JPH08329223A - Color display/print method and information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To display a picture by only one or more designated colors or print it on a sheet of paper. CONSTITUTION: When a user designates a color to be displayed to a display/non- display setting device 3 with an input device 9, this device 3 sets the color designated with a color designating device 5. A color information confirmation device 8 displays only the part of the color set by the display/non-display setting device 3 out of a display document on a display device 2 in the designated color. The user designates a color to be printed to a print/print suppression setting device 4 with the input device 9 and designates print/print suppression of the designated color to this print/print suppression setting device 4. This device 4 sets the designated color and its print/print suppression. A print controller 7 prints the document in color with a printer 10 without printing the part of the color, to which, for example, print suppression designation is set with the print/print suppression setting device 4, out of the print document.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus such as a document preparation apparatus for displaying or printing documents or figures, and more particularly to a color display / printing method for displaying or printing documents or figures in color. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an information processing apparatus compatible with color display or color printing, by presetting an arbitrary color, a character string, a graphic or the like is displayed or printed by color-coding by a desired color. You can However, it was not possible to display only the part colored with a specific color, or to print only the part colored with a specific color, on a screen or printing surface that is displayed or printed with different colors. .

For example, it is not possible to display only the part colored in yellow in the screen displayed in red, blue and yellow. Therefore, if you want to check whether a certain color is used in this screen or what part of a certain color is used while displaying a color display screen in monochrome, display only that color. By switching to the screen, it is possible to know whether the certain color is used or which part is used.

However, since the conventional device cannot display only a specific color as described above, the above-described check must be performed after displaying all the colors in the color mode. However, in this case, in addition to the color of interest, other colors are also displayed at the same time, so whether or not a certain color described above is used or in which part a certain color is used is displayed. There was a drawback that it was difficult to confirm. Needless to say, such defects also occur on the printing surface.

[0005]

In a conventional color display or printable information processing apparatus, an arbitrary color among the plurality of colors is designated on a screen or a printing surface which is color-coded by a plurality of colors. However, it was not possible to display or print the screen with only the designated color. Therefore, there is a drawback that it is difficult to confirm whether or not a specific color is used among the plurality of colors, or if it is used, which part.

In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks, the present invention displays the screen in only one or more colors arbitrarily designated among a plurality of colors used on the screen or the print surface, or the print surface. It is an object of the present invention to provide a color display / printing method capable of printing an image and an information processing apparatus using these methods.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a color display method in an information processing apparatus for color-displaying a document or a figure color-coded by a plurality of colors, wherein any one or more of the plurality of colors are provided. When the user specifies, a method is adopted in which only the part colored with the specified color is displayed in color.

The second aspect of the present invention employs a method of displaying in monochrome a portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color. The invention of claim 3 employs a method of displaying in color only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the designated color.

The invention of claim 4 employs a method of displaying in monochrome the portion arranged in the designated color.
The invention of claim 5 employs a method of returning to the screen display of the original mode when the user gives an end instruction during the display or non-display of the portion to which the designated color is arranged.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a color printing method in an information processing apparatus for color-printing a document or a figure color-coded by a plurality of colors, wherein a user designates any one or more of the plurality of colors. , The method of color printing only the part that is colored with the specified color is adopted.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, a method is employed in which the portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color is monochrome printed. The invention of claim 8 employs a method of color-printing only a portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the designated color.

The present invention of claim 9 employs a method in which the portion colored in the designated color is set as a character unit.
According to a tenth aspect of the invention, a method of monochrome printing the portion colored with the designated color is adopted.

According to the invention of claim 11, in an information processing apparatus for color-displaying a document or figure color-coded by a plurality of colors,
Designating means for allowing the user to designate any one or more of the plurality of colors, display means for displaying in color only a portion arranged in the color designated by the designating means, and color designated by the designating means. And a printing means for performing color printing on the paper only on the color-coded part.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, the display means displays in monochrome the portion colored with the remaining color other than the color designated by the designating means, and the printing means other than the color designated by the designating means. The monochrome printing is performed on the portion arranged with the remaining colors.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, the display means displays in color only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the color designated by the designation means, and the printing means specifies the designated portion. The color printing is performed only on the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the color designated by the means.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, the display means is displaying or non-displaying a portion colored with the designated color,
An input means for inputting an end instruction from a user is provided, and when the end instruction is input by the input means, the display means is configured to return to the screen display in the original mode.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided detection means for detecting that the color designated by the designating means is not included in the display colors currently set in the display means.
When the detection means detects that the specified color is not included in the display colors, the display means indicates that the specified color is not included in the currently set display colors. It has a configuration for displaying a message.

