JP3097366B2 - Print processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a print processing apparatus for converting a document to be printed into a format described in a page description language and transmitting the converted document to a designated printing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional print processing apparatus, if a document to be printed has 100 pages, the number of sheets becomes 100 when the document is printed. Therefore,
If you want to use a 100 page document in a 10 person meeting,
Copying for 100 people is performed for a document of 100 pages, which requires a total of 1000 sheets.

[0003]

[0005] By the way, materials used in general meetings and the like are often used only on the spot, and some meetings are used only to look through for reference. There is also. However, in the conventional print processing apparatus, even when the usage or importance of the material itself is low, the original document is printed by the number of pages and then copied by the number of people. There is a problem in that the time required for copying and the cost of paper and the like are required, and the waste of time and expenses is increased.

As a technique related to this type of printing processing, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-45773 discloses a technique for automatically converting character size and printing position according to the size of paper to be used. There has been proposed a printing paper size conversion apparatus capable of performing prints with good appearance without losing print data on paper having a size of, but the above-mentioned problem has not been solved.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a print processing apparatus capable of saving printing paper and reducing the number of copies by printing a plurality of pages on one printing paper.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a print processing apparatus capable of setting the layout of each page of a document printed N-up as specified by a user when printing a plurality of pages on one print sheet. Aim.

Further, there is provided a print processing apparatus capable of setting a position and a value of a binding margin on a print sheet as specified by a user when printing a plurality of pages on one print sheet. With the goal.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print processing apparatus comprising: a document sheet size acquiring unit for acquiring a sheet size of a designated document;
Paper size obtaining means for obtaining a specified printing paper size, N-up value obtaining means for obtaining a specified N-up value, paper size, printing paper size and N-up of the document obtained by each of the obtaining means Processing means for enlarging or reducing the paper size of the document based on the value, and arranging the plurality of enlarged or reduced pages on one print sheet indicated by the print paper size. And Further, in the print processing apparatus according to a second aspect, in the first aspect, the processing unit includes a sheet size of the document acquired by the document sheet size acquisition unit;
The printing paper size obtained by the paper size obtaining means and the N obtained by the N-up value obtaining means
Enlargement / reduction calculation means for calculating the enlargement / reduction rate per page of the document based on the up value, and scale conversion for converting the scale of one page of the document according to the enlargement / reduction rate calculated by the enlargement / reduction calculation means Means, a printing paper size acquired by the paper size acquiring means, and N
Based on the N-up value acquired by the up-value acquiring means,
A printing paper position determining means for determining a page position on the printing paper; a page position determined by the printing paper position determining means; and a scale converted by the scale converting means, on one print paper. Page arrangement processing means for arranging a plurality of pages.

In the print processing apparatus according to the third invention, the first
In the first or second invention, the first acquisition unit for acquiring the designated print paper size, the second acquisition unit for acquiring the designated N-up value, and the first acquisition unit for acquiring the designated N-up value. First print start position determining means for determining the print start position of each page on the print paper from the print paper size and the N-up value obtained by the second obtaining means, and obtaining a designated page arrangement value Creating a table showing the relationship between the page layout position obtaining means to be executed and the page layout value obtained by the page layout position obtaining means and the printing start position of each page determined by the first printing start position determining means. After that, a page layout device further comprising a page layout determining means for outputting the table to the processing means is further provided.

[0010] In the print processing apparatus according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the first processing apparatus comprises:
In any one of the inventions of the first to third aspects,
A binding margin acquisition unit that acquires a position and a value of a designated binding margin; a binding margin direction determining unit that determines a binding margin direction from a binding margin position acquired by the binding margin acquiring unit; A third obtaining unit that obtains a printing paper size, and a print range determination that determines a printing range from the printing paper size obtained by the third obtaining unit and the binding margin direction determined by the binding margin direction determining unit. And a second print start position determining unit configured to calculate a print start position from the position and value of the binding margin acquired by the binding margin acquiring unit. Features.

