JPH03220664A - Document picture display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of document preparation and edition work by providing a data synthesizing and display means for routine format data and document page data and an auxiliary display means for the other document data. CONSTITUTION:According to designation from a main processing part 11, a synthesization processing part 13 executes a processing to synthesize document page data 17 and routine format data 18 for the unit of a character on a memory, and a display processing part 14 executes a processing to display the document data, which is synthesized by the synthesization processing part 13, on a display device 10 while executing display edition. When the auxiliary display of the other document is designated on a user side, the main processing part 11 applies the designation to a read processing part 12 so as to read the designated page of the designated document into an auxiliary memory, and further instructs the synthesization part 13 to synthesize the document page data 17 in the auxiliary memory and the routine format data 18. Thus, the work efficiency of document preparation or edition is improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a document screen display method, particularly in application software. Concerning screen display methods for document data.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, when displaying document data on a screen using application software, the document data stored page by page in a document file on an auxiliary storage device is displayed on the screen during data synthesis processing.

Furthermore, when a document is displayed on a screen and characters are entered from a keyboard or editing work is performed, it is not possible to additionally display another document to be referenced or copied on the same screen.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional screen display method described above is a processing method in which document data stored in a document file is displayed as is without data composition processing.

For this reason, in the case of a multi-page document with the same standard format (often ruled lines, frames, etc.), which is a form often found in ordinary documents, the standard format part of each page is Since the data is stored in the document file, the data stored in the document file has many duplicated parts, which causes the document file to become large in size.

Furthermore, when creating such a document, it was necessary to first copy a standard format for each page and then input the document contents, which made the document creation process inefficient.

Further, in the conventional method, while displaying a certain page of a document file, it is not possible to display a page of another document file as an auxiliary display.

Therefore, when creating or editing a document while referring to another document, it is necessary to print out the document file to be referenced in advance using a printing device and perform the work while viewing the printed output.

Furthermore, if the user wishes to copy only a portion of the contents of another document, the user must manually enter the same text using a keyboard while viewing the printed output. For this reason, the efficiency of document creation and document editing work was low.

[Means to solve the problem]

The screen display method of the present invention includes data synthesis processing means for fixed format data and document page data that are stored separately in a document file, and auxiliary display means for pages of another document file.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of document screen display processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, one embodiment of the present invention includes a main processing section 11, a reading processing section 12, a composition processing section 13, and a display processing section 1.
It consists of 4. The main processing unit 11 includes a reading processing unit 12
It instructs the compositing processing unit 13 to perform data compositing, instructs the display processing unit 14 to display the display device, and so on. The read processing unit 12 reads document page data 17 of the document and page number specified by the main processing unit 11 from the document file 16 in the auxiliary storage device 15 and fixed format data 18 used by the page into memory. Perform processing. It also performs the process of reading a document for auxiliary display into another location on the memory in the same way as specified by the main processing unit 11.

The composition processing unit 13 performs a process of data composition of the document page data 17 and the standard format data 18 on a character-by-character basis on the memory. In addition, according to the specification from the main processing unit 11,
Only standard format data 18 or document page data 18 is transferred on memory without data synthesis.

The display processing section 14 performs display editing of the document data synthesized by the composition processing section 13 and displays the same on the display device 10. At this time, according to a designation from the main processing unit 11, the combined document data stored in the auxiliary memory is displayed and edited for auxiliary display, and processing is also performed to display it on the display device 10.

When the user specifies display of only the standard format data 18 or only document page data 17, the main processing section 11 gives the synthesis processing section 13 a specification not to perform data synthesis.

Further, when the user specifies auxiliary display of another document, the reading processor 12 is given a designation to read the specified page of the specified document into the auxiliary memory. Furthermore, it instructs the synthesis processing section 13 to synthesize the document page data 17 and the standard format data 18 in the supplementary memory. Subsequently, the display processing unit 14 is instructed to perform auxiliary display.

FIG. 3 is an example of data synthesis processing of document page data and standard format data.

The document stored in the document file 32 is divided into document page data 35 and standard format data 34, each of which has one page of compressed data (compressed buffer 33), so first the compressed buffer 33 is displayed on the screen. The data format is converted into document page data 35 and fixed format data 34 on memory.

Next, all characters other than blank characters in the document page data 35 are transferred to the same line position on the fixed format data 34, and page composite data 36 is created.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the screen of this embodiment, and FIG. 4(a)
4 shows a normal document display screen, and FIG. 4(b) shows a screen on which another document is auxiliary displayed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained below, in the screen display method of the present invention, the standard format 1~data and the document page data are synthesized in the display process, so the document file contains the standard format 1~data and the document page of each page. It becomes possible to store data separately, eliminating duplication of data within a document file, and having the effect that a larger amount of documents can be stored within the same document file.

Furthermore, when creating a document using standard formats 1 to 1, there is no need to copy standard formats, which has the effect of improving work efficiency.

In addition, with the auxiliary display function for another document file, you can create a document without referring to the contents of another document on the screen, or specify a range of pages that are auxiliary displayed to specify the document being created. Since it is possible to create a function to automatically copy to a certain position, it has the effect of improving work efficiency in document creation and document editing.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the processing configuration of a document screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention and the correspondence between each processing unit and processing target, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the processing configuration of a conventional document screen display method and each processing unit. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of data synthesis processing of document page data and fixed format data of the present invention, and FIGS. 4(a) and (b) are one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. ]0... Display device, ]]... Main processing section, Engineering 2...
Display processing unit, 13...Composition processing unit,]4...Display processing unit,]5...Auxiliary storage device, 16...Document file, 17...Document page data, 18...Standard format Format I...One page composite data.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A document screen display processing method for displaying document data in application software, characterized by comprising data synthesis display means for fixed format data and document page data, and auxiliary display means for other document data.