JP4285252B2 - Print data generation apparatus, print data generation method, and print data generation program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention converts the page size recorded in a document file according to the page size and binding direction of a booklet that is printed in double-sided printing paper in the printing order and bound in a weekly magazine, and matches the output order to the printing paper. Regarding the print data generation apparatus, print data generation method, and print data generation program technology that perform page layout control, especially when there are pages for spread in the manuscript file, they are held as spread pages on the booklet that is bound in a weekly magazine. The present invention relates to a technique for automatically processing page layout control as much as possible.

  As a printing technique for binding a conventional spread booklet, a “data processing apparatus” described in Patent Document 1 is disclosed.

  The invention of Patent Document 1 is a data processing device that generates print data for output on a print sheet based on document data representing a plurality of electronically generated pages, and a sheet layout represented by the document data. And a page arrangement control unit that determines the page order to be arranged on the printing paper so that the printing result on the printing paper becomes a booklet that can be spread based on the form of the printing paper.

The page layout control unit displays the paper layout represented by the document data, for example, information such as the combination of page sizes, the total number of pages, the size of the printing paper prepared on the printing device side, whether double-sided printing is possible, etc. Based on the form of the printing paper set in the printer, the page order to be arranged on each printing paper is determined so that the printing result on the printing paper becomes a booklet that can be spread.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-162406.

  By applying the invention of Patent Document 1, the spread page included in the document data can be spread even in a bound booklet.

  However, since the bookbinding style of the booklet is determined by the contents of the document data, such as the total number of pages calculated by the number of spread pages included in the document data, and the number of spread pages and the order of description, the user must There was a problem that could not be specified freely.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides a page size and binding of an output booklet without double adjustment of the size of a manuscript page and the description position of a spread page in double-sided printing for creating a booklet that can be bound by a weekly magazine. Data conversion / division processing of the original page according to the direction is appropriately performed according to a preset conversion rule. Further, for the original page designated as a spread page, the page is also displayed as a spread page on a booklet that is bound after printing. An object of the present invention is to provide a print data generation apparatus, a print data generation method, and a print data generation program that perform page layout control.

  To achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print data generating apparatus for generating print data for printing a document composed of a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including portrait and landscape pages. Enlargement / reduction processing means for enlarging / reducing a horizontal page to twice the print size, and a horizontal page enlarged / reduced to twice the print size to two print sizes If the page numbering means that divides and reassigns the entire page number and the smaller page number of the page divided by the page dividing means is an odd number, insert a print size adjustment page in front of the page. Adjustment page insertion means for renumbering page numbers and multiple pages with adjustment pages inserted by the adjustment page insertion means for double-sided printing with weekly magazine binding Characterized by comprising a print data generating unit that generates print data by placing on twice the virtual paper print size so as to have a predetermined page order upon.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the message print instructing means for instructing to print a message indicating that the page is the adjustment page on the adjustment page inserted by the adjustment page insertion means. Furthermore, it is characterized by comprising.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the index generation means for generating an index of a document to be printed on both sides of a weekly magazine by the print data generated by the print data generation means, and the index generation means And an index print instruction means for instructing to print the index generated in step 1 on the first page of a document to be printed on both sides of a weekly magazine.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect of the present invention, the index generated by the index generating means includes a thumbnail image corresponding to the index page.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a print data generation method of a print data generation apparatus for generating print data for printing a document composed of a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including a portrait and landscape pages. The processing unit enlarges or reduces the print size to a predetermined print size, enlarges or reduces the horizontally long page to twice the print size, and enlarges or reduces the horizontally long page to the print size by the page dividing unit. When the page number of the smaller one of the pages divided by the page dividing means is odd, the print size adjustment page is set by the adjustment page inserting means before the page. Insert and renumber all pages, and weekly magazines with multiple pages with adjustment pages inserted by adjustment page insertion means Flip and generates the print data arranged to on twice the virtual paper print size by the print data generating means to a predetermined page order upon duplex printing.

  The invention of claim 6 is a print data generation program for causing a computer to execute data processing of a print data generation apparatus for generating print data for printing a document composed of a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including portrait and landscape pages. In addition, the vertical page is enlarged or reduced to a predetermined print size, the horizontal page is enlarged or reduced to twice the print size, and the horizontal page enlarged or reduced to twice the print size is printed. If the page number of the smaller divided page is odd, insert the print size adjustment page in front of the page. Renumbering and a number of pages with adjustment pages inserted into the weekly booklet double-sided printing. Characterized in that it comprises the steps of generating print data arrangement to the twice the virtual paper print size so that di sequence.

