JPS63316175A - Planning edition system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To output an assignment designation sheet with photograph layout priority by displaying a photographic original picture inputted with the entire picture fixedly and moving a trimming frame similar to the size of the block to be published so as to apply trimming, thereby generating a photographic trimming and its character original information simultaneously. CONSTITUTION:In receiving a read command of an original picture from a keyboard 4a, an original picture is displayed on a display means 5 by a system controller 3 based on a picture data from a picture read means 1. In receiving a block frame drawing request from the keyboard 4a, a block picture drawing means 3a draws a block frame. Moreover, in receiving a block size change request, the means 3a magnifies the block frame and displays the result on a display means 5. In receiving moving information to the block frame displayed on the means 5 from a pointing device 4b next, a moving means 3b moves the block frame, the frame is displayed superimposedly on the original pattern, trimming is applied and the result is displayed on the means 5. In receiving character original information from the keyboard 4a, character editing information is displayed and outputted from a picture output means 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) This invention is a planning and editing system that determines a magazine layout by giving priority to captured photographic manuscript images, and automatically creates layout data and character manuscript data for creating a magazine. It's about systems.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, when creating a magazine, the planning and editing stages differ depending on the characteristics of the magazine to be printed, ie, the characteristics of a photo magazine, a reading magazine, etc.

In particular, when creating a magazine with priority given to photographs, the size and position of the photographs are the most important factors, and the layout of text manuscripts is determined by this trimming.

Therefore, after the photo manuscript is allocated, the number of characters in the series, the total number of characters, etc. for the text manuscript are determined.

When performing a conventional photo-first cropping process, the cropping of the photographic image is determined by tracing the image projected onto a paper print (projection of a film original onto photographic paper) or a light table. Was.

There has also been a device that imports a photographic original from an image input device such as an image scanner and lays out the image in a trimming frame size displayed on a display.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the paper printing method, when the developed photographic paper is pasted onto the mount, the balance is different, so the paper printing process must be repeated many times in order to produce the best photographic manuscript. In addition, with the light table method, the photo layout image can only be confirmed by tracing the outline of the submitted image, so it is not possible to perform photo layout based on the print image.

In addition, with the method of cropping the image to the cropping frame using digital processing, it takes a considerable amount of time to search in proportion to the amount of input image data and display it at the specified position, making it possible to efficiently create photo layouts. There were problems in that it was not possible to quickly allocate 8 lines of text to the determined photographic manuscript.

This invention was made in order to solve the above problems, and it fixes and displays a photo manuscript image that is completely manually operated, and trims the manuscript image by moving a similar trimming frame of the printing plate size to be published. To provide a planning/editing system capable of simultaneously trimming a photographic manuscript and creating character manuscript information for the photographic manuscript based on the trimming, and outputting a layout designation sheet with priority given to photographs.

[Means for solving problems]

The planning/editing system according to the present invention includes an image reading means for reading a manuscript image, a display means for fixedly enlarging and displaying the manuscript image read by the image reading means in a predetermined area, and a size similar to the magazine version size for the display means. A hanmen drawing means for drawing a hanmen frame; a hanmen frame moving means for moving the hanmen frame drawn by the hanmen drawing means on the display means based on movement information input; an image trimming means for allocating and trimming an arbitrary area on a manuscript image using a printing plate frame, and a printing plate frame for displaying only the layout image of the manuscript image trimmed by the image trimming means, resized in units of two-page spreads, and drawn. a character manuscript layout means for allocating and drawing a character manuscript area based on character manuscript information inputted within the plate frame laid out and displayed on the display means by the image layout means; and an image layout means. and an image output means for outputting a magazine layout image drawn on the display means by the one-character manuscript layout means.

(Function) In the present invention, the manuscript image read by the image reading means is fixedly enlarged and displayed in a predetermined area of the display means, and a print frame similar to the magazine print size is drawn on the display means by the print drawing means, Under this state, the printing plate frame moving means moves the printing plate frame drawn by the printing plate drawing means on the display means based on the movement information inputted manually, and the image trimming means moves the printing plate frame drawn by the printing plate drawing means onto the manuscript image. , the image layout means allocates only the layout image of the trimmed manuscript image to the display means, and the text layout means allocates only the layout image of the cropped manuscript image to the printing plate frame which is resized and drawn in two-page spread units, and the text manuscript layout means displays the layout image on the display means. The character manuscript area is laid out and drawn based on the character manuscript information manually entered within the layout-displayed printing plate frame, and the image output means outputs the magazine layout image drawn on the display means by the image layout means 1 character manuscript layout means. .