[0011]

In the print processing apparatus according to the first invention, the paper size of the specified document is enlarged or reduced based on the specified paper size and the specified print paper size and N-up value. Alternatively, a plurality of reduced pages are arranged on one print sheet indicated by the print sheet size. Further, in the print processing apparatus according to the second invention, the paper size of the document to be printed, the specified print paper size, and the specified N-up value are obtained, and the enlargement / reduction ratio of one page of the document on the print paper is obtained. Is calculated. And document 1
The scale per page is converted based on the calculated scaling ratio. Next, each page position on the printing paper is determined based on the printing paper size and the N-up value. Further, based on the determined page position and scale, a plurality of N-divided pages are arranged on one print sheet.

[0012] In the print processing apparatus according to the third aspect of the invention, the page printing apparatus acquires the specified print paper size and the specified N-up value, respectively, and prints the print position start position of each page to be printed on the print. To determine. Next, a page arrangement value is obtained, a table is created in which the value is associated with the print start position of each page, and the table is output to the processing means. The processing unit arranges each page with reference to a table created by the page printing apparatus.

[0013] In the print processing apparatus according to the fourth invention, the binding margin setting device acquires the position and value of the binding margin on the printing paper, determines the direction of the binding margin from the binding margin position, and specifies the binding margin. Then, the print area on the print paper is determined from the print paper size and the direction of the binding margin. Next, a printing start position is calculated from the designated binding margin position and value and output to the processing means. This processing means performs printing in accordance with the print start position. Thus, a binding margin can be provided at the position and the value specified on the printing paper.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a print processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1 FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing a case where the print processing apparatus according to the first invention is applied to a print system.
First, the overall operation of the system will be described with reference to FIG.

When printing a document created at a workstation or the like, the document editing apparatus 1 first creates a document to be printed. Next, the print processing device 2 is used to print the electronic document created by the document editing device 1.
The print processing device 2 first converts an electronic document to be printed into a page description language format (document file) described using a page description language. Next, the N-up converter 4 converts the page description language format so that a plurality of pages are printed on one print sheet, and transmits the converted page description language to the designated printer 3.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the N-up converter 4. In FIG. 1, a document paper size acquiring unit 11 acquires a paper size of a document to be printed, and a printing paper size acquiring unit 12 acquires a designated printing paper size. For example, when a document is created on a workstation, each of these sizes can be specified through a property sheet displayed on a window.

The N-up value acquisition means 13 acquires a specified N-up value. The N-up value indicates the number of pages that can be printed in one page, and the page is divided into N according to the designated value (N). For example, two-up is divided into two, and four-up is divided into four. 2 up,
FIG. 3 shows an example of page division when 4 up and 8 up are designated. The N-up value can be set arbitrarily according to the amount of a document to be printed or the size of characters. This N
The up value can also be specified through the property sheet, similarly to the paper size.

The enlargement / reduction ratio calculating means 14 calculates the enlargement / reduction ratio per page of the document based on the information obtained by each of the above means.

The page scale converting means 15 converts the scale of one page of the document according to the scaling ratio calculated by the scaling ratio calculating means 14.

The printing paper position determining means 16 determines a page position on the printing paper based on the obtained printing paper size and N-up value.

The one-page acquisition means 17 acquires the page description language format converted by the not-shown page description language conversion means one page at a time.

The pre-processing means 18 comprises the one-page acquisition means 1
A pre-process is performed on the page description language format for one page acquired in step 7 to convert a plurality of pages into one page.

The post-processing means 19 is for arranging a plurality of pages on one printing paper based on the page position determined by the printing paper position determining means 16 and the scale obtained by the page scale converting means. Perform post-processing.

FIG. 1 omits a page description language conversion means for converting an electronic document into a page description language format and other processing means.