[0018]

According to the color display method of the present invention, when the user designates any one or more of the plurality of colors, only the portion arranged in the designated color is displayed in color. In the color display method according to the second aspect of the present invention, the portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color is displayed in monochrome.

In the color display method according to the third aspect of the invention, only the portion colored with the remaining color except the portion colored with the designated color is color-displayed. In the color display method according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the portion colored with the designated color is displayed in monochrome.

In the color display method according to the invention of claim 5, when the user gives an end instruction during the display or non-display of the portion where the designated color is arranged, the screen display of the original mode is restored. .

In the color printing method of the sixth aspect of the present invention, when the user designates any one or more of the plurality of colors, only the portion arranged in the designated color is color printed. In the color printing method of the seventh aspect of the present invention, the portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color is monochrome printed.

In the color printing method of the eighth aspect, only the portion colored with the remaining color except the portion colored with the designated color is color printed. In the color printing method according to the ninth aspect of the present invention, the portion colored in units of one character is designated.

In the color printing method of the tenth aspect of the present invention, the portion colored with the designated color is monochrome printed. In the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 11, the designating means causes the user to designate any one or more of the plurality of colors. The display means color-displays only the portion colored with the color designated by the designating means. The printing means color-prints only the portion colored with the color designated by the designating means on the paper.

In the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 12, the display means displays in monochrome the portion colored in the remaining color other than the color designated by the designating means, and the printing means designates by the designating means. The part colored with the remaining color other than the specified color is printed in monochrome.

In the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 13, the display means color-displays only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the color designated by the designating means, and the printing is performed. The means color-prints only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the color designated by the designation means.

In the information processing apparatus according to the fourteenth aspect of the present invention, the input means inputs the end instruction from the user while the display means is displaying or non-displaying the portion colored with the designated color. The display means returns to the screen display in the original mode when the end instruction is input by the input means.

In the information processing apparatus according to the fifteenth aspect of the present invention, the detecting means detects that the color designated by the designating means is not included in the display colors currently set in the display means. When the display means detects that the designated color is not included in the display colors, the display means indicates that the designated color is not included in the currently set display colors. Display a message.

[0028]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a color display / printing method of the present invention and an information processing apparatus (document creating apparatus) of the present invention using these methods.
It is the block diagram which showed one Example. Reference numeral 1 is a document storage device for storing a document to be edited, 2 is a display device such as an LCD for displaying a document, a graphic or the like as instructed by the display mode switching device 6, and 3 is a designation of a color for each character or graphic. , A display / non-display designation device for setting display or non-display of a designated color, 4
Is a printing / non-printing setting device for setting the color of each character or figure and setting printing or non-printing of the designated color, and 5 is a display / non-display setting device for designating one or more colors to be displayed or printed. Three
And a color designation device for performing the print / non-print designation device 4, 6 is a display mode switching device that switches the display mode of the display device 2 according to the setting of the display / non-display setting device 3 and other modes, and 7 is a print / non-print inhibition A print control device that controls the printing device 9 according to the settings of the setting device 4 and other modes to print characters and graphics on paper, and 8 is a display / non-display setting device 3
A color information confirmation device for displaying only the color portion set in step 2 on the display device 2; a printing device 9 for printing a document or a figure in color or monochrome under the control of the print control device 7;
Reference numeral 10 denotes an input device for inputting various information such as a character string and color designation information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. For example, in the case of the document edit mode, the display mode switching device 6
Displays a document or graphic in the document storage device 1 on the display device 2 in monochrome. Here, when the user looks at the screen of the display device 2 and designates the display color from the input device 10 to the display / non-display setting device 3 according to the type of each sentence or figure in the displayed document, the display / non-display setting is performed. The display setting device 3 sets the display color input from the input device 10 by the color designating device 5 for each sentence or figure. For example, if the question text on the text of a test or the like is designated as blue and the answer text is designated as red, the display / non-display setting device 3 sets the question text to be displayed in blue and the answer text in red.

