JPH0445973A - Apparatus for converting size of printing paper - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To apply printing to paper having an arbitrary size in good appearance without missing printing data by magnifying and contracting the position data in a printing form at a magnifying power determined by a printing position magnifying power corresponding table and holding at least inputted printing data, the size of the font determined by a font corresponding table and magnified and contracted printing position data to output them to a printer. CONSTITUTION:A printing position magnifying power corresponding table 5 determining the magnifying power or contraction rate of a printing position from an indicated printing paper size and an indicated output printing paper size, a font corresponding table 4 determining the size of a printing font from the printing paper size and the output printing paper size corresponding to the size of a font, a printing position data magnifying and contracting means 8 magnifying and contracting position data in the determined magnifying power or contraction rate and an output printing data buffer 6 holding at least the size of the determined font and the magnified and contracted printing position data are mounted. The printing position data magnified and contracted in the magnifying power or contraction rate of the printing position and the size data of the font are sent to the output printing data buffer along with printing data and subsequently sent to a Printer.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a printing paper size conversion device, and in particular, in the formatting process of the printing process of a data processing system, it is possible to convert document data to printing paper of an arbitrary size different from that at the time of creation. The present invention relates to a printing paper size conversion device that enables printing by appropriately converting character size, printing position, etc.

(Prior Art) In print format control that performs fair copy processing in the print process of a data processing system, generally speaking, the size of the print paper to be printed is taken into account, the font to be used, the length of data to be printed per line, etc. You must decide on the appropriate printing format.

For example, it is necessary to decide in advance to print on A4 size paper, B4 size paper, etc., and then determine the printing format.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) Therefore, when the initially set printing paper size is A4 size, if you try to print on B4 size, for example, as shown in Fig. 7 (
As shown in a), the image is printed on the A4 size area of the B4 size paper, which causes problems in that it looks bad and leaves a wasteful blank space that is not printed. On the other hand, when attempting to print on B5 size paper, which is smaller than A4 size, there is a problem in that the print data overflows the paper and the print data is lost.

Therefore, when attempting to solve the above problem, the print format must be reset, resulting in a problem of poor operability.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to eliminate the problems of the conventional devices, and to provide a printing paper size conversion device that can print on paper of any size without missing print data and with good appearance, without having to reset the printing format. Our goal is to provide the following.

(Means and effects for solving the problem) In order to achieve the above-mentioned objective 1, the present invention provides an enlargement of the print position based on the print paper size in the print format and the output print paper size instructed by the print instruction section. or a print position enlargement ratio correspondence table that determines the reduction ratio, and a font that corresponds to the size of the font in the print format and is printed on the output print paper based on the print paper size in the print format and the output print paper size. a font correspondence table for determining the size of the input print data; a print position information scaling means for scaling the position information in the print format at an expansion or reduction ratio determined by the print position expansion ratio correspondence table; and a font correspondence table for determining the size of the input print data and the font. It is characterized in that it is equipped with an output print data buffer that holds at least the font size determined by the table and the enlarged/reduced print position information and outputs this to the printing device.

In the present invention, when a print format instruction is received from the print instruction section, the print position enlargement ratio correspondence table is referred to based on the print paper size and output print paper size in the print format, and the print position is enlarged or A reduction rate is determined. Further, the font correspondence table is referred to based on the size of the font in the print format, the print paper size, and the output print paper size, and the size of the font to be printed on the output print paper is determined.

Next, the print position information and font size information scaled by the print position enlargement or reduction ratio are sent together with the print data to an output print data buffer, and then sent to the printing device. As a result, the print data is printed using a font of a size suitable for the output printing paper size and at a position suitable for the paper size.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a print instruction section, which instructs the location of print data, print format, size information of output printing paper, etc. 2 is an input print data buffer that holds print data. Reference numeral 3 denotes a print format holding section, which outputs the print format instructed by the print instruction section 1 to the print paper size conversion processing section 7.

The printing format holding unit 3 stores formats as shown in FIG. That is, this print format has
Print paper size, top margin, bottom margin, left margin, right margin, line spacing, character spacing, and number of fonts used are registered. Below the number of used fonts, a font index corresponding to an index for switching fonts based on print data or print format specifications is specified.

Next, reference numeral 4 denotes a font correspondence table, in which a table as shown in FIG. 4, for example, is stored. Fourth
The table in the figure shows that the font # in the print format is rAOOI
This is a font I/correspondence table in the case of J, and shows the font # selected when the printing paper size is converted from the manual printing paper size (vertical axis) to the output printing paper size (horizontal axis). When the input printing paper size and the output printing paper size are the same, the font rAOOIJ is naturally selected, but for example, when the printing paper size is converted from the input printing paper size B5 to the output printing paper size B4, the font rBOOIJ is selected. It happens.

Further, 5 in FIG. 252 is a print position enlargement ratio correspondence table. An example is shown in FIG. This table shows magnification data for where to move the printing position according to the manual printing paper size and the output printing paper size.

Reference numeral 6 denotes an output print data buffer, which stores output print data, print position information, font information to be used, etc., which are the results of processing by the print paper size conversion processing section 7.

7 is based on various information from the print instruction section 1, the input print data buffer 2, the print format holding section 3, the font correspondence table 4, and the print position enlargement ratio correspondence table 5.
It functions to select pressure print data, create print position information, font information to be used, etc., and send it to the force print data buffer 6.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 shows a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same or equivalent parts as in FIG. 2 are given the same reference numerals.

