JPH09311857A - Document composing method, electronic composing device and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the overlapping of document frames each other and the overlapping of an area fixed to arrange no document frame and a document frame each other by detecting them at the time of arranging the document frame in an editing area. SOLUTION: Setting information of the executing permission of an avoiding technique is prepared for every document frame to discriminate whether the document is superposed with a specific area (S3). At the time of discriminating overlapping (S5), the avoiding technique is selected and executed (S6) by referring to the setting information to discriminate the superposing of all the document frames with a specific area (S8). After then whether a document frame overlaps another document frame is discriminated and at the time of discriminating the overlapping, the avoiding technique is selected and executed by referring to previously fixed set information. After the overlapping of all the document frames and another document frame is discriminated, this processing is finished.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document typesetting method for performing the typesetting of a document by arranging a document frame that defines an area where a document is to be printed according to placement information that defines the placement thereof, and a method for implementing the method. The present invention relates to an electronic typesetting device and a recording medium used.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An electronic typesetting device is for typesetting an electronically created original by combining document information and graphic information. This electronic typesetting apparatus has a batch typesetting function for receiving input of document information, graphic information, and placement information relating to the placement of the document information, and performing typesetting collectively according to the placement information.

The layout information is, specifically, information for designating a typeface name, character size, etc. for each piece of character information constituting the document information, and an area for arranging the document information for each piece of document information, that is, the size of a document frame, There is information that specifies line spacing, character spacing, typeface name, character size, alignment position, etc., and information that specifies whether or not to allow overlapping of document frames for each figure information area. It is determined by the operator for each document information, assuming the actual arrangement form.

[0004]

In the batch typesetting process of the above-mentioned conventional electronic typesetting apparatus, since the placement information relating to the placement of the document information is not determined by checking the placement form, it is actually stored in the editing area. When typesetting is done, the expected layout may not always be obtained. In other words, it is possible that an unexpected overlap of document frames or an area in which the placement of document frames is prohibited, for example, a specific graphic information area or an area outside the editing area may overlap with a document frame. is there. In such a case, the operator has appropriately given a measure for avoiding this overlap, specifically, a size or arrangement change designation targeting one of the two areas overlapping each other. Therefore, when a large number of overlaps as described above occur, there is a problem that the operator's labor becomes complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and when the document is formatted in the editing area, the overlapping of the document frames and the arrangement of the document frames are prohibited. It is an object of the present invention to provide a document typesetting method for detecting the overlap of sheets and avoiding it, an electronic typesetting apparatus and a recording medium used for implementing the method.

[0006]

In the document composition method according to the first aspect of the present invention, a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed is defined in advance for each document, and the document frame is arranged to define the layout. By arranging according to the information, in the document composition method for composing the document, the dimension changing process for changing the size of the document frame or the arrangement changing process for changing the arrangement of the document frame is defined, and the document frame is arranged according to the arrangement information. When this happens, the overlap between the document frames and the overlap between the document frame and the area where the document frames are prohibited to be arranged are detected, and the document frame to execute the process for avoiding the overlap is selected, and the dimension changing process is performed. Alternatively, the arrangement changing process is executed on the document frame to avoid the overlap.

In the document composition method according to the second aspect of the present invention, a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed is determined in advance for each document, and the document frame is arranged according to the arrangement information defining the arrangement. In the document composition method for composition of the document, when the dimension modification processing for changing the dimension of the document frame or the layout modification processing for changing the layout of the document frame is determined and the document frames are arranged according to the arrangement information, Of the two document frames overlapping each other is detected, the dimension change process or the layout change process is executed on the selected document frame, and when the overlap is not avoided, the other document frame is selected. The dimension change process or the layout change process is executed to avoid the overlap.

In the electronic typesetting device according to the third aspect of the present invention, a document frame that defines an area in which the document is to be printed is determined in advance for each document, and the document frame is arranged according to the arrangement information that defines the arrangement. A means for defining a size changing process for changing the size of the document frame or a layout changing process for changing the layout of the document frame in the electronic typesetting device for typesetting the document;
A means for detecting the overlap between the document frames and the overlap between the document frame and the area in which the placement of the document frames is prohibited, a means for selecting a document frame for which processing for avoiding the overlap is executed, and the dimension change Means for executing the processing or the layout change processing on the document frame to avoid the overlap.

In the electronic typesetting device according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed is predetermined for each document, and the document frame is arranged according to the arrangement information defining the arrangement. A means for defining a size changing process for changing the size of the document frame or a layout changing process for changing the layout of the document frame in the electronic typesetting device for typesetting the document;
A means for detecting the overlap between the document frames, and a means for overlapping the two.
Means for selecting one of the two document frames and executing the dimension changing process or the arrangement changing process on the selected document frame, and the dimension changing process or the arrangement for the other document frame when the overlap is not avoided. And means for executing a changing process.

