JPH09204539A - Document processing method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device which can reduce operator's burden and also can improve its operability by inputting a production reference position of a document and the graphics feature points and correcting these feature points, based on the production reference position. SOLUTION: When a set command is selected, the origin can be designated by the coordinate offset and via the numerical input. In the circle plotting processing, 0 and 0 are designated to the numerical value inputted from a keyboard in a coordinate input window 20 as the coordinate of a center position. Thus the offset parameter that is read out of a RAM 3 is added to an inputted X coordinate, and a center mark 21 is displayed at a point that is decided by addition of the offset parameter. Then a radius input window is displayed. When a radius (r) is inputted, the mark 21 is erased and a circle 23 of radius (r) is plotted. Then the slippages 20 and 20 caused against the circle 23 are inputted to a coordinate input window 24. Thus a center mark 25 is displayed in accordance with the calculated coordinate. When a radius is inputted, the mark 25 is erased and a circle 27 of a desired graphic is plotted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing method and apparatus, and more particularly to a document processing method and apparatus for facilitating input of graphics forming a document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a document preparation apparatus capable of preparing not only characters but also figures on a sheet. For example, squares, circles, ellipses, polygonal lines, etc. are prepared as basic figures, and combinations of these can be created on paper. Most of such devices have a pointing device, and the position of drawing a figure is designated on the display screen by the pointing device. For example, when drawing a square, specify the position of one corner, which is the feature point of the square, and the diagonal corners with a pointing device, and in the case of a circle, the center and the position on the arbitrary circumference. Is specified. There is a document creation apparatus capable of designating each position of a feature point by inputting a coordinate position when creating a graphic with an accurate size at an accurate position on a sheet. The coordinate system of a conventional device is
In most cases, the upper left of the paper on the graphic drawing screen is the origin (0, 0), the right direction is + X, and the down direction is + Y, and the coordinate system is fixed.

FIG. 6 illustrates such a conventional document processing apparatus. This figure shows a circle 63 with a radius of 20 mm centered at a position 100 mm below and 100 mm to the right from the upper left of the paper 68 on the figure input screen of the display means, and a circle 67 with the same radius that is 20 mm below and 20 mm below the center. Is an example of creating. In FIG. 6A, a circle drawing icon is selected from the icons of the drawable basic figures to set the circle drawing mode. Here, it is assumed that the figure drawing mode by the coordinate input is automatically switched by the input of the numeric keys on the keyboard and the coordinate input window 60 is displayed, and the unit is already specified by another menu so that the unit is mm. Be present. As the center position of the circle 63, the coordinates 100, 100 are input from the keyboard. FIG.
In (b), the position of the coordinates (100, 100) of the center of the circle 63 is indicated by the cross mark 61. Since the radius input window 62 is displayed in response to the next numeric input from the keyboard, 20 is input as the radius from the keyboard. FIG.
In (c), the created circle 63 is drawn.

Next, regarding the designation of the center coordinates of the circle 67,
This is drawn with the upper left corner of the paper as the origin, and the center of the circle 63 drawn earlier is shifted 20 to the right and 20 downwards, so X coordinate: 100 (X coordinate of the center of circle 63) + 20 (circle 6
Deviation of 3 from X) = 120 Y coordinate; 100 (Y coordinate of center of circle 63) +20 (circle 6
The distance of Y from 3) = 120 is specified. FIG. 6D shows the center coordinate input window 6
In this example, 4 is displayed. 67 as well as 63
When the radius is input to the radius input window 66 shown in FIG. 6E, the created circle 67 is drawn as shown in FIG. 6F.

FIG. 7 is a simple flowchart of the process when the coordinates of a circle, which is one of the basic figures, is input. The correctness of input values and error handling are omitted. The circle primitive attributes x, y, and r are radii with respect to the center X and Y coordinates with the upper left of the paper as the origin, and are internal data of the document creation device.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, when the coordinates of the characteristic points of the circle 67 are designated (the circle 6
(X coordinate of the center of 3) + (distance of deviation X) or (circle 63
It is necessary for the operator to calculate and input a coordinate value from the upper left, which is defined as the reference position of the paper, such as (Y coordinate of the center of +) + (distance of Y of deviation).

