JPH10161825A - Illegal character check method, and device for generating illegal character check data - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save the manhour for illegal character check when a document is printed in an environment that is different from the document generation environment. SOLUTION: At the document generation side, a character type extraction part 10 refers to a candidate information table 14 to extract a character to undergo the illegal character check from a document file 100 and registers the combination of the character font name and code (called a character type) in a character type list 12. A check data generation part 16 edits the character type data of the list 12, composes the editing result based on the style information 18 and produces a check data file 200 to shown the composition result. The file 200 is stored in a recording medium 202 and also printed on the paper as a check sheet 204. These medium 202 and the sheet 204 are sent to the print side. At the printing side, the file 200 is printed on the paper and the illegal characters are checked between the document production and print sides by comparing the printed result with the sheet 204.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for checking garbled characters when a document created in one information processing environment is printed in another information processing environment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a printed matter is created through the steps of planning, manuscript creation, editing, typesetting, and printing. In recent years, the processes after editing have been digitized, and are embodied in the form of, for example, a desktop publishing (DTP) system and are widely used.

As a format of print data transferred from a computer to a printer, a page description language (PDL) has been widely used. The PDL can describe a print image of each page in a form independent of the capability (resolution, etc.) of the printer.
The image described in DL is printed according to its own resolution or the like. On the computer side, a document is created by document editing software or the like, and PDL data is generated from the data of the document at the time of printing and transmitted to a printer. The printer has a PDL interpreting mechanism, interprets the PDL data, generates a raster image of each page on a memory, and performs printing on paper or the like according to the raster image.
In recent years, PostScript (AdobeSysy, USA)
(a trademark of Stems Inc.) has become widespread as a de facto standard of PDL, and various types of PostScript-compatible printing apparatuses have been released from personal use to business use.

[0004] Under such circumstances, a service that receives document data from a customer in the form of PDL such as PostScript and performs printing processing has appeared. Also in the printing industry, the division of labor into a so-called "output center", which is a company that edits the contents of a manuscript electronically, and a company that receives a document from this company in the form of PDL data and outputs it to a type setter, is progressing. . Thus, in recent years, the number of cases in which a document is printed in an environment different from the environment in which the document was created has been increasing.

However, there are many cases where the font in the environment on the document creating side is not in the environment on the printing side, or when the character codes such as external characters do not match between the document creating side and the printing side. In such a case, characters intended by the document creator may not be correctly printed on the print side, resulting in so-called garbled characters. For this reason, conventionally, the print result output on the printing side is compared with the original document to check whether all characters are printed as intended by the document creator.

[0006]

However, the time and labor required for such a check operation is enormous, and a measure for labor saving has been required.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and it is possible to save labor for checking for garbled characters when a document is printed in an environment different from the environment in which the document was created. It is an object to provide a method and an apparatus for the same.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a garbled text inspection method according to the present invention provides a method for printing a document created in a first information processing environment in a second information processing environment. A method for inspecting garbled characters, wherein in the first information processing environment, different types of characters included in a created document are extracted to create inspection data, and the inspection data is printed, Transmitting the test data and the print result thereof to the second information processing environment, printing the transmitted test data in the second information processing environment, and transmitting the print result to the first information processing environment. The garbled character is inspected by comparing the result with the print result.

In this configuration, the character type is an individual "character" specified by a character code, a font, or the like. In this configuration, in the first information processing environment in which a document is created, only different character types are extracted from the document to create inspection data. The first of this inspection data
By comparing the print result in the second information processing environment for printing a document with the print result in the second information processing environment, garbled characters between the two environments are detected. According to this configuration, the data in which duplicate characters in the document are omitted is used as the inspection data, so that the size of the inspection data, that is, the number of characters, is extremely small as compared with the original document. Therefore, according to this configuration, it is possible to check for garbled characters with much less time and effort than in the case of matching the entire text of a document.

Further, according to the present invention, in a first information processing environment, a character type included in a predetermined character type to be inspected is extracted from a created document to create inspection data, and the inspection data is printed. Transmitting the inspection data and a print result thereof to a second information processing environment, and in the second information processing environment,
The transmitted test data is printed, and the print result is compared with the print result in the first information processing environment to check for garbled characters.