In the recording medium according to the fifth aspect of the present invention, a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed is predetermined for each document, and the document frame is arranged according to the arrangement information defining the arrangement of the document frame. In a recording medium in which a computer program for typesetting the document is recorded, a step of defining a dimension changing process for changing the dimensions of the document frame or a placement changing process for changing the arrangement of the document frame, and the overlapping of the document frames. And a step of detecting an overlap between a document frame and an area in which the placement of the document frame is prohibited, and a step of selecting a document frame for which processing for avoiding the overlap is executed,
And a step of executing the dimension changing process or the arrangement changing process on the document frame.

A method for avoiding the overlapping state of document frames will be described below. 6, FIG. 7, FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 are explanatory views showing the arrangement state of the document frame. In FIG. 6A, 201 is a rectangular edit area for arranging a document frame. In the editing area 201, rectangular document frames 202, 203 are arranged according to setting information predetermined by the operator.
As shown in the figure, the lower right part of the document frame 202 overlaps with the document frame 203. Therefore, the number of characters per line of the document information in the document frame 202 is reduced (Fig. 6 (b)). This is called a line break position change. This shortens the horizontal dimension of the document frame 202,
Overlapping conditions are avoided.

As shown in FIG. 7A, when the lower right portion of the document frame 202 overlaps with the document frame 203 in the editing area 201, the vertical dimension of the document frame 202 is left unchanged and only its horizontal dimension is shortened. (Fig. 7 (b)). Specifically, the characters in the document frame, punctuation marks
Achieve the purpose by shortening the lateral dimension (symbols other than letters and numbers). One of the means is to shorten the space between letters in horizontal writing mode and shorten the space between lines in vertical writing mode. These things are called horizontal reduction. The horizontal reduction shortens the horizontal dimension of the document frame 202 to avoid the overlapping state.

As shown in FIG. 8A, when a rectangular document frame 205 is arranged in the editing area 201 so as to overlap with the lower left portion of the document frame 202, the horizontal dimension of the document frame 202 remains unchanged. Shorten only the dimensions (Fig. 8 (b)). Specifically, the objective is achieved by shortening the vertical dimension of the letters and punctuation marks in the document frame. Also, shortening the line spacing in horizontal writing mode and shortening the character spacing in vertical writing mode are one of the means. These are called vertical reduction. The vertical reduction shortens the vertical dimension of the document frame 202 to avoid the overlapping state.

As shown in FIG. 9A, when the lower right part of the document frame 202 overlaps with the document frame 203 in the editing area 201, the position of the document frame 202 is moved from the current position to the lower left (Fig. 9 (b)). This is called document frame movement. By doing so, the overlapping state of the document frames 202 is avoided. It should be noted that the document frame is moved to the lower left as in this example when the document is horizontally set, and is moved to the upper left when it is vertically set. Among the above methods of avoiding overlap, line feed position change, horizontal reduction, and vertical reduction correspond to dimension change processing, and document frame movement corresponds to layout change processing. Execution permission / non-permission of each of these processes is appropriately set in advance and stored in the electronic typesetting device.

Table 1 is a table exemplifying setting information of permission / non-permission of execution of the above-mentioned dimension change processing and arrangement change processing (hereinafter, these are referred to as overlapping state avoidance processing).

[0016]

[Table 1]

In the table, line items are designated from the top in order of permitting / disallowing execution of the dimension changing process and the layout changing process and dimension changing process, that is, permitting / inhibiting execution of each of line feed position change, horizontal reduction, and vertical reduction. The permission is specified and the arrangement change process, that is, the permission / non-permission of execution of the document frame movement is defined. Further, target document frames are assigned to the items in the columns of the table, and the setting information for all the document frames and the setting information for each document frame are represented for each item in the row.

There are two types of setting information: setting information that is uniform for all document frames and setting information for each document frame for the same document frame. As a result, either the entire document frame or the predetermined document frame can be selected as the target of the overlapping state avoidance process. In the horizontal reduction column, when the overlapping state of the document frames is detected, set the ratio of the horizontal dimension before change to that before changing the horizontal dimension in order to avoid this overlapping state. Represent Also, the horizontal dimension after change may be set instead of the ratio. Similarly to horizontal reduction, the vertical reduction column sets the ratio of the changed vertical dimension to that before the change or the changed vertical dimension itself when adopting the vertical reduction method. The setting information for enabling / disabling the execution of the overlapping state avoiding process as described above is stored in the electronic typesetting device, and when the overlapping state of the document frames is detected, the process is selected and executed based on the setting information, and It avoids the overlapping state.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings showing embodiments thereof. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an electronic typesetting device according to the present invention. In the figure, 101 is a keyboard,
It is an input device using a mouse or the like. The input device 101 provides the arithmetic device 102 with the following information input by the operator, that is, document information to be arranged, arrangement information related to the arrangement, and setting information for overlapping state avoidance processing. Arithmetic device 102
Is a control unit of an electronic typesetting apparatus using a general-purpose computer, and has a storage area of a program for implementing the document typesetting method according to the present invention and a work area necessary for executing the program.