Usually, the created figure has a certain figure as a reference, and in many cases the relative position from the reference figure is given to other figures. However, in the above conventional example, the reference circle 63 and the right 20 mm and the lower 20 mm
Although the example of drawing two figures of the shifted circle 67 has been described, particularly when drawing a figure in which a lot of figures have a specified relative position, the relative position from the figure used as the reference by the operator It was very burdensome for the operator to recalculate all the coordinates for each figure with the upper left corner as the origin.

[0008]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention inputs a reference position for creating a document, inputs feature points of a graphic, and inputs the feature points of the input graphic. There is provided a document processing method characterized by performing correction according to the corrected reference position and drawing the figure according to the corrected feature points of the figure.

In order to solve the above problems, according to the present invention, the sentence reference position is a coordinate value serving as an origin.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention assumes that the sentence reference position is selected from a plurality of predetermined positions.

In order to solve the above problem, according to the present invention, the correction of the feature point of the sentence includes adding the input reference position to the input feature point.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention displays the drawn figure.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, the figure is a circle, and the feature points are center coordinates and a radius.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, the figure is a rectangle and the feature points are coordinates of two diagonal corners.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the present invention, the input of the sentence characteristic points is a numerical value input from a keyboard.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a reference position input means for inputting a reference position for creating a document,
Feature point input means for inputting feature points of a figure, correction means for correcting feature points of the input figure according to the input reference position, and figure drawing for drawing a figure according to the corrected feature points of the figure And a document processing apparatus.

[0017]

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention. The COU 1 is a central processing unit and controls various processes including processes shown in a flowchart described later according to a program stored in the ROM 2 or the RAM 3. The ROM 2 is a read-only memory, and stores a control program for processing prepared in advance as a device and various parameters used for processing. The RAM 3 is a random access memory, and is used as a working memory for storing a control program supplied from the FD 9 or the like, or for storing data during processing. The communication I / F 4 is an interface that controls processing related to communication such as public lines and LANs.
The display device 5 is a display means such as a liquid crystal display device or a CRT,
A document created by this device, a document input via the communication I / F, various operation screens, messages, etc. are displayed. KB6
Is a keyboard for inputting texts, numerical data and commands constituting a document, and PD 7 is a pointing device for instructing the position of the display 5 on the display screen and inputting as coordinate information. The printer 8 is a printing unit such as an LBP or an inkjet printer, and prints a document created by this apparatus or a document input via the communication I / F. FD9 is a floppy disk with removable memory, and 10 is a bus for passing data between each means.

The process flow of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

First, FIG. 1 is an example of a window for setting an origin which is a reference point when coordinates of a position for drawing a figure are input, and is displayed on the display 5 in response to input of a "set" command. . FIG. 1A shows the setting window 10 when the setting command is selected. By inputting numerical values in the frames 11 and 12, the origin can be designated by the coordinate offset. The unit system is a unit of coordinates, and the X-axis direction represents the position from the left side of the paper, and the Y-axis direction represents the position from the top of the paper. By opening this setting window 10, FIG.
In (a), it can be seen that the upper left corner of the paper is the origin. When the setting command is input, the setting process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3A starts and waits for a numerical value input (S31).
Becomes Considering creating the circles 63 and 67 described in FIG. 6, the center of the reference circle 63 (100, 10
When 0) is designated as the origin, the input position of the circle 67 can be easily designated. Therefore, the value of “100” is input to each of the frames 11 and 12 using the keyboard 6. In FIG. 1B, the unit of coordinate offset is mm (without change), X-axis direction and Y
This is a display state of the setting window 10 when the axial directions are designated as 100, respectively. At the same time when the numerical values are input to the frames 11 and 12, the input x offset (input value of the frame 100) is stored as the “x_offset” parameter in the RAM 3. Similarly, the value entered in the frame 12 is R
It is stored as the "y-offset" parameter in AM3 (S32).