After that, when the color display is designated from the input device 10, the display mode switching device 6 displays the document in the document storage device 1 on the screen of the display device 2 according to the above setting of the display / non-display setting device 3. Display in normal color. This will be described with reference to the above specific example. As shown in FIG. 3, the question sentence is displayed in blue and the answer sentence is displayed in red.

After that, when the user wants to confirm, for example, whether or not red is used on the screen returned to the monochrome display for some reason, the input device 10 causes the color information confirmation device 8 to display the color information. Confirmation request of Figure 2
Input in step 201.

As a result, the color information confirmation device 8 displays a message for prompting the user to specify the target color to be confirmed.
To display the target color to the user. That is, since the user who sees the above message specifies one or more types of target colors from the input device 10 to the display / non-display setting device 3, the display / non-display setting device 3 sets the specified color to the color specifying device 5. The color information confirmation device 8 is notified of the set color information.

Next, in step 202, the color information confirmation device 8 sets the character string (1) of the color set in the display / non-display setting device 3.
Display device 2 in the set color
To be displayed. At this time, when the display mode of the display mode switching device 6 is monochrome display, the color information confirmation device 8 naturally displays the display portion of another color in monochrome.

When the display mode of the display mode switching device 6 at this time is color display, the color information confirmation device 8 changes the display portion in other colors to monochrome display and displays it on the display device 2.

After that, the color information confirmation device 8 displays a message on the display device 2 asking whether or not the confirmation of the display in the designated color is completed, and waits for the key input of the confirmation end from the input device 10. As a result, when there is a confirmation end key input, the color information confirmation device 8 informs the display mode switching device 6 of the end of the color information confirmation mode, so that the display mode switching device 6 returns the display device 2 to the original state at step 204. Control to return to display mode.

When the color displayed on the display / non-display setting device 3 is designated in step 202, this color can be designated as non-display, or when there are a plurality of designated colors. Can also be specified to show one color and hide another.

In such a case, the color information confirmation device 8 controls the display device 2 so that the display / non-display setting device 3 does not display the part of the color set to non-display. Therefore, when one color of the non-display is designated and the display mode switching device 6 is in the color mode, the color information confirmation device 8 displays the remaining undesignated color portion in color. However, when the display mode switching device 6 is in the monochrome mode, the remaining color portions are displayed in monochrome.

Here, a specific example in the case of confirming the color information as described above will be described. For example, when the type of color ink ribbon you have is limited, if you want to know if you can print the document you are editing with the set color, you can use the color information confirmation function described above. .

In such a case, after issuing a color information confirmation request, the user designates the colors of the ink ribbons on hand, such as red and blue. As a result, the color information confirmation device 8 displays the document only in the designated red and blue, and displays the character strings set in other colors in monochrome.

From this, it can be understood that the hand-held color ink ribbon can be used for printing when all the character strings are displayed in red and blue. Further, the amount of the character strings displayed in red or blue is checked, and the present color ink ribbon is seen. You can also get an indication as to whether or not you can print all sentences with the amount of.

Next, a case where a document or a figure is printed in color by the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described. Normally, the user looks at the screen of the display device 2 and inputs the display color from the input device 10 to the display / non-display setting device 3 according to the type of a sentence or a figure, etc. The display color input from the input device 10 is set for each sentence or figure, and the document or figure is color-coded and displayed on the display device 2.

When a user wants to print a display document in such a state, the user operates the input device 10 to issue a print request to the print / print inhibition setting device 4, and the print / print inhibition setting device 4 displays / displays. The color designated in the non-display setting device 3 is directly set for printing by the color designating device 5.

However, at this time, if the document or figure to be printed displayed on the display device 2 is not color-coded, or if the user wants to change the color-code that has already been set, the user operates the input device 10. The print color of each part is input to the print / print inhibition setting device 4 to newly set or change the print color for printing on the print / print inhibition setting device 4.