The arithmetic unit 102 executes the program,
The output device 10 that uses the monitor and printer
Give to 3. Further, the arithmetic unit 102 is connected to a disc device 104 for loading the disc 105 for recording the program, the document information or the arrangement information and reading or writing the information.

1 and 2 are flow charts showing a document typesetting processing procedure according to the present invention. Prior to the start of processing, a plurality of pieces of document information to be arranged from the input device 101 and the size (vertical dimension and horizontal dimension) of the area in which this document information is arranged, that is, the document frame, and the arrangement information including that position and the document information are arranged. The size of the editing area to be edited, the size of the area of the graphic information, and the input of the position are accepted, and these are calculated.
It is stored in advance in the second work area. Further, the input of the setting information of the permission / non-permission of execution of the overlapping state avoidance processing from the input device 101 to the document information as described above is received and similarly stored in the work area of the arithmetic device 102.

The edit area is a rectangular area whose origin is at the upper left corner, and the horizontal right direction from the origin is the positive direction of the X axis, and the vertical downward direction from the origin is the positive direction of the Y axis. The document information received in this editing area is horizontally set by the following processing procedure. First, set the document frame to Y depending on its position.
Sort in ascending order (smallest order) of coordinates (S1). Then, the document frames having the same Y coordinate are sorted in ascending order of the X coordinate (S2). Then, it is inspected by using a known inspection method whether or not the first document frame in the sort order overlaps a specific region in which the document frame is not arranged, specifically, a region outside the graphic information region or the editing region (S3 ),
When it is determined that they overlap (S5), overlap state avoidance processing is performed on this document frame as described below to avoid the overlap (S5).
6). As a result of these processes, when an overlap with another document frame occurs, this is avoided by the coordinate adjustment process described later.
(S7).

After the coordinate adjustment processing of S7 or when it is not determined that they overlap in S5, it is determined whether or not all the document frames have been inspected (S8). If there is an uninspected document frame, it is inspected whether or not the next document frame overlaps the specific area (S4).
After that, the process moves to S5 and the above steps are repeated. When the inspection for all the document frames is completed, the process moves to a new step S9. That is, whether or not the first document frame in the sort order overlaps with other document frames is inspected using a known inspection method (S
9) If it is determined that they overlap (S11), the overlap state avoidance process described later is performed to avoid the overlap for this document frame.
(S6).

As a result of these processes, when an overlap with another document frame occurs, this is avoided by the coordinate adjustment process described later (S7). After the coordinate adjustment processing of S7 or when it is not determined that they overlap in S11, it is determined whether or not all the document frames have been inspected (S14). If there is an uninspected document frame, it is inspected whether the next document frame overlaps another document frame (S10). After that, the processing is moved to S11 and the above steps are repeated, and the document typesetting processing is ended when the inspection for all the document frames is completed.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the overlapping state avoidance processing in S6. When it is determined in the processing procedure that a certain document frame (hereinafter referred to as the first document frame) that is currently focused on overlaps with another document frame or a specific area (hereinafter referred to as the second document frame), first, It is determined whether or not there is an adoptable avoidance method related to the first document frame by referring to the setting information of the overlapping state avoidance process such as (S61).
. If it is determined that they exist, the avoidance method is applied to the first document frame (S62), and when the overlapping state is not avoided (S62).
63) Then, it is determined whether there is an avoidable method that can be adopted for the second document frame (S64). At this time, the avoidance method is not set for the specific area, and the size and position of the specific area are fixed. If there is no adoptable avoidance method related to the first document frame in S61, the process proceeds to S64. If there is an avoidable method applicable to the second document frame in S64, the avoidance method is applied to the second document frame (S6
Five) .

If the overlapping state is still not avoided (S66), it is again determined whether or not there is another avoidable method applicable to the first document frame (S67). The process returns to S62 and the above steps are repeated. Also, if it is determined in S64 that there is no applicable avoidance method for the second document frame, the process proceeds to S67.

