JPH10232861A - Document output device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document output device capable of preventing the forms of a prepared document and a document to be printed from being different at the time of printing the document using the special information of external characters or the like. SOLUTION: At the time of document registration, external character information used in the document is read to an intra-document external character information storage part 10 and the external character information is stored as registration data together with document data. In the case of printing the document, the information of the external characters stored together with the document data is read to the intra-document external character information storage part 10 and the external character information is read from the intra- document external character information storage part when the external character information is required at the time or preparing output data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document output device for printing a document created by a word processor, a personal computer, or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a word processor or the like has an external character creation function that allows an operator to create an original character style. When this function is used, it is necessary to adjust the appearance of a document such as external character information. The information was read out when the information was used to create a document.

[0003]

However, information on external characters and pitch information are stored in the apparatus that created the document. Therefore, if the printing device does not store special information such as external character information or pitch information, such as when the device that created the document is different from the device that prints the document, the printing result may be different from that at the time of creation. However, there is a problem in that a problem occurs.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide a document output device capable of preventing a created document from being output in a different format when outputting a document in which special information such as external characters is used. And

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a registration instructing unit for instructing a document registration, and a special instruction for registering a document when the registration instructing unit instructs a document. Judgment means for judging whether or not information is used, and registration data for creating document data to be registered and registration data including the used special information when judging means judges that special information is used. Creation means, registration data storage means for storing the registration data created by the registration data creation means, output instruction means for instructing output of the document, and registration data storage when the output instruction means issues a document output instruction. Means for reading document data from the document data reading means, and special information used for the document data read by the document data reading means. Load from data storage means, and output data creating means for creating the output data, and data output means for outputting the output data generated by the output data generating unit, configured to have.

Thus, a document output device can be provided which can prevent the created document from being different from the output document when outputting a document using special information such as external characters.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention provides a registration instructing means for instructing registration of a document, and when a document registration instruction is issued from the registration instructing means, special information is added to the document data to be registered. A judgment means for judging whether or not special information is used, and, when the judgment means judges that special information is used, creating registration data for creating document data to be registered and registration data including special information used Means, registration data storage means for storing registration data created by the registration data creation means, output instruction means for instructing output of a document, and registration data storage means when a document output instruction is issued by the output instruction means. A document data reading means for reading the document data from the document data, and special information used for the document data read by the document data reading means. From reading the output data generating means for generating output data, and data output means for outputting the output data generated by the output data generating means,
With this configuration, even when a document created using special information is output, an output result using the special information can be obtained.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, as an example of special information, a case will be described in which a document using information created by an operator with external characters is output.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document output apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a central processing unit (CPU) that controls the apparatus by executing a program, and 2 denotes a random access memory (RA) that stores a program executed by the CPU 1.
M), 3 is an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse, 4 is C
A display device such as an RT, 5 is an output device such as a printer or a photocomposer, 6 is a hard disk, and 7 is an external storage device.

The hard disk 6 includes an external character information storage unit 8 that stores external character data created by an operator, a document data storage unit 9 that temporarily stores data of a document to be printed, and document data to be printed. A document internal / external character information storage unit 10 for storing read external character information, and a registration data storage unit 11 for temporarily storing data to be registered at the time of document registration.

The RAM 2 has a character string storage unit 12 for storing a character string of a page, and a character format information storage unit 13 for storing format information such as a character font and a character size.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the document registration function of the document output device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 14 denotes a document name input unit for inputting a name of a document to be registered, 15 denotes a registration data generating unit for generating data to be registered, and 16 obtains information on external characters used in the document. The external character information acquisition unit 17 stores the registration data created by the registration data creation unit 15 in the external storage device 7.
Is a data registration unit to be registered in.

The document name input unit 14 is realized by the input device 3, and the registration data creation unit 15, the external character information acquisition unit 16 and the data registration unit 17 are realized by the CPU 1 executing a program stored in the RAM 2. .

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the document printing function of the document output device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 18 denotes a print format input unit for setting a document to be printed and a print format, 19 a document data reading unit for reading document data designated for printing, and 20 a data for output to an output device. Is a data output unit that outputs the output data created by the output data creation unit 20 from the output device 5.

The printing format input unit 18 is realized by the input device 3, and the document data reading unit 19, the output data creating unit 20, and the data output unit 21 are realized by the CPU 1 executing a program stored in the RAM 2.