In this configuration, all character types included in the created document are not subjected to the garbled character inspection, but only the character type corresponding to the predetermined character to be inspected is subjected to the garbled character inspection. That is, for example, characters such as JIS first level are standardized and the possibility of garbled characters is extremely low. Only the character types that are highly likely to be garbled, excluding the character types that are unlikely to be garbled, are set as inspection target character types, and only those that correspond to the inspection target character types are extracted, thereby reducing the size of the inspection data. The size can be further reduced, and the garbled test can be performed efficiently.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, a garbled character inspection data generating apparatus according to the present invention comprises a character type extracting means for extracting different character types included in document data to be printed, Data generating means for generating inspection data based on the data. According to this configuration, all the character types included in the document data to be printed can be extracted, and the inspection data can be created.

Further, the garbled character inspection data creating apparatus according to the present invention uses the candidate information table in which information for specifying the character type to be subjected to the garbled character inspection is registered, and the candidate information table from the document data to be printed. It is characterized by including character type extraction means for extracting a character type included in the inspection target character type specified by the information, and data generation means for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data. In this configuration, information for specifying a character type to be inspected for which a garbled character is to be inspected is registered in the candidate information table. The character type extracting unit extracts a character type corresponding to the inspection target from the document data to be printed based on the information in the candidate information table. According to this configuration, of the characters included in the document to be printed, only those to be inspected can be extracted to generate inspection data.

In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the data generation means arranges the character types extracted by the character type extraction means for each font. According to this configuration, in the inspection data, each character type is arranged and arranged for each font. Therefore, in the print result of the inspection data, each character type to be inspected is arranged and displayed for each font. Therefore, the inspection becomes easier.

[0015] More preferably, the data generating means has a function of adding character string data representing a font name corresponding to the arrangement to an arrangement of character types arranged for each font. According to this configuration, since the font name corresponding to the arrangement of each character type for each font is printed in the print result of the inspection data, it is easy to specify the font name in the inspection for garbled characters. Become.

Further, the present invention provides a program for causing a computer to function as means for extracting all character types included in document data to be printed and means for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data. A recorded recording medium is provided.

According to the present invention, there is further provided a computer for extracting a character type included in a candidate information table in which a character type to be subjected to garbled inspection is registered from document data to be printed, and a check data based on the extracted character type data. And a recording medium storing a program for causing the program to function as a unit for generating a program.

Note that the concept of the recording medium includes machines that record programs, such as a magnetic medium such as a flexible disk, an optical reading medium such as a CD-ROM and a magneto-optical disk, and a semiconductor storage medium such as a ROM and a flash memory. Includes all readable media. Note that a method of providing and recording the above program via a communication medium is also included in the aspect of the present invention.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, the overall processing procedure of the garbled text inspection according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

As a prerequisite for the processing shown in FIG. 1, a common PDL (for example, PoD
It is assumed that a printing apparatus capable of processing (stScript) is connected. The printing device on the document creation side is a device for confirming that the character content of the created document data is correct by comparing it with the document manuscript, and can output at least all the characters used in the document. It is a device such as a CRT display device and a laser printer. The printing device on the printing side is a device that can output the final product or its equivalent.If the final product is printed paper, a proofing device that creates a proof print, or generates and outputs the same characters as the device CRT display device, simple calibration printer, etc. The final product is C
In the case of electronic publishing displayed on an RT device, the printing device on the printing side is a display system such as a target personal computer, a CRT device capable of generating and outputting the same characters as this system, a simple proof printer, and the like.

