JPH1049696A - Document editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the operability of editing operation by automatically making information on processing procedure hierarchical and extracting editing information on processing procedures of an arbitrary level from the editing information which has been made hierarchical when document preparing operation is performed by using the editing information on the processing procedures. SOLUTION: This device performs editing processing for constituent elements of a document such as the input and editing of objects. An editing processing part of the device checks the contents of editing instructions by an editing instruction analysis part 22 from the editing information on processing procedures stored in an editing information storage part 21. An editing instruction execution part 23 edits object data on the basis of the editing information on the processing procedures. A processing procedure hierarchical forming processing part 24 makes the editing information on the processing procedures by objects hierarchical. Further, a processing procedure extracting and forming process part 25 performs a processing for extracting editing information on an arbitrary procedure from the editing information on the processing procedures which has been made hierarchical.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus for editing a document by effectively using information on an editing procedure for an object. More specifically, in a document editing apparatus for inputting an object which is a component of a document, editing the object, and creating a document, the editing information representing the processing procedure related to the document editing is effectively reused to improve efficiency. The present invention relates to a document editing device capable of frequently editing documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a document creation operation performed using a document editing apparatus, a document is created by performing an editing operation on each of a plurality of objects, such as characters and images, which are components of the document. In this case, a component (object) of the document to be created is input as an object to be edited, and editing is performed using the object. In this document creation process, the object itself, its contents,
Numerous operations are performed to change or modify various characteristics (attributes) such as the position, size, and color of the arrangement.

[0003] Therefore, in this case, in the case of document editing work in which there are many changes and corrections, the same work is often repeated partly, so that re-editing and reuse of objects can be easily performed. Is desirable. For this purpose, it is effective to use the editing content given to the object and the editing information of the processing procedure indicating the order in addition to the object itself.

In reusing the editing information of the processing procedure, the data structure of the editing information is hierarchized so that each object can be grouped rather than information having a flat structure in order to utilize them efficiently. It is desirable that the information is the information of the data structure. Further, when the hierarchical data structure is used, the editing information of the hierarchical processing procedure can be adapted to various use forms.
If it can be reorganized, its application range will further expand.

For example, in the case of performing layout editing, not only the layout information is taken out in relation to the editing information, but also rough according to the range of the hierarchical depth of the hierarchized layout information (editing information). If a layout format can be extracted, its application range will be expanded.

A document editing method utilizing such processing procedure information is described in, for example, US Pat.
There is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application No. 85,568. In this method, an editing process is performed using information on a processing procedure in addition to an object.

[0007]

In the above-mentioned conventional editing method, the editing information of the processing procedure can be hierarchized. In the case of hierarchization, for example, a plurality of objects are grouped. For example, many operations by the operator are required, and as a result, there is a problem that much labor is required and the editing operation is complicated. Also, when the editing information of the processing procedure at an arbitrary hierarchical level is extracted from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure, many operations by the operator are required, and much labor is required.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for editing a processing procedure by using the editing information of the processing procedure. Are automatically hierarchized, and an editing information of a processing procedure of an arbitrary level can be extracted from the hierarchized editing information, thereby providing a document editing apparatus with improved operability of editing operation.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document editing apparatus for editing a document using an object editing procedure. , An editing information storage means (21) for storing editing information indicating a processing procedure, and an editing instruction analyzing means (22) for examining the contents of an editing instruction of the editing information.
Editing command execution means (23) for editing object data; processing procedure hierarchization knitting means (24) for hierarchizing editing information of a processing procedure for each object; A processing procedure extracting / knitting means (25) for extracting editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the procedure and performing knitting;

Also, as a second feature, in the document editing apparatus of the present invention, the processing procedure hierarchical organization means includes an outline generation means (81) for obtaining outline information of an object;
Area calculating means (82) for obtaining the area from the contour information, area comparing means (83) for comparing the area of the object,
Overlap determining means (84) for checking for the presence or absence of overlap between objects; inclusion determining means (85) for checking for the presence or absence of inclusion between objects; and a hierarchical processing procedure representing the relationship between overlap and inclusion between objects. And a processing procedure addition assembling means (86) for converting into editing information.

As a third feature, in the document editing apparatus of the present invention, the processing procedure extracting and organizing means includes a plurality of types of extracting processing for extracting editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from editing information of a hierarchical processing procedure. According to the above rule, the editing information of an arbitrary operation history is extracted from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure and reconfigured.

