JP2872133B2 - Form print processing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to form overlay printing, and more particularly, to a method of holding a formula in an overlay form at the time of form creation, analyzing the formula in the overlay form at the time of printing, and printing data passed from a print application program. The present invention relates to a system for performing a calculation relating to a calculation result and overlaying the calculation result on an overlay form and printing the result.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional form creation, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
As described in Japanese Patent No. 308671, it is possible to print the print data on the designated item, but only print on the designated item. Therefore, when printing the total of the items, the print application program calculates the total. And the like, and the calculation result must be printed as data on the designated item, so that the load on the print application program is increased.

As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-309313, an item specified on a screen is provided with a calculation formula, the item is calculated according to the calculation formula, and a form displayed on the screen is displayed. In the method of printing the form, the form is not created for the form overlay, and the print data must be input at the time of form creation. Therefore, the data input operation increases as the print data increases.

Also, when changing print data, it is necessary to start a form creation application program and change the values on the screen, so that the print data cannot be easily changed and lacks flexibility.

There is also a technique in which an overlay form and a calculation formula are output to another storage device, and the calculation formula output to the storage device at the time of printing is used by a print application program to perform calculation. Since the calculation processing for the data is performed by the print application program, the load of the print application program is increased.

[0006]

A first problem is that, in the conventional technique, when printing the total of items in a form or the like, calculation for print data at the time of printing is performed by a print application program. It is necessary to increase the load of the print application program.

The reason is that there is only a method of performing calculation processing on print data at the time of printing by a print application program.

[0008] The second problem is that, in the conventional technique in which calculation is performed when print data is input on a screen, input / change of the print data must be performed on the screen, so that the form can be easily created.・ The change cannot be made.

The reason for this is that since it is not form overlay printing, an operation of inputting and changing print data on a screen is required, and the more input / change data, the greater the operation.

[Object of the Invention] An object of the present invention is to hold a calculation formula in an overlay form, analyze the calculation formula in the overlay form at the time of printing, and perform a process of calculating print data input from a print application program. By superposing and printing the calculation result and the overlay form, there is no need for a conventional print application program or an operation for calculation performed on the screen, and labor saving in form creation / printing is achieved.

[0011]

The present invention solves the above problems.
To determine the overlay form,
And the overlay form and the
In a system that prints by overlaying print data
The print data held in the overlay form.
A user-configurable meter for processing data
Formula, means for the user to arbitrarily change the formula,
At the time of printing, it was delivered from the print application.
The print data is calculated according to a calculation formula in the overlay form.
Means for performing calculation processing, the result and the overlay form
Means for superimposing and printing
The present invention provides a form print processing system that performs the following.

At the time of form creation, a form creation processing unit (1--1 in FIG. 1)
C) creates an overlay form holding the calculation formula, and stores the created overlay form by overlay form storage means (1-K in FIG. 1).

An operator specifies an overlay form to be printed, and sends print data to be printed on the form to a form output processing unit (1-D in FIG. 1).

A form output processing unit (1-D in FIG. 1) retrieves the overlay form from the overlay form storage means (1-K in FIG. 1), analyzes a calculation formula in the overlay form, and performs a print data calculation process. Then, the calculation result and the overlay form are superimposed and output from the output device (1-F in FIG. 1).

[0015]

According to the present invention, an overlay form holding a calculation formula for an item for printing print data is created, the calculation formula in the overlay form is analyzed at the time of printing, and print data input from a print application program is calculated. Processing is performed, and the calculation result and the overlay form are overlaid and printed. For this reason, calculation processing in the print application program is not required, and the load on the print application program can be reduced.

Further, according to the present invention, the calculation formula is held in the overlay form. Therefore, it is not necessary to create a print application program specialized in the calculation formula, and it is not necessary to modify the print application program by changing the calculation formula, thereby facilitating the development of the print application program.

Conventionally, form overlay printing has been realized by sending user data for which all calculations (operations) have been completed to form overlay data in which editing information is embedded. In this technology, it is necessary for the user to perform calculations on user data in advance, and since the application that calculates the data depends on the data calculation formula, individual application development must be performed for each form. Required.

In the conventional method, there is a problem that data including a calculation result must be sent to a printer, and an application must be developed for each form.