Referring to FIG. 1, first, in an environment on the document creating side, a document creator edits and creates a document using document editing software on a computer (S10). When a print instruction is input for the created document, the data of the document is converted to PostScript by the conversion software.
is converted into a description of a predetermined PDL such as pt (S12),
The PDL data is input to a printing device connected to the environment and printed (S14). The document creator checks the garbled character by comparing the print result with an image of the document displayed on the display, for example (S1).
6). If garbled characters are found at this stage, the document is corrected by, for example, document editing software (S18), and the corrected result is converted to PDL again and printed to check for garbled characters (S12). , S14, S16). This is repeated until the characters are not garbled, so that the PDL document file 10 that correctly reflects the intention of the document creator.
0 can be obtained. When the document file 100 is completed, the document file 100 is analyzed to generate an inspection data file 200 for garbled character inspection (S
20). The garbled inspection data is PDL data, and the procedure for creating the data will be described later in detail. Also,
The inspection data is input to the printing device and printed out as the inspection sheet 204 (S22). The document file 100 and the inspection data file 200 are stored in a recording medium 202 such as a flexible disk, for example.
It is sent to the printing environment together with the inspection sheet 204.

In the printing environment, upon receiving the recording medium 202 and the inspection sheet 204 sent from the document creation side (S
30), the inspection data file 20 from the recording medium 202;
0 is read out, input to the printing device in the environment, and printed (S32). Then, each character of the print result is compared with each character of the inspection sheet 204 received from the document creation environment (S34), and the presence or absence of garbled characters is inspected. If it is confirmed that there is no garbled character, the document file 100 on the recording medium 202 is input to the printing device and printing is performed (S36). In addition, when garbled characters are found, fonts and character data necessary for correctly printing garbled characters are registered in the printing device on the printing environment side, or garbled characters from the document on the document creation side. Countermeasures against garbled characters, such as removing characters, are taken (S38).

Next, an apparatus configuration and a processing procedure for generating garbled character inspection data in the present embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration of a garbled character inspection data generating apparatus applied to the method of the present embodiment. In FIG. 2, the character type extraction unit 10
The character type that needs to be checked for garbled characters is extracted from the document file 100 to be printed described in. In the present embodiment, a type of character specified by a combination of a font name and a character code is referred to as a character type. The extracted information on the character type (that is, the combination of the font and the character code) is sequentially registered in the character type list 12. The candidate information table 14 has registered therein information indicating a character type to be checked for garbled characters (in other words, a character type that may cause garbled characters). The above-described character type extraction unit 10 performs character type extraction processing with reference to the candidate information table 14. The inspection data generation unit 16 receives the information of the character type list 12 and edits the information of this list to create an inspection data file 200. On this occasion,
The inspection data generation unit 16 performs editing such as organizing the character types registered in the list for each same font, typesetting the editing result according to the style information 18 registered in advance, and describing the typesetting result in PDL. To create an inspection data file 200. PD used here
L is the same as the PDL describing the document file described above. The created inspection data file 200 is stored in the recording medium 202 and is also printed on paper to become an inspection sheet 204.

This garbled inspection data generation device is a computer system in which a program describing the functions of the character type extraction unit 10 and the inspection data generation unit 16 is loaded onto a memory, and the CPU executes the program. Can be constructed by Character type list 12
Is constructed in a work area secured on a memory, for example. As the candidate information table 14, a table created by a user or the like in advance is loaded on a memory, for example, so that the program can be referred to. Such program or table data is provided in a state stored in a medium. As a medium storing a program or the like, for example, a flexible disk, a CD-ROM, a memory card, or the like can be used. The program and data recorded on the medium are installed in a storage device incorporated in the computer system, for example, a hard disk device, and are executed to execute the program and realize the garbled character check for realizing each function described in the present embodiment. Contributes to the construction of a data generation device. Such a program for generating garbled character inspection data can be incorporated into software for document editing and typesetting, for example, as one of utility software.

Next, the procedure of the process for generating garbled character inspection data by the apparatus shown in FIG. 2 will be described in detail.

FIG. 4 shows a document used as a specific example in the following description. FIG. 4 shows an example of a PDL document file for printing the document shown in FIG. 3, that is, an example of the document file 100 shown in FIG. This example is an example of a case where PostScript is used as PDL, and a part thereof is omitted to avoid complexity.

