JP4228528B2 - Electronic typesetting device and recording medium - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an electronic typesetting apparatus that creates a typesetting of a newspaper or the like.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, color newspapers have been used for newspapers, and they have provided an impact on readers. For the typesetting for these printed materials, an electronic typesetting device called CTS (Computerized Typesetting System) using a computer is used, and the use of this device is becoming more common in newspaper companies where the time is particularly competitive.
[0003]
The electronic typesetting apparatus is an apparatus that performs arrangement by combining electronically created documents, graphics, and other materials to form a page. The configuration of a general electronic typesetting apparatus is as shown in FIG. The CPU 11 shown in FIG. 2 controls the entire apparatus, and mainly performs editing processing, assignment processing, color separation processing, and the like. The auxiliary memory 12 is a storage device for storing text and image information, which is the contents of documents and graphics materials, allocation position information where those materials are allocated on paper, and is a hard disk, for example. The keyboard 13 is an input device for inputting text data such as newspaper articles and a user giving instructions to the electronic typesetting device. The mouse 14 is used to specify the position of newspaper articles on the display screen during assignment work. Is an input device. The scanner 15 is an input device that takes a photograph or the like as image data. The display 16 is a display device that displays material information on the screen when editing text data or performing operations such as assignment, and the printer 17 is an output device that prints out the composition results.
[0004]
A process of a conventional general electronic typesetting apparatus will be described with reference to FIG. First, in the new creation, image data such as text data and photographs as articles are input using the keyboard 13 and the scanner 15 and stored in the material content DB 21. (S1, S2)
Next, the information on the contents of the material is called up on the display screen and arranged while displaying the size and the number of steps of the newspaper on the screen. The area required for the material at the time of placement can be calculated from the number of characters, the size of the character, the character spacing, and the line spacing, for example, if it is character information such as an article. Calculated in advance by a computer. Specifically, the user uses the mouse 14 or the like to arrange the material in the screen frame of the screen at the position considered optimal. This work is an assignment work, and the position of the assigned material is stored in the assignment position DB 22 as assignment position information at any time by the computer. Here, each material has the hierarchical structure shown in FIG. 4, and the unit for handling the material in the allocation work is an independent color material, monochrome material, and block. This block is shared by the newspaper company to create the material, and a block consisting of a set of photos and articles is a block. By treating it as a block, it prevents the wrong photos and articles from being combined. In the allocation work, this block is handled as one material like the independent color material and monochrome material, and has allocation position information. (S3)
When all materials have been assigned, calibration is performed. If there is no problem, school completion information is set. The material cannot be changed after the school completion information is set. The setting of school completion information has two purposes. One is to output a printing film for printing in the following steps. Is to prevent. Another purpose is to output four color separation films of CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black, respectively) as color blocks in the case of color printing, but after the end of school to prevent misregistration of each color This is to prevent the contents of the color material and the allocation position from being changed carelessly. For example, it has a role to prevent the position of the color material from being changed by some wrong operation during the re-creation of the C-color artwork film after the creation of the four-color artwork film. (S4)
Subsequently, the apparatus confirms that the school has been completed with the school completion information, performs color separation processing for the three colors of CMY using the information in the material content DB 21 and the allocation position DB 22, and then the color separation film Create. Further, K color separation of the monochrome material and the color material is performed to create a master film. (S5, S6)
Next, the case where the content and allocation position of the material are changed will be described. When instructing that it is a change work in FIG. 3, the apparatus cancels the school completion information. (S1, S7) When the school completion information is canceled, the apparatus allows the material on the screen to be changed. Here, the content of the material is changed, and then the allocation position is changed. The material content DB 21 and the allocation position DB 22 are updated at any time with the changed content and information on the allocation position. After the change work is completed, confirm that there is no problem with the changed contents and assignment and set the school completion information. (S8-S10)
Subsequently, when the changed material is both a color / monochrome material, a color separation plate film and a master plate film are prepared. In the case of changing only the monochrome material, since the color separation film can be the same as that before the change, this film is not created, but only the parent plate film is created. (S11, S5, S6)
An example in which only the monochrome material is changed by the above change will be described below. Newspaper publishers change articles to the latest content over time, and deliver the latest version to readers by region taking delivery time into account. That is, the first version of the paper is delivered to an area requiring the most delivery time, but the latest version of the paper is delivered to an area where the delivery time is the shortest. In such cases, it is often the case that only articles are replaced while keeping materials such as color photographs as they are. This is because the CMY three-color separation film is already used as it is, and only the master color film of K color generated by changing the article is created to minimize the time required for printing. Is to be done. An example in which only the article in such a case is changed is shown in FIG. FIG. 5A shows a paper layout screen before the change. A paper frame 32 is displayed on the display screen 31, and a title character 33, which is a monochrome material, an article 34, a color photograph 35, which is a color material, and a block 36 are further displayed as materials. The block 36 is composed of an article 37 which is a monochrome material and a color photograph 38 which is a color material. Of these materials, articles 34 and 37 are changed. FIG. 5B shows the allocation position changed after the material content is changed. That is, the content and the allocation position are changed such that the article 34 before change is 39 and 37 is 41. The changed article 37 is first changed in content in the block, and changed as a block in the assignment work. The position of the color photograph is the same position. Since there is no change to the color separation film necessary for printing color photographs, the film before the article change can be used as it is, and only the parent film is created.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As described above, in the creation of newspapers, it is frequently performed to change only the monochrome material that is the article while leaving the color material such as a color photograph as it is. At that time, since the color separation film already created is used in the printing operation and only the modified master plate film is output, the master plate film should not be misaligned with the created color separation plate film. There is a restriction that it must not.
