JPH06162012A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a document creation device that can arrange a document mixed with illustrations in a well-balanced manner without depending on the sensitivity of the creator. [Structure] A document creation device, for example, text data stored in each storage unit 16, 17, 18, 19 of a word processor,
Based on the plate data, the layout area information, and the plate layout position information, the plate layout processing unit 15 determines an appropriate position and width for each plate within the page. For example, the arrangement of the plates as shown in FIG. 3 (a) is arranged as shown in FIGS. 3 (b) and 3 (c), and the four corners are aligned with the positions of close steps, so that a well-balanced arrangement can be made easily. Be able to do it.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus capable of creating / editing a document composed of text data and graphic data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional DTP (desk top publishing), the target of information processing is a text and a figure, and the form of the created document is various. When creating a document with a mixture of illustrations, how to arrange the illustrations in a page in a well-balanced and easy-to-read manner depends on the creator's individual sensitivity, and at the arbitrary position for each illustration during the editing process of the document. Illustrations are arranged. From the designer's point of view, it is said that when arranging illustrations on a page in a well-balanced manner, it is essential to match the illustrations to the position and width of the text columns. Also, in many cases, the plates actually arranged according to this method look very balanced. In the conventionally proposed technique, for example, in the document shaping device described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-3859, when a picture interlocked with the text is arranged on a page, a table for prohibiting the arrangement is provided and the table is arranged according to the contents. It is possible to determine the position, lay out the illustrations nicely, and arrange them in appropriate positions.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the conventional DTP
Since the creator can place the plate in any position, it was necessary to change the position and width for each plate in the editing process in order to match the plate to the position and width of the text column. Also, a device for arranging on the same page as the words in the sentence referring to the illustration has been considered, but the layout on the page still requires a considerable amount of instructions from the creator, and the reverse. It is decided that the layout cannot reflect the intention of the creator.

Therefore, according to the present invention, when creating a document with a mixture of illustrations, it is possible to easily arrange the illustrations without depending on the sensitivity of the creator of how to arrange the illustrations in a page in a well-balanced manner. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation device that provides an editing function and does not impair the flexibility of the creator.

[0005]

According to the invention described in claim 1, the above object is achieved as follows. That is, this document creation device allocates text data such as characters, graphic data such as figures and images, input means for inputting various editing instructions, and text data, graphic data and text data input from the input means. Storage area information for storing the layout area information and the layout position information of the layout where the drawing data is to be arranged, height and width, and the layout area information and the layout layout position of the text data and the layout data on the storage means. A text layout position calculation based on the layout area information based on the layout area information based on the layout area information according to an instruction from the input means. And a means for changing the graphic layout position information to the calculated layout position information.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the above object is achieved as follows. That is, this document creation device is the same as the document creation device according to claim 1, wherein each of the elements of the drawing data is changed based on the drawing arrangement position information at the same time that the drawing arrangement position information is changed based on the allocation area information. A scaling / changing unit for scaling / changing the data is further provided. In the invention according to claim 3, the above object is achieved as follows. That is, this document creation device is the document creation device according to claim 2, wherein the drawing layout position information is changed based on the allocation area information, and at the same time, the drawing data is changed based on the drawing layout position information. An instruction means for instructing whether or not to be provided is further provided.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the document creating apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. Figure 1
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of a word processor which is a document creation device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, when editing a document, normally, the user waits for input of a character string, a drawing, and an editing instruction. In this word processor, the method of inputting a character string or an illustration is the same as that which has been generalized by the prior art.

As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 1, this word processor has an input device 10 for inputting information, an input control unit 12, a processing instruction unit 13, each processing unit 14, a plate processing unit 15, and a text information storage unit 16. , Illustration data storage unit 17, text allocation information storage unit 18, illustration layout position information storage unit 19,
It is composed of a document expansion unit 20, an output control unit 21, and an output device 22. First, various data input from the input device 10 during editing is transmitted from the input control unit 12 to the processing instruction unit 13. Then, according to the content, if it is text data, it is stored in the text information storage unit 16, and if it is an instruction for creating a plate, the plate layout position information is determined and stored in the plate layout position information unit 19. At the same time, the graphic data is stored in the graphic data storage unit 17. If the instruction is a text allocation information change instruction, the text allocation information is changed interactively with the user according to the content of the instruction and stored in the text allocation information storage unit 18. A specific example of the text allocation information and the figure layout position information is shown in FIG.