In FIG. 4, a PDL representing the document of FIG.
Are described in order, and the meaning of the PDL description, for example, the corresponding character in the document, is shown in the left column. For example, “/ FONT-A...” On the first line is a description for specifying a font, “FONT-A” is a font name, “f
"f" is an operator for reading the font corresponding to the font name, "[70 ..]" is a matrix representing coordinate conversion for the font (used for size conversion, etc.), and "mf" is the matrix for the font. Is applied to generate a new font, and "setf" is an operator that sets the font as a font for drawing characters.
A indicates that a font "A" is loaded, the font is converted by a specified matrix, and the font generated as a result is set as a font for character drawing. The font specification is as follows. It is effective until

The second and third lines of the document file are descriptions for instructing drawing of the character "S" in the document of FIG. Here, in the second line, “−07” is a coordinate, and “lcmt” is an operator who sets the coordinate to a drawing reference position. In the third line, “$ 203
“T” is a character code indicating “sa”, and “sh” is an operator that draws a character of the character code using a font valid at that time. Therefore, 2 of the document file
According to the description on the third line and the third line, the character “sa” of the character code specified on the third line is set to the font “FONT-A” (first line) with the coordinates specified on the second line as a reference position. Drawn by eye). Hereinafter, a drawing instruction for one character is given in a pair of position designation and character code designation, such as the character "n" in the description of the fourth and fifth lines, and the character "p" in the description of the sixth and seventh lines. Represents

In the garbled character inspection data generating apparatus of FIG. 2, the character type extracting unit 10 reads and interprets the PDL description of such a document file in order from the first line, specifies the character type of each character of the document, and Character types that require garbled inspection are extracted. In the present embodiment, the character type is specified by the combination of the font and the character code as described above.

FIG. 5 conceptually shows an example of the contents of the candidate information table 14 in FIG. The actual candidate information table 14 describes the same contents in a computer-readable format. In the example of FIG. 5, the font name of the font that does not require garbled inspection is in column 300, the range of character codes that do not require garbled inspection is in column 302, and the range of character codes that require garbled inspection is in column 304. , Each is registered. As the font that does not need to be inspected, for example, a font that is installed in both the document creation environment and the printing environment and is known to have no garbled characters can be considered. Character codes that do not require a garbled check include, for example, JIS first and second standards.
Character codes that are unified among font makers are conceivable. In the example of FIG. 5, such a unified character code range is registered as a character code range that does not need to be inspected in the form of a JIS Kuten code (from Ward 01 to Ward 10, and Ward 16 to Ward 83). . In the present embodiment, the character type corresponding to the character code range is basically excluded from the inspection target for garbled characters. However, even within the range of the JIS first-level and second-level codes, for example, 26 points in 02 section to the end of 02 section or 0 section in 08 section
There is a range in which the corresponding character is undefined, such as from one point to the end of the 08th section, and character codes in such a range can be freely used by each font maker. Therefore, such JIS
It is highly probable that different characters are assigned to the character codes in the undefined range for each font, resulting in garbled characters. Therefore, in FIG. 5, such a range is an exception in the character code range where the garbled character inspection is not required.
Registered in. There are also character codes (for example, 22 sections and 38 points) whose character shapes are different between the old and new standards of JIS, and such character codes are also registered in the character code range field 304 requiring a garbled character inspection. . In FIG.
Although the character code is represented by a JIS punctuation code, the character type extraction unit 10 interprets the character code by converting it into a code expression such as octal or hexadecimal adopted by the PDL. The registration information in the candidate information table 14 is used as a determination condition when determining whether each character type is a garbled test target. How to apply these determination conditions will be described in detail in the following description of specific processing procedures.
The candidate information table 14 is created in advance by a user or a system administrator using an editor or the like.

Using the above-described document (FIGS. 3 and 4) and the candidate information table (FIG. 5) as specific examples, a description will be given of the procedure of processing for generating garbled inspection data by the apparatus shown in FIG.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing this procedure. 6, steps from S202 to S220 indicate procedures performed by the character type extraction unit 10, and steps from S222 to S238 indicate procedures performed by the inspection data generation unit 16. Hereinafter, description will be made with reference to FIGS.