When setting items that need to be calculated in a form at the time of form creation, a calculation formula or the like is provided as edit information, thereby receiving user data at the time of printing and receiving user data based on the edit information defined earlier. The data is calculated, the calculation result is embedded, and form overlay printing is performed.

According to this method, since the calculation is not performed in the user application, the load on the user application is reduced, and since the calculation result is not included in the user data, the amount of transmission data can be reduced.

An application required for form overlay printing can be easily prepared as a general-purpose program by only preparing a printing program and sending user data.

Hereinafter, the schematic structure of the present invention will be further described with reference to FIG.

[Form Creation Processing Unit] An operator issues a form creation processing request to the input unit 1. The form data processing means acquires form data through the input means 1, creates form data in which information such as characters and ruled line positions in the form data is converted so that form overlay printing can be performed, and delivers the form data to the form overlay data creating means. .

The operator instructs the input means 1 to edit the item to be edited, and the input means 1 notifies the editing information processing means of the instruction. The editing information processing means sends an editing information input request to the input means 1,
The input means 1 outputs an editing information input prompting message to the operator on the screen.

The operator sets the position of the data to be input to the item and the length of the data, taking the form creation image as an example, and sets the result obtained by subtracting the item from the result of adding the item and the item to the item. Set editing information. Next, the operator transmits the set editing information to the input unit 1 as editing information data. Input means 1
After receiving the edit information data, the editor passes the edit information data to the edit information processing means.

The edit information processing means creates edit data by analyzing information such as the position and length of the item to be embedded from the acquired edit information, and transfers the data to the form overlay data creation means.

The form overlay data creating means creates form overlay data including editing information based on the form data received from the form data processing means and the editing data received from the editing information processing means. Next, the created form overlay data is transferred to the form overlay data storage means. The form overlay data storage means stores and manages the form overlay data using a memory, an auxiliary storage device, or the like.

[Form output processing unit] In the form creation image, the operator has 5 items, 10 items,
Create print data that embeds 3 in the item and user data that includes the form overlay data name for form overlay.

The user application acquires the user data created by the user and sends a form output instruction to the input means 2.

The user data processing means acquires the user data from the user application through the input means 2 and transfers the print data in the user data to the print data editing means. Also, the form overlay data name in the user data is transferred to the form overlay data input means.

The form overlay data input means transfers the form overlay data name to the form overlay data storage means and receives the corresponding form overlay data. The edit data in the acquired form overlay data is passed to the print data editing unit, and the form data is passed to the form overlay data printing unit.

The print data editing means analyzes the edit data received from the form overlay data input means,
The print data received from the user data processing means is embedded in the designated position. In the example of the form creation image, the item value is 5, the item position is 10, the item position is 3, and the item value is obtained from the result of adding the item value 5 and the item value 10 according to the editing information. The value of 12 obtained by subtracting 3 is embedded in the position of the item. After embedding the value, the print data editing unit delivers the edited print data to the form overlay data printing unit.

The form overlay data printing means combines the form data received from the form overlay data input means with the edited print data received from the print data editing means to create print data. The created print data is output to a printer.

The result printed on the printer is like a print result.

[Effect] According to the method of the present invention, since the calculation is not required on the user application side, calculation processing in the user application can be reduced, and the amount of data transmitted by the user application to the print processing can be reduced.

Since there is no need to create a program that is not specialized for forms, the user application only has to prepare a general-purpose printing program.

[0037]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment includes a display terminal 1-A, a keyboard device 1-B, a form creation processing unit 1-C, a form output processing unit 1-D, a print application program 1-E, an output device 1-F, and form creation data input. Means 1-G, form creation data processing means 1-H, editing information processing means 1-I, overlay form creation means 1-J, overlay form storage means 1
-K, print data input means 1-L, overlay form input means 1-M, print data editing means 1-N, print data processing means 1-O, and overlay form print means 1-P.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
This will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The flow of processing for creating a form will be described below.

The operator creates a form as shown in FIG. 3, for example, through the display terminal 1-A using the keyboard device 1-B as an input device.

When data relating to the form layout is input from the keyboard device 1-B, the form creation data input means 1-G acquires the data and transfers it to the form creation data processing means 1-H. The form creation data processing means 1-H analyzes data relating to the form layout. For example, in the case of a line such as 3-A, it is divided into information such as the start and end positions of the line, the thickness of the line, and the type of line. The data relating to the divided form layout is transferred to the overlay form creating means 1-J.