Next, in the N-up converter 4,
The flow of processing when printing a plurality of pages on one print sheet will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the paper size (hereinafter, P1) is obtained from the document format of the document to be printed by the document paper size obtaining means 11 (step 101). Subsequently, the printing paper size (hereinafter referred to as P
2) is acquired (step 102). Next, the N-up value (hereinafter, N) designated by the N-up value acquiring means 13 is acquired (Step 103). The enlargement / reduction ratio calculating means 14 calculates an enlargement / reduction ratio per page of the document (hereinafter, R) from the P1, P2, and N (step 10).
4). Next, the one page acquisition unit 17 reads the page description language format from a page description language conversion unit (not shown) (step 105), and extracts the page description language format one page at a time (step 106). Here, it is determined whether there are any more pages (step 107), and if so, the pre-processing means 18 performs pre-processing for combining a plurality of pages according to N (step 108). To multiply the scale of one page of the document by R (step 109). Next, the printing paper position determining means 16
Then, the page position on the printing paper is determined from P2 and N (step 110). Next, the post-processing means 19 performs post-processing for arranging a plurality of pages in accordance with the N (step 111), and returns to step 106 again. Then, the processing from step 106 to step 111 is repeated until there are no more pages in the read page description language format. When there are no more pages, the N-up page description language format is output (step 1).
12).

As described above, in the print processing apparatus according to the first embodiment, a document in which a plurality of pages are printed on one print sheet can be obtained only by specifying the print sheet size and the N-up value.

Embodiment 2 In the print processing apparatus of Embodiment 1 described above, when arranging each page on printing paper, it is arranged at a fixed position. The arrangement of each page of the document printed in close-up becomes unnatural,
It can be difficult to read. In this embodiment, a description will be given of a print processing apparatus capable of setting a page arrangement on print paper.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically showing a case where the print processing apparatus according to the second invention is applied to a print system. The print processing apparatus 2 of FIG. 5 includes a page layout device 5 described below in addition to the N-up conversion device 4. Other configurations are the same as those in FIG. 2, and the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals.

When a document created by a workstation or the like is to be printed, first, a document to be printed is created by the document editing apparatus 1. Next, the print processing device 2 is used to print the electronic document created by the document editing device 1.
The print processing apparatus 2 first converts an electronic document to be printed into a page description language format described using a page description language. Next, in the page layout device 5, the print start layout of each page on the print paper is determined from the specified print paper size and the N-up value, and the page layout is determined using these values and the page layout values. Then, the N-up conversion device 4 converts the page description language format so that a plurality of pages are printed on one print sheet in an arrangement specified by the user, and transmits the converted print data to the specified printing device 3.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the page layout device 5. In FIG. 6, a print paper size acquisition unit 21 acquires a designated print paper size, and an N-up value acquisition unit 22 acquires a designated N-up value. For example, when a document is created on a workstation, the paper size and the N-up value can be specified through a property sheet displayed on a window.

The print start position determining means 23 determines the print start position of each page on the print paper from the acquired print paper size and N-up value.

The page arrangement value acquiring means 24 acquires the designated page arrangement value. The page arrangement value indicates the arrangement of pages to be printed on one print sheet. For example, the page layout pattern for 4-up is as shown in FIG. In the case of 4-up, there are 24 arrangement patterns from case 1 to case 24, and the user specifies the arrangement pattern he / she wants to use. For example, when a document is created on a workstation, a layout number can be specified by directly inputting a page number using a keyboard or a mouse in a four-part area displayed on a property sheet. For example, when the user wants to specify the layout pattern of Case 1, “3” is displayed in the upper left area, “1” is displayed in the upper right area, “4” is displayed in the lower left area, and “2” is displayed in the lower right area. input. As a result, page layout values of “upper left 3, upper right 1, lower left 4, lower right 2” are obtained.

As described above, the user can arbitrarily set an arrangement pattern according to a format such as vertical writing or horizontal writing. An error message may be displayed to the user when the layout pattern is specified, for example, when the page numbers are specified repeatedly or when the page numbers are not continuous. In FIG. 7, the black circles indicate the print start position of each page in the case of 4-up.

