JPH10207878A - Document editing and printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To specify printing without being restricted by a paper size by printing out a page or an area to be printed out of a document prepared by an edition/ proofreading means on the specified paper size by a specified printing size. SOLUTION: When a key on a keyboard 101 is depressed, a printing specification picture is displayed on a display 103. A printing sort, i.e., normal printing or combined printing of plural pages, is specified. The specified printing sort information is stored in a data area 108 and a printing condition setting picture is displayed on the display 103. The paper size specifies the paper size to be practically printed out. When there is no specification, the paper size is automatically set up to the format size of a document to be printed. The printing size specifies the size for printing out the document to be printed. When there is no specification, the size is set up to the format size of the document to be printed. The printing size should be less than the paper size. Printing image data stored in the data area 108 are outputted to a printer 105.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a document editing and printing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a created document is output to a printing device such as a printer, the document is created and printed in a format that satisfies conditions such as a paper size and a margin size that can be output by the printing device. Also, in order to print on a paper size different from the format of the created document, such as when printing a document created in A3 size on A4 size paper, the format size of the document to be printed is reduced by the reduction / enlargement designating means. There is a device for printing by specifying a different paper size.

[0003]

However, the conventional document editing and printing apparatus has the following problems.

[0004] Depending on the type of printer, there are devices that cannot print on small-sized paper such as refills, postcards, business cards, and the like, and these devices cannot specify those paper sizes at the time of printing. Also, margin restrictions differ depending on the printer, and the created document cannot be printed in some cases.

Further, when there is no paper of a size to be printed, it is necessary to prepare paper of a desired size in advance.

When printing a plurality of pages or a size different from the size of a sheet on a sheet and printing a cut line on the boundary of the page, if the print result is cut off along the cut line, the cut surface is cut off. There is a problem that printing is left as garbage.

A first object of the present invention is to print a page or area of a created document on a sheet of a specified size at a specified print size (however, the print size is equal to or smaller than the paper size). An editing printing device is provided.

A second object of the present invention is to repeatedly print a page or area of a created document on a sheet of a specified size at a specified print size (however, the print size is equal to or smaller than the sheet size). A document editing and printing apparatus is provided.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a printed page,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a document editing and printing apparatus capable of designating printing of a cutout line outside an area, a repeated page, or an area boundary.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a character input means, a character editing and proofreading means, a display means for displaying a character input / edit state, a storage means for storing a prepared document, and a printing of a prepared document. A document editing and printing apparatus including a printing unit that performs printing, and a printing target page or area of the document created by the editing and proofing unit to a sheet size specified by the printing specifying unit. This is achieved by printing at the print size designated by the print designation means.

Also, a plurality of pages to be printed of a document created by the editing and proofing means are arranged and printed on a paper size designated by the printing designation means in units of the printing size designated by the printing designation means. It is achieved by doing.

[0012] Also, there is provided a cut line print designating means, and when the print of the cut line is designated by the cut line print designating means, a page or area of a print size or a boundary of a page or area of a repeated print size is designated. This is achieved by printing a perforated line on the outside.

A means for printing a page or area to be printed of a document created by the editing and proofing means on a paper size designated by the print designation means at a print size designated by the print designation means. Create a print image by referring to the size and print size, and print it on the specified size paper.

[0014] Further, by means for arranging and printing a plurality of documents to be printed on a paper size designated by the print designation means in units of the print size designated by the print designation means,
Create a print image by referring to the format size and print size of the document to be printed, and, depending on the print size and paper size,
Calculate and print the number of pages that can be printed on paper.

[0015] Further, there is provided a cut line print designating means, and when the cut line printing is designated by the cut line print designating means, a page or area of a print size or a boundary of a page or area of a repeated print size is designated. When cut line printing is designated by means for printing a cut line outside, the cut line is printed outside the size of the print image calculated from the format size and print size of the document to be printed.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail based on an example in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document editing and printing apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 100 denotes a central processing unit, which controls the entire document editing and printing apparatus. Reference numeral 101 denotes a keyboard as an input device, which has keys for inputting characters and numbers, keys for performing kanji conversion, keys for controlling a screen, keys for processing instructions, and the like. A keyboard controller 102 controls a keyboard.

Reference numeral 103 denotes a display as a display device, which displays character data, graphic data, processing command items, and the like. A display controller 104 controls the display. A printer 105 is a printing device, and prints print image data stored in a data area 108. A printer controller 106 controls the printer. A program area 107 holds a control program, an editing program, and the like for the document editing and printing apparatus. A data area 108 stores print image data and the like.

Next, the operation of each unit in FIG. 1 will be described based on the flowchart in FIG.

First, in FIG. 2, a key for activating the printing function of the keyboard 101 is input (step 20).
1) and a print designation screen (FIG. 3) is displayed on the display 103 (step 202). Next, step 203
The user designates a print type for performing normal printing or for performing multiple-combination printing in which multiple-page combination printing is performed. The designated print type information is stored in the data area 108, and a print condition setting screen (FIG. 4) is displayed on the display 103 (step 204).

After setting the printing conditions in step 205, the set printing conditions are stored in the data area 108. The paper size specifies the size of the paper to be actually printed. If not specified, the format size of the document to be printed is used. The print size specifies the size of the document to be printed. If not specified, the format size of the print document is used. It is assumed that the print size is equal to or smaller than the paper size. If the print size is the same as the format size of the document to be printed, 1 /
The printing is one-time, and if the printing is smaller than the format size, the printing is reduced. If the print type information stored in the data area 108 is a multiple-set print, when the print size is designated, the maximum number of repeats in the paper size is calculated and displayed in the item column of the number of repeats. When the user changes the number of repetitions, that number is used as the number of repetitions.

