JPH10222498A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document printer with which possibility to change the format of document is reported to an operator when a device preparing the document is different from a device for printing the document and when required format information is not loaded on a device for printing. SOLUTION: Concerning a document printer for printing out prepared document data, CPU 1 reads the format information corresponding to character data read out a character string storage part 9, from a character format storage part 10 for storing the format information of character data stored in the character string storage part 9 for storing the character data of prepared document data and when it is judged the format information corresponding to the read format information does not exist, a message showing possibility to change the format of the document to be outputted is outputted on a display device 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document printing apparatus for printing out a document created in, for example, a word processor or a personal computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document creating apparatus such as a word processor has a function of creating a typeface having a pitch for each character or an external character that allows a user to create a unique character style. Contains information needed to format the document, such as font type information and external character information,
Reads and creates documents when using information.

[0003]

The pitch information of these typefaces, data of external characters, pitch information, and the like are stored in the apparatus that created the document. Therefore, if the device that created the document is different from the device that prints the document, and if the information is not stored in the device that prints, a different print result may occur. Had to be done.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a document printing apparatus for notifying an operator when the form of a created document and a document to be printed out are likely to be changed when the form is printed out. I do.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve this problem, the present invention is a document printing apparatus for printing out created document data, and having format information used for the created document data. Otherwise, when the created document is printed out, it is configured to notify that there is a possibility that the appearance of the created document may change.

[0006] Thus, when there is a possibility that the appearance of the created document and the document to be printed out may be changed, a document printing apparatus is provided which notifies the operator when this is printed out.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is a document printing apparatus for printing out created document data, and has format information used for the created document data. Otherwise, when the created document is printed out, the operator is notified that the appearance of the document may change from the document at the time of creation. It is possible to know whether or not the changed document is different from the document at the time of creation.

(Embodiment 1) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and shows a hardware configuration of the document printing apparatus according to the embodiment.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a CP for controlling the entire apparatus and performing various data processing according to a program described later.
U (central processing unit), 2 a RAM (random access memory) for storing a program to be executed by the CPU 1,
An input device 3 has a keyboard, a mouse, and the like, and inputs data. A display device 4 has a CRT display, a liquid crystal display, etc., and displays data.
An output device such as a (laser beam printer) or a typesetting machine, and 6 is a hard disk for storing data.

The hard disk 6 has a storage area for an information storage section 7 for storing pitch information for each typeface and data for external characters created by a user, and a storage area for a document data storage section 8 for temporarily storing data of a document to be printed. Having.

The RAM 2 includes, in addition to the program executed by the CPU 1, a character string storage unit 9 for storing a character string of a page to be printed, a character format information storage unit 10 for storing format information such as a character font and a character size, and a page. From the information storage unit 7 during printing,
An error flag storage unit 11 is set when necessary information cannot be read.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the document printing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 12 denotes an input unit for setting a document to be printed and a print format, 13 a page data reading unit for reading data of a page to be printed from document data designated for printing, and 14 for outputting the data to an output device. An output data creation unit for creating the data of the output device; a data output unit for outputting the output data created by the output device; and a message display unit for displaying a message on the CRT that the page format may be changed. is there.

The operation of the above-configured document printing apparatus will be described below. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the document printing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
This shows how the PU1 executes a program stored in the RAM2.

As shown in FIG. 3, first, in step 1, the document instructed to be printed by the input unit 12 is stored in the document data storage unit 8 of the hard disk 6. In step 2, data of a page to be printed is read from the document data storage unit 8 by the page data reading unit 13, and the read page data contains character string data in the character string storage unit 9, character format information. Each is stored in the character format information storage unit 10.

In step 3, the output data creation unit 1
In step 4, character data is read from the character string storage unit 9 one character at a time. Further, in step 4, it is determined whether or not the character data is an external character.
In step 5, the external character data is read from the information storage unit 7. In step 6, it is determined whether the typeface in the character format information is a typeface having a pitch for each character. If the typeface has a pitch, the pitch information of the typeface is read from the information storage unit 7 in step 7.

If the information cannot be read correctly because there is no external character information or font pitch information in step 8, an information reading error is set in the error flag storage unit 11 in step 10.

In step 9, the position of the character is calculated based on the information stored in the character format information storage unit 10. In step 11, output data is created at the calculated position. In step 12, it is determined whether output data has been created for all characters, and if not completed, the process is repeated from step 3. If all output data has been created, the data is output from the output device 5 by the data output unit 15 in step 13.

After the output is completed, the contents of the error flag storage section 11 are checked in step 14 and if an information reading error has occurred, the appearance of the message may be changed by the message display section 16 in step 15. Is displayed on the display screen of the display device 4. An example of the message displayed in step 15 is "The external character or the typeface information could not be read correctly. The appearance of the page may change. Please confirm the contents. ] And so on.

In this embodiment, the case where a message that the appearance of a document may change is displayed as a message has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. ), Various kinds of notification means such as light emission display by LED, and the like.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the format information at the time of document creation cannot be obtained at the time of printing, the appearance of the printed document may change for each printed page. By displaying and displaying a message to inform the operator, the operator only needs to check only the page on which the message is displayed, which can reduce the troublesomeness of checking all printed materials, and It is easy to find out that the appearance of the document at the time and the appearance of the printed document have changed.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, a document printing apparatus that prints out created document data and does not have the format information used for the created document data. When a printed document is printed out, the operator is notified that the appearance of the document may be different from that at the time of creation. The operator can easily find out whether the appearance of the document at the time of creation and the appearance of the printed document have changed, because the document and the appearance of the document have changed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a document printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a document printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a document printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 CPU 2 RAM 3 input device 4 display device 5 output device 6 hard disk 7 information storage unit 8 document data storage unit 9 character string storage unit 10 character format information storage unit 11 error flag storage unit 12 input unit 13 page data reading unit 14 output Data creation unit 15 Data output unit 16 Message display unit

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A document printing apparatus which prints out created document data and does not have format information used for the created document data. A document printing apparatus for notifying that a document and a style at the time may change. 2. A document printing apparatus for printing out generated document data, comprising: character data storage means for storing character data of the generated document data; and character data storage means for storing the character data stored in the character data storage means. A character format storage unit for storing format information, and reading format information corresponding to the character data read from the character data storage unit from the character format storage unit, and determining whether there is format information corresponding to the read format information. Document printing characterized by comprising a format judging means for judging, and a notifying means for notifying that the format of the document may be changed when it is judged that the format information read by the format judging means does not exist. apparatus. 3. The document printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the format information is character pitch information. 4. The document printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the format information is information on an external character of a character. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said notifying means is means for outputting, on a display screen, a message indicating that the appearance of the document at the time of creation may be changed. Document printing device.