JPH0574474B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document creation device, and more particularly, to an improvement in a document creation device that prints a paginated document using a word processor.

[Conventional technology]

When printing a paginated document using a word processor, conventionally, for example,
As shown in Japanese Patent No. 246473, pagination is performed using a pagination menu at a designated position within a predetermined paper margin.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, in general, as mentioned above,
A pagination menu is used to perform pagination at a specified position within a predetermined paper margin.

For example, JP-A-60-5385 and JP-A-61
Publication No. 89078 discloses a technique for printing page numbers on either the top or bottom of the paper, and for example, ``Newton Separate Edition All About Word Processors'' (May 20, 1982) Kyoikusha p.191 ~192 discloses a technique for specifying the portrait and landscape orientation of paper, but conventionally, when documents with different paper orientations coexist, as shown in Fig. It is not possible to bind documents with the page numbers aligned in the same direction; as shown in Figure 11, the page numbers of one document (P ₁ ) face upward, and the page numbers of another document (P ₂ ) face upward, as shown in Figure 11. Although not shown in detail, for example, the page numbers of a horizontally long table will be oriented horizontally, making it impossible to bind all documents with the page numbers aligned in the same direction, making it difficult to confirm the order of the pages. It had some difficult flaws.

The present invention makes it possible to bind documents with the page numbers aligned in the same direction even when there are documents with different paper orientations, and to easily check the page order. The purpose is to provide an improved document creation device.

[Means for solving problems]

The purpose is to provide an input means for inputting characters, commands, etc., a document creation means for creating a document according to input commands using the characters input by the input means, a storage means for storing the created document, and a document creation means for storing the created document. Display means for displaying documents, printing of created documents,
and a printing means for printing a page number in the same direction as the printing direction of the document, wherein the printing means is provided with a page number printing means for printing the page number in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction of the document. achieved by.

[Effect]

By employing the above-mentioned configuration, the present invention makes it possible to change the page numbers of documents with different paper orientations even when documents with different paper orientations coexist, as shown in FIG. 9a, which will be described later. You can bind books with the same orientation.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on an embodiment of the drawings. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the overall schematic configuration of a document creation device.

In FIG. 2, a code input device 1 such as a keyboard for inputting characters, commands, etc. passes the input characters and commands to a code input analysis section 2. The input analysis section 2 receives character codes and command codes from the code input device 1, passes the character codes as they are to the processing section running in the document creation mechanism 4, and in the case of commands, sends the contents to the document creation mechanism control section. Notify 3.

The document creation mechanism 4 is composed of processing units necessary for creating and printing documents, such as a document processing unit 5, a page specification processing unit 6, a print processing unit 7, etc., and includes a document creation mechanism control unit 3. controls the processing section that constitutes the document creation mechanism 4. The control method will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 10.

The document creation mechanism control section indicated by reference numeral 3 in FIG.
When it receives a notification from the input analysis unit 2 or the processing unit running in the document creation mechanism 4, it starts and first analyzes the notification (step 1001 in FIG. 10).
If it is a command code from the input analysis section 2, the command is analyzed (step 1002), and if it is a command that can be processed by the running processing section, the command is passed to the running processing section (step 1002). If not, it checks whether the processing section for that command can be started (step 1004), and if it can be started, the processing of the currently running processing section is interrupted (step 1005), and a new processing section is started. A processing unit that processes the input command is activated (step 1006). If it fails to start,
An error message such as an input error is displayed (step 1007). Additionally, if the notification received at the time of startup is a notification indicating the end of processing from a processing section in the document creation mechanism 4, the processing of the processing section that was interrupted due to the processing section being started will be restarted. (Step 1008).

The document processing unit 5 creates a document by creating, updating, etc. document data. Here, document data is data that constitutes a document, and includes values such as paper size, paper direction, vertical/horizontal writing, top/bottom/left/right margin sizes, line spacing, character spacing, etc., as shown in Figure 3. A format data section 34 holds a format data section 34, an actual data section 33 consisting of actual data such as text and figures, and a page management section 31 that manages pages, areas, etc. for these actual data.
and an area management section 32.

