JPS647583B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention arranges and outputs a predetermined number of characters (including numbers, records, etc.) in a predetermined order without leaving any blank space in a recording space of an arbitrary shape. Concerning typesetting methods.

Conventionally, a predetermined number of characters are written in a series in a predetermined order, with appropriate line breaks, without leaving any blank space in a recording space of any shape, for example, a recording space whose outline is shaped like a product to increase advertising effectiveness. When arranging and printing images, the method used was to manually repeat trial and error to obtain the desired arrangement result. Such an artificial method has the drawback of requiring a large amount of time and effort.

The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and it is possible to finish arranging a predetermined number of characters in a predetermined order in a recording space having an arbitrary shape specified in advance with simple operations in a short time. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a typesetting method that allows recording in an appropriate size.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention uses pattern information of a recording space having a predetermined arbitrary shape and pattern information of characters to be arranged in this recording space to determine the indentation spacing and line spacing of characters that are separately input. Based on composition information such as the width and composition direction separately commanded from outside, the character pattern information and composition information are not changed, and the pattern information of the character is changed to line breaks as necessary, and the pattern information of the storage space is changed. Let the virtual space be multiplied by K,
A simulation is performed so that the margin of the character pattern information in the virtual space becomes zero, and at the time of output, the virtual space and the pattern information of the character are multiplied by 1/K and output.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, an input device 1 includes, for example, an optical imaging system of a typical phototypesetting machine, and includes a light source 2 having a constant light output;
Dial faces 3 arranged on the optical axis of the light source 2 in the following order:
A main lens 4 with variable magnification, a deformable lens 5, a collimator lens 6, a reflector 7, a zoom lens 8 set to an appropriate magnification, and a half mirror 9 that reflects part of the incident light and transmits part of it. a lens 10 that condenses the light beam incident through the mirror 9;
The light beam incident from the lens 10 is converted into an electrical signal 1
1a, and an analog-to-digital converter 12 that converts the signal 11a into a digital signal 12a. The dial 3 can be arbitrarily converted, and is prepared by preparing a glass plate or the like on which a large number of characters are arranged, and a film member or the like on which a recording space having an outline of an arbitrary shape is recorded.

The arithmetic unit 13 includes a memory 14 for storing the signal 12a outputted from the analog-to-digital converter 12 of the input device 1 when it consists of character pattern information, and a memory 14 for storing the signal 12a outputted from the analog-to-digital converter 12 of the input device 1 when it consists of pattern information of a recording space. Memory 1 that stores this
5, a memory 16 that stores padding amount information that specifies the spacing between characters to be recorded, and a memory 17 that stores line spacing information that specifies the line spacing of characters to be recorded.
Based on the pattern information, fill amount information, and line spacing information read from the memories 14 to 17, as well as composition information such as composition direction commands separately given from the outside, the similarity of the shape of the recording space is determined as described below. a calculation unit 18 that executes various simulation processes involving changes in character and line break status (i.e., changes in the number of characters in one line); A memory 19 that stores information specifying the position of a character, and a signal 19 consisting of information read out from the memory 19.
It has an inverse multiplier 20 which multiplies a by 1/K by a magnification signal K (a magnification K when the shape of the recording space is changed in a similar manner) outputted from the calculation unit 18 and outputs the result as a signal 20a. Note that when setting the pattern information of the recording space in the memory 15, a separate dedicated input setting means such as a coordinate input device may be provided.

The recording device 21 consists of a recording system of a phototypesetting machine, and includes a control circuit 22 that outputs a horizontal feed signal 22a and a vertical feed signal 22b in response to a character coordinate signal 20a whose magnification has been converted by an inverse magnifier 20 and an activation signal 29a described below. , a drive circuit 24 that causes the moving optical system 23 to be moved laterally in accordance with the lateral feed signal 22a, and a photosensitive material 25.
a drive circuit 27 that rotates the drum 26 wrapped with It has a starting circuit 29 which outputs a starting signal 29a and a shutter signal 29b. The light beam incident on the moving optical system 23 via the shutter 28 is guided onto the sensitive material 25 of the drum 26 via the condensing lens 30 and reflecting mirror 31 that constitute the moving optical system 23, and is directed onto the sensitive material 25 of the dial 3. image.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be explained by arranging a predetermined number of character strings "a", "i", "u", ..., "n" in the trapezoidal recording space 33 shown in FIG. , the case of printing will be explained. First, in order to input recording space pattern information to the arithmetic unit 13, a film member depicting a trapezoidal recording space shown in FIG. 2 is selected as the dial 3 and placed at the position shown in FIG. Next, set the magnification of the optical system (main lens 4, zoom lens 8, or a separately provided dedicated optical system) to the magnification necessary to image this film member and obtain pattern information of the desired size. After that, an image is taken by the imaging device 11. Analog-to-digital converter 12 outputted by this
The signal 12a is led to the memory 15 and stored therein. Next, the operator sets the magnification of the main lens 4 and the zoom lens 8 to a temporary magnification based on various conditions such as typesetting information, and the dial 3 is set to a temporary magnification such as "A", "I", "U", etc. . . . Replace the glass plate with an array of letters "n", and record the signals 12a output as the characters are sequentially projected onto the image pickup device 11 and blankly printed in the memory 14. Further, the memories 16 and 17 respectively store padding amount information specifying the spacing between characters and line spacing information specifying the line spacing between characters. Note that the fill amount information may have different values depending on the characters. In such a case, the font information specified for each character is stored in the memory 16. Then, a composition direction command separately given from the outside, the filling amount information, line spacing information, etc. are supplied to the calculation unit 18 as composition information.

