correctly on the edit area screen. Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult to associate the object displayed in the document with the object being edited, and the editing operation is troublesome.

This problem will be described in more detail. 11 and 12 are explanatory views showing the relationship between a conventional object frame and an object application.

In the figure, reference numeral 221 denotes a graphic object frame inserted in the document object. In order to edit the graphic object, the graphic object frame 221 is selected, and when the graphic object is selected by a command to start the graphic object application from the menu or an operation corresponding thereto, for example, by double-clicking the mouse as an input device, the graphic object is selected. The graphic application 224 activated in accordance with the graphic object is displayed in the window. An editing area 222 is an area in which the graphic application 224 can insert or delete a graphic. Reference numeral 223 indicates the outside of the editable area.

Normally, the edit area 222 is information uniquely held by the graphic application 224 and is not associated with the size of the graphic object frame 221. Figure 11
Then, although the figure displayed in the figure object frame 221 and the figure displayed in the figure application 224 have the same size, since the sizes of the areas for displaying the figures are different, the figures are created in the editing area 222. There is a problem that the created graphic is not correctly reflected in the graphic object frame 221, that is, the graphic created in the editing area 222 may be out of the graphic object frame 221.

As shown in FIG. 12, when the size of the graphic object frame 211 corresponds to the size of the edit area 212, the size of the graphic displayed in the edit area 212 is the size of the graphic object frame 211. Not reflected in the
Alternatively, there is a problem that even a blank area in which no figure is displayed is reflected in the object frame 211.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document editing apparatus which can easily edit an object captured in document data.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, the document editing apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention prints a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted. In a document editing apparatus that performs processing, a color correction information transfer unit that transfers color correction information of a printer used in the print processing to the other application, and the other application is activated, and based on the color correction information. An application starting means for updating the drawing data of the object,
It is characterized in that printing processing of the document in which the drawing data is updated is performed.

A document editing apparatus according to a second aspect is the first aspect.
In the document editing apparatus according to the invention, the application activating means includes drawing data updating means for performing color correction processing based on the transferred color correction information to update the drawing data, and the object according to the updated drawing data. And an object drawing means for drawing.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document editing method for performing a printing process of a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted. The color correction information is transferred to the other application, the other application is activated, the drawing data of the object is updated based on the color correction information, and the printing process of the document in which the drawing data is updated is performed.

A document editing device according to a fourth aspect is a document editing device for editing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted, and object selecting means for selecting the object inserted in the document, Start the application of the selected object,
Application starting means for displaying an edit area of the object, frame size transfer means for transferring the frame size of the selected object to the application,
The editing area setting means sets the editing area according to the transferred frame size.

A document editing device according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the fourth aspect.
In the document editing apparatus according to the present invention, a frame size display unit for displaying the frame size of the object, a frame size changing unit for changing the displayed frame size, and the frame size transfer unit for transferring the changed frame size. To do.

In the document editing apparatus according to a sixth aspect, in the document editing apparatus according to the fourth aspect, when the frame size is changed while the edit area is displayed, the edit area setting unit is changed. An edit area changing means is provided for changing the edit area according to the frame size.

A document editing method according to a seventh aspect is a document editing method for editing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted, and the object inserted in the document is selected, and the selected object is selected. The application of the object is activated, the edit area of the object is displayed, the frame size of the selected object is transferred to the application, and the edit area is set according to the transferred frame size.

[0018]

In the document editing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, when a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted is printed, the color correction information transfer means performs the printing. The color correction information of the printer used for processing is transferred to the other application, the other application is started by the application starting means, the drawing data of the object is updated based on the color correction information, and the drawing data Prints the updated document.

In the document editing apparatus according to the second aspect, the drawing data updating unit performs the color correction processing based on the transferred color correction information to update the drawing data, and the object drawing unit updates the drawing data. According to the above, the object is drawn.

In the document editing apparatus according to the fourth aspect, when the document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted is edited, the object selecting unit selects the object inserted in the document and starts the application. Means activates the application of the selected object, displays the edit area of the object, transfers the frame size of the selected object to the application by the frame size transfer means, and transfers the frame size by the edit area setting means. The editing area is set according to the frame size.

In the document editing apparatus according to the fifth aspect, the frame size display means displays the frame size of the object, the frame size changing means changes the displayed frame size, and the frame size transfer means changes the displayed frame size. Transfer the changed frame size.

In the document editing apparatus according to the sixth aspect, when the frame size is changed in a state where the edit area is displayed, the edit area is changed by the edit area changing means according to the changed frame size. To do.

[0023]

【Example】

[First Embodiment] A document editing apparatus according to the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing the configuration of the document editing apparatus of the first embodiment. In the figure, the document editing apparatus of this embodiment includes a control device 101, an input device 102, a storage device 103, and an output device 104.

