JPH0367325A - Printing size changing system for center output of report - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the troubles required for users to properly use the formats in accordance with the form sizes by recognizing the form size via a printer and instructing a print size changing process at the generation of system. CONSTITUTION:A report output control means 103 recognizes the center output request of a report 102 and informs a center report output means 104 of the recognition of the center output request. The means 104 secures an output enable form at to give an output request to an input/output control means 105. A page printer output control means 161 receives the request of the means 104 and fetches a form size stored in a page printer 165. The means 161 reads the information on the corresponding format out of a format information library and compares the size of the mounted form with the size defined by a prescribed format to calculate a magnification/reduction ratio. The same operations are carried out also with the use of a format overlay library 163 and a character pattern library 164. Then the obtained magnification/reduction ratio is reflected onto the character size.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a center output method for a report, and particularly to a print size changing method for outputting a report according to the paper size in page printer output.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, it has been possible to mount sheets of different sizes on a page printer, and users have created format information according to the paper size.

However, currently, no matter what size paper is mounted, only the size defined in the format is printed.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) In the conventional report center output described above, printing is performed based on the size defined in the format, so the size of the mounted paper differs from the size defined in the format. In this case, there is a drawback that printing data may be missing or printing lines may be misaligned.

Furthermore, in order to compensate for the above-mentioned drawbacks, formats corresponding to each paper size are required, so there is a drawback that the number of registered formats increases. As a result, the number of forms that can be registered in different formats is reduced, and a new drawback arises that the capacity of the form information library may be insufficient.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks by enabling a page printer to recognize the paper size and instructing print size change processing at the time of system generation, so that there is no loss of print data or misalignment of print lines, and An object of the present invention is to provide a print size changing method for outputting a report from a center configured so that there is no shortage of capacity in a format information library.

(Means for Solving the Problems) A print size changing method for center output of a report according to the present invention includes a page printer, a report output management means, a center report output means, a page printer output control means, and a format information/format overlay. It is configured to include a library, a character pattern library, and input/output management means.

The page printer is capable of recognizing the size of the mounted paper and is used to output reports.

The report output management means is for managing report output.

The center report output means is for executing report output processing to the center when the report output management means notifies the generation of a report to be output to the center.

The page printer output control means, after the center report output means executes the page printer initialization request,
This is to reflect the enlargement/reduction ratio according to the paper size mounted on the page printer, and to execute the page printer initialization process and the character pattern loading process.

The format information/format overlay library is for providing page printer initialization information to the page printer output control means.

The character pattern library is for loading character patterns into the page printer output control means.

The input/output management means is for requesting the center report output means to output a report.

(Example) Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a method for changing the print size in the center of a report according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 101 is an application program, 102
1 is a report, 103 is a report output management means, 104 is a center report output means, 105 is an input/output management means, 1
06 is an output means. Further, 161 is a page printer output control means, and 162 is a format information library! J, 163
164 is a format overlay library IJ, 164 is a character pattern library IJ, and 165 is a page printer.

The print size change method in the center output of the report of this embodiment is based on the report 102 created by the application program 101, the report output management means 103 for managing the output of the report 102, and the report output management means 103. 102, input/output management means 105 for receiving input/output requests by the center report outputting means 104, and outputting means 106. The output means 106 includes a page printer 165 and a page printer 16 according to a request from the center report output means 104.
A page printer output control means 161 for sending the initialization request of 5, a format information library 162 and a format overlay library 163 accessed by the page printer output control means 161, a character pattern library 164, and outputting a report. It is composed of a page printer 165 for

The page printer 165 must have its output controlled by page printer firmware and be equipped with paper size recognition means. When the page counter is started up or when paper is mounted, paper size information recognized by the paper size recognition means is stored in the page printer firmware.

When the report output management means 103 recognizes the center output request for the report 102, the report output management means 103 outputs the center report output means 10.
4 to that effect.

After receiving the notification from the report output management means 103, the center report output means 104 sends a page printer initialization request to the page printer output control means 161. Thereafter, the center report output means 104 reads the report 102, converts it into an outputtable format, and requests the input/output management means 105 to output it.

When the page printer output control means 161 receives a page printer initialization request from the center report output means 104, it first reads paper size information (paper length, paper width) stored in the page printer 165.Next, When the page printer output control means 161 reads the information of the corresponding format from the format information library 162, it compares/calculates the size of the mounted paper and the size defined in the format to determine the enlargement/reduction ratio. Reflect the obtained enlargement/reduction ratio in the initialization information.Also, if you are using an overlay, format overlay library 1
The corresponding overlay information is read from 63 and added to the initialization information. The character pattern loading process is performed by reading necessary character pattern information from the character pattern library 164 and then reflecting the enlargement/reduction ratio on the character size.

The format information library 162 stores information as shown in FIG. 2(a). The information shown here is for one format, and the stored information can be divided into format name, paper size information, area information, and character pattern information. The paper size information includes paper width and paper length. Area information is divided into three types depending on the type of area: character area information, graph area information, and image area information. Character area information includes area width, area length, line pitch representing line spacing, and information for each line. On the other hand, it is divided into a line attribute indicating whether it is a printing line or a non-printing line. The graph area information includes area width, area length, and enlargement/reduction ratio for the area, and similarly, the image area also includes area width, area length, and enlargement/reduction ratio.