In the document editing apparatus of the present invention having such features, a document is edited by using an editing procedure for an object. In this case, the editing information storage means stores the editing information indicating the processing procedure, and the editing command analyzing means checks the contents of the editing command of the editing information. Then, the edit command executing means edits the object data. Further, the processing procedure hierarchizing and knitting means performs knitting for hierarchically organizing the editing information of the processing procedure in object units, and the processing procedure extracting and knitting means obtains editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure. Take out and perform knitting. Accordingly, when a document creation operation is performed using the editing information of the processing procedure, the editing information of the processing procedure for each object can be converted into the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure. The reeditability and reusability are improved, and as a result, the operability of the document creation operation is improved.

In the processing procedure hierarchical knitting means, the outline generating means obtains the outline information of the object, and the area calculating means obtains the area from the outline information. The area comparing means compares the areas of the objects.
The overlap judging unit examines whether or not there is an overlap between the objects. The inclusion judging means examines the presence or absence of inclusion between the objects, and the processing procedure addition assembling means converts the information into editing information of a hierarchized processing procedure showing the relationship between the overlap and inclusion between the objects. Further, in the processing procedure extracting and organizing means, when extracting the editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure, the processing procedure extracting and organizing means may extract the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure according to a plurality of types of extraction rules. Retrieve the edit information of any operation history and reconfigure. This makes it possible to extract the editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure and from the editing information of the processing procedure used in the past. For this reason, the reeditability and reusability in the document creation work are improved, and as a result, the operability of the document creation work is improved.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an overall system configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes an input processing unit, 12 denotes an editing processing unit, 13 denotes an object storage unit, and 14 denotes a display processing unit.

In this document editing apparatus, editing processing is performed on document components such as inputting and editing of an object, and document editing processing is performed. In this case, the input processing unit 11 includes object data and information on editing. Is input, and the editing processing unit 12 performs editing of the object and conversion of the editing information of the processing procedure. At this time, the editing processing unit 12 stores the editing information of the processing procedure. Further, the object storage processing unit 13 stores the data of the input object and the edited object data. The display processing unit 14 performs a process of displaying the generated document.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the editing processing unit. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes an edit information storage unit;
Denotes an editing instruction analyzing unit, 23 denotes an editing instruction executing unit, 24 denotes a processing procedure hierarchical organization processing unit, and 25 denotes a processing procedure extraction organization processing unit. As shown in FIG. 2, the edit processing unit 12 includes an edit information storage unit 21, an edit instruction analysis unit 22, an edit instruction execution unit 2
3. The system elements of the processing procedure hierarchical composition processing unit 24 and the processing procedure extraction composition processing unit 25 are mutually connected and configured. The editing information storage unit 21 stores editing information of a processing procedure when a document is edited. Editing instruction analysis unit 2
2 examines the contents of the editing command from the editing information of the processing procedure stored in the editing information storage unit 21. Edit command execution unit 2
3 edits the object data based on the editing information of the processing procedure. Processing procedure Hierarchical organization processing unit 2
Reference numeral 4 hierarchies the editing information of the processing procedure for each object as described later. Further, the processing procedure extraction and organization processing unit 25 performs a process of extracting the editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure.

Next, as a specific example, a description will be given of a document editing process when a document is created by combining document components. In the work of document creation, a task of inputting and editing some document components such as characters, images, and figures is performed. An object is a part (constituent element) such as a character, an image, or a figure, and any data format may be used.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an object used in editing for drawing a landscape image in document editing. As shown in FIG. 3, here, a background image 31 of a mountain view, a room figure 32 of a room serving as a main body of a house, a roof figure 33 of a roof of a house, a window of a window entering a wall of a room of a house. Partial window figure 3
4. Eight types: a person figure 35, a parallelogram frame figure 36 serving as a base surrounding the character, a first character string 37 of the character string "'96", and a second character string 38 of the character string "Haru" Objects (document components) are used. These objects are stored in the object storage unit 13. Among the objects, the object of the background image 31 is a mount on which some parts are mounted, and there may be a blank state where there is nothing.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the flow of the overall processing when a document creation operation is performed. With reference to FIG. 4, the overall processing flow for performing the document creation work will be described. The processing flow here is roughly divided into the input of a component object which is a component element of each document. Then, edit them, and edit the editing information of the processing procedure in that case in a hierarchical manner and reorganize it, make it easy to reuse the editing processing procedure, and edit the editing information of the necessary processing procedure. Extract.