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a planning/editing system showing an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes an image reading means composed of, for example, an image scanner;
(color and monochrome images) are optically read and the image data is manually input to a system controller 3 composed of a computer or the like. The system controller 3 is composed of a plate drawing means 3a activated based on the editing program 4, a plate frame moving means 3b, an image trimming means 3c, an image/character document area allocation means 3d, and the like. Reference numeral 5 denotes a display means constituted by, for example, a high-resolution bit map display, which displays the document image read by the image reading means 1 in a fixed and enlarged manner in a predetermined area. The print drawing means 3a draws a print frame similar to the magazine size (A4 size, etc.) on the display means 5. The plate frame moving means 3b is the plate drawing means 3a.
The hanmen frame drawn by 8 is manually input from the input means 4.
The display means 5 is activated eight times based on the dynamic information. The image trimming means 3c allocates and trims an arbitrary area on the original image using the plate frame drawn by the plate frame moving means 3b. The image/character document area allocation means 3d is
The layout image of the manuscript image trimmed by the image trimming means 3C is displayed on the display means 5, and the size is changed in units of two-page spreads and the text is laid out in the printing plate frame, and the text manuscript is displayed based on the text manuscript information manually input into the printing plate frame. Allocate and draw an area. The human power means 4 is the keyboard 4
a, a pointing device (PD) 4b, and eight movement directions of the plate frame.

Manually input text manuscript information (number of columns, number of lines per line, etc.). Reference numeral 6 denotes an image output means, which outputs a layout image drawn on the display means 5 and is composed of, for example, a laser beam printer. Reference numeral 7 denotes layout designation paper, and reference numeral 8 denotes a phototype layout system (computerized phototypesetting system), which manually outputs a character manuscript based on the ruled line information and character manuscript area information in the magazine layout image drawn on the display means 5 onto a predetermined output paper. Output the image to.

Reference numeral 9 denotes an external memory in which ruled line information in the magazine layout image drawn on the display means 5 is stored as vector data, and the data is delivered to the block drafting machine 10.
0, the ruled line information is drawn on the block designation paper 7.

Next, referring to FIG. 2, the photo-priority magazine layout drawing control operation according to the present invention will be explained.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the drawing state of a photo-prioritized magazine layout according to the present invention, and (a) shows a printing frame frame drawing/movement display screen. Components that are the same as those in FIG. 1 are given the same reference numerals. be.

In this figure, reference numerals 11a and 11b are print frames, which are drawn similar to the print size of the magazine to be published on the display means 5 by the print drawing means shown in FIG. The printing plate frame 11a can be drawn at variable magnification in the direction of the arrow, and by changing the magnification to a desired size, it is possible to set an enlarged trimming frame.

12 is a document image taken in from the image reading means 1;
A display control section (not shown) of the system controller 3 is enlarged to, for example, 1/4 screen size of the display means 5 and fixedly displayed in a predetermined area of the display means 5. 12a is an image, for example, a house.

(b) shows the state of the image layout display screen, in which the main part of the image 12a trimmed by the image trimming means 3C is
This corresponds to a state in which the character manuscript area allocation means 3d has allocated the display means 5 to a plate frame that is resized and drawn in double-page spread units, and 14 is a main part image, which is a part of the manuscript image 12. Reference numeral 14a indicates an image capture boundary, where image skipping of the original image 12 occurs.

(C) shows the magazine layout layout end screen display state,
This corresponds to the state in which the text document areas 16a to 16d are drawn when the text document information is entered manually from the keyboard 4, and the image generated at the image capture boundary 14a on the image layout display screen shown in FIG. Corresponding to the state where the photo original 15 with skipping corrected is displayed in layout,
The magazine layout displayed on this magazine layout layout end screen is outputted as a layout designation sheet 7 from the image output means 6.

Next, with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, the photo original priority magazine layout processing operation according to the present invention will be explained.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the photo original priority magazine layout processing procedure according to the present invention. Furthermore, (1)
~(13) shows each step.