The operation of the above-configured document output device will be described below.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a document registration operation of the document output device according to one embodiment of the present invention. The operation of the CPU 1 when registering a document will be described.

As shown in FIG. 4, in step 1,
When a document registration is instructed from the document name input unit 14, the registration data creation unit 15 reads character data one by one from the character string storage unit 12.

In step 2, the registration data creation unit 1
In step 5, it is determined whether or not the read character data is an external character. If the character data is an external character, in step 3, the external character information acquisition unit 16 converts the information of the corresponding external character stored in the external character information storage unit 8 into or out of the document. It is stored in the character information storage unit 10.

If all characters have been created in step 4, the process proceeds to step 5, where the document data is converted from the character data and format data stored in the character string storage unit 12 and character format information storage unit 13. It is created and stored in the registration data storage unit 11.

In step 6, the data registration unit 17 specifies the data stored in the registration data storage unit 11 and the external character information stored in the in-character / external character information storage unit 10 as registration data by the operator. Is stored in the external storage device 7. Thereby, the registration of the document is completed.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a document printing operation of the document output device according to one embodiment of the present invention. The operation of the CPU 1 when printing a document will be described.

As shown in FIG. 5, in step 7,
The document instructed to be printed by the print format input unit 18 is stored in the document data storage unit 9 by the document data reading unit 19.

In step 8, the output data creation unit 2
0 determines whether external character information is included in the document for which printing is instructed. If it is determined that external character information is included, in step 9, the internal / external character information storage unit 1 in the document is determined.
The external character information is read into 0.

In step 10, the data of the page to be printed is read from the document data storage unit 9, the character string data is stored in the character string storage unit 12, and the character format information is stored in the character format information storage unit 13. Is done.

In step 11, the output data creating unit 20 reads character data one by one from the character string storage unit 12. In step 12, it is determined whether or not the read character data is an external character.
In step 13, external character data is read from the internal character information storage unit 10.

In step 14, the position of the character is calculated based on the information stored in the character format information storage unit 13. In step 15, output data is created at the calculated position.

In step 16, it is determined whether or not output data has been created for all characters. If not completed, the process is repeated from step 11. If all data has been created, the data is output from the output device 5 in step 17.

In this embodiment, registration and printing of a created document are shown as one device.
A device for registering a document, such as a personal computer and a printer, may be separated from a device for printing.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when a document created using external character information is printed out, the external character information used for the document is stored and stored when printing output data is generated. By reading and using the external character information, the appearance of the created document and the appearance of the printed document do not differ.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, the registration instructing means for instructing the registration of a document, and when the registration instructing means instructs the registration of the document, the special information is used for the document data to be registered. Means for determining whether or not special information is used, and registration data creating means for creating registration data including the document data to be registered and the used special information when the determination means determines that special information is used; Registration data storage means for storing the registration data created by the data creation means, output instruction means for giving a document output instruction, and when the document output instruction is given by the output instruction means, the document data is stored in The document data reading means to be read and the special information used for the document data read by the document data reading means are read from the registered data storage means. Output data creating means for creating output data, and data output means for outputting the output data created by the output data creating means, thereby outputting a document created using special information. However, since the output result using the special information can be obtained, the appearance of the created document and the output document are not different.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a document registration function of the document output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a document printing function of the document output device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a document registration operation of the document output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a document printing operation of the document output device according to the 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 external storage device 8 external character information storage unit 9 document data storage unit 10 internal / external character information storage unit 11 registration data storage unit 12 character string storage unit 13 character format information Storage unit 14 Document name input unit 15 Registration data creation unit 16 External character information acquisition unit 17 Data registration unit 18 Print format input unit 19 Document data reading unit 20 Output data creation unit 21 Data output unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] A registration instruction unit for issuing a document registration instruction; a determination unit for determining whether special information is used in document data to be registered when the registration instruction unit issues a document registration instruction; When the determination unit determines that the special information is used, a registration data creation unit that creates registration data including the document data to be registered and the special information that is being used; A registration data storage unit for storing registration data, an output instruction unit for issuing a document output instruction, and when a document output instruction is issued by the output instruction unit,
A document data reading unit for reading document data from the registration data storage unit; and an output for reading special information used in the document data read by the document data reading unit from the registration data storage unit and generating output data. A document output device, comprising: data creation means; and data output means for outputting output data created by the output data creation means.