Next, when data relating to editing is input from the keyboard device 1-B, the form creation data input means 1-G obtains the data and transfers it to the editing information processing means 1-I.
The editing information processing means 1-I analyzes information related to editing. For example, in the case of an area such as 3-B, the area is set as an item and the position information of the item, the number of characters that can be set, the character size, and the like are analyzed. In the case of an area where the result is calculated and set as in 3-C, an input prompt message such as inputting a calculation formula is displayed to the operator on the display terminal 1-A via the form creation data input means 1-G. Then, the calculation formula specified by the operator is entered into the form creation data input means 1-G
And sends it to the editing information processing means 1-I. The editing information processing means 1-I analyzes which items and which items need to be calculated from the received calculation formula and associates each item. The data concerning these edits is transferred to the overlay form creation means 1-J.

The overlay form creation means 1-J creates an overlay form in a format as shown in FIG. 2, for example, based on the data received from the form creation data processing means 1-H and the edit information processing means 1-I. Overlay form storage means 1-
Deliver to K.

The overlay form storage means 1-K stores the overlay form in a magnetic disk device or the like.

Next, the flow of printing a form will be described.

Using the print application program 1-E, the operator sends the print data and the name of the overlay form to be printed to the form output processing section 1-D.

The print data input means 1-L acquires data from the print application program 1-E and transfers it to the print data processing means 1-O.

The print data processing means 1-O instructs the overlay form input means 1-M to acquire the overlay form based on the overlay form name. The print data is transferred to the print data editing means 1-N.

The overlay form input means 1-M fetches the specified overlay form from the overlay form storage means 1-K, transfers the data relating to the form layout to the overlay form printing means 1-P, and transmits the data relating to editing to the print data editing means. Deliver to 1-N.

The print data editing means 1-N analyzes the editing data received from the overlay form input means 1-M, and embeds the print data received from the print data processing means 1-O in a designated item. For example, when printing data as shown in FIG. 5 on a form in which items are defined as shown in FIG. 4, 5-A-1 is embedded in 4-A-1.
-B-1 is associated with, for example, embedding 5-B-1, and all data is embedded at the position of the designated item. Also, as a calculation formula, (4-A-4) = (4-A-2) ×
When specified as (4-A-3), 4-A-
The value of 5-A-2 embedded in 4-A-2 and the value of 5-A-3 embedded in 4-A-3 are multiplied with respect to item 4 and the result is placed at the position of 4-A-4. Embed. After all editing is completed, the editing result is transferred to the overlay form printing means 1-P.

The overlay form printing means 1-P superimposes the data on the form layout received from the overlay form input means 1-M with the data edited by the print data editing means 1-N, and outputs the superimposed data to an output device. Deliver to 1-F.

The output device 1-F prints the superimposed data received from the overlay form printing means 1-P.
The printing result is as shown in FIG.

[0054]

The first effect is that the calculation by the print application program is not required. As a result, the load on the print application program can be reduced.

The reason is that, at the time of printing, the calculation for the print data is calculated according to a calculation formula analyzed from the overlay form, and the calculation result and the overlay form are superimposed and printed.

The second effect is that it is not necessary to create a printing application program specialized in the calculation formula, and it is not necessary to modify the printing application program by changing the calculation formula. This allows
Development of a print application program is facilitated.

The reason is that the calculation formula is held in the overlay form and the printing data is calculated at the time of printing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a data format of an overlay form to be created.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a form to be created.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a specification method for items of a form to be created.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of data to be printed on items of a form to be created.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result of printing a created form.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a schematic configuration of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-A display terminal 1-B keyboard device 1-C form creation processing unit 1-D form output processing unit 1-E print application program 1-F output device 1-G form creation data input means 1-H form creation data processing Means 1-I Edit information processing means 1-J Overlay form creation means 1-K Overlay form storage means 1-L Print data input means 1-M Overlay form input means 1-N Print data editing means 1-O Print data processing means 1-P overlay report printing means

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A system for creating an overlay form separately from print data and performing printing by superimposing the overlay form and the print data during printing, wherein the system processes the print data held in the overlay form. Calculation formula that can be arbitrarily set by the user
Overlapping the, and means for the user to change arbitrarily the equation, means for computing the print data passed from the print application in printing performed in accordance with equation in the overlay form, the result with the overlay form Print together
Form printing processing system comprising: the means.