JPS6342885A - Document forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable bookbinding to be performed by aligning paginating positions of documents for which paper size or paper direction is different, by providing a paginating position designating means for designating at which of top, bottom, left and right margins of a paper a page number is to be printed, and a page number printing means for printing the page number at a specified position. CONSTITUTION:A page designation processing part 6 is started when a page-designating key on a code input device 1 is depressed. For example, the processing part 6 reads display data necessary for displaying a paginating position specifying screen 41 from a storage 12, and transfers the data to a display-controlling part 8 to display the screen 41 on a display screen 9. When pagination printing is designated, a printing processing part 7 obtains a pysical printing position on a paper based on the specified position, forms printing data for printing a page number at the position, transfers the printing data to a printing-controlling part 10, and issuing an end information to a document-forming mechanism controlling part 3, thereby finishing a processing. The printing-controlling part 10 develops the printing data supplied from the printing processing part 7 into print image data, and controls a printer 11, thereby printing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device, and more particularly, to an improvement in a document creation device that prints a paginated document using a word processor.

[Conventional technology]

When printing paginated documents using a word processor,
Conventionally, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-246473, for example, pagination is performed using a menu at a specified position within a predetermined paper margin.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in the past, as mentioned above, pagination is performed using a menu at a specified position within a predetermined paper margin, and it is not possible to specify the position of the margin where the page is to be added. Since there is no consideration given to the format of
When binding a document containing a mixture of formats with different paper orientations, there is a problem in that the pagination positions cannot be aligned. That is, conventionally, the page number printing position has been determined depending on the paper size and paper direction, and no consideration has been given to the ability to specify the page number printing position.

The present invention provides an improved document creation device that can arbitrarily specify the position of pagination on paper, and can bind documents with different paper sizes and orientations with the pagination aligned. The purpose is to

[Means for solving problems]

The purpose is an input means for inputting a single character, command, etc.
It has a document creation means for creating a document from the characters inputted by the input means in accordance with an input command, a storage means for storing the created document, a display means for displaying the created document, and a printing means for printing one created document. In a document creation device, the pagination that specifies whether to print the page number on the top, bottom, left, or right side of the paper uses position specifying means such as
The pagination is achieved by providing the marking means with a page number printing means for printing a page number at a position specified by the position specifying means during printing.

[Effect]

Therefore, by adopting the above configuration, the present invention provides the following features:
Since the pagination position can be arbitrarily specified for any of the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the paper, the pagination of documents with different paper sizes and paper orientations can be bound in the same position.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on an embodiment of the drawings. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the overall schematic configuration of a document creation device.

In FIG. 2, a code input device 1 such as a keyboard for inputting characters, commands, etc. passes the input characters and codes of commands to an input analysis section 2.

The input analysis unit 2 receives the character code and command code from the code input device 1, passes the single character code as is to the processing unit running in the document creation machine [4], and in the case of a command, its contents are used to create the document. The mechanism control unit 3 is notified.

The document creation mechanism 4 includes a document processing section 51 page designation processing section 6. It is comprised of processing units necessary for creating and printing documents, such as a print processing unit 7, and the document creation mechanism control unit 3 controls the processing units that make up the document creation machine 1fyt4. The control method will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 10.

The document creation mechanism control section indicated by reference numeral 3 in FIG. 2 is the input analysis section 2 or the document creation device 4i! When the processing unit 4 receives a notification from the processing unit that is running, it starts and first analyzes the notification (step 1001 in FIG. 10).

If it is a command code from the input analysis unit 2, the command is analyzed (swing 1002), and if it is a command that can be processed by the running processing unit, the command is passed to the running processing unit. 1003) If not, check whether the processing unit corresponding to that command can be started.Step 1004) +If it can be started, interrupt the processing of the currently running processing unit.Step 1005), Input a new command A processing unit that performs processing is activated (step 1006). If activation is not possible, an error message such as an input error is displayed (step 1007). In addition, if the notification received at startup is a notification indicating the end of processing from a processing section in the document creation machine [4], the processing of the processing section that was interrupted due to the processing section being started will be restarted. Resume (step 1008).