The input device 102 is a device such as a keyboard or a mouse that receives an input from a user, and is a storage device 1.
A device 03 stores information on a hard disk, a floppy disk, a memory, or the like, and is an output device 104.
Is a device such as a display or a printer that outputs so that the user can see it.

Next, the process of transferring the color correction information to the application of the object inserted in the document data will be described. Since the contents of the color correction information, the drawing process, and the printing process are well known, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a user interface panel for performing a printing process. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a color correction processing routine executed by the control device 101.

First, at the time of printing or print preview processing,
The user is prompted to select whether or not to perform color correction processing (step S131). As shown in FIG. 2, a marker 128 is clicked with a mouse to select whether or not to perform color correction on the user interface panel for printing. When performing color correction, the color correction method of the printer currently used is displayed in the item 127 of the color correction type displayed below.

Marker 1 when another color correction method is selected
A portion indicated by 25 is clicked with a mouse, or a key operation corresponding to that is performed to display an item 126 of the color correction method list.

A desired color correction method is selected from the items 126 displayed in the list by a mouse click or a key operation equivalent thereto. After that, when the OK button 121 is pressed, the print processing is started, and when the preview button 123 is pressed, the print preview processing is started.

When changing to another printer, the printer can be changed by pressing the setting button 122 of the printer.

When printing is executed by the OK button 121, the control device 101 determines whether or not to perform color correction based on the selection information indicating whether or not to perform color correction from the user interface panel of FIG. 2 obtained in step S131 described above. When the color correction is not performed, the normal printing process is performed (step S138), and this routine is finished.

On the other hand, when performing color correction, the color correction information set by the user to transfer the color correction processing is acquired (step S132), the application of the object is activated (step S133), and the activated application is set. The acquired color correction information is transferred (step S134). The started application updates the drawing data based on the notified color correction information (step S135). When the drawing data is updated, the application ends (step S136). Thereafter, the drawing process of the updated drawing data is performed (step S137), and the printing process is executed (step S13).
8) This routine ends.

[Second Embodiment] The document editing apparatus of the second embodiment will be described below. The document editing apparatus of this embodiment has the same hardware configuration as that of the first embodiment.

First, the process of transferring the size of the object frame to the object application will be described.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the object frame and the object application. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process of starting an object application.

In FIG. 4, the graphic object is pasted in one object frame 231 in the document object. When the object frame 231 is selected by the input device 102 such as a mouse or a keyboard, the object frame 231
Enters the selected state (step S61). In the selected state of the object frame 231, a frame size change marker 232 is displayed. After that, a command for starting the graphic application is executed from the menu of the document application.

On the other hand, when the object frame 231 is not in the selected state and the mouse is double-clicked, the control device 103 outputs a command to activate the graphic application of the graphic object in the document object (step S62), and the graphic application is selected. Object frame 231
Information is acquired (step S63).

Frame segments 91 to 94 for managing the frames in the document are set in the storage device 103. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing frame segments set in the storage device 103. For example, if the selected object frame 231 is assigned to the address of the frame 1 indicated by reference numeral 91, the information of the frame 1 is actually referenced from the address of the frame 1 in the frame segment. The size of the object frame is acquired from the object information belonging to the frame 1 (step S6
3) The acquired size is transferred to the activated graphic application (step S64), and this routine ends.

As a result, the size of the object frame 231 is transferred when the graphic application is activated.

In this embodiment, after the object application is started in step S62, step S64 is executed.
Although the size of the object frame is transferred in, the size of the object frame 231 may be acquired in advance at the time of the application start command of the object and passed to the application as an argument of the application start command.

Next, the processing when the size change is notified from the document application will be described. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a processing routine executed by the graphic application when a size change notification is received from the document application.

First, when the size change notification of the object frame 231 is transferred from the document application (step S81), the graphic application acquires the size change passed as information (step S82). The graphic application sets the edit area of the graphic object to the changed size (step S83), and redisplays the edit area (step S84). FIG. 4 shows the edit area 233 of the graphic object.

[Modification] A process when the object frame in the document object is changed while the graphic application is activated will be described.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing routine when the object frame in the document object is changed while the graphic application is being activated. At the beginning,
The figure shows a state in which a graphic application in which the editing area 233 is set with the size of the object frame 231 is activated.
In order to change the size of the object frame 231, the size change marker 232 of the object frame 231 is dragged with the mouse of the input device 102 to move the object frame 231.
The size of (step S71, step S7
2). FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the object frame and the object application when the size of the object frame is changed.

When the size to be changed is decided, the size is transferred to the graphic application of the object frame 231 (step S73). The process after the transfer is similar to the process shown in FIG. As a result, the object frame 231 in the document object and the editing area 233 of the graphic object
Have the same size. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the object frame and the object application after the size of the object frame is changed.