When the PDL document file 100 is provided to the garbled test data generating apparatus and an instruction for the process of generating test data is input, first, the character type extracting unit 10 counts the count value indicating the order of the character to be processed. n is initialized to 1 (S202). The character type extraction unit 10 manages the count value n, and also stores character string data representing the font name of the currently valid font and the character code of the character as a data structure representing the current character to be processed. 8 to represent
And a hexadecimal or hexadecimal integer value data. This structure is hereinafter referred to as “character data to be processed”. Next, the character type extraction unit 10 sequentially reads the document file and extracts data of the n-th character (S204). Here, the character type extraction unit 10 determines data for each character by using, for example, an “sh” operator as a character delimiter. In S204, a font name and a character code are cut out from the extracted character data, and these are set as processing target character data. If the font data is not included in the character data, the font name of the character data to be processed is not changed. When the data of the character to be processed is fetched from the document file in this way, it is next determined whether or not the font name of the character to be processed corresponds to the font name which does not need to be checked registered in the candidate information table 14. (S206). If the font does not need to be checked, it is determined that the character does not need to be extracted as a garbled check target. Then, it is determined whether or not the end of the document file has been reached (S218). If the end has not been reached, the count value n is incremented by 1 (S220), and the process proceeds to the next character.

If it is determined in S206 that the font is not a font requiring no inspection, it is determined whether or not the character code of the character to be processed is included in the character code range not requiring inspection registered in the candidate information table 14. Judgment (S20
8). If the character code is included in the character code range that does not need to be checked, it is further determined whether or not the character code falls within the character code that needs to be checked exceptionally even within the range (S210). As a result, if it is determined that the exception does not correspond to such an exception, it is determined that the processing target character does not need to be extracted as a garbled inspection target. Then, it is determined whether or not the end of the document has been reached (S218),
If not reached, the count value n is advanced by 1 (S22
0) Move to the processing of the next character.

If it is determined in step S208 that the character code is not included in the character code range for which the inspection is unnecessary,
If it is determined that the corresponding to the character code that needs to be inspected, the processing target character is determined to be a garbled inspection target,
The font name and character code of the character to be processed are registered in the character type list 12. However, in the present embodiment, in order to prevent the same character type from being registered in the character type list 12 repeatedly, the font name and the character code of the character to be processed are compared with each entry of the character type list 12 at that time. (S212) The same character type is already in the character type list 12
It is checked whether or not it is registered in (S214). As a result, when it is determined that the character to be processed is not registered in the character type list 12, the combination of the font name and the character code of the character to be processed is registered in the character type list 12 (S216).
If it is determined in S214 that the same character type has already been registered, the target character is the character type list 12
Do not register with. In either case, it is determined whether or not the end of the document file has been reached (S218). If not, the count value n is incremented by 1 (S220), and the process proceeds to the processing of the next character.

By repeating the above procedure until the end of the document file is reached, it is possible to extract all the character types corresponding to the garbled character inspection target from the document file.

FIG. 7 shows the data content of the character type list 12 obtained when the document file shown in FIG. 4 is processed according to the above-described procedure using the candidate information table shown in FIG. In FIG. 7, the corresponding character itself is shown in the character code column for easy understanding, but an integer code is registered in actual data.

When the extraction of the character type to be inspected from the document file is completed in this way, the inspection data generation unit 1
6 sorts each character type data of the character type list 12 in a predetermined order (S222). In this embodiment, first, each character type data is collected and arranged for each font based on the font name, and then each character type data is rearranged for each font in the ascending order of the character codes, for example.

Then, the inspection data generation unit 16 generates an inspection data file 200 based on the sorted character type list 12 as follows. That is, first, the count value k is initialized to 1 (S224).
Next, data of the k-th character (that is, font name and character code) is extracted from the character type list 12 (S226).
Then, it is determined whether the value of the count value k is 1 (S22).
8) If k = 1, generate a PDL description for printing a character string representing the font name of the character (that is, the first character in the character type list),
00 is written (S232). If k is not 1 in S228, the font name of the character (that is, the k-th character) is compared with the font name of the immediately preceding character (that is, the (k-1) th character) (S230), and the two do not match. In this case, a PDL description for printing the font name of the k-th character is generated and written in the inspection data file 200 (S23).
2). When the writing of the font name is completed, a PDL description for printing the k-th character is generated based on the character code of the k-th character.
0 is written (S234). On the other hand, if the font of the k-th character is the same as the font of the (k-1) -th character in the determination in S230, the font name is not written in the inspection data file 200, and the k-th character is not written. Is output to the inspection data file 200 (S234). In S232 and S234, the inspection data generation unit 16 determines a required style such as a character size with reference to the style information 18, and generates a PDL description based on the style. This S228-
According to the process of S234, when the first character among the characters belonging to one font is read from the character type list 12, the PDL description of the font name of the font is written. With this, for each font,
A print result in which the font name and the characters to be inspected belonging to the font are arranged can be obtained. According to such a display, it is easy to identify the font in which the garbled character has occurred when the garbled character is inspected.