  According to the present invention, a user who performs weekly booklet binding printing operation can adjust to the page size of a booklet that is bound after weekly booklet printing without adjusting the original page size and the order of description of spread pages in advance. The original page size conversion / division processing and the adjustment page insertion or relocation control of movable manuscript pages can be automatically performed to perform weekly magazine binding printing holding a spread page.

  This shortens the preparation work time for weekly binding printing for document data having an original page in which a page layout different from the page size of the booklet is specified, and simplifies the printing operation.

  Hereinafter, a print data generation apparatus, a print data generation method, and a print data generation program according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration example of a printing system to which a print data generation apparatus of the present invention is applied, and is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the print data generation apparatus.

  In FIG. 1, a print host 100 converts a plurality of manuscript pages having different sizes into a page size for weekly binding printing, performs page allocation, generates a print image for each print sheet, and performs printer output. .

  The print host 100 also includes a document data creation unit 101 as an application program for generating a document file in which an electronic print document is recorded in a PDF (Portable Document Format) format, and each document for weekly bound printing. A manuscript page conversion unit 103 that appropriately performs enlargement / reduction, centering, division, and margin adjustment based on the page size of the booklet and creates an intermediate file for each output page, and a manuscript page conversion unit 103 A page connection control unit 102 that performs page layout control for weekly bound binding printing and a printer driver 106 that is software for controlling the printer 2 are network-connected or locally connected to each intermediate file created Data communication with the printer 2 An interface unit 113 that controls communication, parameter information necessary for printing processing, a print host storage unit 107 that stores temporary work data, a printer driver 106, and an OS (operating system) 105. And a print host main control unit 104 that controls the entire print host 100 by software.

  Among various data stored in the print host storage unit 107, as information related to weekly bound binding printing, a document page size conversion rule 60, a document layout management table 70, an output layout management table 80, document data 111, intermediate data Store and manage the file 112.

  The manuscript size conversion rule 60 is a conversion table that sets and manages data conversion information for each manuscript page size in accordance with the page size and orientation of a booklet that is bound by weekly binding printing.

  The document layout management table 70 is a table for creating and managing detailed information of each document data 111 for which weekly magazine binding printing is designated at a document page level.

  The output layout management table 80 temporarily converts the conversion information for each document page set in the document layout management table 70 and the result of page arrangement control based on the description order, spread page designation, etc. until the print processing is completed. It is a table that stores and manages, and further sets and manages information on the output order to printing paper in weekly magazine binding printing, printing surface, and allocation position on the printing surface.

  The manuscript data 111 is a file in which manuscript pages generated by the manuscript data creation unit 101 are recorded. Examples of the file format include a PDF file which is a standard file format of an electronic document distributed via the Internet. There is.

  The intermediate file 112 converts the data of each manuscript page recorded in the manuscript data 111 based on the manuscript size conversion rule 60 and the page layout control result recorded in the output layout management table 80, and converts the converted data into a page. A file temporarily stored in units.

  The printer 2 receives the raster data for each print page generated by the print host 100 and performs duplex printing.

  Note that a description of the control configuration related to the image forming process on the printing paper by the printer engine after receiving the print data in the printer 2 will be omitted.

  Next, the process of weekly magazine binding printing in the printing system shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

  FIG. 2 is an image diagram showing an overview of weekly magazine binding printing to which the print data generation method of the present invention is applied. In particular, in page layout control, the allocation position of spread pages is adjusted by inserting a white page. It is the figure which showed the example.

  In FIG. 2, four files created as document data 111 to be processed for weekly binding printing, document A (21), document B (22), document C (23), and document D (24) are designated. The page size of a booklet that is bound and printed by weekly magazine binding is A4 length, and an example when the binding direction is left binding will be described.

  As a first stage, the description order of each original page for which weekly magazine binding printing is designated and conversion information for the original page data are set.

  For example, the page size of the document A (21) is a B5 size that is smaller than the page size A4 of the booklet that is bound after the weekly binding printing.

  Accordingly, “centering” is set in the conversion information of the original page for the original A (21).