Details of the page designation processing unit 6 will be described later, but the page designation processing unit 6 is activated when a page designation key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and displays, for example, a pagination position designation screen as shown in FIG. 41 is read out from the storage device 12, passed to the display control section 8, and displayed on the display screen 9. Note that display data for displaying the pagination position designation screen 41 is stored in the storage device 12 in advance.

When the operator specifies the pagination position for each paper size on the pagination position specification screen 41 and then presses the "execute" key, the page specification processing unit 6 inputs the specified value as shown in FIG. , and completes the process by setting it in the pagination position management table 51 of
When the "cancel" key is pressed, the specified value is invalidated and the process is terminated, and at this time, a termination notice is issued to the document creation mechanism control section 3.

The display control section 8 develops the display data given from the document creation mechanism 4 into display dot pattern data and displays it on the display screen 9.

Details of the print processing unit 7 will be described later, but the print processing unit 7 is activated when the input analysis unit 2 analyzes that a print process is instructed, and generates print data for printing the specified document. and passes it to the print control unit 10, and if pagination printing is specified,
Find the physical print position on the paper from the specified position,
Printing data for printing a page number at that position is generated and passed to the print control section 10, and a completion notification is issued to the document creation mechanism control section 3, thereby terminating the process.

The print control unit 10 develops the print data given from the print processing unit 7 into print image data,
Printing is performed by controlling the printing device 11.

The storage device 12 also stores documents created by the document creation mechanism 4, contents of the pagination position management table 51 shown in FIG. 5, and display data of the pagination position designation screen 41 shown in FIG. do.

Next, a method of specifying the pagination position in this embodiment will be explained.

When the operator presses the page designation key while creating a document, a pagination position designation screen 41 as shown in FIG. is specified. Here, the position is specified by inputting the position of the margin and further a number corresponding to the position within the margin. For example, if you want to print the page number on A4 portrait paper at the center of the bottom edge of the paper, or on A4 landscape paper at the center of the left edge, the margin position for paper size A4 on the pagination position specification screen 41,
The positions within the margin may be designated as 5 and 2, respectively. Once the number has been input for the required paper size, the pagination position can be specified by pressing the "execute" key.

These processes related to pagination position designation are performed by the previously described page designation processing section 6. Next, the processing of this page designation processing section 6 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The page designation processing unit shown by reference numeral 6 in FIG. 2 is activated when the page designation key on the code input device 1 is pressed, and first determines the pagination position for each paper size as shown in FIG. Specified pagination position specification screen 41
, and to indicate the position specified for each paper size by referring to the values in the pagination position management table 51 shown in FIG. The number of the item to be selected is displayed in the input area 42 (step 101 in FIG. 1). When a key on the code input device 1 is pressed, a determination process for that key is performed (step 102).
If it is a cursor key, the cursor is moved in the specified direction between each input area 42 (step 103), and if it is a numeric value, the input value is displayed in the input area 42 where the cursor is currently located. (Step 104), if the "Execute" key is pressed, the value of the item for the specified paper size in the pagination position management table 51 is changed using the specified data (Step 105), and the "Cancel" key is pressed. If so, invalidate the specified data and exit (pass 106).

With respect to the pagination position designated as described above, the print processing unit shown by reference numeral 7 in FIG. 2 performs the following processing when printing is instructed by the operator.

That is, in FIG. 2, the print processing section 7
First, a print condition setting screen is displayed, and the operator is prompted to specify print conditions such as the pagination start number. When the printing condition settings are completed, printing data necessary for printing according to the printing conditions is generated and the document is printed by passing the print control unit 10 over. At this time, if pagination is specified in the printing conditions, the position for pagination is determined according to the flow shown in FIG. 6 before printing each page. First, the paper size and paper direction of the page to be printed are determined using the document data page management section 31 and format data section 34 shown in FIG. 3 (step 601 in FIG. 6), and based on this paper size, the Pagination position management table 51 in Figure 5
The margin position and position number within the margin are determined from (step 602). Next, the margin to be printed and the printing direction are determined based on the margin position determination table 71 shown in FIG. 7, the obtained margin position number, and the paper direction (step 603). Finally, the margin position determination table 81 shown in FIG.
The page number printing position within the margin is determined based on the print margin obtained in step 603, the printing direction, and the position number within the margin obtained in step 602 (step 604).