When the process of S234 is completed, it is determined whether the end of the character type list 12 has been reached (S23).
6) If not, the count value k is incremented by 1 (S2
38), returning to S226, and repeating the above processing. By repeating such processing until the end of the character type list 12, an inspection data file 200 including data for displaying a list of characters to be inspected arranged for each font is obtained.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the PDL description of the inspection data file 200 obtained as described above. This example is data generated from the document file of FIG.
In FIG. 8, for example, after a PDL description corresponding to a character string indicating a font name “FONT-B”, a PDL corresponding to a character to be inspected belonging to the FONT-B
The description continues. Then, if the inspection data in FIG. 8 is input to the printing apparatus, the print result shown in FIG. 9 can be obtained.

The procedure for creating the inspection data file 200 according to the present embodiment has been described above. The inspection data file 200 obtained according to the above procedure is stored in the recording medium 2
02 and sent to the printing side, and also sent to the printing side in the form of an inspection sheet 204 printed on paper. On the printing side, the inspection data file 200 is supplied to a printing device and printed on paper, and the printing result is printed on the inspection sheet 2.
By comparing this with 04, garbled characters between the document creating side and the printing side can be inspected.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, only the character type to be inspected determined from the conditions registered in the candidate information table 14 is extracted from the document file 100 to be printed without duplication. Inspect the document creation side and the printing side for garbled characters by printing only the character types extracted in this way on both the document creation side and the printing side, and comparing the printing results. Can be. In the present embodiment, since only characters having a high possibility of occurrence of garbled characters are extracted and inspected, the time and labor required for garbled character inspection can be greatly reduced.

In the present embodiment, the information registered in the candidate information table 14 is not limited to the format shown in FIG. 5, but may be any information that can specify the character type to be inspected. Format may be used. For example, a font name and a character code representing a character type to be inspected, or a combination of those listed and registered may be used.

Further, the user creates a document showing a list of character types to be inspected for garbled characters by using the document editing software in the same manner as in ordinary document editing / creation, and creates a candidate information table 14 from this document. It can be automatically generated. In this case, the candidate information table generation tool extracts a font name and a character code from the document created by the user, and registers the information in the candidate information table 14. According to this method, the user can appropriately customize the candidate information table 14.

The use of the candidate information table 14 is not necessarily essential to the present invention. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating the procedure of the inspection data creation process when the candidate information table is not used, in particular, the process procedure of the character type extraction unit 10. In the method of FIG. 10, when an instruction to create inspection data is input, the character type extraction unit 10 initializes the count value n to 1 (S240), and reads the n-th file from the document file.
Characters are extracted (S242). In the above-described embodiment, the inspection target is narrowed down by using the candidate information table 14 thereafter. In this method, the n-th character is compared with the registered data of the character type list 12 without performing such narrowing-down. (S244), and the character is the character type list 12
It is checked only whether or not the information has already been registered (S246). If the character is not registered, the character is newly registered in the character type list 12 (S248). Then, the above processing is repeated until the end of the document file (S250, S252).
By such processing, all character types included in the document file are extracted to the character type list 12. Hereinafter, the inspection data generation unit 16 performs the processing from S222 in FIG. 6 and creates inspection data from the information of the character type list 12. As described above, the method of extracting the different character types included in the document file without narrowing down the inspection target by the candidate information table and inspecting the garbled character by using the print result of the list also prints the full text of the document. Compared with the case where garbled characters are inspected using the result, the labor and time for checking garbled characters can be significantly reduced.