  For the original B (22), the page size and paper direction of the booklet that is bound after weekly magazine binding printing are the same, so nothing is set in the conversion information of the original page.

  The document C (23) is A3 horizontal size, which is larger than the page size of the booklet to be bound after printing, but is divided into left and right pages as A4 vertical so as to be allocated as spread pages, and conversion information Is set with conversion information such as “A4 division (left), spread” and “A4 division (right), spread”.

  Since the document D (24) is B4 length larger than the page size of the booklet to be bound after printing, reduction processing to the A4 length size is necessary.

  Therefore, “A4 reduction” is set in the conversion information corresponding to the document D (24).

  As the second stage, page layout control capable of weekly binding printing is performed on each converted original page based on the description order of the original pages determined in the first stage and the conversion information for each original page.

  For example, when the original page of the original C (23), which is a spread page, is divided into two, and the order of describing the original data and assigning pages for weekly binding printing are performed, the printing paper (second sheet) “Page 3”, which is a small page of the spread page, is assigned to the right side of the page, and “Page 4” corresponding to the large page portion of the spread page is assigned to the left side of the print paper (second sheet) 26. In a booklet that is printed in a weekly magazine in a state, it cannot be set as a spread page.

  Therefore, in the third stage, the white page 29 for adjustment is inserted at the position “page 3” at the scheduled allocation position of the small spread page.

  As a result, a page with a small spread page is allocated to the left side of the printing paper (second sheet) 26, and a page with a large spread page is allocated to the right side of the printing sheet (second sheet) 26, thereby printing and binding. The booklet can be referred to as a spread page.

  Next, the document page size conversion rule 60, the document layout management table 70, and the output layout management table 80 stored in the print host 10 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 6 is a layout diagram illustrating an example of registration data in the document page size conversion rule 60.

  The manuscript page size conversion rule 60 preliminarily sets a set of manuscript page page layouts that can be specified in the manuscript data 111 and conversion information corresponding to the page layout for each size of printing paper and binding direction after weekly magazine binding printing. It is a table that is defined and stored and managed.

  The booklet page information 61 is an item for recording and managing the page size and binding direction of a booklet that is bound after weekly booklet binding printing.

  The manuscript page size 62 is an item for setting the manuscript page size and paper orientation that can be designated by the manuscript data 111.

  The conversion method 63 sets a conversion method corresponding to each document page size 62.

  For example, FIG. 6 shows an example of a conversion rule when double-sided printing is performed on A3 printing paper and the bound booklet page size is A4 vertical and left long binding, In this example, conversion information that is divided into two parts in A4 vertical size is applied.

  FIG. 7 is a layout diagram illustrating a registration example of the document layout management table 70.

  The document layout management table 70 includes a document file ID 71 for recording identification information of a document page file for which weekly magazine binding printing is designated, a description order 72 for setting a description order for each file specified by the document file ID 71, and Based on the document page 73 indicating the number of the document page stored in the document file ID 71, the document page size 74 indicating the page layout corresponding to each document page 73, and the document page size conversion rule 60 shown in FIG. The document conversion information 75 in which the determined conversion information is set, and the page arrangement control are configured by a processing flag 76 for setting and managing the progress of the allocation process.

  In the data shown in FIG. 7, for example, a manuscript page whose manuscript file ID 71 is “# manuscript page 052” and manuscript page 73 is “page 3” is A3 horizontal, and is set on the booklet according to the setting value of the manuscript conversion information 75. Indicates a spread page.

  FIG. 8 is a layout diagram showing a data registration example of the output layout management table 80 shown in FIG.

  The output layout management table 80 registers the page layout control result based on the description order and conversion information of each document page listed in the document layout management table 70, and performs double-sided printing processing on the registered records. This is a table for setting and managing information on the printing order and allocation position on the printing surface.

  The data recorded and managed in the output layout management table 80 includes an output page number 81 indicating an allocation page in a booklet that has been bound, and identification information of a file in which a document page to be allocated to the output page number 81 is recorded. Document file ID 82, a document page 83 for setting a document page number, document conversion information 84 for setting a conversion method for page data of the document page specified by the document file ID 82 and document page 83, and weekly magazine binding printing. In the case of performing the double-sided printing process, the allocation order of the printing paper and the printing surface, and the paper allocation position 85 for setting the allocation position information on the printing surface for each output page number 81, and the status of the printing process are set. There is a processing flag 86 to be managed.