After that, the print control device 7 prints a character string (which can be a unit of one character) or a graphic stored in the document storage device 1 according to the color set by the print / print inhibition setting device 4.
0 normally prints in color.

By the way, in a case where only a specific color portion of a document or a graphic to be printed is to be color printed and other color portions are to be monochrome printed, the user sets the print / print inhibition setting device in step 401 of FIG. 4, a specific print color is specified by the input device 1 in step 402, and printing / non-printing of the print color specified in step 403 is performed. Specify 4.

Thereafter, in step 404, the user sets the type of the basic font relating to other printing, the printing speed, etc. as the other modes, and sets the print / print inhibition setting device 4
Set to.

Next, the printing control device 7 controls the printing device 10 to color-print only the character string or graphic of the color designated by the printing / printing inhibition setting device 4 in step 405 and designated for printing. At this time, if the print mode of the print control device 7 is monochrome printing, the portions of other colors that have not been set are printed in monochrome.

When the print mode of the print control device 7 at this time is color printing, the print control device 7 controls the print device 10 so as not to print a portion printed in another color. or,
The print control device 7 sets the print / print inhibition setting device 4 in step 405 so as not to print the character string or graphic of the color for which print inhibition is specified, and the character string or graphic of other unspecified color is not printed. Is printed in color by the printing device 10.

At this time, if the monochrome print mode is designated in the print control device 7, the print control device 7 does not print the character string or the graphic of the color for which the print inhibition is designated,
Monochrome printing of character strings or graphics of other unspecified colors.

Here, a specific example in the case of performing printing by setting either printing or printing inhibition for a specific color as described above will be described. For example, it is assumed that the answer sentence is created by changing the color of the “red” question sentence to another color in the text of the test during printing. To create a test sheet for distribution to students from this text, the print / print inhibition setting device 4
If "red" is specified to be "print inhibition", the print control device 7 does not print only the answer sentence printed in red, and prints only the other question sentences in a preset color. To print. With this, you can easily create a test sheet in which only the answers are not printed.

According to the present embodiment, when at least one kind of color used in the screen divided by a plurality of colors is designated by the user, only the designated color portion is designated. It is possible to display in the selected color and display the other color part in monochrome.

Alternatively, if one or more colors are designated as non-display, it is possible not to display only this color portion. With this, the user can easily and quickly confirm whether or not a specific color is used among the plurality of colors, and which color is used in which part.

Further, in the text which is color-coded by a plurality of colors, only one or more arbitrary colors are designated and printing / print inhibition of the designated color is designated, and only the designated color portion is designated. It is possible to easily and quickly perform printing in color, or to suppress printing of only a designated color portion and print all other color portions.

Further, if the color assigned to each character in the document is designated in the print / print inhibition setting device 4 as the color to inhibit the printing, the printing can be easily inhibited in the character. In the above embodiment, in the color display mode, when the designated color portion is displayed in the designated color, the other color portions are displayed in monochrome, but the other color portions are not displayed. You can also In this case, the positional relationship with other color portions becomes unclear, but the presence or absence of the designated color portion and the amount thereof can be more clearly known.

When the designated color is not originally set, for example, when green is designated for a screen color-coded by red, blue, and yellow, the display / non-display setting device 3 When a color other than the color set on the screen is detected, a message indicating that a color other than the color set on the screen is specified may be displayed on the display device 2. The user can see this message and immediately know that the specified color is not used.

Further, when the print mode of the print controller 7 is color printing, the print controller 7 prints the designated color portion in the designated color, and changes the other color portion to monochrome printing. It is also possible to print, and in such a case, the positional relationship with other color portions can be easily grasped.

[0057]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, only the designated one or more colors can be displayed in color, and the colors used on the screen can be easily known.
According to the invention of claim 2, it is possible to easily know the relationship between the portion of the designated color displayed in color and the portion of the other color.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible not to display only the designated one or more colors, and it is possible to easily know the colors used on the screen. According to the invention of claim 4, it is possible to easily know the relationship between the designated color portion which is not color-displayed and the other color-displayed color portion.

According to the invention of claim 5 or 14, after confirming the color used on the screen, it is possible to easily return to the original screen display. According to the invention of claim 6, the designated 1
It is possible to perform color printing only on the part of the color that is equal to or more than the color, and it is possible to easily know the color used on the printing surface.