The document processing unit 5 creates a document by creating, updating, etc. document data. Here, document data is
Data that constitutes a document, such as paper size and paper direction, as shown in FIG.

A format data section 34 that holds values such as vertical/horizontal writing, size of top, bottom, left, and right margins, and 9-character line spacing, and an actual data section 33 that includes actual data such as text and graphics.
, and further comprises a page management section 31 and an area management section 32 that manage pages, areas, etc. for these actual data.

The details of the page designation processing unit 6 will be described later, but the page designation processing unit 6 is activated when the page designation key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and for example, the purchase as shown in FIG. Specification screen 4
1 is read out from the storage device 12 and passed to the display control section 8, where it is displayed on the display screen 9. Note that display data for displaying the purchase position designation screen 41 is stored in the storage device 12 in advance.

Therefore, the operator specifies the purchasing position for each paper size on the purchasing position specification screen 41, and then selects "
When the "Execute" key is pressed, the page designation processing unit 6 sets the designated value in the purchase position management table 51 of FIG. 5 and ends the process, and when the "Cancel" key is pressed,
The designated value is invalidated and the process is terminated, at which time a termination notification is issued to the document creation mechanism control section 3.

The display control section 8 develops the display data given from the document creation mechanism 4 into display dot pattern data and displays it on the display screen 9.

Details of the print processing unit 7 will be described later, but the print processing unit 7 is activated when the input analysis unit 2 analyzes that a print process is instructed, and generates print data for printing the specified document. At the same time, if printing is specified, the physical printing position on the paper is determined from the specified position.

Printing data for printing a page number at that position is generated and passed to the print control section 10, and a completion notification is issued to the document creation mechanism control section 3, thereby terminating the process.

The print control section 10 develops the print data given from the print processing section 7 into print image data, and performs printing by controlling the printing device 11.

The storage device 12 also stores documents created by the document creation mechanism 4, contents of the position management table 51 for purchases shown in FIG. 5, display data of the position designation screen 41 for purchases shown in FIG. remember.

Next, a method of specifying the purchase position in this embodiment will be explained.

When the operator presses the page designation key while creating a document, a purchasing position designation screen 41 as shown in FIG. is specified.

Here, specifying the 1 position is done by inputting the position of the margin, and also the number for the position within the margin. If you want to print in the center of the left side of a horizontally long paper, you can specify 5.2 for the margin position and the position within the margin for paper size A4 on the position specification screen 41, respectively. After entering the number for the required paper size, the user can specify the purchase position by pressing the "execute" key.

Processing related to position designation for these purchases is performed by the page designation processing unit 6 described above, and then this page designation processing unit 6
The processing will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The page designation processing unit indicated by reference numeral 6 in FIG. 2 is activated when the page designation key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and first
The purchaser specifies the position for each paper size as shown in the figure.The purchaser displays the position specification screen 41, and the purchaser shown in Figure S refers to the value of the position management table S1 to specify the position for each paper size. In order to indicate the designated position, the number of the corresponding item among the items predetermined for position designation is displayed on the entry canister 42 (step 101 in FIG. 1).

Therefore, when the key on the code input device 1 is pressed,
The key is judged (step 102), and if it is a cursor key, the cursor is moved in the specified direction between each input key area 42 (step 103), and if it is a numerical value, the cursor is currently located. Display the input value in the input canister 42 (Step 104), and if the "Execute" key is pressed, the value of the item for the specified paper size in the position management table 51 is changed using the specified data. If the "cancel" key is pressed, the specified data is invalidated and the process ends (pass 106).

For the purchase position specified as above, the print processing unit shown by reference numeral 7 in FIG. 2 performs the following processing when printing is instructed by the operator.

