JPS602196B2 - Print paper output system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a printed paper output system, and particularly to a printed paper output system equipped with a font memory that stores character fonts in the form of digital data. Therefore, for example, when a so-called lotus character that represents a brand or product name that appears on the business page of a newspaper is specified, even if the lotus character font does not exist in the font memory, for example, the normal one-jo character font is used. The present invention relates to a printing paper output system that allows description in a continuous character image description area of a predetermined size.

For example, in newspaper printing, brands, product names, etc. that appear on business conditions are written using a simplified combination of characters within a lotus image description area having a predetermined size.

In order to output a lotus character like 0, a lotus character font is usually prepared in the font memory, but if you decide to prepare a lotus character font that corresponds to all stocks, etc. , the work of creating and deleting lotus fonts in response to additions and deletions becomes enormous. In addition, if you try to edit a special sized character font by disassembling the Lotus character, you will need striped processing, which will also process the Lotus character that appears frequently, slowing down the overall processing speed, and Require size character font. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to make it possible to output a lotus character by using, for example, a 1-jo character font even when a lotus character font does not exist.

To that end, the printed paper output system of the present invention
It has a font memory that holds character fonts in the form of digital data, and a layout information receiving section that receives instructed layout information, and a lotus character code in the layout information received by the layout information receiving section. In a newspaper printing paper output system having an image development processing device comprising an access mechanism for accessing the font memory and an image development memory for setting character fonts read from the font memory in correspondence with the printing paper surface, The upper language font memory stores a font table that describes at least the presence/absence information of a Lotus character font and a pointer pointing to the font required to output the Lotus character in correspondence with the above-mentioned consecutive character code. At the same time, the above-mentioned consecutive character font and character fonts corresponding to each character are stored, and the above-mentioned image development processing device stores the above-mentioned consecutive character font and a character font corresponding to each character, and when the above-mentioned lotus character font corresponding to the lotus character specified by the layout information does not exist, the said image development processing device It is equipped with a flattening processing unit that compresses and describes each character font corresponding to the Lotus character in a predetermined Lotus character image description area, and the image expansion processing device drives the font table and If there is no Lotus font corresponding to the Lotus character specified by the layout information, the process of reading each character font corresponding to the Lotus character on a daily basis and compressing it into the continuous character image description area is performed; This feature is characterized in that the image data is stored without being processed and set on the image development memory.
This will be explained below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the prerequisite problem of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an embodiment of the configuration of the system of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an embodiment of the font memory and image expansion processing device shown in FIG. Show the configuration.

Figure 1A shows the normal character fonts: 1-jo character font, 1.5-jo character font 2, and 2-jo character font 3.
It represents the size of.

1-jo character font 1 is 50 (dots) x 40 (dots)
1.5 character font 2 has a size of 60 (dots) x 60 (dots), and 2x character font 3 has a size of 80 (dots) x 80 (dots). .

In contrast to the above, in the lotus character that describes a brand, as shown in FIG. 1B, the lotus character image area 4-0 or 4-1. Furthermore, the lotus character used to describe the name of the place of origin is written within a lotus character image area 5 of 200 (dots) x 40 (dots) as shown in FIG. 1C. For this reason, when outputting the Lotus character, it is desirable to prepare a Lotus character font having a size corresponding to the area 4 or 5 described above.

However, as stated at the beginning of this application, it is not necessarily preferable to provide a Lotus font for all Lotus characters. Therefore, a Lotus character font is prepared for a Lotus character that appears frequently, and if a Lotus character font does not exist, a one-jo character font is used to generate it. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numeral 6 in the figure is a super-large data processor system that performs layout on paper based on a given article and outputs layout information and image information as printed paper output information; 8 is an information buffer that temporarily stores the information; 8 is an image information buffer that temporarily stores image information such as photographs; and 9 is an image development processing device that processes information based on the layout information and image information. 10 is a font memory, and 11 is a plotter which outputs the printed paper in accordance with the contents of the image development memory. It represents. When outputting a lotus character, the image development processing device 9 receives a code corresponding to a desired lotus character, such as "AOOI", and the coordinates X and Y on the paper where the lotus character is to be output.

As a result, the lotus image corresponding to the above code "AOOI" is stored in, for example, the area 4-0 shown in FIG. . At this time, font memory 10
It goes without saying that you can access the relevant font.
If a corresponding lotus font exists on the memory 10, the lotus font is taken and set; if the corresponding lotus font does not exist, the font is set as will be described later with reference to FIG. Using the 1x character font existing in memory 0, it is set on the image development memory so that it fits within the area 410. FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the configuration of the font memory and image development processing device shown in FIG.