Text information storage unit 16, illustration data storage unit 1
The contents of No. 7 are expanded and arranged by the document expansion unit 20 based on the text allocation information and the image arrangement position information, and output to the output device 22 through the output control unit 21. When the user wants to change the picture in the page being edited to an appropriate position and width, he inputs the instruction from the input device 10, and the instruction is transmitted to the picture arrangement processing section 15 through the processing instruction section 13. The plate layout processing unit 15 determines an appropriate position and width for each plate within the page and changes the plate layout position information corresponding to the plate.
When determining the appropriate position and width, the plate layout processing unit 15
The horizontal starting point (the SX position below) of the plate is the SX of the plate.
The value is the SX position of the text allocation information closest to the position. Also, the horizontal end point (hereinafter referred to as EX position) of the illustration is E of the text allocation information that is closest to the EX position of the illustration.
The X position is the value.

The image rectangle is scaled by the determination of SX and EX, so that the vertical scale end point (hereinafter referred to as the EY position) is temporarily determined by scaling the image in the vertical direction at the same rate. Vertical start point of illustration (hereinafter SY position) and S of text allocation information
2 of Y position, EY position of illustration and EY position of text allocation information
The closer one (the one with the smaller difference) of the differences of the set is the base point. Then, when it is determined that the EY position of the illustration is closer to the EY position of the text allocation information, the EY position of the text allocation information is set as the value of the EY position of the illustration, and the value of the SY position is determined from the value of the EY position. When it is determined that the SY position of the illustration is closer to the SY position of the text allocation information, the SY position of the text allocation information is set as the value of the SY position of the illustration, and the value of the EY position is determined from the value of the SY position. A specific example of this output is shown in FIG.
Shown in (b) and (c). As you can see from this figure,
When there is a picture at the position shown in (a), by giving an instruction to change the position etc., the four corners are aligned with the positions of the adjacent steps as shown in (b) and (c), and a well-balanced arrangement is made. be able to. A detailed concrete example of the text allocation information is shown in FIG.

When an instruction is given to change the image data when changing the image layout position information, the scaling factor of the corresponding image is calculated from the SX, SY, EX and EY positions of the image before and after the above change. Then, each element data of the corresponding plate data is subjected to the scaling process with the scaling ratio. A concrete example of this output is shown in FIG.
Shown in (a) and (d). Here again, the four corners are aligned and arranged at the positions of the steps near the plate. A specific example of the figure layout position information is shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, the scaling processing of the illustration is realized by changing the position information of each graphic element for the graphic data and the image scaling processing for the image data. The detailed processing content here uses the method generalized by the prior art.

[0012]

According to the document creating apparatus of the first and second aspects, it is possible to realize a well-balanced arrangement of the plates from the viewpoint of the designer by a simple processing operation.
Moreover, since the image layout position information is changed, normal editing is possible even after the change, and the degree of freedom for the user is not impaired. In the document creating apparatus according to the third aspect, since it is possible to select whether or not to change the magnification of the image, it is possible to create a document mixed with the image without impairing the degree of freedom of the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of a word processor which is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing text allocation information and picture layout position information.

FIG. 3 is an output example of the present embodiment, where (a) is before instruction and (b) is
(C) and (d) are examples after the instruction.

[Fig. 4] Text allocation information (1), plate layout position information (2)
Is a detailed example of.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Input device 12 Input control part 13 Processing instruction part 14 Each processing part 15 Illustration arrangement processing part 16 Text information storage part 17 Illustration data storage part 18 Text allocation information storage part 19 Illustration arrangement position information storage part 20 Document expansion part 21 Output control Part 22 Output device

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Kobayashi 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo In Ricoh Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yuki Okazaki 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo In Ricoh Co., Ltd. (72) Maki Katahira Maki Katahira 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Within Ricoh Co., Ltd. (72) Takehito Tomita 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Within Ricoh Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Takashi Akutsu 1-3-6 Nakamagome, Ota-ku, Tokyo Within Ricoh Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting text data such as characters, graphic data such as figures and images, various editing instructions, etc., and allocation for allocating the text data, graphic data and text data input from the input means. Storage means for storing the area information and the drawing position, height, and width of the drawing where the drawing data is placed, and the text data and the drawing data on the storage means are allocated based on the area information and the drawing placement position information. A document creation apparatus comprising: output means for outputting text data and plate data allocated according to the above, wherein a plate layout position is calculated from the plate layout position information based on the layout area information according to an instruction from the input device. A document creation apparatus comprising a figure layout position calculation means, and changing the figure layout position information to the calculated layout position information. 2. A scaling / changing means for scaling / changing each element data of the graphic data based on the layout location information at the same time as changing the layout location information on the layout area information. The document creation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The apparatus further comprises an instruction means for instructing whether or not to change the picture data based on the picture arrangement position information, when the picture arrangement position information is changed based on the allocation area information. The document creation device according to claim 2, wherein