That is, in FIG. 2, the print processing unit 7 first displays a printing condition setting screen, and allows the operator to specify printing conditions such as a starting number for pagination. After setting the printing conditions,
Printing of the document is performed by generating printing data necessary for printing according to the printing conditions and passing it to the print control unit 10. At this time, if pagination is specified in the printing conditions, the position for pagination is determined according to the flow shown in FIG. 6 before printing each page. First, the paper size and paper direction of the page to be printed are determined using the document data page management section 31 and format data section 34 shown in FIG. 3 (step 601 in FIG. 6), and based on this paper size, the For the pagination in FIG. 5, the margin position and the position number within the margin are determined from the position management table 51 (step 602). Next, the margin position determination table 71 shown in FIG. Furthermore, the margin area to be printed and the printing direction are determined based on the paper direction (step 603).

Finally, the page number printing position within the margin is determined based on the margin position determination table 81 shown in FIG. 8, the print margin obtained in step 603, the printing direction, and the margin position number obtained in step 602. is determined (step 604).

The present invention is as described above, and in the present invention, since the printing position of the page number can be specified with respect to the paper size, the ninth
As shown in Figure (a), even if the paper orientation is different, the page number can be printed at the same position. For example, as shown in FIG. 9(b), specify the heading position for the paper to the right of the bottom margin of the A4 portrait paper and to the right of the bottom margin of the A3 landscape paper, and fold the A3 paper into a 6-shape along the dotted line 91. If the paper is folded in a chevron shape along the dotted line 92 to make A4 size paper and bound with other A4 size paper, the page number positions of all the paper sheets can be aligned.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the description of the illustrated embodiments, according to the present invention, the position of the pagination on paper can be specified arbitrarily, and the positions of the pagination of documents with different paper sizes and paper orientations are aligned. It is possible to obtain an improved document production device that can perform bookbinding.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the overall schematic configuration of the document creation device, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the document data structure, and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a pagination position specification screen for specifying the pagination position. , FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a pagination position management table that manages specified values of pagination positions corresponding to each paper size, and FIG. A diagram showing the page number printing position determination processing flow, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a margin position determination table that determines on which side and in which direction the page number is printed for each margin position number. , Figure 8 shows the printing side and printing direction. A diagram showing an example of a margin position determination table that determines where the page number is placed on the side to be actually printed based on the margin position number. Figure 9 (a) shows the page numbering when the paper orientation is different. is a diagram showing an example of the position, FIG. 9(b)
10 is a diagram showing an example of the pagination position when paper sizes are different, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the control flow of the document creation mechanism control section (numeral 3 in FIG. 2). DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Code input device, 2-use input analysis unit, 3...Document creation mechanism control unit, 4...Document creation mechanism, 5...Document processing unit, 6...Page designation processing unit, 7...Print processing unit, 8...Display control unit, 9...Display screen, 1o...
Print control section, 11... Printing device, 12... Storage device, 31... Page management section, 32... Area management section, 33.
...Actual data section, 34...Format data section, 41...
Pagination is the position specification screen, 42... entry caniglia, 51...
・Page 4 = j position management table, 71... Margin position determination table, 81... Margin position determination table,
91...6-shaped bending position, 92...chevron-shaped bending position.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting characters, commands, etc., a document creation means for creating a document from the characters input by the input means in accordance with the input command, and a storage means for storing the created document. A document creation device having a display means for displaying a created document, and a printing means for printing the created document, further comprising a pagination position designation means for designating on which side of the paper the page number is to be printed, top, bottom, left or right. . A document creation apparatus, further comprising a page number printing means for printing a page number at a position designated by the pagination position designation means upon printing, in the printing means. 2. The document creation device according to claim 1, wherein the pagination position specifying means is provided with a device specifying means for each paper size for specifying a pagination position for each paper size. 3. A document creation device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the storage means is provided with designated position storage means for storing a designated position for pagination.