As described above, the print instruction unit 1 instructs the location of print data, print format, and output print paper size.

The designated print format is called up from the print format holding section 3. Since the print format stores the contents as shown in FIG. 3, the print paper size is read from this print format, and as the input print paper size, the font correspondence table 4 and the print position magnification ratio correspondence are read. Sent to table 5. Further, the font name of the font index specified in this print format is sent to the font correspondence table 4. Further, information for determining the print position such as the first margin, left margin, right margin, line spacing, character spacing, etc. in the print format is sent to the print position information enlarging/reducing means 8.

First, when the font name of the font index specified in the print format is sent to the font correspondence table 4, based on the font name, the input print paper size, and the output print paper size, (see Figure 4) is accessed. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, when the font rAOOIJ is specified from the print format, the table shown in the figure is referenced, and if the input printing paper size is A4 and the Kawauchi printing paper size is A3, Font rBOOIJ font correspondence table 4
from the font index table 9. This font rBOOIJ has a size that matches the size of the phono I. when the printing paper is converted from A4 to A3.

The font index table 9, as shown in FIG. 6, is composed of the number of fonts used and the font #. The font index table is sent to the self-blade printing data buffer 6.

Further, the print position enlargement ratio correspondence table 5 obtains input print paper size information from the print format. For example, when the table in FIG. 5 is accessed, if the input printing paper size is A4 and the output printing paper size is A3, as described above, the printing position magnification rate r1.41J is set by the printing position information scaling means. ■I will be forced by 8.

The print position information enlarging/reducing means 8 obtains information for determining the print position such as the top margin, left margin, right margin, line spacing, character spacing, etc. and data on the print position magnification rate from the print format holding unit 3, and obtains data on the print position enlargement rate. Reduction or enlargement is performed by multiplying the position determination information by the print position enlargement rate. Information that determines the print position, such as the new top margin, bottom margin, left margin, right margin, line spacing, character spacing, etc. obtained through this process is sent to the output print data buffer 6. It is obvious that this new print position determination information is information that has been corrected to a print position that matches the output print paper size.

When the font index table and new print position determination information are sent to the output print data buffer 6 as described above, the print data instructed by the print instruction section 1 is read out from the input print data buffer 2. ,
It is sent to the output print data buffer 6. As a result, when data is read from this output print data buffer 6 and printed, the characters read from the input print data buffer 2 are placed in the character size and print position that match the 8-print printing paper size. will be printed.

In the above embodiment, the output printing paper size is instructed from the print instruction section 1, but if there is no instruction of the output printing paper size, the printing paper size specified in the printing format is used. Let be the output printing paper size. Therefore, it is clear that the input printing paper size and the output printing paper size are the same.

(Modified example) (1) In the above embodiment, the print data and control data are separate, but it may be possible to set print page information in the print data using a control code, etc. be.

In this case, a control code determination section is placed next to the print instruction section 1 in FIG. 1, and the control code determination section determines the content of the print page information. The control code determining section specifies the print format using the control code in the print data. Further, it is determined whether or not the control code instructs to change the output printing paper size, and if the control code instructs to change, the font correspondence table 4, print position enlargement ratio correspondence table 5, etc. are accessed. Ru.

As in the above embodiment, the printing position enlarging/reducing means 8 is
The information that determines the print position, such as the top margin, bottom margin, left margin, right margin, line spacing, character spacing, etc., is multiplied by the scaling factor found in the printing position scaling factor correspondence table 5, and the printing position is converted. . Further, the font # determined in the font correspondence table 4 will be registered in the font index table 9.

The following operation is the same as that of the previous embodiment, so the explanation ends here.

(2) When relative position movement or absolute position movement of the print position is specified in each print record such as in the case of all-point addressing method, the print position magnification rate is calculated for the relative position movement value and the absolute position. By multiplying, the printing paper size is enlarged or reduced.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, print data can be printed on paper of any size by simply specifying the output print paper size and without resetting the print format. This has the advantage of being able to print with good appearance without any omissions (see FIG. 7(b)). In addition, unlike the conventional method, there is no need to reset the print format, which has the effect of improving operability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram for explaining the present invention in detail, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the present invention, and FIG.
Figure 4 shows an example of a font correspondence table, Figure 5 shows a specific example of a print position magnification correspondence table, and Figure 6 shows a font index correspondence table. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a table, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of printing results according to the conventional method and the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Print instruction section, 2...Input print data buffer, 3...Print format holding section, 4...Font correspondence table, 5...Print position enlargement ratio correspondence table, 6...
- Output print data buffer, 7... Print paper size conversion processing section, 8... Print position information scaling means, 9...
Font index table, agent Patent attorney Michito Hiraki and 1 other person

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A printing paper size conversion device in the fair copying process of the printing process of a data processing system, which is an enlargement or reduction ratio of the printing position based on the printing paper size in the print format instructed by the print instruction unit and the output printing paper size. a print position magnification correspondence table that determines the size of the font that corresponds to the font size in the print format, and that determines the size of the font to be printed on the output print paper from the print paper size in the print format and the output print paper size; a font correspondence table to be determined; a print position information scaling means for scaling position information in the print format at an enlargement or reduction ratio determined by the print position magnification ratio correspondence table; and a font correspondence table determined by the input print data and the font correspondence table. 1. A printing paper size converting device comprising: an output print data buffer that retains at least enlarged/reduced font size and enlarged/reduced print position information and outputs the same to a printing device.