JPS6347181A - Print control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the working efficiency of forming a document by only designating a line division print in the designation of print when printing a document of long lateral size to continuously print the corresponding sections of all lines on the same page or on a continuous page. CONSTITUTION:The designation of printing specifications includes the designations of a printing document, a printing sheet size, an interval between printing letters, an interval between printing lines, other normal designations of printing, and presence or absence of printing with the division of lines and detailed designations thereof, as required. A predetermined part of the document stored in an external memory 5 is read out in a main memory 2, one of the lines is produced, the presence or absence of designating the printing with the division of the lines is identified, the part to be printed of one line at present is removed according to the detailed designation in case that there is the designation, output, as usual, to a printer 5, and controlled to be printed. When the process of all the lines of the designated document is finished, a page feed is controlled to feed a page to be printed. When there is the designation of printing with the division of the line, whether the end of the line is processed or not is identified, and when there is no designation of printing with the division of the line or when the end of the line has been processed, the process of printing is finished. When there remains still unprocessed part, the process is restarted from the initial line, and the next printing with the division of each line is similarly advanced. In other words, the lines of the document are sorted by parts of every maximum number of letters to be printed, determined according to the designated sheet size and the interval of the letters, and the parts are distributed to another page.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] This is an improved control method when printing a document with lines longer than the number of printable characters.

Divide each line of a document into multiple parts and print them on different pages. The division may be performed by cutting the entire length of the print line, or by using a predetermined delimiter.

With this method, it becomes possible to print horizontally long tabular documents and the like on small sheets of paper in an easy-to-read manner with relatively simple designations.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a control method for printing a document with lines longer than the number of printable characters, such as when printing output from a computer system.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a computer system.

By executing a program loaded into the main storage device 2, the processing device 1 creates a document based on commands, data, etc. input from the terminal device 4, and stores the created document in the external storage device 3 according to the commands. It is also possible to perform processing such as reading out the stored document from the external storage device 3 and outputting it to the printing device 5.

The printing device 5 receives, for example, a line-by-line printing character string and predetermined control information from the processing device I, and sequentially prints them on the paper that has been marked.

For office documents, particularly in tabular format, a format having relatively long lines (with a large number of characters) may be necessary.

When outputting such a horizontally long document to the printing device 5,
If the maximum number of characters that can be printed in one line of the printing device 5 is exceeded, the portion of the character string output to the printing device 5 that exceeds the maximum number of characters at the end (right end) of each line will not be effectively printed by the printing device 5. , will be thrown away without being printed.

Therefore, in such a case, a document is created in which the table is divided into a plurality of parts of a size that can fit on a printing page, taking into consideration the maximum number of characters that can be printed, and then printed.

Alternatively, if it is possible to specify printing of a portion by specifying a character position within a line of the document, take measures such as respecifying different character positions multiple times and repeating printing.

Here, the maximum number of characters that can be printed may be a value specific to the device specifications determined from the structure of the printing device 5, or a value limited by the size of the printing paper to be set.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

If the above-mentioned procedure is required to print a horizontally long document, it takes time and effort to properly divide the document so that it can be printed correctly, and in the former case, There are problems such as the document contents in the process of creation or modification being difficult to read because the lines are divided.

[Means for solving problems]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of processing showing the entire configuration of the present invention. The figure shows the processing flow of the processing device 1 when printing a document.

[For production]

In the printing process, the processing device 1 receives designation of printing specifications in processing step 10 of FIG.

Through a loop of processing steps 11 to 15, each line is divided as specified and printing is performed on a specific portion of the line, one after another.

When all lines of the specified document have been processed, processing step 16
to change the print page, check whether all processing is completed in processing step 17, and repeat processing steps 12 to 15 if there are unprocessed parts.
The printing process using the loop is executed for the remaining portion of each line.

With this method, you can simply specify line division printing in the print specification, and for example, divide each line by the maximum number of characters that can be printed.
Corresponding parts of all lines are printed consecutively on the same page or on consecutive pages.

