JPH10283349A - Document preparing device and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To judge whether the total number of the pages of a document is one page or plural pages, and to print page numbers when it is the plural pages and not when it is one page. SOLUTION: In a word processor being the embodiment of this invention, whether the total number of the pages of document data is one page or plural pages is discriminated in a step S72, and when it is one page, any page number is not added, and when it is plural pages, page numbers can be added. Thus, it is possible to save a labor on a user for canceling unnaturalness that a page number is added even when a document has only one page by changing setting each time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document creation apparatus and a recording medium for controlling addition and non-addition of page numbers according to the number of pages of a document.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, printing of a document created by a document creation device such as a word processor or a personal computer is performed by transferring print data to a built-in or external printing device. The print data is data created by a document creation program that controls a word processor, a personal computer, and the like, and includes print control instructions and the like in addition to the document data. The print control instructions include the paper size of the print data, the print margin, the presence or absence of a header / footer, the number of pages, and the like. These are added to the print data and transmitted to the printing apparatus. These print control instructions can be arbitrarily set by the user using a print environment setting file prepared in advance in hardware such as a word processor or a personal computer.

[0003]

As to the setting of the page number print command among the above print control commands, whether or not to print a page number on the document is set. If it is set that the page number is to be printed, it is transferred to the printing device and the printing process is executed, so that the printing device has the number of pages of the print data, that is, one page or a plurality of pages. Regardless, the page numbers were always printed. This means that even if the print data is only one page, the page number is printed in the same manner. To avoid the unnaturalness of printing the page number on a one-page document, the Each time, it is necessary to reset the page number without printing, depending on the environment setting, and there is a problem that it takes time and effort.

An object of the present invention is to determine whether the total number of pages of a document is one page or a plurality of pages. If the number of pages is one, the page number is not printed. To be able to print.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
Discriminating means for discriminating whether the total number of pages of the document data is only one page or plural pages; and when the discriminating means determines that the total number of pages of the document is only one page, the page number is changed. Print control means for printing the document without adding the document, and when it is determined that the total number of pages of the document is a plurality of pages, adding a page number and controlling to print the document. This solves the above problem.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the determining means determines whether the total number of pages of the document data is only one page or a plurality of pages, and the printing control means determines the total number of pages by the determining means. When it is determined that the total number of pages of the document is only one page, the document is printed without adding the page number. When it is determined that the total number of pages of the document is plural, the page number is added. Control to print the document.

[0007] Therefore, since it is possible to eliminate the unnaturalness of adding a page number to a document of only one page, it is possible to save the trouble of setting the environment for the user.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 are diagrams showing an embodiment in a word processor to which the present invention is applied.

First, the configuration will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a main configuration of a word processor 1 according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, a word processor 1
Is composed of a CPU 2, an input unit 3, a RAM 4, a display unit 5, a printing unit 6, a storage device 7, and a storage medium 8, and each unit is connected by a bus 10.

CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2
Stores, in the work memory 4a in the RAM 4, an application program designated from among various application programs corresponding to the word processor 1 stored in the storage device 7, and various instructions or data input from the input unit 3. Various processes are executed according to the application program stored in the RAM 4 in accordance with the input instruction and the input data, and the processing results are stored in the RAM 4.
4 is stored in the work memory 4a and the display unit 5
To be displayed. Then, the processing result stored in the work memory 4a is stored in a storage destination in the storage device 7 which is instructed to be input from the input unit 3.

The CPU 2 executes a printing process described later based on the document data stored in the document memory 4d in the RAM 4 and the environment setting data stored in the environment setting memory 4e.

The input unit 3 includes a keyboard having cursor keys, numeric input keys, various function keys, and the like, and a mouse as a pointing device. The input unit 3 outputs to the CPU 2 a signal indicating a key pressed by the keyboard. And outputs an operation signal from the mouse to the CPU 2.

A RAM (Random Access Memory) 4 includes a work memory 4a for storing a designated application program, input instructions, input data, processing results, and the like.
A dictionary memory 4b for storing dictionary data; a character generator (CG) 4c for generating characters such as alphanumeric characters, kana characters, and kanji in accordance with instructions from the CPU 2; a document memory 4d for storing a plurality of document data; Configuration memory 4e for storing configuration data in the
And

The display unit 5 is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tub).
e) It is constituted by a liquid crystal display device or the like, and displays display data input from the CPU 2.

The printing unit 6 is constituted by a pressure transfer type printing device or the like using an ink ribbon, and prints the document data specified by the printing process of the CPU 2.

The storage device 7 has a storage medium 8 in which programs, data, and the like are stored in advance, and the storage medium 8 is constituted by a magnetic or optical recording medium or a semiconductor memory. The storage medium 8 is fixedly provided in the storage device 7 or is detachably mounted. The storage medium includes various application programs, menu display programs, print processing programs, and various kinds of programs corresponding to the word processor 1. The data and the like processed by the processing program are stored.

The program, document data and the like stored in the storage medium 8 may be received from another device connected via a communication line or the like and stored.
Further, a storage device having the storage medium 8 is provided on another device connected via a communication line or the like, and a program, document data, or the like stored in the storage medium 8 is used via the communication line. It may be configured.