The system controller 3 waits for a command to read the original image 2 to be inputted manually from the keyboard 4a, and when the command to read the image is inputted manually, the system controller 3 reads a predetermined area of the display unit 5 based on the image data read from the image reading unit 1. The original image 12 is displayed on (2). Next, wait for the hanmen drawing means to be manually operated from the keyboard 4a.3)
, is input, the printing plate drawing means 3a draws the printing plate frame 11a as shown in FIG. 2(a) (4). Next, it is determined whether or not a version size change request has been made manually from the keyboard 4a (5), and if No, the process proceeds to step (7) onwards.
If YES, the printing plate drawing means 3a changes the magnification of the printing plate frame 11a displayed on the displaying means 5, and for example, prints printing plate frame 1 on the displaying means 5.
1b is drawn at variable magnification (6).

Next, the system waits for the movement information for the printing plate frames 11a and 11b displayed on the display means 5 to be input manually from the pointing device 4b (7), and once the movement information is input,
The printing plate frame moving means 3b moves and draws the printing plate frames 11a, 1'1b at predetermined positions (broken lines shown in FIG. 2(a)). In this state, the plate frames 11a and 11b and the original image 12 are displayed in an overlapping manner. By this operation, layout trimming of the original image 12 is performed (8). Next, the image/character manuscript area allocation means 3d displays only the layout image of the trimmed original image 12 on the display means 5, and prints the printing plate frames 11a and 11b, which are resized and drawn in units of double-page spreads.
(See Fig. 2(b)) Display the number of assignments (9).

Next, the system waits for character manuscript information to be entered manually from the keyboard 4a (10), and when the character manuscript information is manually entered, character type one character allocation information is displayed on the display means 5 (11).
). Next, wait for a magazine layout image output request to be made from the keyboard 4a (12), and when it is input, output the magazine out image displayed on the display means 5 to the image output means 6.
Output from (13).

In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which the layout trimming of the manuscript image 12 is completed before the text manuscript information is manually input. If the trimming of step 12 is executed, the layout trimming giving priority to photos will be executed with a feeling closer to the layout designated paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention includes an image reading means for reading a document image, a display means for fixedly enlarging and displaying the document image read by the image reading means in a predetermined area,
This display means includes a printing plate drawing means that draws a printing plate frame similar to the magazine printing size, and a printing plate drawing means that draws a printing plate frame similar to the magazine printing size.
an image trimming means for laying out and trimming an arbitrary area on a manuscript image using a printing plate frame moved and drawn by the printing plate frame moving means; and a layout image of the manuscript image trimmed by the image trimming means. Based on the image layout means that allocates the image to the screen frame which is resized and drawn on the display means in units of two-page spreads, and the character manuscript information that is manually input into the screen frame that is allocated and displayed on the display means by this image layout means. The image layout means consists of a character manuscript layout means for allocating and drawing a character manuscript area, and an image output means for outputting the magazine layout image drawn on the display means by the image layout means, so that simple key operations can be performed. Just do
This method has the excellent advantage of being able to perform photo original layout with high priority on photos with high accuracy and with a small amount of data processing, and efficiently outputting layout designated sheets.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a planning and editing system showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG.
The figure is a flowchart illustrating the photo original priority magazine layout processing procedure according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an image reading means, 2 is a document image, 3 is a system controller, 4 is an editing program, 5 is a display means,
6 is an image output means, 7 is a layout specification sheet, 8 is a phototypesetting layout system, 9 is an external memory, and 10 is a drafting machine. Figure 1 a 4b Figure 2 (a) Figure 2 (b) Figure 2 (c) E7b

Claims (1)

[Claims] An image reading means for reading a manuscript image, a display means for fixedly enlarging and displaying the manuscript image read by the image reading means in a predetermined area, and a printing plate drawing means for drawing a printing plate frame similar to the magazine printing size on the displaying means. , a printing plate frame moving means for moving the printing plate frame drawn by the printing plate drawing means on the display means based on movement information inputted;
an image trimming means for allocating and trimming an arbitrary area on the original image with a printing plate frame moved and drawn by the printing plate frame moving means, and displaying only the allocated image of the original image trimmed by the image trimming means on the display means. An image layout means for allocating an image to a printing plate frame that is resized and drawn on a double-page spread basis, and a character manuscript area based on text manuscript information input into the printing plate frame allocated and displayed on the display means by the image allocation means. A planning/editing system comprising: a character manuscript layout means for laying out and drawing a text; and an image output means for outputting a magazine layout image drawn on the display means by the image layout means and the character manuscript layout means.