If it is determined in S67 that there is no other avoidable method applicable to the first document frame, then the second document frame is selected.
It is determined whether or not there is another adoptable avoidance method related to the document frame (S68). If it is determined that there is another avoidance method, the process returns to S65 and the above steps are repeated. If it is determined in S68 that there is no other avoidable method applicable to the second document frame, or if it is determined in S63 and S66 that the overlapping state is avoided, the overlapping state avoidance processing procedure is terminated and the caller is called. Return processing. As described above, the avoidable method applicable to the first document frame and the avoidable method applicable to the second document frame are alternately selected one by one and executed to avoid the overlapping state.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the coordinate adjustment processing procedure in S7. The coordinate adjusting process is performed after the above-described overlapping state avoiding process regardless of whether or not the overlapping state is avoided. First, the range of the lateral dimension of the first document frame after the overlapping state avoidance process is determined as the affected range (S71). Next, it is determined whether or not there is a document frame (hereinafter, referred to as a third document frame) that overlaps the area of the influence range (S72). If it is determined that the third document frame is present, these are collectively moved downward until they do not overlap the first document frame (S73), and then the process is returned to the calling source. If it is determined that the third document frame does not exist, nothing is done and the process is returned to the calling source.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, the dimension change processing and the arrangement change processing for executing the overlapping state avoiding method are set in advance in the document frame defining the area for printing the document information to be arranged. Every time, every time it detects the overlap between the document frames or the overlap between the document frame and the area that defines the non-arrangement of the document frames, the avoidance method is selected and executed by referring to the setting, thereby avoiding the overlap state. It is possible to save the operator the trouble of performing the avoidance processing of the overlapping state.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a document typesetting processing procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a document typesetting process procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of an overlapping state avoidance process.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a coordinate adjustment processing procedure.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an electronic typesetting device.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement state of document frames.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement state of document frames.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement state of document frames.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement state of document frames.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Input device 102 Arithmetic device 103 Output device 104 Disk device 105 Disk

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A document for typesetting the document by predefining a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed for each document and arranging the document frame in accordance with layout information defining the layout of the document frame. In the typesetting method, when the size change process for changing the size of the document frame or the change process for changing the position of the document frame is defined and the document frames are arranged according to the arrangement information, the document frames are overlapped and the document frames are arranged. The overlap between the prohibited area and the document frame is detected, the document frame for which the process for avoiding the overlap is to be executed is selected, and the dimension change process or the layout change process is executed for the document frame. A document typesetting method characterized by avoiding the overlap. 2. A document for typesetting the document by predefining a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed for each document and arranging the document frame in accordance with layout information defining the layout of the document frame. In the typesetting method, when the size change process for changing the size of the document frame or the change process for changing the position of the document frame is defined and the document frames are arranged according to the arrangement information, the overlapping of the document frames is detected and they overlap each other. When one of the two document frames is selected, the dimension change process or the layout change process is performed on the selected document frame, and when the overlap is not avoided, the dimension change process or the layout change is performed on the other document frame. A document typesetting method characterized by executing processing to avoid the overlap. 3. An electronic device for formatting a document by predefining a document frame defining an area in which the document is to be printed for each document and arranging the document frame in accordance with layout information defining the layout of the document frame. In the typesetting device, means for determining the size change processing for changing the size of the document frame or the layout change processing for changing the arrangement of the document frames, and the area and the document which are prohibited from overlapping the document frames and arranging the document frames A means for detecting an overlap with a frame, a means for selecting a document frame for which a process for avoiding an overlap is executed, and the dimension change process or the layout change process for the document frame to avoid the overlap An electronic typesetting device comprising: 4. An electronic device for formatting a document by predefining a document frame for defining an area in which the document is to be printed for each document and arranging the document frame in accordance with layout information defining the layout of the document frame. In the typesetting device, a means for determining a size changing process for changing the size of the document frame or a layout changing process for changing the arrangement of the document frames, a means for detecting an overlap between the document frames, and one of the two document frames overlapping each other are provided. Means for executing the dimension changing process or the arrangement changing process on the selected document frame, and means for executing the dimension changing process or the arrangement changing process on the other document frame when the overlap is not avoided. An electronic typesetting device comprising: 5. A document frame for defining an area in which the document is to be printed is predetermined for each document, and the document frame is arranged in accordance with arrangement information that defines the arrangement of the document frame. In a recording medium in which the computer program described in 1 above is recorded, a step of defining a dimension changing process for changing the dimensions of the document frame or a placement changing process for changing the arrangement of the document frames, and the overlapping of the document frames and the arrangement of the document frames. The step of detecting the overlap between the prohibited area and the document frame, the step of selecting the document frame in which the process of avoiding the overlap is executed, and the dimension change process or the layout change process for the document frame. A recording medium having recorded therein a computer program including steps to be executed.