Reference numerals 9 and 1 in the figure correspond to those in FIG.
is a character image output register, 16 is a flattening processing unit,
17 and 18 are gates, 19 is an image expansion memory,
Reference numeral 20 represents a font table according to the present invention, 21 represents a lotus character font, and 22 represents a 1-jo character font. On the font memory 10, a Lotus character font 21 prepared for the Lotus character, which appears relatively frequently, is stored. A font table 20 is stored corresponding to each consecutive character code, in which at least information as to whether a corresponding Lotus character font exists and a pointer P for outputting a Lotus character image are described. has been done. In the case shown, the lotus character "Fujitsu" corresponding to the code "AOOI" is
A pointer P indicating the existence of a lotus font and the location of the lotus font is described. Also, the code “A”
For the lotus character ``kawasui'' corresponding to ``O02'', there is no lotus font and the pointers P2 and P3 specifying the 1x character font ``kawa'' or ``water'', which is necessary to output the lotus image, are It has been described. Furthermore, the code “AO03”
Regarding the lotus character "Kenetle" which corresponds to , there is no lotus character font and the number of characters required to output the lotus character image is 1.
Pointers P4, P5, P6, and P7 indicating the emotional characters ``ke'', ``neha'', ``toha'', and ``ru'' are written. Now the code '
It is assumed that each character with ``AOOI'', ``AO02'', and ``AO03'' is printed, and each layout information is
Suppose that it is received by 2. First the code “AOOI
” is set in the register 13, the access mechanism 14 pulls the font table 20, learns that the Lotus font 21 exists, and sets the Lotus font based on the pointer P, The image corresponding to 21 is set in the register 15. In this case, since the desired lotus font exists, it is supplied to the image development memory 19 via the illustrated gate 17,
"Fujitsu" is set at the position given by the coordinates x and Y. Next, when layout information corresponding to the code "AO02" is set in the register 13, the font table 20 is similarly retrieved, and it is learned that the desired lotus font does not exist.

However, in this case as well, by pointer P,,P2,
The fonts ``river'' and ``water'' are in register 15, respectively.
is set to Since the Japanese character corresponding to the code "AO02" consists of two characters, it can be seen that even if the 1x characters are lined up as they are, they will fit within the continuous character image area 4-0 shown in FIG. 1B. Therefore, in this case, through the illustrated gate 17, the lotus character "Hesui" in the form of two 1-jo characters arranged side by side.
is set on the image development memory 19 as it is. Furthermore, it is assumed that layout information corresponding to the code "AO03" is set in the register 13.

In this case, the font table 20 is similarly towed, and it is found that the desired lotus font does not exist. However, pointers P4, P5...
, "ne" . . . are read into the register 15. Code “A”
In the case of "O03", since it is a consecutive character consisting of four characters, the four characters cannot be contained within the consecutive character image area 4-0. For this purpose, through the illustrated gate 18, the above-mentioned one-jo characters "keha"ne", "toha"
are supplied to the flattening processing unit 16, which compresses each character in the width direction to generate a flattened character image,
It is arranged to fit within the lotus image area 410. For example, for a character image of 50 (dots) x 40 (dots), this processing requires one
All you have to do is erase the vertical dot rows. The lotus image ``Kenetle'' thus generated is set at the position given by the coordinates X and Y on the image expansion memory 9. These set contents of the image development memory 19 are output to the plotter 11 as shown in FIG. As explained above, according to the present invention, even when the Lotus character font is not prepared, a predetermined continuous character image can be created by using, for example, the 1-jo character font, as if the Lotus character font substantially existed. It becomes possible to print characters stored within the writing area.

Furthermore, there is no need to prepare all lotus fonts, and there is no need for a special size character font for each character.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the prerequisite problem of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an embodiment of the configuration of the system of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an embodiment of the font memory and image expansion processing device shown in FIG. Show the configuration. In the figure, 4 and 5 are respectively character image description areas, 6 is a processor system, 9 is an image development processing device, 10 is a font memory, 11 is a plotter, 12 is a receiving section, and 14
16 is an access mechanism, 16 is a flattening processing unit, 19 is an image expansion memory, 20 is a font/table, 21 is a lotus font, and 22 is a one-jo character font. Na figure 2 figure sa 3 figure

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A layout information receiving section that includes a font memory that stores character fonts in the form of digital data and receives instructed layout information, and a layout information receiving section that receives a font memory that stores character fonts in the form of digital data; A newspaper printing paper output system having an image development processing device comprising an access mechanism for accessing the font memory and an image development memory for setting character fonts read from the font memory in accordance with the printed paper surface. In the above font
The memory stores a font table that describes at least information on the presence or absence of a consecutive character font and a pointer pointing to a font necessary to output the relevant consecutive character, corresponding to the consecutive character code, and font and a character font corresponding to each character, and the image development processing device is configured to store a character font corresponding to a character font corresponding to the character font, and the image development processing device corresponds to the character font when there is no character font corresponding to the character font specified by the layout information. The image expansion processing device drives the font table and executes instructions based on the layout information. If there is no consecutive character font corresponding to the consecutive characters, sequentially reading each character font corresponding to the consecutive characters and storing them in the consecutive character image description area with or without performing the compression process, A printing paper output system characterized in that the image is set on the image development memory.