Next, FIG. 2 shows an example of a display screen at the time of inputting the coordinates of the figure after the offset setting of FIG. 1 (b) is performed. FIG. 3 (b) shows the processing at this time. A flow chart is shown. FIG. 2A shows a state in which the numerical value input from the keyboard 6 is displayed in the coordinate input window 20 in the circle drawing process started by selecting the circle drawing command. Since the center position of the reference circle is set as the origin, 0,0 is designated as the coordinate of the center position. When the center coordinate is input (S33), x_offset read from the RAM 3 is input to the input X coordinate.
The parameters are added and stored in the “x” parameter of the RAM 3. The “y” parameter obtained in the same manner is also stored in the RAM 3
(S34). FIG. 2B shows a state in which the center mark 20 is displayed at a point defined by “x” and “y” in the RAM 3 and the radius input window 22 is displayed (S35), where 20 is used as the radius from the keyboard 6. Input (S36). The radius value input in S36 is R
It is stored as a "r" parameter in AM3 (S3
7). In FIG. 2C, the center mark 21 is erased, and a circle having a center of (x, y) and a radius of r is drawn. The values of x, y, r of the drawn circle are registered in the RAM 3 as the data of the document in which this figure is drawn (S39).

Next, regarding the center of a circle separated by (20, 20) from the circle 23, since the offset is set with the center position of the reference circle 23 as the origin, it is no longer the distance of the circle 23 from the upper left of the paper. It is sufficient to directly input 20 and 20, which is the deviation from the circle 23, from the keyboard 6 without considering. FIG. 2D shows this, and 20, 20 are displayed in the coordinate input window 24 displayed in response to the numerical input. S depending on the input of the center coordinates (20, 20)
The center mark 25 is displayed according to the coordinates (120, 120) obtained by the calculation of 34. Further, input the radius of the circle in the radius input window 26 (Fig. 2 (e)).
Then, as shown in FIG. 2F, the center mark 25 is erased and a circle 27 of the required figure is drawn.

In the above description, the reference point is set to the upper left of the sheet, but the reference position of the relative position designation is, for example, the position from the right or the position from the bottom of the sheet. In this case, the operator must determine the offset value in consideration of the width and height of the sheet, and further perform the operation of subtracting the designated relative position coordinates from the offset value. Therefore, hereinafter, an example in which the reference point can be set will be described. FIG. 4 shows a measure window 41 for designating a position as a reference for inputting coordinates of a figure and an offset value.
This is a display example of, and is displayed by inputting a major command. The origin is displayed in the window 41 as a reference position designation item. By clicking the frames 42 to 45 with the pointing device 7, the operator can designate the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right of the paper. . In the example of FIG. 4, the upper left is selected. The process of major setting in the major window 41 is shown by the flowchart of FIG. Waiting for input from the PD 7 (S51), and when input is made in the frames 42 to 45 (S52), internal variables (parameters) org_ in the RAM 3 corresponding to the upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right of the operator's click position.
LeftUpper (S5
3), RightUpper (S54), LeftLo
wer (S55) and RightLower (S56) are set. LeftUpper, RightUppe
r, LeftLower, and RightLower are constants for internally determining the reference point. The flowchart of FIG. 6 is a process when a circle is input. The correctness of input values and error handling are omitted. Circle attributes x, y, r
Are the internal data of the document creation device, which are the X and Y coordinates and the radius with the upper left of the paper as the origin. The x_offset and y_offset appearing here are those shown in FIG. Also, width_sheet, hei
ght_sheet indicates the width and height of the sheet, respectively.
Each of these parameters is stored in the RAM 3 and read as needed. x and y are the input values and x_off
It is calculated from set, y_offset and the reference point. To avoid specifying a negative number when the operator inputs coordinates, the right direction is + X direction when the reference point is the left side of the paper, and the left direction is + X direction when the reference point is the right side of the paper. When the reference point is on the paper, the downward direction is + Y direction, and when the reference point is under the paper, the upward direction is + Y direction. The display shall comply.