The page layout determining means 25 creates a table representing the relationship between the page layout value and the printing start position of each page, and outputs the table to the N-up converter 4.

Next, the flow of processing when the page arrangement device 5 determines page arrangement will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the page arrangement value acquiring means 24 acquires a designated page arrangement value (hereinafter, PA) (step 201). Next, the printing paper size obtaining means 21 obtains the specified printing paper size (hereinafter, PS) (Step 202). Subsequently, the N-up value acquiring means 22 acquires the designated N-up value (hereinafter, N) (Step 20).
3). Next, the print start position determining means 23 calculates a print start position (hereinafter, SP) of each page from PA and N (step 204). Next, page layout determination means 2
In step 5, a table showing the relationship between the PA and SP is created (step 205), and the table is output to the N-up converter 4 (step 206).

Subsequent processing is the same as that of the first embodiment. When arranging a plurality of pages on one print sheet, the N-up converter 4 refers to the table to check each page. Perform the placement. As described above, in the print processing apparatus according to the second embodiment, by specifying the print paper size, the N-up value, and the page layout value, the layout of each page of the document printed in the N-up format can be changed. It can be set according to.

Third Embodiment In the print processing apparatus of the first embodiment, the printing paper is divided into N and the pages are arranged. Therefore, when a document printed N-up is bound, a margin for binding is set. To make it, you need to adjust the page margin of each page of the document you want to print. However, if the page margin of the document to be printed is changed for N-up, it takes extra time and effort, which is not preferable. Therefore, if a document printed N-up is bound, an invisible portion will appear. In this embodiment, a description will be given of a print processing apparatus capable of setting a position and a value of a binding margin.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram schematically showing a case where the print processing apparatus according to the third invention is applied to a print system. In the print processing apparatus 2 of FIG. 9, a binding margin setting device 6 described later is provided in addition to the N-up conversion device 4. Other configurations are the same as those in FIG. 2, and the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals.

When a document created at a workstation or the like is to be printed, first, the document editing device 1 creates a document to be printed. Next, the print processing device 2 is used to print the electronic document created by the document editing device 1.
The print processing apparatus 2 first converts an electronic document to be printed into a page description language format described using a page description language. Next, the binding margin setting device 6 determines a printing range and a printing start arrangement from the designated printing paper size and the designated binding margin position and value. Then, based on these values, the N-up conversion device 4 converts the page description language format so that a plurality of pages are printed on one print sheet in an arrangement specified by the user, and the specified printing device is used. Send to 3.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the binding margin setting device 6. As shown in FIG. In FIG. 10, a binding margin acquisition unit 31 acquires a position and a value of a designated binding margin, and a printing paper size acquiring unit 32 acquires a designated printing paper size. Note that the binding margin position indicates the upper, lower, left, and right positions of the sheet to be used as the binding margin, and the value indicates the width of the portion used as the binding margin. For example, when a document is created at a workstation, the position and value of the binding margin and the paper size can be specified through a property sheet displayed on a window.

The binding margin direction determining means 33 determines from the designated binding margin position whether to take the binding margin in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. For example, if the position of the binding margin is left or right, it is determined to be vertical, and if it is above or below, it is determined to be horizontal.

The printing range determining means 34 determines the printing range from the printing paper size obtained by the printing paper size obtaining means 32 and the binding margin direction determined by the binding margin direction determining means 33. Here, as shown in FIG. 11, if the binding margin is the vertical direction (a), the binding margin is from the horizontal direction, and the binding margin is the horizontal direction (b).
If it is, subtract the specified binding margin value from the vertical direction. Next, in order to make the aspect ratio of the print range the same as the document to be printed, as shown in FIG. 12, if the binding margin is the vertical direction (a), the same ratio value is subtracted from the vertical direction, and the binding margin is set to the horizontal margin. In the direction (b), the same ratio value is subtracted from the horizontal direction. For example, when the binding margin value corresponds to 10% of the horizontal length of the sheet, a value corresponding to 10% of the vertical length is subtracted from the vertical direction. As a result,
The print range is determined. Note that the print range in this case indicates a range (area) necessary for printing a document, and does not indicate an image to be printed on printing paper.