In step 206, if normal printing is designated from the print type information stored in the data area 108, the print size stored in the data area 108
The printing base coordinates and the printing size (FIG. 5) are calculated from the paper size and stored in the data area 108 (step 207). In step 208, the data area 10
From the print size and the format of the document to be printed stored in
The reduction / enlargement ratio at the time of printing is calculated, and the data area 108 is calculated.
To be stored.

In step 209, print image data is created based on the print base point coordinate information and the reduction ratio stored in the data area 108 and stored in the data area 108.

In step 216, if cut line printing is specified from the cut line data stored in the data area 108, image data of a cut line that is 2 mm longer and shorter in length and width than the print size is created and stored in the data area 108. The data is superimposed and stored at a position 1 mm from the upper left from the base point of the print image data (FIG. 5).

At step 206, if a plurality of sets of printing are specified from the print type information stored in the data area 108, the number of print repetitions, the paper size, and the print size of the print condition setting information stored in the data area 108 Then, the coordinates of each printing base point and each printing size (FIG. 6) are calculated and stored in the data area 108 (step 210).
In step 211, the reduction / enlargement ratio at the time of printing is calculated from the print size stored in the data area 108 and the format of the print document, and stored in the data area 108.

In step 212, print image data of the first page to be printed is created based on the print base point coordinate information and the reduction ratio information stored in the data area 108, and
8 is stored.

At step 213, the number of developed pages is updated (step 214). At step 215, data area 1
If the development of the print condition setting information stored in step 08 has not been completed for the number of times of printing repetition, the process returns to step 212. If the development is completed, the process proceeds to step 216.

In step 216, if cut line printing is designated from the cut line data stored in the data area 108, image data of a cut line that is 2 mm longer and shorter in length and width than the print size is created and stored in the data area 108. The stored print image data is superimposed and stored from a position 1 mm from the upper left of each base point (FIG. 6).

In step 217, the print image data stored in the data area is output to the printer 105.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a document subjected to printing in a plurality of sets and a print result.

According to the present embodiment, the printing designation means
Since the paper size and the print size can be specified separately, for example, when printing a document created in the refill format, by specifying the paper size: A4, the print size: refill,
It is possible to output a document to the size of the refill size on A4 paper, and output is possible even when the printer cannot handle the refill paper. Also, when printing a document created in a format with an A5 size lower margin of 5 mm on a printer with a lower margin limit of 25 mm, the lower margin can be changed by designating paper size: A4 and print size: A5. You can print without it.

For example, when printing a document created in the refill format, the paper size: A4, the print size: refill, a plurality of prints, and the presence of cutout lines are specified.
It is possible to print multiple pages of refill size on 4 papers,
By cutting along the inside of the cutout line, a refill-size print can be created without preparing refill paper for printing. Further, since the cut line is printed outside the line to be actually cut, the cut line can be separated without leaving any dust.

[0034]

According to the present invention, a document to be printed is printed on a page or area to be printed of a document created by the editing and proofing means on a paper size designated by the print designation means at a print size designated by the print designation means. A print image can be created based on the format size and the print size, and printing can be designated without being restricted by the paper size.

Further, a plurality of printing target documents are arranged and printed on a paper size specified by the print designation unit with the print size specified by the print designation unit as a unit.
Since the number of pages that can be printed on a sheet can be calculated based on the print size and the sheet size, it is possible to print a plurality of sets with a desired print size.

[0036] A cut line printing designation means is provided, and when printing of a cut line is designated by the cut line printing designation means, a page or area of a print size or a boundary outside a page or area of a repeated print size is provided. Since the cut line is printed outside the line to be actually cut by the means for printing the cut line, the cut line can be separated without leaving any dust.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document editing and printing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a print designation screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a print condition setting screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a printing base point and a printing size.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a printing base point and a printing size.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a printing result when printing a plurality of sets.

[Explanation of symbols]

100: Central processing unit, 101: Keyboard, 102:
Keyboard controller, 103 ... Display, 10
4 display controller, 105 printer, 1
06: Printer controller, 107: Program area, 108: Data area.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Character input means, character editing and proofing means, display means for displaying the input / edit status of characters, storage means for storing created documents, printing means for printing created documents, and printing method designation In the document editing and printing apparatus including a print designation unit, a print target page or area of the document created by the edit proofing unit is set to a paper size designated by the print designation unit.
A document editing and printing apparatus for printing at a print size designated by the print designation means. 2. Designation of character input means, character editing and proofreading means, display means for displaying character input / editing status, storage means for storing created documents, printing means for printing created documents, and printing method In the document editing and printing apparatus including a print designation unit, a print target page or area of the document created by the edit proofing unit is set to a paper size designated by the print designation unit.
A document editing and printing apparatus, wherein a plurality of print sizes are arranged and printed in units of the print size specified by the print specifying means. 3. A document editing and printing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a print repetition number designating means for arranging and printing the designated number of repetitions. 4. A document editing and printing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a print repetition number calculating means for arranging and printing the number of print repetitions calculated from the print size and the paper size and notifying the print repetition number. 5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a cut line print designation unit, wherein when the cut line printing is designated by the cut line print designation unit, a page or area of a print size, or a repeated print size. A document editing and printing apparatus that prints a cutout line outside the boundary of a page or area.