In the above embodiment, the character type is specified by the combination of the font name and the character code. However, the method of specifying the character type is not limited to this. For example, font name,
In addition to the character code, the character type may be specified by a combination including other attributes of the character such as the character size.

In the above-described embodiment, if the print size of each character to be inspected on an inspection sheet or the like is set to the same size as when printing an actual document, the user can print in a form close to the actual printing state. Inspection of garbled characters can be performed based on the result. For this purpose, when extracting characters from a document file, not only font names and character codes, but also character size information is extracted, and when creating inspection data, a PDL reflecting the character size information is used. You only need to generate a description.

The following method can be considered as an application method of the inspection data for the garbled inspection. That is,
Generally, when a document is created using a DTP system,
As shown in S14 to S18 in FIG. 1, the display display is compared with the print result to check whether a correct print result is obtained. By applying the inspection data to such a check operation, the work is performed. Efficiency can be improved.
In this method, the created inspection data is displayed on a display and printed by a printer, and the display display is compared with the print result to check for garbled characters between the display display and the print result. According to this method, it is possible to save labor and time required to check for garbled characters between the display display and the print result in the document creation environment.

The present invention is applicable not only to a document file described in PDL, but also to a document file represented in another data format.

The transmission of the inspection data file 200 to the printing environment may be performed by, for example, data communication without using a recording medium.

[0052]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since only characters that are different from each other or character types that are likely to be garbled are extracted from the document to be printed and garbled characters are checked by comparing the print results of these extracted character types, the full text of the document is checked. The labor and time required to check for garbled characters can be significantly reduced as compared with the case where garbled characters are inspected using the print result of (1).

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an entire flow of a garbled character inspection method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration of a garbled character inspection data generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a document to be printed.

FIG. 4 is a page description language (PDL) representing the document of FIG.
It is a figure showing the example of description of.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of a candidate information table.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of the garbled inspection data generation device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing data contents of a character type list.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a description example of an inspection data file.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a print example of the inspection data file of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a main part of a procedure of a process of creating inspection data when a candidate information table is not used.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 character type extraction unit, 12 character type list, 14 candidate information table, 16 inspection data generation unit, 18 style information, 100 document file, 200 inspection data file, 202 recording medium, 204 inspection sheet.

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A method for inspecting a garbled character when a document created in a first information processing environment is printed in a second information processing environment, the document created in the first information processing environment. Extract the different character types included in the to create inspection data,
Printing the inspection data, transmitting the inspection data and a print result thereof to the second information processing environment, and printing the transmitted inspection data in the second information processing environment; A garbled character inspection method, wherein garbled character inspection is performed by comparing a print result with a print result in the first information processing environment. 2. A method for inspecting garbled characters when a document created in a first information processing environment is printed in a second information processing environment, the document created in the first information processing environment. Extracting a character type included in a predetermined character type to be inspected from to generate inspection data, printing the inspection data, transmitting the inspection data and a print result thereof to the second information processing environment, In the second information processing environment, the transmitted inspection data is printed, and the garbled character is inspected by comparing the print result with the print result in the first information processing environment. Garbage inspection method. 3. A character comprising: character type extracting means for extracting different character types included in document data to be printed; and data generating means for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data. A garble inspection data creation device. 4. A candidate information table in which information for specifying a garbled inspection target character type is registered, and a character type included in the inspection target character type specified by the information of the candidate information table is determined from document data to be printed. A garbled character inspection data creating device, comprising: a character type extracting means for extracting; and a data generating means for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data. 5. The garbled character inspection data creating device according to claim 3, wherein the data generating means arranges and sorts the extracted character types for each font. 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data generating means has a function of adding character string data representing a font name corresponding to the arrangement to an arrangement of character types arranged for each font. A garbled inspection data creating device, characterized by having 7. A recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to function as means for extracting all character types included in document data to be printed and means for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data is recorded. 8. A computer for extracting a character type included in a candidate information table in which a garbled character inspection target character type is registered from document data to be printed, and a unit for generating inspection data based on the extracted character type data. A recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to function is recorded.