When the process is started, first, in step 41, an operator inputs or edits an object. Here, one operation is performed on one object. Characters, images, and graphics that become objects may be newly created here, or existing data may be used or input.

In this case, an instruction command (editing information) for an input editing operation from the operator is input via the input processing unit 11, and is stored in the editing information storage unit 21 in the editing processing unit 12. . Even when the object data is input from outside, it is performed through the input processing unit 11,
The input data is stored in the object storage processing unit 13. The type of the edit command is checked by the edit command analysis processing unit 22 for the instruction command of the input edit operation, and the object data is edited in the edit command execution unit 23 based on the analysis result.

Next, at step 42, it is determined whether or not the input editing work of the object is to be ended. If it is determined that the input editing work is not completed, the process proceeds to step 4
Returning to step 1, further input editing work is performed. When ending the input editing work, the process proceeds to the next step 43.
In such an input editing operation, the generated document is displayed on the display screen by the display processing unit 14, and is performed interactively while confirming the contents. In the next step 43, the editing information of the processing procedure for each object is converted into the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure. Next, in step 44,
The editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure is extracted from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure, and the editing information of a new processing procedure is generated. These processes will be described later.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an editing operation sequence for inputting each object. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an entire image of a landscape image composed of objects input by the editing operation sequence shown in FIG. As elements (objects) constituting the document, 8 as shown in FIG.
When inputting a type of object, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, a procedure of the input operation includes a background image 31 of a mountain view, a room figure 32 of a room serving as a main body of a house, and a part of a roof of a house. Roof figure 33, window figure 34 of the part of the window that enters the wall of the room of the house, person figure 35, parallelogram frame figure 36 serving as the base of the character, and first character string 37 of the character string "'96" Are input in the order of the second character string 38 of the character string "Haru", and an editing operation is performed on each object.

That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the order of operations for performing input editing work using objects is as follows.
Enter the background image of the mountain scenery, then enter the room image that will be the room part of the house, then enter the roof image of the roof part of the house, and then enter the person image To
Input each object sequentially. FIG. 6 shows a document image formed (edited) by such an operation of inputting the order of the image of each component. Further, the procedure of the input editing operation in this case is temporarily stored as editing information of the processing procedure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram expressing the order of the input operation shown in FIG. 5 as information of a processing procedure. The editing information of such a processing procedure is described in, for example, US Pat. No. 5,485,5.
Produced using the method disclosed in US Pat.

In FIG. 7, objects represented by rectangles are objects. The object located under the vertical arrow is the background, and the object located to the right of the vertical arrow is a component placed on the background image. Those indicated by circles are editing instructions, and here represent synthetic editing instructions for superimposing the parts 1 to 7 on the background. The downward arrow indicates the flow of processing, and as the direction of the downward arrow progresses, each of the components 1 to 7 becomes the component 1 and the component 1 on the background.
Parts 2, parts 3,... Are stacked in this order.

The synthesizing process is performed based on the absolute coordinates indicating the position to be synthesized, and the coordinate information is included as parameter information in the edit command indicated by a circle. In the work of inputting and editing, not limited to document creation, objects are generally created while adjusting the content itself, position, size, color, and the like. For example, in this example, although the components of the room of the main body of the house are simply synthesized, in practice, editing operations such as movement, enlargement / reduction, and color conversion are usually performed.

In such a case, in the editing operation sequence shown in FIG. 5, for example, after inputting an object in a room portion, editing of movement, editing of scaling, and editing of color conversion for the object are input. . In the editing information of the processing procedure shown in FIG. 7, an editing command such as movement, enlargement / reduction, and color conversion is input during the editing of the composition of the component 1. In this embodiment, in order to avoid complicating the description, the processing procedure of the editing operation such as the movement is omitted in this embodiment, and the operation of the editing process is described as only the combining process.