The format overlay library 163 stores information as shown in FIG. 2Cb>. The information shown here is for one overlay and includes overlay salt and overlay data.

The character pattern library 164 stores information as shown in FIG. 2(C). The information shown here is for one character set. The information includes the character pattern name, the number of characters included in the character set,
Character size information and character pattern data of the number indicated by the number of characters are included, and the character size information includes horizontal dot size and vertical dot size.

The input/output management unit 105 manages output to the page printer 165.

First, by application program 101, Reho) 102
is created and the center output is requested, the report output management means 103 recognizes the occurrence of the center output report,
The center report output means 104 is notified of the occurrence of a center output report. After receiving the notification, the center report output means 104 sends the page printer 1 to the page printer output control means 161 before outputting the report 102.
65 initialization request is sent.

In the page printer initialization process, format information used to output the report 102 is sent to the page printer 165, but if necessary, overlay information is also sent to the page printer 165.
65.

As shown in FIG. 3, the page printer output control means 161 receives the initialization process request for the page printer 165, and
When starting up the device or mounting paper, the page printer/tough armware 167, which stores the paper size information recognized by the paper size recognition stage 166, takes in the paper size information, and then stores it in the format information library 162. Read stored format information. Therefore, the page printer output control means 161 calculates the enlargement/reduction ratio by comparing the size of the mounted paper and the size defined in the format.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a method of calculating the expansion/m ratio. Next, a method of calculating the enlargement/reduction ratio will be explained with reference to FIG. The paper width of the mounted paper is X1 and the Gicho is Y1.The paper width in the format definition is X1 and Gicho is y. Therefore, if X/Y is larger than xly, that is, if the paper size in the format definition is longer than the mounted paper size, the enlargement/reduction ratio (Y/y) is set to yt-Y. shall be. Conversely, if X/Y is smaller than xly, that is, if the paper size in the format definition is laterally longer than the mounted paper size, the enlargement/reduction ratio to xi-x is set as the enlargement/reduction ratio.

In FIG. 4, xl is the length that reflects the enlargement/reduction ratio with respect to X, and yl is the size that reflects the enlargement/reduction ratio with respect to y. In other words, the shaded area in Figure 4 is
This is the size that reflects the enlargement/reduction ratio in the paper size defined in the format. When X/Y and xly are equal, the same result can be obtained with either the former or the latter, so it is included in the former.

Also, when changing the standard paper size, for example, A4
When enlarging the size to B4 size or reducing B4 size to A4 size, the above-mentioned process can be omitted by keeping the enlargement/reduction ratio fixed.

The obtained enlargement/reduction ratio is the second one in Fig. 2(a).
Column paper width, paper length, and third column area width, area length 1
Row pitch, area width, area length.

It is applied to the enlargement/reduction ratio, area width, area length, and enlargement/reduction ratio. If an overlay is used, overlay information is read from the format overlay library 163. Thereafter, the page printer 165 uses the information shown in FIGS. 2(a) and 2(b) as initialization information.
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For character patterns, see Character Pattern Library I71
After applying the enlargement/reduction ratio to the horizontal dot size and vertical dot size of the information read from 64, loading processing is performed.

When the initialization of the page printer and the loading of character patterns are completed, the center report output means 104 reads the report 102 and edits the read contents into an output format. Thereafter, the center report output means 104 sends an output request to the input/output management means 105.
5, the page printer 165 performs printing based on the format information and character size passed by the page printer output control means 161.

Here, the above processing is not necessary in a system that uses only the same paper, and is meaningless unless the page printer is equipped with paper size recognition means, so whether or not to perform the above processing is specified at the time of system generation. It shall be.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, the present invention enables the page printer to recognize the paper size and instructs the print size change process at the time of system generation, thereby processing the page printer initialization process and character pattern loading process. , the enlargement/reduction ratio of the print size is reflected, so if the user does not consider the size of the paper mounted on the page printer as a special VC issue, there may be problems such as missing print data,
Alternatively, there is an effect that an output result corresponding to the size of the mounted paper can be obtained without causing print line misalignment.

Furthermore, since there is no need to define the same type of format information for each paper size, the format information library can be used effectively and the user is freed from the hassle of using different formats depending on the paper size. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a print size changing method for outputting a report from a center according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing data stored in a format information library, a format overlay library, and a character pattern library. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing how to obtain the enlargement/reduction ratio. 101... Application business program 102... Report 103... Report output management means 104... Center report output means 105... Input/output management means 106... Output means 161... Page printer output control Means 162 - Format information library 163 - Format overlay library 164 - Character pattern library 165 - Page print

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is possible to recognize the size of the paper mounted, a page printer for outputting the report, a report output management means for managing the output of the report, and a page printer for outputting the paper to the center by the report output management means. a center report output means for executing a center output process for the report when the occurrence of a report is notified; and after the center report output means executes an initialization request for the page printer, a page printer output control means for reflecting an enlargement/reduction ratio according to the mounted paper size and executing an initialization process of the page printer and a character pattern loading process; a format information/format overlay library for providing initialization information for a page printer; a character pattern library for loading character patterns into the page printer output control means; and a system for requesting the center report output means to output a report. 1. A print size changing method for outputting a report from a center, characterized in that it is configured to include input/output management means.