Next, the operation of the word processor 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

When the operation of the device shown in FIG. 2 is started, it is determined whether or not there is a key input (step S1). If there is no key input, the key input is awaited. It is determined whether the input is for the input (step S2). Here, when the input is not the mode input, for example, other than the processing for the document described later, for example,
Other processes such as file management (step S3) are performed. If the input is a mode input, a mode selection (step S4) is subsequently performed.

When the document creation mode (step S5) is selected in step S4, an application relating to document creation is read from the storage device 7 into the work memory 4a in the RAM 4 by the CPU 2, and the input unit 3
A document is created by input from. In step A5 in step S5, it is determined whether a page number is always added to the document, that is, whether a page number is added regardless of whether the total number of pages of the document is only one page or a plurality of pages. A setting (hereinafter, this setting is referred to as a forced page number addition setting) is performed, and the setting is temporarily stored in an environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4. However, in step B described later, if a setting is made not to add a page number to all documents, the setting is not adopted and the page number is not added regardless of the setting in step A. Upon completion of step S5, a selection is made as to whether or not to end all device operations (step S8). If end is selected, all device operations are ended. If end is not selected, step S8 is performed. S2
Returns to the state of waiting for the execution of the next process.

In step S4, when the environment setting mode (step S6) is selected, various environment settings such as a printing mode are performed by input from the input unit 3, and in step B in step S6, the environment is set by the device. Setting whether or not to add a page number as a common setting for all documents to be created (hereinafter, this setting is referred to as “all document page number addition setting”)
The setting is temporarily stored in an environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4. When step S6 ends, step S
If the end is selected in step 8, all the device operations are ended, and if the end is not selected, the process returns to step S2 to wait for execution of the next process.

When the print mode (step S7) is selected in step S4, the document is printed according to the settings in steps A and S6 stored in the environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4. .

FIG. 3 shows details of the processing in step S7. When the printing process of FIG. 3 is started, the setting in step B is read from the environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4, and
It is determined whether or not all document page number addition setting has been made (step S70). If all document page number addition setting has been made, the setting in step A is further read from the environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4. It is determined whether or not the forced page number addition setting has been made (step S71).
If all document page numbers are not set, a command not to add page numbers is sent to the printing unit 6 (step S7).
4).

In step S71, the setting in step A is read from the environment setting memory 4e in the RAM 4, and if the forced page number addition setting is made, a command for adding a page number is sent to the printing unit 6 ( Step S73),
If the forced page number addition setting is not made, it is determined whether the total number of pages of the document is one or a plurality of pages (step S72).

In step S72, the document data is read from the document memory 4d in the RAM 4, and it is determined whether the total number of pages of the document is one or a plurality of pages. Is one page, step S74
Is sent to the printing unit 6 when the total number of pages of the document is a plurality of pages.
In step 3, a command to add a page number is sent to the printing unit 6.

The instruction relating to the page number addition in step S73 or step S74 and the document data read from the document memory 4d in the RAM 4 are sent to the printing unit 6 (step S75), and the printing process of the document is executed. You.

When the printing process is completed, the printing mode, that is, step S7 in FIG. 2 ends, and if the end is selected in step S8, all device operations are ended.
If the end is not selected, the process returns to step S2 and waits for execution of the next process.

As described above, in the word processor 1 of this embodiment, in step S72, it is determined whether the total number of pages of the document data is one or a plurality of pages, and as shown in FIG. When the document is one page, the page number is not added (FIG. 4b), and when it is a plurality of pages, the page number is added (FIG. 4c). It is possible to save the trouble that the user of the device has to eliminate the unnaturalness in which the page number is added only in the case of FIG. 4 by changing the setting each time.

Also, according to the forced page number addition setting in step A, it is possible to forcibly add a page number to a document of only one page and print it.

[0030]

According to the present invention, it is possible to eliminate the unnaturalness in which a page number is added to a document having only one page, so that the user can save time and effort in setting the printing environment. It can be omitted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main configuration of a word processor according to an embodiment to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the word processor of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing details of an internal step of step S7 when a print mode is selected in the flowchart of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram exemplifying a document created by the word processor according to the embodiment to which the present invention is applied;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 word processor 2 CPU 3 input unit 4 RAM 5 display unit 6 printing unit 7 storage device 8 storage medium 10 bus

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A discriminating means for discriminating whether the total number of pages of document data is only one page or a plurality of pages, and the discriminating means discriminates that the total number of pages of the document is only one page. Sometimes printing the document without adding page numbers,
When it is determined that the total number of pages of the document is a plurality of pages,
And a print control means for controlling the printing of the document by adding a page number. 2. A recording medium having a program code readable by a computer, the program code determining whether the total number of pages of document data is only one page or a plurality of pages; When it is determined that the number of pages is only one, the document is printed without adding a page number. When it is determined that the total number of pages of the document is plural, the page number is added and the document is printed. And a program code for controlling printing of a recording medium.