According to the invention of claim 7, it is possible to easily know the relationship between the color-printed designated color portion and another color portion. According to the invention of claim 8, it is possible to prevent only the portion of the designated color of one or more colors from being printed, the color used on the printing surface can be easily known, and the portion of the designated color can be suppressed from being printed. .

According to the invention of claim 9, it is possible to easily inhibit printing of the character of the designated color in character units.
According to the tenth aspect of the invention, it is possible to easily know the relationship between the portion of the designated color which has not been color printed and the portion of the other color printed color.

According to the invention of claim 11, only the designated one or more color portions can be displayed in color, the colors used on the screen can be easily known, and only the designated color portion can be displayed. Color printing is possible and the colors used on the printed surface can be easily known.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to prevent only the designated one or more color portions from being displayed, the color used on the screen can be easily known, and the designated color portion can be displayed. It is possible to prevent the printing of only the color, to easily know the color used on the printing surface, and to suppress the printing of the designated color portion. According to the invention of claim 15, it can be immediately known that the designated color is not used on the original screen.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an information processing apparatus (document creating apparatus) of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process of confirming color information of a document or a graphic displayed on the display device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a document displayed on the display device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a process of printing only a part of a specific color or printing by suppressing printing by the apparatus shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing an example of a text printed by the printing device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Document storage device 2 ... Display device 3 ... Display / non-display setting device 4 ... Printing / printing suppression setting device 5 ... Color designation device 6 ... Display mode switching device 7 ... Print control device 8 ... Color information confirmation device 9 ... Input Device 10 ... Printing device

Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A color display method in an information processing apparatus for color-displaying a document or figure color-coded by a plurality of colors, wherein when a user designates any one or more of the plurality of colors, the designated color is designated. A color display method characterized in that only the portion colored in the above is displayed in color. 2. The color display method according to claim 1, wherein a portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color is displayed in monochrome. 3. The color display method according to claim 1, wherein only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the designated color is displayed in color. 4. The color display method according to claim 3, wherein the portion colored with the designated color is displayed in monochrome. 5. When an end instruction is issued from the user during the display or non-display of the portion in which the designated color is arranged,
2. The screen display in the original mode is restored.
5. The color display method according to any one of 4 to 4. 6. A color printing method in an information processing apparatus for color-printing a document or figure color-coded by a plurality of colors, wherein when a user designates any one or more of the plurality of colors, the designated color A color printing method, characterized in that only the portion colored in step 1 is color printed. 7. The color printing method according to claim 6, wherein the portion colored with the remaining color other than the designated color is printed in monochrome. 8. The color printing method according to claim 6, wherein only the portion colored with the remaining color except the portion colored with the designated color is color printed. 9. The color printing method according to claim 8, wherein the portion colored with the designated color is set as a character unit. 10. The color printing method according to claim 8, wherein the portion colored with the designated color is printed in monochrome. 11. In an information processing apparatus for color-displaying a document or a figure color-coded by a plurality of colors, a designating unit for designating a user to designate one or more arbitrary colors of the plurality of colors, and a designating unit designated by the designating unit. An information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit for displaying only a portion colored with a color in color; and a printing unit for printing only a portion colored with a color designated by the designation unit on a sheet. 12. The display means displays in monochrome the portion colored with the remaining color other than the color designated by the designating means, and the printing means displays the remaining color other than the color designated by the designating means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the colored portion is printed in monochrome. 13. The display means displays in color only the portion colored with the remaining color excluding the portion colored with the color designated by the designation means, and the printing means is designated by the designation means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein only the part colored with the remaining color except the part colored with the color is color printed. 14. An input unit for inputting an end instruction from a user is provided while the display unit is displaying or non-displaying a portion colored with the designated color, and the end instruction is input by the input unit. The display means returns to the screen display in the original mode when the display is performed.
Any one of the information processing devices. 15. A detection unit is provided for detecting that the color designated by the designating unit is not included in the display colors currently set on the display unit, and the designated color is detected by the detecting unit. When it is detected that is not included in the display colors, the display means displays a message indicating that the specified color is not included in the currently set display colors. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11.