JPH04367980A - Editing printing system for electronic filing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute printing by enlarging/reducing image information, and allocating image information of plural pages to image information of one page. CONSTITUTION:This system is constituted of a first step for setting a printing area by a printing area managing means 2 through an input control means 1, a second stop for allocating a page by a page allocation managing means 3 through the input control means 1, a third step for executing designation of a document to be printed and an instruction for execution of printing by an allocation/printing control means 6, a fourth step for reading out image information of each page, executing a processing of enlargement/reduction, rotation, etc., in accordance with a printing area and an allocation area by using an image processing means 7 and editing the image information, and a fifth step for printing the edited image information by an image information printing means 9.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for printing image information in an electronic filing system, and more particularly to an editing and printing method for an electronic filing device that edits and prints a plurality of pages of image information.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional method for printing image information in an electronic filing system is to print one page of image information that has been read and stored as one page.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the printing method of image information in this conventional electronic filing system,
Since one page of image information is simply printed as one page, (A) two pages are reduced to the size of one page and printed, for example, an A42 page is printed as one page.
(B) It is not directly possible to reduce the image information and print it on paper, or (B) extract and print the necessary partial area of the image information. A method of creating and printing the image information that you want to print individually by editing means such as cutting using an input method (known method), or a method of recopying the printed information using a copying machine, etc. However, there were problems in that it required a lot of effort and resulted in a decrease in the quality of the finished print.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The editing printing method of the electronic filing device of the present invention includes a printing area management means that sets a partial area of image information of each page as a printing range, and a printing area management means that sets a partial area of image information of each page as a printing range, and page allocation management means for compositing information.

That is, specifically, an input control means for receiving instructions from an operator, a print area management means for setting a partial area of the image information of each page as a print range,
A page layout management means for managing page layouts in order to combine multiple pages of image information into one page of image information, an image information reading means for reading documents, etc. and converting them into image information, and recording/reading of image information. an image information storage means, an allocation print control means for controlling editing/printing of image information based on print area and page layout information, an image processing means for enlarging/reducing and rotating image information, and an image processing means for temporarily controlling image information. It includes an image information storage means for storing image information and an image information printing means for printing the image information.

[0006]

[Operation] The present invention can enlarge/reduce image information, rotate it, etc.
Image information of a plurality of pages can be printed by allocating it to one page of image information.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an editing printing method of an electronic filing apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an input control means for receiving instructions from an operator;
2 manages a partial area of the image information of each page (the starting point coordinates and ending point coordinates of that part when the image information is expressed in coordinates) as a print range.In other words, the coordinates of the set area are managed as a print range. (for each size, etc.) printing area management means, 3 manages page layout (start point coordinates, end point coordinates of each page) in order to combine image information of multiple pages into one page image information;
In other words, it is a page layout management means that stores a plurality of set layout numbers and coordinates (for each document size, etc.).

Reference numeral 4 denotes an image information reading means for reading a document or the like and converting it into image information, 5 an image information storage means for recording/reading image information, and 6 reading image information based on print area and page layout information. 7 is an image processing means for enlarging/reducing image information, rotating it, etc.;
8 is an image information storage means for temporarily storing image information, and 9 is an image information printing means for printing the image information.

Next, the operation of the editing printing method of the electronic filing apparatus having the above configuration will be explained with reference to FIG. First, in step S1, a print area is set. That is, the user uses the print area management means 2 through the input control means 1 to set a partial area of the image information (the starting point coordinates and end point coordinates of the part when the image information is expressed in coordinates) as the printing area, and then Stores multiple coordinates of the set area (for each document size, etc.). Note that this setting need only be performed if necessary; if not set, the entire image information becomes the print area.

Next, in step S2, pages are allocated. That is, the user uses the page layout management means 3 through the input control means 1 to set the layout of a plurality of pages (starting point coordinates and ending point coordinates of each page) for one print image. This page layout management means 3 stores a plurality of set layout numbers and coordinates (for each document size, etc.). Note that this setting need only be performed when necessary, as in step S1.

[0011] Next, in step S3, settings for the document to be printed and instructions for printing execution are performed. That is, the layout printing control means 6 obtains the coordinates of the print area from the print area management means 2 according to the designated document. Further, the number of pages to be allocated and the coordinates of each page are obtained by the page allocation management means 3. Next, in step S4, the first page is read and converted, and the second page is read and converted. That is, the layout printing control means 6 uses the image information reading means 4 (in the case of a document to be read on the spot) or the image information storage means 5 (in the case of a document that is already stored) depending on the type of the specified document. ) sequentially reads the image information of each page to be allocated.

Then, using the image processing means 7, this is enlarged/reduced according to the printing area and the allocation area.
After processing such as rotation, the image information is sent to the image information storage means 8 and the image information to be printed is edited. Next, printing is performed in step S5. That is, when the composition of images to be printed (for one sheet) is completed, the layout printing control means 6 sends the edited image information from the image information storage means 8 to the image information printing means 9 for printing. Then, by repeating steps S4 and S5, the designated page of the document can be printed.

[0013]

Effects of the Invention As explained in detail above, according to the editing printing method of the electronic filing device according to the present invention, when printing image information, image enlargement/reduction and
Since multiple pages can be allocated and printed on a single sheet, there is no need to process image information and create and manage separate image information. This has the effect of greatly reducing labor and preventing deterioration in printing quality.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an editing printing method of an electronic filing device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Input control means 2 Print area management means 3 Page allocation management means 4 Image information reading means 5 Image information storage means 6 Allocation printing control means 7 Image processing means 8 Image information storage means 9 Image information printing means

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: An electronic filing device that reads a document, etc. as image information using a reading device, records it in a mass storage device, searches and displays it on a display device as needed, and outputs it to a printing device. Editing and printing of an electronic filing device characterized by comprising a print area management means for setting a partial area of information as a print range, and a page layout management means for composing image information of a plurality of pages into one page of image information. method.