[0006]
However, in the article change work, particularly in the assignment position change, the user designates the position of the monochrome material using the mouse or the like on the screen shown in FIG. 4, but touches the adjacent color material at that time. That happens quite a bit. As a result, the position of the color material is changed, and the newly output master plate film is misaligned with the existing color separation film, so that the color separation film cannot be used.
[0007]
In this case, a method of fixing only the color material so as not to move the color material can be considered, but there is a problem in handling the block. In particular, when creating newspapers, it is assumed that the block structure is used. When a block consists of color and monochrome materials, either the block is handled as one of the color materials or one of the monochrome materials. It is to treat as one. When handled as a color material, it becomes impossible to change the monochrome material. Conversely, when handled as a monochrome material, the color material is displaced.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has been devised so that when a monochrome material is changed, the master plate film is created by using the position information of the color material before the change. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic typesetting apparatus that guarantees a positional deviation between a color separation plate film and a master plate film.
[0009]
The principle of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. First, the material content storage unit 1 and the allocated position storage unit 2 will be described.
[0010]
The material content information stored in the material content storage means 1 is composed of information such as a character code, font, and character size together with a material ID in the case of text data, and a bitmap or TIFF together with the material ID in the case of image data. It is a set of information for each material made up of information in the form. The material ID is a symbol for identifying the material. For example, a color / monochrome type symbol, a text / image type symbol, or the like is added to each number so that the material ID can be understood from the material ID. Good. Alternatively, an individual number may be used. In this case, a table indicating the color / monochrome type and the text / image type corresponding to the material ID may be provided. In any case, it is sufficient that the material ID can be identified from the color material or the monochrome material.
[0011]
The allocation position information of the allocation position storage means 2 indicates the position of the material on the paper surface, and each material has information on the material ID, the arrangement coordinates (X, Y) and the size (W, H) on the paper surface. Is a set of information for.
[0012]
The present invention is an invention in the case of recomposing by changing a monochrome material. First, at the stage before starting the change work, the color material allocation position information is extracted from the allocation position storage means 2. The allocation position storage means 2 stores the allocation position information of monochrome materials and color materials in a mixed manner, but only the color material can be extracted by identifying the material from the material ID. If the information of the color material and the monochrome material is stored in advance in the input of the material content and the allocation position, the allocation position information of the color material may be simply extracted as it is. These pieces of information are stored in the color position information extraction / storage means 4 as fixed color assignment position information.
[0013]
Thereafter, the contents and assignment of the monochrome material are changed, and the information in the material contents storage means 1 and the assignment position storage means 2 is updated to the changed values. After the work for changing the monochrome material is completed, the master plate film creating means 5 stores the monochrome material and the material content information of the color material stored in the material content storage means 1 and the monochrome stored in the allocation position storage means 2. The master film is created by performing color separation of K colors based on the material allocation position information and the fixed color allocation position information stored in the color position information extraction / storage means 4.
[0014]
In the present invention, since the CMY color separation film is used before changing the monochrome material, only the parent plate film is output here. Even if you change the allocation position by touching the color material during the change operation, the color plate allocation position information creates the parent plate film based on the information before the change operation. There will be no deviation.
[0015]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the electronic typesetting apparatus of the present invention will be described.
[0016]
The hardware configuration of the present invention is the same as that of FIG. 2 described in the prior art.
