JPS605469B2 - galley printing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a galley printing system, particularly a galley printing system equipped with a font memory that stores character fonts in the form of digital data, in which a character font of a size specified by layout information does not exist. In case,
The present invention relates to a galley printing system that facilitates proofreading by printing a framed character image with a frame corresponding to a designated size and a desired character written within the frame.

Although the present invention is not limited thereto, for example, in newspaper printing, proofreading is performed based on a galley printed paper surface.

When performing such galley printing, if a character font of the desired size does not exist, conventionally, the character part is left blank as shown in Figure 1A, or the character part is left blank as shown in Figure 1B. Some parts are stamped with so-called geta symbols. In other words, when performing galley printing with a phototypesetting device that uses an optical system, the optical system makes it relatively easy to
1. From the Jomoji font. Vowel character Yuya 2 love characters...
It is possible to generate ... etc. Therefore, in this case, it can be said that even if the size of the characters changes, such as 1-jo characters, 1.5-jo characters, 2-fold characters, etc., the number of usable character types remains the same. For this reason, problems such as those shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B hardly occur unless the character font itself does not exist. However, when character fonts are stored in the form of digital data, the process of enlarging them from a single character font is not necessarily fast and does not result in a neatly finished form. It is made to have a character font that is enlarged in size. However, since it is not a good idea to prepare character fonts of all sizes for all characters, in general, the 1-jo character font has the largest number of character types, and the 1.5-jo character font and the 2-jo character font have the largest number of character types. The number of character types for fonts becomes smaller. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 1A or B', a situation arises in which, for example, there is no bijou character font for the character "world". However, when a galley print is output in the form shown in FIG. 1A or B, the proofreader cannot judge from the proofreader what kind of characters and what size will be given. The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems, and as shown in FIG. The second purpose is to provide a system for that purpose.

Therefore, the galley printing system of the present invention uses a font that stores character fonts in the form of digital data.
a layout information receiving unit that has a memory and receives instructed layout information; an access mechanism that accesses the font memory based on a character code in the layout information received by the layout information receiving unit; and the font - In a galley printing system having an image expansion processing device equipped with an image expansion memory that sets character fonts read from the memory in correspondence with the EO paper surface, the font memory corresponds to the character code '. stores a font table in which at least one character font pointer and a pre-prepared n times character font pointer are described, and stores four corresponding character fonts, and
The image development processing device includes a frame generation processing unit that selects a character frame corresponding to the character size information specified by the entrusted layout information and generates a framed character image, and the image development processing device indexes the font table, and if a character font of the size specified by the above font information exists, reads the character font and sets it in the above image development memory, and executes the font specified by the above font information. If there is no character font of the specified size, the existing character font for the character is read, a framed character image is generated by the framed generation processing section, and the image is set in the image expansion memory. It is a feature. This will be explained below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the system of the present invention, and FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the font memory and image development processing device shown in FIG.
An example configuration is shown.

In Fig. 2, 1 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 information for creating galley printing pages; 3 is an image information buffer that temporarily stores image information such as photos, and 4 is an embodiment of the layout information. Oriji ``Tomiri'' Sekai ``Tsu''...
etc., the coordinates (X, Y) on the paper where the character should be set, the attributes related to the character, such as the size of the character (in the case of the illustration, it indicates a 2-character character, and the large information "
2"), Mincho/Gothic, etc. are given, and 5 is an image development processing device that processes an image development memory ( 6 is a font memory, and 7 is a blotter which outputs galley prints in accordance with the contents of the image development memory.

For example, the image development processing device 5 may be
..., 2'' is received as one unit, and an image of a two-jo character font corresponding to the character ``Tomi'' is retrieved from the font memory 6 based on the code corresponding to the character ``Tomi''. The data is discussed and set in the position on the image development memory specified by the coordinates x and y.