[0046]

According to the document editing apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, the color correction information is transferred when the document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted is printed. Means transfers the color correction information of the printer used for the printing process to the other application, the application starting means starts the other application, and updates the drawing data of the object based on the color correction information. , The print processing of the document in which the drawing data is updated is performed.
Even when drawing data of an object created by another application is fetched, it is possible to perform color correction of the object and perform printing processing such as printing or print preview.

According to the document editing apparatus of the second aspect, the drawing data updating unit performs the color correction processing based on the transferred color correction information to update the drawing data, and the object drawing unit updates the drawing data. Since the object is drawn according to the drawing data, it is possible to confirm the drawing data that has been color-corrected.

According to the document editing method of the third aspect, in the document editing method for printing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted, the document editing method is used for the printing process. The color correction information of the printer is transferred to the other application, the other application is started, the drawing data of the object is updated based on the color correction information, and the printing process of the document in which the drawing data is updated is performed. Therefore, even if the drawing data of the object created by another application is fetched, the color correction of the object can be performed and the printing processing such as printing or print preview can be performed.

According to the document processing apparatus of the fourth aspect, when an object such as a figure or an image is edited, the object selected by the object selecting means is the object inserted into the document. The application starting means starts the application of the selected object, the edit area of the object is displayed, the frame size transfer means transfers the frame size of the selected object to the application, and the edit area setting means operates the Since the edit area is set according to the transferred frame size, the frame size of the object inserted in the document can be associated with the edit area of the application, and the editing operation can be improved.

In the document editing apparatus according to the fifth aspect, the frame size display means displays the frame size of the object, the frame size changing means changes the displayed frame size, and the frame size transfer means changes the displayed frame size. Since the changed frame size is transferred, even if the frame size is changed, it is possible to make correspondence with the editing area and improve the operability.

In the document editing apparatus according to the sixth aspect, when the frame size is changed in a state where the edit area is displayed, the edit area changing means changes the edit area according to the changed frame size. Therefore, even if you change the frame size during editing, you can keep correspondence with the editing area,
The operability can be further improved.

In the document editing method according to claim 7, in the document editing method for editing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted, the object inserted in the document is selected and the selected object is selected. The application of the object is started, the edit area of the object is displayed, the frame size of the selected object is transferred to the application, and the edit area is set according to the transferred frame size. Correspondence between the frame size of the inserted object and the editing area of the application can be made, and the editing operation can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a document editing apparatus of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a user interface panel for performing print processing.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a color correction processing routine executed by the control device 101.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an object frame and an object application.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an object frame and an object application when the size of the object frame is changed.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an object frame and an object application after the size of the object frame is changed.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process of activating an object application.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing routine when the object frame in the document object is changed while the graphic application is activated.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a processing routine executed by the graphic application when a size change notification is received from the document application.

10 is an explanatory diagram showing frame segments set in a storage device 103. FIG.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between a conventional object frame and an object application.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between a conventional object frame and an object application.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Control Device 102 Input Device 103 Storage Device 104 Output Device 124 User Interface Panel 211, 231 Object Frame 212, 233 Editing Area 214, 235 Graphic Object

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. In a document editing apparatus for performing a printing process of a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted, color correction information of a printer used for the printing process is stored in the other application. A color correction information transfer means for transferring the drawing data of the object and an application starting means for starting the other application and updating the drawing data of the object based on the color correction information. A document editing device characterized by performing processing. 2. The application starting means includes drawing data updating means for performing color correction processing based on the transferred color correction information to update the drawing data, and the object is updated in accordance with the updated drawing data. 2. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising object drawing means for drawing. 3. A document editing method for performing a printing process of a document in which an object such as a figure or an image created by another application is inserted, wherein color correction information of a printer used for the printing process is set to the other application. To the other application, start the other application, update the drawing data of the object based on the color correction information, and print the document with the updated drawing data. 4. A document editing apparatus for editing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted, and an object selecting unit for selecting the object inserted in the document, and an application of the selected object. An application starting unit that starts up and displays an edit area of the object, a frame size transfer unit that transfers the frame size of the selected object to the application, and the edit area according to the transferred frame size. A document editing apparatus comprising: an edit area setting unit for setting. 5. A frame size display unit for displaying the frame size of the object, a frame size changing unit for changing the displayed frame size, and the frame size transfer unit for transferring the changed frame size. The document editing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein 6. The editing area setting means, when the frame size is changed in a state where the editing area is displayed, edit area changing means for changing the editing area according to the changed frame size. The document editing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising: 7. A document editing method for editing a document in which an object such as a figure or an image is inserted, selecting the object inserted in the document, activating an application of the selected object, A document editing method comprising: displaying an edit area of an object; transferring a frame size of the selected object to the application; and setting the edit area according to the transferred frame size.