The present invention is as described above, and in the present invention, the page number is printed in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction of the document on a printing means that prints a created document and prints the page number in the same direction as the printing direction of the document. As shown in FIG. 9a, even if there are documents with different paper orientations, the book can be bound with the page numbers of these documents aligned in the same direction, as shown in FIG. 9a. This allows you to easily check the page order.

Further, according to this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9b, for example, the heading position for the paper is specified to the right of the bottom margin of the A4 portrait paper and to the right of the bottom margin of the A3 landscape paper, and the A3 paper is placed at the dotted line 91. Fold it into a valley shape, along the dotted line 9.
If you fold it into a chevron shape in step 2 to make it A4 size, and bind it with other A4 size papers, you can align the page numbers on all the papers.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As is clear from the description of the illustrated embodiments, according to the present invention, even when documents with different paper orientations coexist, the pages of the documents with different paper orientations are bound in the same direction. Thus, it is possible to obtain an improved document creation device that can easily check the page order.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 10 show an embodiment of a document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. 1 shows a page designation processing section (reference numeral 6 in FIG. 2) which most characteristically represents the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing the overall schematic configuration of the document creation device, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the document data structure, and FIG. 4 is a pagination position specification for specifying the pagination position. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a pagination position management table for managing designated values of pagination positions corresponding to each paper size.
Figure 6 is a diagram showing the process flow for determining the page number printing position in the print processing unit (numeral 7 in Figure 2), and Figure 7 is a diagram showing the page number printing position determination process flow in the print processing section (numeral 7 in Figure 2), and Figure 7 shows which sides and in which direction the page numbers are to be determined for each margin position number. Figure 8 shows an example of a margin position determination table that determines whether to print or not, which shows where to place the page number on the side to be printed based on the side to be printed, the printing direction, and the position number in the margin. FIG. 9A is a diagram showing an example of bookbinding when the paper orientation is different, FIG. 9B is a diagram showing an example of the pagination position when the paper size is different, FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the control flow of the document creation mechanism control section (reference numeral 3 in FIG. 2), and FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of conventional bookbinding when paper orientations are different. 1...Code input device, 2...Input analysis section, 3
...Document creation mechanism control unit, 4...Document creation mechanism,
5...Document processing unit, 6...Page specification processing unit, 7...
Print processing unit, 8... Display control unit, 9... Display screen, 10... Print control unit, 11... Printing device, 1
2...Storage device, 31...Page management section, 32...Area management section, 33...Actual data section, 34...Format data section, 41...Pagination position specification screen, 42...
Input area, 51...Pagination position management table,
71... Margin position determination table, 81... Margin position determination table, 91... Valley-shaped bending position,
92...Chevron bending position.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting characters, commands, etc., a document creation means for creating a document according to the input command from the characters input by the input means, and a storage means for storing the created document. a document creation device comprising: a display means for displaying a created document; and a printing means for printing the created document and printing a page number in the same direction as the printing direction of the document; 1. A document creation device comprising page number printing means for printing in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction of the document. 2. In claim 1, the position of the page number to be printed on the top, bottom, left or right side of the paper is determined for each paper size such as A3 and A4, and also for each paper size. vertically long,
pagination position specifying means for specifying each paper orientation such as landscape; and pagination for storing in the storage means the pagination position specified by the pagination position specifying means for each paper size and each paper direction. position storage means, and further includes page number printing for printing a page number on the printing means according to pagination position information stored in the pagination position storage means for each paper size and for each paper direction during printing. A document creation device equipped with means. 3. The document creation device according to claim 2, wherein the pagination position specifying means includes means for specifying the same pagination position during bookbinding for different paper directions.