  For example, a record whose output page number 81 corresponds to “page 3” is a white page inserted so that a spread page can be allocated to “page 4” and “page 5”, and the paper allocation position The setting content of 85 indicates that a page image is formed on the right side of the back side of the second printing paper.

  Next, the print data generation process in the printing system shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the reference numerals in the print host 100 shown in FIG. 1 and the flowchart of FIG. 3 showing the overall flow of the print data generation process.

  In FIG. 3, when the document data creation unit 101 detects a weekly binding print request event, the document data creation unit 101 notifies the page layout control unit 102 of identification information, description order, and bookbinding information of the document data 111, and page layout control. To instruct

  Based on the bookbinding information notified from the document data creation unit 101, the identification information of the document data 111, the description order, and the document page size conversion rule 60 recorded in the document size conversion rule 60, the page arrangement control unit 102 performs FIG. Is created, and a document file ID 71, a description order 72, a document page 73, a document page size 74, and a processing flag 76 are set (S101).

  Here, at the stage where step S101 is completed, all items except the document conversion information 75 in the document layout management table 70 are set for each document data 111.

  Next, the page layout control unit 102 prints the document data 111 corresponding to the document file ID 71 set in the document layout management table 70 created in step S101 based on the order set in the description order 72. Read from 107 (S102).

  In the document data 111 read in step S102, the page arrangement control unit 102 acquires data of document pages whose processing flag 76 is not processed in the ascending order of the page numbers described in the document page 73 (S103).

  Further, the page arrangement control unit 102 reads a document page size 74 corresponding to the document page 73 to be processed from the document layout management table 70, and converts document page conversion information corresponding to the read document page size 74 to document size conversion. It is specified by the rule 60 and set in the document conversion information 75 (S104).

  If there is an unprocessed document page in the document data 111 subjected to the read process in step S103 (S105-YES), the page arrangement control unit 102 returns to step S103 and the next page in which the process flag 76 is unprocessed. Data is read sequentially, and the process of step S104 is repeated.

  On the other hand, in step S105, when the setting operation of the document conversion information 75 for all document pages is completed (S105-NO) and there is unprocessed document data 111 (S106-YES), the page arrangement control unit 102 again Returning to step S102, the document data 111 corresponding to the next document file ID 71 recorded in the document layout management table 70 is read from the print host storage unit 107.

  Then, the setting process of the document conversion information 75 for each document page 73 in the document layout management table 70 shown in steps S103 to S105 is repeatedly set.

  When the creation of the document layout management table 70 is completed in the page layout control unit 102 (S106—NO), the page layout control unit 102 starts a page allocation process for performing weekly binding printing, as shown in FIG. An output layout management table 80 is created in the print host storage unit 107 (S107).

  When the creation of the output layout management table 80 is completed, the page layout control unit 102 sets the document file ID 82, the document page 83, and the document conversion information 84 in the order of output to the printing paper set at the paper allocation position 85 in the output layout management table 80. Are sequentially obtained (S108), and the obtained setting information is notified to the manuscript page conversion unit 103 to instruct creation of an intermediate file storing data obtained by converting manuscript data (S109).

  The document data creation unit 101 creates raster data for printer output based on the intermediate file corresponding to the print page created by the document page conversion unit 103, and sequentially outputs the created raster data to the printer 2 (S110). .

  While there is an unprocessed print page (S111-YES), the page arrangement control unit 102 returns to step S108 to acquire the document file ID 82, the document page 83, and the document conversion information 84 regarding the next print page. The intermediate file creation process corresponding to the original page in S109 is performed, and the raster data generation process for each print page in step S110 is repeated.

  Next, the page allocation process shown in step S107 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 will be further described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The page arrangement control unit 102 reads the records registered in the document layout management table 70 created in the print host storage unit 107 in ascending order of the description order 72 and the document page 73 (S201).

  The page arrangement control unit 102 determines whether the document page is a spread page from the content of the document conversion information 75 set in the read record (S202).

  When the original page is not a spread page (S202—NO), the page arrangement control unit 102 calculates an assigned page in the booklet that is bound after the weekly binding printing is performed, and sets it as the output page number 81 of the output layout management table 80. The document file ID 71 read in step S201 is set in the document file ID 82 of the output layout management table 80, the document page 73 is set in the document page 83 of the output layout management table 80, and the document conversion information 75 is set in the document conversion information 84. (S205).