Next, a description will be given of a process of hierarchizing the editing information of the processing procedure for each object. FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a processing procedure hierarchical organization processing unit.
The processing procedure hierarchical organization processing unit 24 performs a hierarchical processing on the information of the processing procedure in which the document editing operation is performed. As shown in FIG. 8, the processing procedure hierarchical organization processing unit 24
Is composed of a contour generation processing unit 81, an area calculation processing unit 82, an area comparison processing unit 83, an overlap determination processing unit 84, an inclusion determination processing unit 85, and a processing procedure addition assembly processing unit 86.

The contour generation processing section 81 performs processing for obtaining contour information of an object. The area calculation processing unit 82 performs a process of obtaining the area of the object. In addition, the area comparison processing unit 83 compares the obtained areas of the objects and performs an ordering process. Then, the overlap determination processing unit 84 checks whether or not the objects overlap. Since the inclusion determination processing unit 85 examines whether or not the objects are included, the processing procedure additional assembling processing unit 86 determines whether the information on the order of the area size, the overlapping relationship, and the hierarchical relationship between the objects based on the inclusion relationship. Is performed.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the processing flow of the hierarchical hierarchal processing. This processing procedure hierarchical organization processing is processing for layering the editing information of the processing procedure in step 43 in the overall processing flow of FIG. 4 described above. When the hierarchical knitting process is started, first, in step 91, a process of generating contour information of all parts of the object is performed.

In this processing, the outline generation processing section 81 obtains outline information of all objects. This contour information is information required for calculating the area and examining the overlapping or inclusion relationship between the objects in the subsequent processing. Here, it is assumed that the contour information is vector information of a polygonal line. The contour information generated here may be of an arbitrary shape of the object itself or a bounding box of a rectangular shape. In this case, however, there is no particular limitation. Use. When importance is placed on ease of processing and speed, the latter may be used.

Next, in step 92, an area calculation process for all parts is performed. In this process, the areas of all the objects are obtained by the area calculation processing unit 82 using the previously obtained outline information. Next, in step 93, an ordering process is performed on the obtained area. In this processing, the area comparison processing unit 83 compares the areas between the objects, and obtains the order of the sizes.

Then, in the next step 94, the overlap determination processing section 84 checks whether or not there is any overlap between the objects. Here, in order to be able to be handled as the same group even when the objects are in contact with each other, in such a case, it is assumed that there is an overlap, and the objects are handled similarly. In the next step 95, when there is an overlapping relationship between the objects, the inclusion determination processing unit 85
To check for inclusion between objects. Then, in the next step 96, the processing procedure additional assembling processing unit 86 checks the hierarchical relationship between the objects based on the area information, the overlapping relationship, and the inclusion relationship, and reorganizes them into hierarchical processing procedures.

In the reorganization process of this processing procedure, specifically, the objects are grouped in order from the object having the smaller area to determine whether the object overlaps or is not included in the object having the larger area. Perform processing.

For example, the following is performed between the objects shown in FIG. Since the area of the character string "'96" is the smallest among the objects in FIG. 3, first, this is selected, and it is checked whether there is any overlap with other objects in the following order. . If they overlap, check if they are not included. As a result, the character string "'96"
Is found to be included in the character box figure of the parallelogram object, and an inclusion relationship is established between these objects.

Next, the object of the character string "Haru" having the second smallest area is selected, and it is checked whether the object having the larger area has overlap and inclusion. It turns out that the object of the character string "Haru" is included in the character enclosing figure of the parallelogram object, and an inclusive relationship is established between these objects. The figure of the parallelogram object here is related to the object of the character string "'96" first, and these are combined. Hereinafter, the existence of the relationship is similarly checked for the next object having the large area, and the hierarchical processing is completed.

When the information of the processing procedure shown in FIG. 7 is hierarchized by such a hierarchization process, as shown in FIG.
It becomes hierarchical information. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of information of a hierarchical processing procedure. As shown in FIG. 10, in the hierarchized processing procedure information, what is indicated by double circles indicates synthesis having an inclusive relation. The object on the side of the horizontal arrow that enters the double circle is
The outer object to be wrapped is shown, and the object on the other side is the inner object to be wrapped. For example, the window graphic 35 of the window part is included in the room graphic 32 of the room part of the house. The double circle on the vertical arrow leading to the background image can be regarded as the outside that the background image wraps around the parts of each object. Single circles represent overlapping or contacting compositions. For example, the room figure 32 of the room part of the house and the roof figure 33 of the roof part are in contact and have a parallel relationship. Through the hierarchical processing of the editing information in such a processing procedure, a plurality of objects can be handled as a group based on the overlapping or inclusion relationship, and the unit of the editing information can be handled in the group unit.