When the center coordinates (X, Y) are input in the circle input processing (S70), "org_sh" in the RAM 3 is entered.
The “eet” parameter is read out, and different calculation processes of S72 to S75 are performed according to the constant set here to determine the center coordinates (x, y) on the display screen. S7
The values x and y obtained in steps 2 to S75 are stored in the RAM 3, and the center mark is displayed at this coordinate position (S76).
When the radius is input from the KB 6 (S77), the input radius is stored in the RAM 3 as the "r" parameter (S7).
8) Then, the center mark is erased and a circle with radius r at the center (x, y) is displayed (S79). The characteristics x, y, r of the drawn circle are stored in the RAM 3 together with the document in which the circle is drawn.
To register (S80).

When a document is created by dividing a paper into a certain area, for example, when a document is created by dividing a header or footer into which text fixed to the document or a heading of the page is inserted and a text area, the header is usually At the top of each page, the footer is placed at the bottom of each page, and the body is placed in the area between them. In such a case, by designating the reference point at a specific position in the text by the method as described above, it is possible to facilitate the work of drawing a figure without protruding from the area of the text.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A reference position for creating a document is input, a feature point of a graphic is input, the feature point of the input graphic is corrected according to the input reference position, and the graphic is drawn according to the corrected feature point of the graphic. This makes it easy to input a graphic having a relative positional relationship.

As described above, according to the present invention, by setting the sentence reference position to the value of the coordinate serving as the origin, the input of the reference position is easy to understand, and the subsequent feature points of the graphic are The input values are easy to understand.

As described above, according to the present invention, the sentence reference position can be selected from a plurality of settable reference positions by selecting it from a plurality of predetermined positions. Although it is easy to handle, it can handle multiple cases.

As described above, according to the present invention, the correction of the feature points of the sentence is performed by adding the input reference position to the input feature points, thereby eliminating the addition work of the operator. be able to.

As described above, according to the present invention, the drawn figure can be confirmed on the display by displaying the drawn figure.

As described above, according to the present invention, the sentence is a circle, and the feature point has the center coordinates and the radius, so that a desired circle can be drawn.

As described above, according to the present invention, the sentence is a rectangle, and the feature points are coordinates of two diagonal corners, so that a desired rectangle can be drawn.

As described above, according to the present invention, the characteristic points can be accurately input by using the numerical values input from the keyboard as the characteristic points.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a display example of a setting window.

FIG. 2 is a display example diagram during a circle input process.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of setting processing and circle drawing processing.

FIG. 4 is a display example of a measure window.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a measure setting process.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a circle input process.

FIG. 7 is a display example diagram of a conventional circle input process.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a conventional circle input process.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of the configuration of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention.

Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. A reference position for creating a document is input, a feature point of a graphic is input, the feature point of the input graphic is corrected according to the input reference position, and the feature point of the corrected graphic is input. A document processing method characterized by drawing a graphic according to the following. 2. The document processing method according to claim 1, wherein the reference position is a coordinate value serving as an origin. 3. The reference position is selected from a plurality of predetermined positions.
Document processing method described in. 4. The document processing method according to claim 1, wherein the correction of the feature point of the graphic is performed by adding the input reference position to the input feature point. 5. The document processing method according to claim 1, wherein the drawn figure is displayed. 6. The document processing method according to claim 1, wherein the graphic is a circle, and the feature points are center coordinates and a radius. 7. The figure is a quadrangle, and the feature points are coordinates of two diagonal corners.
Document processing method described in. 8. The document processing method according to claim 1, wherein the input of the characteristic points is a numerical value input from a keyboard. 9. A reference position input means for inputting a reference position for creating a document, a feature point input means for inputting a feature point of a graphic, and a correction of the feature point of the input graphic according to the input reference position. A document processing apparatus, comprising: a correction unit for performing drawing and a graphic drawing unit for drawing a graphic according to the corrected feature points of the graphic. 10. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the reference position is a value of a coordinate serving as an origin. 11. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the reference position is selected from a plurality of predetermined positions. 12. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the correction of the feature points of the graphic is performed by adding the input reference position to the input feature points. 13. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising display means for displaying the drawn figure. 14. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the graphic is a circle, and the feature points have a center coordinate and a radius. 15. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the graphic is a rectangle and the feature points are coordinates of two diagonal corners. 16. The document processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a keyboard for inputting numerical values as the characteristic points.