〔Example〕

In the printing process, the processing device 1 receives designation of printing specifications in processing step 10 of FIG. The specifications include the specification of the print document, the print paper size, the print character spacing, the print line spacing, and other normal print specifications, as well as the presence or absence of line division printing and, if necessary, detailed specifications thereof.

For detailed specifications when performing line split printing, for example, if there is no special specification, the standard specification is "Continue", and other specifications are "Continue".
It is possible to specify "extrusion" and "truncation". The method of division in each of these specifications will be explained later.

In processing step 11, the required part of the document stored in the external storage device 5 is read out to the main storage device 2, and the part 1 is read out to the main storage device 2.
Fetch a row.

In processing step 12, it is determined whether line division printing is specified. In the case of normal printing with no designation, the process immediately proceeds to step 14, where one line of character string data is output to the printing device 5, and printing is controlled as usual. Print control includes, as usual, page feeding when printing progresses to the last line of one line.

If line division printing is specified, the process proceeds to processing step knob 13, and according to the detailed specification, the part to be printed in one line is cut out, and the cut out part is printed as usual in processing step 14. It is output to the device 5 and print control is performed as described above.

Processing step 15 determines whether all lines of the designated document have been processed, and if there are unprocessed portions, the process returns to processing step 11 and processes the next line as described above.

When all lines have been processed, page feed control is performed in processing step 16 to change the printed page.

In processing step 17, if line division printing is specified,
It is determined whether the end of the line has been processed, and if there is no line division printing specification or if the end of the line has been processed, the printing process is terminated.

If there is an unprocessed portion, the process returns to step 11, restarts the process from the first line, and prints the next divided portion of each line in the same manner as described above.

With the above processing, as shown in FIG. 3, when printing a document as shown in the outer frame 20 in the figure by dividing it into six pages numbered 1-1 to 3-2, is, page 1-1, 1
Printing is executed in the order of -2 page, 2-1 page, 2-2 page, 3-1 page, and 3-2 true.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of line division.

Figure 4 (al is an example of the table of the original document, and "
If "Continue" is specified, the print is divided and printed as shown in FIG. 4(b) by the processing in step 13.

That is, a line of a document is cut into parts each having the maximum number of printable characters determined by a specified paper size and character spacing, and each part is distributed on a separate page.

In the case of "extrusion" designation, for example, using a ruled line as a delimiter, each line is cut at the nearest ruled line within the maximum number of characters determined in the same manner as above, and distributed and printed on each page. In this case, for example, in the dividing process of processing step 13, by correcting the ruled line at the right end of each page for the necessary part, adding a ruled line to the left end, and passing it to processing step 14, it is possible to create a page as shown in FIG. 4(C). to print.

If you specify "Cut off", it will be divided up to the maximum number of characters as in "wE continuation", but it will be controlled keeping in mind the ruled lines, and the 4th
As shown in Figure Fdl, sections separated by ruled lines that do not fit within one page are discarded, and each line on the right page starts from the ruled line of the adjacent section. This designation simplifies the processing and speeds it up, making it convenient for trial printing and the like.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, a line-format document that is longer than the maximum number of characters that can be printed by a printing device such as a computer system can be divided and printed in an easy-to-read format by a simple designation. This has a significant industrial effect in that work efficiency such as document creation can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of processing showing the configuration of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an example of the configuration of a computer system, Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram of page division, and Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram of an example of document division. . In the figure, 1 is a processing device, 2 is a main storage device, 3 is an external storage device, 4 is a terminal device, 5 is a printing device, 1
0 to 17 are processing steps. Processing flowchart showing the structure of the present invention. Fig. 1. Illustration of page division. Fig. 3. Fig. 2.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) When printing a document with a line with a number of characters exceeding the maximum number of characters using a printing device that can print lines up to a specified maximum number of characters, for each line of the document, print the line up to the specified character position. A printing control system characterized by being configured to divide into parts and print each part by distributing each part to a different print page (11 to 17). (2) Each line of the document consists of a plurality of parts separated by predetermined characters located at fixed character positions, and the predetermined character positions are composed of parts of the predetermined characters located at the largest character position smaller than the maximum number of characters. The print control method according to claim 1, which is a character position.