Next, a description will be given of a process of extracting the editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure. The extraction of the editing information of the processing procedure here refers to FIG.
The information of the processing procedure of an arbitrary part (for example, the processing procedure of synthesis including the combination such as the overlapping / inclusive relation between the parts a and b) is extracted from the information of the processing procedures hierarchized as shown in FIG. This is a process of reorganizing the editing information of the processing procedure. As a processing method for extracting specific information from such hierarchically edited information, a plurality of types of extraction processing methods can be used. These examples are shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining a selection operation of each of a plurality of types of processing method extraction methods. The first processing procedure information extraction processing method of “1. Blanking all components” shown in FIG. 11 is a processing method for extracting information on a processing procedure in which data is blanked for all objects. The blanking here means that a saucer for storing an object is prepared, and there is no data content. An object for reusing this processing procedure is placed in the blank portion. In other words, the processing procedure is reused by replacing the contents with the blank part. The configuration of the processing procedure itself is the same as before the extraction.

The method of extracting the processing procedure information of the second "2. Converting the included part to the lowest layer blank data" shown in FIG. This is a processing method for extracting information of a processing procedure in which data is blanked. Also in this case, the configuration itself of the processing procedure is the same as before the extraction.

The method of extracting the processing procedure information of the third "3. Blank data by designating the layer number from the top layer" shown in FIG. 11 is based on the number of the layer from the mount on which the background is located. This is a processing method for extracting information on a processing procedure in which data is blanked for an object. In this method, the number of stages in the processing procedure changes and the configuration changes.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the processing procedure extraction and organization processing section. In the processing procedure extraction / organization processing unit, as described above, the editing operation is performed in the past, and correspondingly, the editing information of the processing procedure is hierarchically stored and the editing information of the processing procedure of the information source is stored. , A process for extracting a necessary processing procedure is performed. As shown in FIG. 12, the processing procedure extraction organization processing unit includes an extraction rule storage unit 121,
It comprises a processing procedure extraction / assembly processing unit 122. The extraction rule storage unit 121 stores rules of a method of extracting an arbitrary processing procedure from information of the processing procedure, specifically, rules of each extraction processing method as shown in FIG. The processing procedure extraction / assembly processing unit 122 performs processing for extracting and reconfiguring an arbitrary processing procedure according to the processing procedure extraction rule.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the processing flow of the processing procedure extraction and organization processing. This processing procedure extraction and organization processing is processing for extracting an arbitrary processing procedure in step 44 in the entire processing flow of FIG. 4 described above. When the processing procedure extraction and organization processing is started, first, in step 131, extraction rule selection processing is performed. In this selection processing, for example, a dialog sub-window in the display screen interface is opened, an extraction processing method as shown in FIG. 11 is displayed on a menu, and one of the extraction processing methods desired by the operator is selected from the menu. . In the method using the number of the hierarchy, the number is also input. The rules of the extraction processing method are stored in the extraction rule storage unit 121 in advance, and an input instruction of selection by the operator is performed via the input processing unit 11. Next, in step 132, in accordance with the processing method of the rule selected in the previous step, necessary processing procedure information is extracted from the hierarchical processing procedure information (FIG. 10), and the processing procedure information is reorganized. I do.

Next, a description will be given of an example of processing when extracting the editing information of the processing procedure by each extraction processing method. FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining the range of blank data conversion when the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the first extraction processing method, and FIG. 15 is the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the first extraction processing method. FIG. FIG. 16 is a view for explaining the layout configuration of a document when each object is arranged by processing based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the first extraction processing method.

When the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the first extraction processing method “1.
Since the content data is blanked for all objects, in this case, as shown in FIG. 14, in the editing information of the hierarchical processing procedure, the data of each object below the double line in the editing information of the hierarchical processing procedure The editing information of the processing procedure in which is blank is extracted. As a result, the content data of all objects can be replaced by using the editing information of the processing procedure extracted here.