  Note that at the stage where the process of step S205 is completed, the item of the paper allocation position 85 is not set.

  Returning to the determination process in step S202 again, when the original page is the smaller one of the spread pages (S202—YES), the page arrangement control unit 102 sets the output page number 81 registered in the output layout management table 80. An output page number obtained by adding 1 to the maximum value is calculated, and it is determined whether or not the calculated output page number is a page that can be assigned to a page with a smaller spread page (S203).

  When the smaller page of the spread document can be assigned (S203—YES), the page arrangement control unit 102 sets the page number calculated in step S203 as the output page number 81 as information of the smaller page of the spread page, and the step The document file ID 71 and the document page 73 read in S202 are set as the document file ID 82 and the document page 83, respectively, and combined with information indicating which divided page on the right or left side of the document page divided as the spread page is to be used. The document conversion information 84 is set.

  Further, as a page allocation process for the second half page corresponding to the larger spread page, a value obtained by adding 1 to the output page number 81 allocated to the smaller spread page is added to the output layout management table 80. For the original file ID 82 and the original page 83, the same information set in the small spread page is set for the output page number 81 in the record.

  For the original conversion information 84, information on the undivided side of the divided spread original pages is assigned to the original conversion information 75 and set (S205).

  Returning to step S203 again, when the calculated output page number 81 is a page number that is not suitable for page allocation of the smaller spread page (S203—NO), the page arrangement control unit 102 allocates page information in step S205. Before the registration process is performed, information indicating that one white page has been inserted into the document file ID 82 and the document page 83 is set (S204). Information indicating insertion is given to the document conversion information 75 (S205).

  If there is an unprocessed record that has not been registered in the page allocation information for the output layout management table 80 in steps S204 and S205 among the records registered in the document layout management table 70 (S206—YES), the page The arrangement control unit 102 returns to the process of step S202, performs page allocation processing for each unprocessed document page, and repeatedly performs allocation information registration processing for the output layout management table 80.

  On the other hand, when the page allocation result registration process for the output layout management table 80 has been completed for all records registered in the document layout management table 70 (S206—NO), the page layout control unit 102 determines that the output layout management table 80 The maximum value of the output page number 81 registered in is acquired, and it is determined whether the total number of pages after allocation is a multiple of 4 (S207).

  When the total number of pages is not a multiple of 4 (S207—NO), the page layout control unit 102 adjusts the page number to a multiple of 4 based on the maximum value of the output page number 81 registered in the output layout management table 80. The number of additional pages is calculated, the records for the calculated additional pages are added to the output layout management table 80, and information that is a blank page is set in the document file ID 82, the document page 83, and the document conversion information 84 (S208).

  On the other hand, when the total number of pages is a multiple of 4 (S207—YES), or when the adjustment process using the blank page in step S208 is completed, the page layout control unit 102 sets all the registered pages in the output layout management table 80. For the record, information on the output order to the printing paper, the classification of the printing surface, and the arrangement position of the print image on the printing surface is set from the page number assigned to the output page number 81 (S209).

  When the output layout management table 80 is generated from the document layout management table 70, a process of creating and inserting an “index page” that describes the heading information of each allocated page based on the result of page layout control is added. May be.

  In addition, when adding a registration data item to be set and managed as a setting item to the original layout management table 70 as “cover” and “back cover” pages and performing page layout control, “cover” You may make it perform page arrangement | positioning control which considered the page and the "back display" page.

  Next, the document page conversion process shown in step S109 of the flowchart of FIG. 3 will be further described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In FIG. 5, the page layout control unit 102 sorts the records set in the output layout management table 80 in ascending order of the print data creation order, and while there is an unprocessed record in the processing flag 86 (S301—YES). Read one record at a time in ascending order of print data creation order.

  Further, the page arrangement control unit 102 analyzes the document conversion information 84 set in the read record (S302).

  If “division” is designated as a result of analyzing the document change information 84 in step S302 (S303—YES), the document page conversion unit 103 is based on the document file ID 82 and document page 83 information of the read record. The data of the original page is read out to determine information on which of the divided right and left division planes specified by the original conversion information 84 is to be adopted. An intermediate file recorded in the data of the left half page area divided into two by size is created (S304).