[0017]
Next, the processing flow of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. First, after a new creation instruction, an article of text data that is a material of newspaper is taken from the keyboard 13 and a photograph of image data is taken from the scanner 15 and stored in the material content information DB 21. (S21, S22)
Next, the material information is assigned on the screen of the display 16 in consideration of the size of the newspaper and the number of steps, and the position information of the assigned material is stored in the assigned position DB 22. (S23)
If all the assignments are completed and there is no problem with the newspaper, the school ends, the school completion information is set, and then only the color material position information is extracted from the assigned position DB 22. Although the allocation position information of color materials and monochrome materials is mixed in the allocation position DB 22, the color material can be identified by a color or monochrome symbol included in the material ID of each allocation position information. The extracted information is stored in the fixed color assignment position DB 23. FIG. 7 shows an example of the data structure of the fixed color allocation position DB 23 extracted as described above, and is composed of the number of color materials and individual allocation position information. Individual position information includes a material ID, a position (X, Y) where the material is placed, and a size (W, H). (S24-S26)
Next, the color material image data is subjected to color separation processing into three color components of CMY, and the color separation film is output based on this data. (S27)
Subsequently, the text which is a monochrome material and the K color component of the color image data are extracted, and the master plate film is created. The information used in the creation is the material content information for both color and monochrome materials in the material content DB 21. The allocation position information is the allocation position DB 22 data for monochrome materials and the fixed color allocation position for color materials. It is data of DB23. (S28)
Next, a case where only the monochrome material is changed will be described. Changing the monochrome material is equivalent to using the color photo of the newspaper as it is and changing only the article, using the pre-change color separation film and creating only the parent film. Do things. First, when instructing to enter the change work, the apparatus cancels the school completion information, and then instructs the apparatus that the change material is a change of the monochrome material. (S21, S29, S30)
Next, the content and assignment of the monochrome material are changed. These changed information updates the information in the material content DB 21 and the allocation position DB 22. When the change of the monochrome material is completed, if there is no problem, the school completion information is set. (S31-S33)
Thereafter, the master plate film is output after the color separation processing of K color in S28 described in the new creation. The fixed color assignment position DB 23 used for the output of the master plate film is the color before the change work. Since this is the material allocation position information, there is no positional deviation from the color separation film.
[0018]
Although the processing related to the present invention has been described above, the present invention can be applied to a case where both color and monochrome materials are changed. In this case, when the change is canceled by instructing the change work and “color / monochrome” is selected as the change material, the device deletes the contents of the fixed color assignment position DB 23, and then assigns the contents of the color material and the monochrome material. Change the position. (S29, S30, S34 to S36)
The subsequent flow is the same as S24 to S28 described in the flow of new creation.
[0019]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, even if a color material such as a color photograph is touched during the change of the monochrome material, the master plate film is misaligned with the color separation film output before the change. There is no such thing as to wake up.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a principle diagram of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration example of an electronic typesetting apparatus.
FIG. 3 is an example of a processing flow of a conventional electronic typesetting apparatus.
FIG. 4 is a hierarchical structure of materials.
FIG. 5 is an example of changing a monochrome material.
FIG. 6 is a processing flow embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a data structure example of fixed color allocation position information.
[Explanation of symbols]
1: Material content storage means 2: Allocation position storage means 3: Change processing means 4: Color position information extraction / storage means 5: Master plate film creation means 11: CPU
12: Auxiliary memory 13: Keyboard 14: Mouse 15: Scanner 16: Display 17: Printer 21: Material content DB
22: Assignment position DB
23: Fixed color allocation position DB
31: Display screen 32: Paper frame 33: Monochrome material (title character)
34: Monochrome material (article)
35: Color material 36: Block 37: Monochrome material (article)
38: Color material 39: Monochrome material after change 40: Block after change 41: Monochrome material after change

Claims (2)

An electronic typesetting device that combines color material and monochrome material to form a page,
Material content storage means for holding material content information which is the content of the color material and the monochrome material;
Allocation position storage means for storing allocation position information of the color material and the monochrome material;
A color position information extracting / storing unit that receives an instruction to change a monochrome material, extracts color material allocation position information from the allocation position storage unit, and stores it as fixed color allocation position information;
Change processing means for updating at least the material content information held in the material content storage means or the assigned position information held in the assigned position storage means for the monochrome material instructed to change,
Material content information of monochrome material and color material stored in the material content storage means;
An electronic typesetting apparatus comprising: a master plate film creating means for creating a master plate film from the monochrome material layout position information stored in the layout position storage means and the fixed color layout position information. A computer-readable recording medium on which an electronic typesetting program of an electronic typesetting apparatus that forms a paper sheet by combining a color material and a monochrome material is recorded ,
A material content storage means for holding material content information which is the content of the color material and the monochrome material;
Allocation position storage means for storing allocation position information of the color material and the monochrome material;
A color position information extracting / storing unit that receives an instruction to change a monochrome material, extracts color material allocation position information from the allocation position storage unit, and stores it as fixed color allocation position information;
Change processing means for updating at least the material content information held in the material content storage means or the assigned position information held in the assigned position storage means for the monochrome material instructed to change,
Based on the material content information of the monochrome material and the color material stored in the material content storage unit, the allocation position information of the monochrome material stored in the allocation position storage unit, and the fixed color allocation position information A computer-readable recording medium on which an electronic typesetting program for functioning as a master film creating means for creating a film is recorded .

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