That is, as shown in FIG. 15, the editing information of the extracted processing procedure is information in which the object part of each component is blank data. In FIG.
The dashed rectangle represents a blanked object. By inputting arbitrary component data such as an image and a figure as the content data of the blanked object, all the objects can be used as a procedure for editing processing for a replaceable layout arrangement. . As a result, as shown in FIG. 16, when the blanked objects are displayed as a diagram showing the arrangement positions on the screen, each object becomes a dashed rectangle arranged at each position, and these are respectively blanked. Indicates the location of the object.

FIG. 17 is a diagram for explaining the range of blank data conversion when the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the second extraction processing method, and FIG. 18 is extracted by the second extraction processing method. FIG. 9 is a diagram for describing editing information of a processing procedure. FIG. 19 is a view for explaining the layout configuration of a document when each object is arranged according to the processing procedure based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the second extraction processing method.

When the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted according to the second extraction processing method "2. Converting the included part to blank data at the lowermost layer", the object data contained at the innermost part is blanked. When the extraction processing method is selected, as shown in FIG. 17, in the hierarchical processing procedure information, the editing information of the processing procedure in which the data of each object below the double line is blanked out As a result, according to the editing information of the processing procedure extracted here, as shown in FIG. 18, the object of the innermost character string “96” of the inclusion relation and the character string “Haru”
And the object in the window portion of the house are blanked, and the other objects are used as editing information to be used as they are. FIG. 19 shows an edited document image based on the editing information indicating the processing procedure extracted in this manner. In the editing information extraction processing of these processing procedures, the background object is left as it is, but the background image object may be blanked by changing the conditions separately from the object of each component. Absent.

FIG. 20 is a first diagram illustrating the range of blank data conversion when the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the third extraction processing method, and FIG. 21 is extracted by the third extraction processing method. FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an example of editing information of a processing procedure. FIG. 22 is a view for explaining an example of a document layout configuration when each object is arranged by processing based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the third extraction processing method.

When the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by "3. Converting to blank data by designating the layer number from the highest layer" in the third extraction processing method, data is blanked for the object by the number of the designated layer. When this processing method is selected, for example, as shown in FIG. 20, in the information of the hierarchized processing procedure, corresponding object data is blank according to the position of the designated layer in the hierarchy. Be transformed into Therefore, this process requires the number of the hierarchy, but if the number is the lowest,
In other words, when the blanking level is determined in a layer close to the part of the mount where the background is located, as shown in FIG. 20, in the information of the hierarchical processing procedure, The editing information of the processing procedure in which the data of each object is blanked out is extracted.

As a result, the blanking range in the processing procedure information is below the double line shown in FIG. 20, and the editing information of the processing procedure as shown in FIG. 21 is extracted. In this case, as the editing information of the extracted processing procedure, three large objects are set, each of which is blanked. FIG. 22 shows the arrangement position of each object to be edited based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted here. In other words, in this case, as shown by the diagram constituting the screen shown in FIG.
Objects can be organized in large units and can be used as very rough layout information.

Similarly, a case where the number of the designated hierarchy is increased when the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the third extraction processing method will be described. FIG.
FIG. 24 is a second diagram illustrating a range of blank data conversion when the editing information of the processing procedure is extracted by the extraction processing method of FIG. 24. FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating another example of the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the third extraction processing method. FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an example of the embodiment. FIG. 25
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating another example of the layout configuration of a document in a case where each object is arranged by the processing based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the third extraction processing method.

In the case of using the third extraction processing method, if the number of the designated layer is set to be large, on the contrary, in the layer far from the mount on which the background image is located, blanking is performed. . That is, blanking is performed at the closest hierarchical level of each object. When the number of the hierarchy is designated in this way, as shown in FIG. 23, in the information of the hierarchized processing procedure, in the hierarchy at the lowermost position of each object, the part below the double line The information of the processing procedure in which the data of each object is blanked is extracted.

The editing information of the processing procedure extracted in this case is as shown in FIG. 24. In this case, as shown in FIG. Objects can be grouped in small units and can be used as somewhat rough layout information.

As described above, the present invention has been specifically described based on the embodiments. However, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof. . That is, in the example described above, an example in which all objects are collectively processed has been described. However, for example, it is needless to say that processing may be performed only on objects in the entire house. is there.