  When “reduction” is set as a result of analyzing the document conversion information 84 in step S302 (S303—NO, S305—YES), the document page conversion unit 103 reads the document file ID 82 and document page 83 of the read record. Based on this information, the original page data is read, and an intermediate file in which the page data reduced to the size designated by the original conversion information 84 is recorded is created (S306).

  Further, when “enlargement” is set as a result of analyzing the document conversion information 84 in step S302 (S305-NO, S307-YES), and “division” after enlargement is specified (S308). -YES), the manuscript page conversion unit 103 reads the manuscript page data specified by the manuscript file ID 82 and manuscript page 83 set in the read record, and the size and division specified by the manuscript conversion information 84. An intermediate file that has been enlarged and divided based on the information of the later adopted surface is created (S309).

  On the other hand, in the analyzed document conversion information 84, when “division after enlargement” is not designated (S308—NO), the document page conversion unit 103 determines the document page specified by the document file ID 82 and document page 83 information. Data is read out, and an intermediate file in which data enlarged to the size specified by the document conversion information 84 is recorded is created (S310).

  If “centering” is designated as a result of analyzing the document conversion information 84 in step S302 (S311—YES), the document page conversion unit 103 displays the document file ID 82 and document page 83 information of the read record. Based on this, the original page data is read, and an intermediate file in which the page data centered at the position designated by the original conversion information 84 is recorded is created (S312).

  If no conversion information is designated as a result of analyzing the document conversion information 84 in step S302 (S311—NO), the document page conversion unit 103 is based on the information of the document file ID 82 and the document page 83. Then, an intermediate file in which data for one page specified is recorded is created (S313).

  In addition, the original page size conversion rule 60 shown in FIGS. 1 and 6 includes “division”, “reduction”, “enlargement”, “division after enlargement”, and “centering”. In the manuscript page conversion process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5, a conversion rule such as reducing a plurality of manuscript pages by “rotating paper direction”, “N-up designation”, etc. A configuration may be adopted in which an intermediate file is created by adding page data conversion processing corresponding to the added conversion rule.

  Further, as a configuration other than the embodiment shown so far, a manuscript page size conversion rule 60 shown in FIG. 6 is applied to a manuscript page that does not conform to the page size of a booklet to be bound after weekly binding printing. The conversion information is displayed at the specified stage, and an input / output means of a user interface is added as shown in the document data conversion confirmation screen 900 of FIG. 9 in which the operator individually changes the conversion information as necessary and processes it. May be.

  In addition to the method of adjusting the spread page by inserting the white page shown in FIG. 2, a page layout for moving a single page that can be moved immediately before or immediately after the spread page to a page position immediately after or just before the spread page. Control may be performed.

  Further, a configuration is created in which the thumbnail image of the intermediate file created for each allocation page shown in FIG. 5 is created, and the link information of the created thumbnail image is set and managed in the output layout management table 80, and added to the print host 100. For example, as shown in the page allocation result confirmation screen 1000 in FIG. 10, a user interface output means for displaying a thumbnail image with a booklet spread image when bookbinding or an allocation image for each print page is added. The status of page allocation processing may be checked before printing, or manual adjustment operations for changing the page allocation position may be performed.

  Further, a configuration may be added in which the insertion location when the index page is created and inserted, the contents of the index page, and the page heading information are displayed and checked by the user.

  In addition, if an adjustment page is inserted as a result of page layout control, a configuration is added to print that the adjustment page is printed at the position of the print paper to which the adjustment page is assigned. A configuration for selecting and specifying whether printing is necessary may be added.

  The print data generation apparatus, the print data generation method, and the print data generation program according to the present invention can be used in a printing apparatus that performs weekly bound binding printing and a print data generation method, and are particularly recorded in document data as a print document. This is effective when processing document data having pages whose page size does not match the page size and paper orientation after weekly binding printing.

  In addition to the printing apparatus, the image data obtained by sequentially reading a plurality of document sheets having different sizes can be stored, and the image data can be used in a copying machine having a function of sorting the stored image data for double-sided copying that can be bound in a weekly magazine. Is possible.