The print start position determining means 35 divides the value subtracted at the same ratio into two in the direction other than the direction of the binding margin, and divides the value into two on both sides. Is used to calculate the print start position. For example, as shown in FIG. 13, the direction of the binding margin is the vertical direction (a).
If, the value obtained by subtracting the same ratio from the vertical direction is divided into two equal parts, and they are positioned above and below, and the print start position is calculated. If the binding margin is in the horizontal direction (b),
A value obtained by subtracting the same ratio from the horizontal direction is divided into two equal parts, which are positioned on the left and right sides, and a print start position is calculated.

FIG. 14 shows the relationship between the binding margin, the printing range, and the printing start position on the printing paper. In the drawing, the portion indicated by the black circle represents the print start position.

Next, the flow of processing in the case where the binding margin setting device 6 determines the binding margin on printing paper is shown in FIG.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the binding margin acquisition means 31 acquires the designated binding margin position (hereinafter, MP) and value (hereinafter, MV) (step 301). Next, the print paper size obtaining means 33 obtains a designated print paper size (hereinafter, PS). Subsequently, the binding margin direction determining means 32 determines from the MP whether the binding margin is to be taken in the vertical or horizontal direction (step 303), and determines whether the binding margin is in the horizontal direction (step 304). Here, if the binding margin is in the horizontal direction, the print range determination unit 34
MV is subtracted from the vertical value of, and the remaining value is set as PSH (step 305). Next, in order to make the aspect ratio of the print range the same as the document to be printed, the value of the same ratio is subtracted from the horizontal value of PS, and the remaining value is set to PSW (step 30).
6). The print start position determining means 35 calculates the print start position from the MP and MV, assuming that the value obtained by subtracting the value subtracted from the horizontal value of the PS is located at the left and right sides in the horizontal direction (step 307). Then, PSH, PSW and the print start position are output to the N-up converter 4 (step 308).

If it is determined in step 304 that the binding margin is in the vertical direction, the print range determining means 34 subtracts the MV from the horizontal value of the PS and sets it as the PSW (step 309). Next, in order to make the aspect ratio of the print range the same as the document to be printed, a value of the same ratio is subtracted from the vertical value of PS, and this is set as PSH (step 31).
0). The print start position determining means 35 calculates the print start position from the MP and MV, assuming that the value obtained by subtracting the vertical value of the PS is divided into two equal parts and positioned vertically in the vertical direction (step 311). Then, PSH, PSW and the print start position are output to the N-up converter 4 (step 308).

The subsequent processing is the same as that of the first embodiment. In the N-up converter 4, when arranging a plurality of pages on one print sheet, the NSH converter 4 refers to the PSH, PSW and the print start position. To set the binding margin for each page. Therefore, in the print processing apparatus according to the third embodiment, by specifying the position and value of the binding margin, it is possible to provide a margin portion for the binding margin on each page of the document printed N-up.

[0052]

As described above, the print processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention uses the paper size of a specified document, the specified print paper size, and the N-up value based on the specified paper size.
Since the paper size of the document is enlarged or reduced, and the plurality of enlarged or reduced pages are arranged on one print paper indicated by the print paper size, the document to be printed is printed on the paper of the document. A plurality of pages can be printed on one print sheet at a magnification (enlargement or reduction) based on the size, the specified print sheet size, and the N-up value, and the cost can be reduced by saving print sheets. At the same time, the copy time can be reduced as the number of print sheets to be copied is reduced. Further, according to the print processing apparatus of the second invention, it is possible to obtain the same functions and effects as those of the first invention.