[0057]

As described above, according to the document editing apparatus of the present invention, when a document creation operation is performed using information on a processing procedure, a hierarchical processing is performed from the information on the processing procedure for each object. By converting it into procedure information and extracting information on any processing procedure from the hierarchical processing procedure information, reeditability and reusability in document creation work are improved. As a result, the operability of the document creation operation is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall system configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an editing processing unit;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of each object used in editing for drawing a landscape image in document editing;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an overall processing flow when performing a document creation operation;

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining an editing operation sequence for inputting each object;

FIG. 6 is a view showing an entire image of a landscape image composed of objects input by the editing operation sequence shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a diagram expressing the order of the input operation shown in FIG. 5 as information of a processing procedure;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a processing procedure hierarchical organization processing unit;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of a processing procedure hierarchical organization processing;

FIG. 10 is a view for explaining an example of information of a hierarchical processing procedure;

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining a selection operation of each of a plurality of types of processing procedure extraction method;

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a processing procedure extraction knitting processing unit;

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of a processing procedure extraction knitting processing;

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a range of blank data conversion when editing information of a processing procedure is extracted by a first extraction processing method;

FIG. 15 is a view for explaining editing information of a processing procedure extracted by the first extraction processing method;

FIG. 16 is a view for explaining a layout configuration of a document in a case where each object is arranged by processing based on editing information of a processing procedure extracted by a first extraction processing method;

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a range of blank data conversion when editing information of a processing procedure is extracted by a second extraction processing method;

FIG. 18 is a view for explaining editing information of a processing procedure extracted by the second extraction processing method;

FIG. 19 is a view for explaining a layout configuration of a document in a case where each object is arranged by processing based on editing information of a processing procedure extracted by a second extraction processing method;

FIG. 20 is a first diagram illustrating a range of blank data conversion when editing information of a processing procedure is extracted by a third extraction processing method;

FIG. 21 is a view for explaining an example of edit information of a processing procedure extracted by a third extraction processing method;

FIG. 22 is a view for explaining an example of a document layout configuration in a case where each object is arranged by processing based on editing information of a processing procedure extracted by a third extraction processing method;

FIG. 23 is a second diagram illustrating a range of blank data conversion when editing information of a processing procedure is extracted by a third extraction processing method;

FIG. 24 is a view for explaining another example of the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the third extraction processing method;

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating another example of the layout configuration of a document in a case where each object is arranged by the processing based on the editing information of the processing procedure extracted by the third extraction processing method.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Input processing part, 12 ... Editing processing part, 13 ... Object storage part, 14 ... Display processing part, 21 ... Editing information storage part, 22 ... Editing instruction analysis part, 23 ... Editing instruction execution part, 2
4 Processing Procedure Hierarchical Knitting Processing Unit 25 25 Processing Procedure Extraction Knitting Processing Unit 31 31 Background Image 32 Room Figure 33 Roof Figure 34 Window Figure 35 Person Figure 36 Parallelogram Frame graphic, 37: first character string, 38: second character string, 81: contour generation processing unit, 82: area calculation processing unit, 8
3 Area comparison processing unit 84 Overlap determination processing unit 85
Inclusion determination processing unit, 86 ... processing procedure additional assembly processing unit, 12
1 ... Extraction rule storage unit, 122 ... Processing procedure extraction and assembly processing unit.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document editing apparatus for editing a document using an editing procedure for an object, comprising: an editing information storage unit for storing editing information indicating a processing procedure; and an editing instruction for examining the contents of the editing information editing instruction. Analyzing means, editing instruction executing means for editing object data, processing procedure hierarchizing means for organizing the editing information of the processing procedure in layers for each object, and editing information of the hierarchized processing procedure And a processing procedure extracting / composing means for taking out editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from the apparatus and compiling the document. 2. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing procedure hierarchical organization means includes: contour generation means for obtaining contour information of the object; area calculating means for calculating an area from the contour information; Area comparison means for comparing objects, overlap determination means for checking for the presence or absence of overlap between objects, inclusion determination means for checking for the presence or absence of inclusion between objects, and hierarchical processing representing the relationship between overlap and inclusion between objects A document editing apparatus, comprising: a processing procedure addition assembling means for converting the information into editing information of a procedure. 3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing procedure extracting and organizing means includes: a plurality of types of rules for extracting editing information of an arbitrary processing procedure from editing information of a hierarchical processing procedure; A document editing apparatus characterized in that any operation history editing information is extracted from the hierarchically edited processing procedure editing information and reconfigured.