1 is a configuration example of a printing system to which a print data generation apparatus of the present invention is applied, and is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the print data generation apparatus. It is the image figure which showed the outline | summary of the weekly magazine binding printing to which the printing data generation method of this invention was applied in steps. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of print data generation processing. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of page allocation processing in the print data generation processing illustrated in FIG. 3. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of document data conversion processing in the print data generation processing illustrated in FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a table layout diagram illustrating an example of registration data of a document size conversion rule illustrated in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a table layout diagram illustrating an example of registration data of a document layout management table illustrated in FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a table layout diagram illustrating an example of registration data of an output layout management table illustrated in FIG. 1. 6 is a screen layout diagram illustrating a display example of a document data conversion confirmation screen. FIG. It is a screen layout figure which shows the example of a display of a page allocation result confirmation screen.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Print host 101 Original page creation part 102 Page arrangement control part 103 Original page conversion part 104 Print host main control part 105 OS (operating system)
106 Printer Driver 107 Print Host Storage Unit 108 Document Page Size Conversion Rule 110 Output Layout Management Table 111 Document Page 112 Intermediate File 113 Interface Unit 2 Printer 21 Document A
22 Original B
23 Document C
24 Document D
25 Printing paper (first sheet)
26 Printing paper (second sheet)
27 Reduced manuscript page 28 Facing manuscript page 29 White page 60 Manuscript page size conversion rule 61 Booklet page information
62 Document page size 63 Conversion method 70 Document layout management table 71 Document file ID
72 Description order 73 Document page 74 Document page size 75 Document conversion information 76 Processing flag 80 Output layout management table 81 Output page number 82 Document file ID
83 Original page 84 Original conversion information 85 Paper allocation position 86 Processing flag 900 Original page conversion confirmation screen 1000 Page allocation result confirmation screen

Claims (6)

In a print data generation apparatus for generating print data for printing a document composed of a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including portrait and landscape pages,
Enlargement / reduction processing means for enlarging or reducing the vertically long page to a predetermined print size and enlarging or reducing the horizontally long page to twice the print size;
Page dividing means for dividing a horizontally long page enlarged or reduced to twice the print size into two pages of the print size and reassigning the entire page number;
When the page number of the smaller one of the pages divided by the page dividing unit is an odd number, an adjustment page inserting unit that inserts the print size adjustment page in front of the page and reassigns the entire page number; and
Print data arranged on virtual paper twice the print size so as to have a predetermined page order when a plurality of pages into which adjustment pages have been inserted by the adjustment page insertion means are printed on both sides of a weekly magazine. And a print data generation unit for generating the print data. 2. The print data according to claim 1, further comprising message print instruction means for instructing to print a message indicating that the page is an adjustment page on the adjustment page inserted by the adjustment page insertion means. Generator. Index generating means for generating an index of a document to be printed on both sides of a weekly magazine by the print data generated by the print data generating means;
3. The index print instructing unit for instructing to print the index generated by the index generating unit on the first page of a document to be printed on both sides of the weekly magazine binding, further comprising: Print data generation device. The index generated by the index generation means is
The print data generation apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a thumbnail image corresponding to the index page. In a print data generation method of a print data generation device that generates print data for printing a document composed of a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including a portrait and landscape pages,
The vertical page is enlarged or reduced to a predetermined print size by the enlargement / reduction processing means, and the horizontal page is enlarged or reduced to twice the print size,
A horizontally long page enlarged or reduced to twice the print size is divided into two pages of the print size by the page dividing means, and the whole page number is reassigned.
If the smaller page number of the page divided by the page dividing means is an odd number, the adjustment page insertion means inserts the print size adjustment page in front of the page, and the entire page number is reassigned.
When a plurality of pages into which adjustment pages have been inserted by the adjustment page insertion unit are printed on both sides of a weekly magazine, the print data generation unit places the page on a virtual sheet twice the print size so that a predetermined page order is obtained. A print data generation method comprising: arranging and generating print data. A print data generation program that causes a computer to execute data processing of a print data generation device that generates print data for printing a document including a plurality of pages of a plurality of sizes including portrait and landscape pages,
Enlarging or reducing the portrait page to a predetermined print size, and enlarging or reducing the landscape page to twice the print size;
Dividing a horizontally long page enlarged or reduced to twice the print size into two pages of the print size and reassigning the entire page number;
If the page number of the smaller one of the divided pages is an odd number, inserting the print size adjustment page in front of the page and reallocating the entire page number; and
A step of generating print data by arranging on a virtual paper twice the print size so that a predetermined page order is obtained when a plurality of pages into which the adjustment pages are inserted are printed on both sides of a weekly magazine. A print data generation program including the print data generation program.

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