At this time, if there is no two-jo character font for the character "Se", as in the layout information 4 corresponding to the illustrated character "Se", the two-jo character font will be displayed as shown in the plotter 7. An image corresponding to, for example, a 1-jo character font existing on the font memory is written and output within a frame of a size corresponding to the font. This operation will be explained in detail with reference to FIG. Third
In the figure, 5 and 6 correspond to FIG. 2, 8 is an output information receiving section, 9 is an issue register, 10 is an access mechanism that accesses the font memory 6,
11 is a character image reading register, 12 is a framed generator processing unit, 13 is an image expansion memory, GI, G2
14 represents a font referred to in the present invention, 15 represents a 1-character character font, and 16 represents a 2-character character font. On the font memory 6, the 1. It is determined in advance whether or not to prepare a spherical character font or a double character font, and each character font is prepared.

Then, it is written on the table 14 corresponding to all the characters. For example, in the case shown in the figure, a single character font and a two-character font are prepared for the character "rich", the address where the one-character character font 15 is stored is indicated by the pointer P, and the two-character character font 16 is stored. The stored address is indicated as a pointer P,'. Regarding the character "world", the 2-jo character font is not prepared, and the address where the 1-jo character font 15 is stored is specified as pointer P2, and the 2-jo character font 1 is stored.
6 does not exist, so to speak, "non-existence" is written in the pointer corresponding to P2'. As shown in FIG. 2, when each piece of layout information is supplied, it is set in the illustrated layout information receiving section 8.

Then, they are read out one by one to the register 9 and image development is performed. That is, based on the contents of register 9,
Assuming that the layout information corresponding to the character "tomi" is now set in the register 9, the access mechanism 10' will
The font table 1-1 is indexed, and the binary character font 16 is read out using the pointer P,' and set in the register 11. In this case, since a bijou character font was present, a bijou character corresponding to the character "Tomi" is set at the coordinates x, Y position on the image development memory 3 via the illustrated gate GI. Next, assuming that the layout information corresponding to the character "J" is set in the register 9, the font table 14 is indexed and it is found that there is no bijou character font corresponding to the character "Kawa J".

In this case, the single character font 15 that exists for the character "Se" is selected by the pointer P2 and set in the register 1. In this case, since there is no 0 binary character font, the contents of the register 11 are supplied to the framed generation processing section 12 via the gate G2. Since 2-jo characters are required by the contents of register 9, in the case shown in the figure, a frame corresponding to the size of 2-jo characters is extracted, and for example, an image of a 1-jo character font is displayed in the center. A written framed character image (K in the figure) is generated. Then, this framed character image K is set at the coordinate x, Y position on the image development memory 13.
0 In the illustrated case, the character "tsu" is shown as having a two-jo character font.

Note that if the image development memory 13 is to have a capacity equivalent to, for example, one page of a newspaper, it will require a capacity of about 10 megabytes. For this reason, in the evening, the image development memory 13 is made to have a capacity for a plurality of rows for one page, and the data that has been developed is successively outputted to the plotter 7 shown in FIG. As described above, according to the present invention, even if a character font of a desired size does not exist, it is possible to output the text in a form that allows the proofreader to proofread the size of the text and the text itself.

[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, 1' is a data processor, 4 is layout information, 5 is an image development processing device, 6 is a font memory,
7 is a plotter, 8 is a layout information receiving section, 10 is an access mechanism, 12 is a frame generation processing section, 13 is an image expansion memory, 14 is a font table, and 15 is 1
The font 16 represents two fonts. Boo Zuryo Z Zuzu 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A layout information receiving section that has 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 layout information based on the character code in the layout information received by the layout information receiving section. In the galley printing system, the galley printing system has 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 printing paper surface; - The memory stores a font table in which a pointer for at least 1x character font and a pointer for nx character font prepared in advance is written in correspondence with the above character code, and also stores character fonts corresponding to each of the above. And,
The image development processing device includes a frame generation processing section that selects a character frame corresponding to the font size information specified by the layout information and generates a framed character image; , the above font table is indexed, and if a character font of the size specified by the above layout information exists, the character font is read and set on the above image expansion memory, and the size specified by the above layout information is If the character font of the character does not exist, the character font that exists for the character is read, a character image with a frame is generated by the frame generation processing section, and the generated character image is set on the image development memory. galley printing system.