Next, in order to obtain the desired character arrangement as shown in FIG. The characters are arranged and line-broken in accordance with the given predetermined formatting information and arranged within the area defined by the pattern information. The arranged result is the trapezoidal recording space 3 shown in Figure 2.
When it is determined that the characters can be arranged without leaving any blank spaces in the column 3, the simulation process of arranging the characters is completed. However, as shown in Figure 3,
If this is not the case, memory 15
The pattern information is changed by an appropriate method such as changing the magnification of the optical system again or setting it again by software expansion/contraction processing, that is, the desired record shown in FIG. The space 33 is similarly multiplied by K to create a virtual space 34 as shown in FIG. 4, and the above-described arrangement process is repeated using this virtual space 34 as the arrangement area until the margin becomes zero. In this way, in the process of iterative processing, the size of the pattern information in the recording space 33 changes, but the character pattern information, padding amount, and line spacing do not change, and as a result, the number of characters in one line, i.e. The line break situation is starting to change. The character coordinates of each character arranged through such simulation processing are stored or held in the memory 19.

When a printing command 29c is input from the outside, the arithmetic unit 13 stores the memory 1 in order to print on the photosensitive material 25.
9 is started, and the magnification signal K obtained when the virtual space 34 is obtained is input to the inverse multiplier 20. This inverse multiplier 20 outputs a signal 20a obtained by multiplying the signal 19a read from the memory 19 by 1/K. In this case, since the simulation result is stored in the memory 19 when the pattern information of the recording space in the memory 15 is similarly multiplied by K times without changing the shape in the simulation process (that is, as a virtual space), the above-mentioned Each character coordinate information (recording space and character pattern information) determined by the signal 20a multiplied by 1/K is returned to its original size, that is, the value corresponding to the recording space 33 shown in FIG. , the size of the corresponding character on the same scale is 1/1 the size of the character written in the memory 14.
It has become a letter multiplied by K.

The signal 20a of the inverse multiplier 20 is input to the control circuit 22, and the horizontal feed signal 22a and the vertical feed signal 22
It is divided into b. The horizontal feed signal 22a determines the horizontal feed of the moving optical system 23, and the vertical feed signal 22b determines the rotation angle of the drum 26, and the specific position of the photosensitive material 25 is determined by both. Regarding the selective exposure of characters, a desired character corresponding to the specific position is selected from the dial 3, and the selected character image is magnified by 1/K with respect to the magnification at which the character pattern information was initially set in the memory 14. The image is projected onto the photosensitive material 25 at an optical system magnification of Thereafter, by similarly selecting characters on the dial 3 one after another and sequentially determining the specific positions corresponding to the characters, the fifth
As shown in the figure, the character "A" is written in the recording space 33.
Typesetting "i", "u", ..., "n" without leaving any blank space.

As explained above, according to the present invention, a predetermined number of series of characters can be arranged in a predetermined order in a recording space of an arbitrary shape, with appropriate line breaks, and the character arrangement in a phototypesetting machine, etc. The work can be done easily and the work time can be shortened.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram explaining a typesetting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a pattern diagram showing the shape of a recording space, FIGS. 3 and 4 are illustrations of the operation process, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a pattern diagram showing an arrangement of recorded characters. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Input device, 2...Arithmetic device, 3...Recording device, 14-17, 19...Memory, 18...Arithmetic unit, 20...Reverse multiplier.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A typesetting method in which a predetermined number of characters are arranged and output in a predetermined order in a predetermined arbitrary shape of a recording space, and the typesetting method includes input pattern information of the recording space and this recording space. Based on the formatting information that is input separately, the pattern information of the characters arranged in the space is changed to line breaks as necessary, and the pattern information of the recording space is made into a virtual space K times the pattern information of the recording space. A typesetting method characterized in that a simulation is performed so that the margin of the pattern information of the character becomes zero within the space, and when outputting, the virtual space and the pattern information of the character are multiplied by 1/K and output.