According to the print processing apparatus of the third invention, it is possible to obtain the same operation and effect as those of the first invention, and it is also possible to print a plurality of pages on one print sheet. First, the print start position of each page on the print paper is obtained from the specified print paper size and the N-up value, and the page layout is determined using these values and the user-specified page layout value. It is possible to set the page layout of the up as specified by the user.

Further, according to the print processing apparatus of the fourth invention, it is possible to obtain the same operation and effect as those of the first invention, and it is also possible to print a plurality of pages on one print sheet. The printing range and the printing start position are determined from the specified printing paper size and the specified binding margin position and value. Therefore, the binding margin on the N-up printed printing paper is determined according to the user's specification. Can be set.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an N-up converter.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a print system according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of page division.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the N-up converter.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a print system according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a page layout device.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an arrangement pattern of a page at the time of 4-up.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the page arrangement device.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a print system according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the binding margin setting device.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a position of a binding margin on printing paper.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a printing range on printing paper.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a printing start position on printing paper.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a binding margin on a print sheet, a print range, and a print start position.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the binding margin setting device.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Document editing device, 2 ... Print processing device, 3 ... Printing device,
4 N-up converter, 5 Page placement device, 6 Binding allowance setting device, 13 (22) N-up value acquisition means, 14
... Enlargement / reduction ratio calculation means, 15: Page scale conversion means, 16: Print paper position determination means, 23 (35): Print start position determination means, 24: Page arrangement value acquisition means, 25
... Page arrangement determination means, 31 ... Binding margin acquisition means, 33 ...
Binding margin direction determining means 34, print range determining means

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document paper size obtaining means for obtaining a paper size of a specified document, a paper size obtaining means for obtaining a specified printing paper size, and an N-up value obtaining for obtaining a specified N-up value Means for enlarging or reducing the paper size of the document based on the paper size, printing paper size, and N-up value of the document acquired by each of the acquiring means, and printing the plurality of enlarged or reduced pages. And a processing unit for arranging the printing paper on one printing paper indicated by the paper size. 2. The processing means includes: a document paper size acquired by the document paper size acquiring means; a printing paper size acquired by the paper size acquiring means; and a N-up value acquired by the N-up value acquiring means. Enlargement / reduction calculation means for calculating the enlargement / reduction rate per page of the document based on the up value, and scale conversion for converting the scale of one page of the document according to the enlargement / reduction rate calculated by the enlargement / reduction calculation means Means, the printing paper size acquired by the paper size acquiring means, and the N acquired by the N-up value acquiring means.
Based on the up value, a printing paper position determining means for determining a page position on the printing paper; and a page position determined by the printing paper position determining means and a scale converted by the scale converting means. 2. A print processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a page arrangement processing unit for arranging a plurality of pages on a sheet of printing paper. 3. A first method for acquiring a designated print paper size.
Obtaining means, a second obtaining means for obtaining a designated N-up value, a printing paper size obtained by the first obtaining means,
And first print start position determining means for determining a print start position of each page on printing paper from the N-up value obtained by the second obtaining means; and a page layout position obtaining means for obtaining a specified page layout value. Means for creating a table representing the relationship between the page layout value obtained by the page layout position obtaining means and the print start position of each page determined by the first print start position determining means; 3. The print processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a page arrangement device configured to output a page arrangement to the processing unit. 4. A binding margin acquiring means for acquiring a position and a value of a designated binding margin, and a binding margin direction determining means for judging a binding margin direction from the binding margin position acquired by the binding margin acquiring means. A third obtaining unit that obtains a specified printing paper size; and a printing range based on the printing paper size obtained by the third obtaining unit and the binding margin direction determined by the binding margin direction determining unit. A binding range setting device including a printing range determining unit to be determined, and a second printing start position determining unit that calculates a printing start position from the binding margin position and value acquired by the binding margin acquiring unit. The print processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: