JPH0848063A - Document creation device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Object] The present invention is a document creation apparatus having a printing function adapted to the horizontal rule of various papers, and it is not necessary to increase the memory amount for print format setting for each paper, It enables print control for various forms such as forms and report forms. [Configuration] A format setting screen for setting each item of at least line pitch, center line pitch based on saddle stitching, and number of lines per page is displayed on the display device, and setting is made for each setting item of this format setting screen. The entered contents are stored in a storage device, and when the document is printed by the printing device based on the contents of each setting item stored in the storage device, in the normal line, the set line pitch is set as the line feed amount. At the same time, with respect to 1/2 of the number of lines on one page, by controlling the amount of line feed in consideration of the set line pitch and the center line spacing based on the saddle stitch as the line feed amount, a blank space is provided in the center part. It is also possible to handle certain manuscript sheets.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document producing apparatus having a printing function adapted to the horizontal rule of various sheets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a document preparation apparatus, for example, when a prepared document is to be printed on a manuscript paper, format control (character pitch, character pitch, Row pitch, center line pitch, etc.) must be stored in advance.

However, there are various types of manuscript papers on the market in general, and storing unique information for each kind of manuscript paper requires an increased amount of memory for storing control information and is inefficient. There is.

On the other hand, for example, general report paper on which horizontal ruled lines are preprinted also has a different format from that of the above-mentioned original paper, such as no line spacing at the center. This is necessary, and there is a problem that the memory area further increases in order to perform printing in correspondence with any format.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is no need to increase the amount of memory for setting a print format for each type of paper, and a document capable of performing print control corresponding to various types of format paper such as original paper and report paper. It is an object to provide a creation device.

[0006]

That is, the document producing apparatus according to the present invention receives at least an instruction to format a document and receives at least a line pitch, a center line pitch based on saddle stitching, and one page. Display control means for displaying a format setting screen for setting each item of the number of lines on the display device, and storage control means for storing the contents set and input for each setting item of the format setting screen in the storage device; In response to an instruction to perform a printing operation, when the printing device performs the printing process of the document based on the content of each setting item stored in the storage device, the set line pitch is changed to a line feed in a normal line. In addition to the control information indicating that the line feed amount is set to an amount taking into account the set line pitch and the center line pitch based on the saddle stitch, the line feed amount is set to １ ／ of the line number of the one page. Equipped with a print control unit that outputs to the printing device.For example, by setting an arbitrary line feed amount based on the line pitch and the center line pitch set in the above-mentioned format setting screen, it is possible to respond to manuscript paper etc. with a blank at the center. It is what it was.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a basic configuration of a document creation apparatus according to an embodiment.

In FIG. 1, a microprocessor (CP
U) 10 is a circuit that controls the entire document creating apparatus, and executes a document creating process, an external character creating process, a printing process, and the like.

The RAM 11 is a memory for storing various information necessary for creating a document. The RAM 11 includes a document area for storing a created document, a line image area (print buffer), an external character registration area [external character (84 wards, 01 points) to (84 wards, 16 points)], a phrase registration area [words (1) to ( 10)], a character pitch register for printing format setting, a line pitch register, a saddle stitching pitch register, a page line number register, and the like.

Here, the saddle stitching pitch is, for example, the remaining space after subtracting the line pitch in the central blank portion of the document sheet, as shown in FIG. ROM12 is C
A program area 13 for storing a document creation processing program or a print processing program for determining the operation of the PU 10, a character pattern area 14 for storing a specific character pattern such as a display or print character pattern, a "kana" or a Roman character is input. It has a dictionary area 15 in which various dictionaries for converting readings into kanji are registered.

A keyboard (KB) 16 stores input information necessary for document creation and the like in a keyboard controller (KB-CN).
T) A key input device for inputting data to the CPU 10 through 17.

The keyboard 16 includes a hiragana key, a kana / kan conversion key, a print mode designation key, a select / execute key, an end key, a numeric keypad, etc., necessary for document creation.

The display device 18 is, for example, a liquid crystal display device that displays 10 rows and 40 columns. The display controller (display-CNT) 19 performs display control on the display 18 using the display V-RAM 20 under the control of the CPU 10.

The floppy disk device (FDD) 21 and the disk controller (FDD-CNT) 22 constitute an external memory for storing the created document and storing external characters and second level characters in advance.

A printer (PRT) 23 and a printer controller (PRT-CNT) 24 print a created document or character information or the like read into the main body from the floppy disk device 21 in accordance with print control by the CPU 10. Of the printing device.

Here, the print controller 24 includes:
A line feed control unit 24a and a print control unit 24b are provided, and at the time of print processing by the print processing program stored in the program area 13, the printer 23 is controlled based on print format control information stored in the RAM 11. The printing operation and the line feed operation are controlled.

The line feed control section 24a and the print control section 24
b, a line number counter for managing the number of print lines in the printer 23, a print line pointer for managing print document lines in a document area to be printed, and the like are provided.

Next, the printing operation of the document creating apparatus having the above configuration will be described. For example, when printing a document stored in the document area of the RAM 11 on a document sheet, first, the print function key of the keyboard 16 is operated to set the apparatus to the print mode.

Then, on the screen of the display device 18, FIG.
As shown in, the format setting items (line feed pitch, character pitch, saddle stitch, number of lines per page,
(Horizontal writing / vertical writing, left margin) is displayed. Furthermore, use the cursor keys on the keyboard 16 and the numeric keypad to
Set the format for each item above.

In this case, the set value of each item is stored in the RAM 1
The line feed pitch is the line pitch (W) in FIG. 2 and the saddle stitch means the center stitch (G) in the center of the sheet.

When the select / execute key is operated after the print format setting is completed in this way, the printing operation by the printer 23 is started based on the print processing program stored in the program area 13.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the print processing operation after this format setting. First, in steps S1 and S2, the CPU 10 sets the line number counter in the printer controller 24 to "0" and the print line pointer to "1".

Then, the flow advances to step S3 to set (B) a half of the number (A) of one line of the formatted original sheet. In step S4, it is determined whether or not the number of print lines set in the line number counter is equal to the number of lines (A) of one page stored in the print format area in the RAM 11. If "NO", that is, if it is determined that the number of print lines has not yet reached the number of lines of one page of the document paper, the process proceeds to step S5.

In step S5, the print control unit 24b
Reads out the document line in the document area corresponding to the print line set in the print line pointer from the document area in the RAM 11 and causes the printer 23 to print one line.

Here, the printing of the first document line is completed. Then, in step S6 and step S7, "1" is added and set to the print line pointer and line number counter.

Then, the program proceeds to a step S8, wherein it is determined whether or not the number of print lines set in the line number counter is equal to 1/2 of the number of lines per page previously set in the step S3. If "NO" is determined in step S9, that is, if it is determined that the number of print lines has not yet reached half of one page, the process proceeds to step S9, where the line feed control unit 24a sets the line feed pitch (W) set in the print format area. , A line feed of a print line by the printer 23 is performed.

Here, the print head position of the printer 23 is set to the leading position of the second line of the original paper. Then, the process returns to step S4 again, and the printer 2
Since the print line feed process in steps S5 to S9 is executed until the set value of the line number counter, which is added for each line printing of 3, becomes equal to the number of lines (A) of one page,
At this time, if "YES" in step S8, that is, if the number of lines (A) of one page in the print format setting is 20, the number of printed lines reaches 10 (A / 2) and If it is determined that the first half of the printing process has been performed, the process proceeds to step S10.

In step S10, the line feed control unit 24
a adds the saddle stitch amount (G) to the line feed pitch (W) set in the print format area, and causes the printer 23 to perform line feed of a print line based on the line pitch including the saddle stitch (G).

Here, the print head position of the printer 23 is set to the leading position of the 11th line of the latter half, for example, beyond the blank part in the center of the document paper. After this, again
The line feed operation for printing in steps S4 to S9 is repeated, and when the number of printed lines reaches the number of lines per page (A) and "YES" is determined in step S4, printing of one page of original paper is completed. Will be.

Therefore, at the end of the printing of 1/2 the number of lines of one page set by the print format setting, the line feed control of the printed lines is easily performed by the line feed pitch including the saddle stitch amount (G). It is possible to obtain the central line portion, and it is possible to sufficiently cope with the printing on the original paper.

At the time of setting the print format, if the saddle stitching amount (G) is set to "0", the total number of lines per page becomes one.
At the end of the printing of the number of / 2 lines, step S10 in FIG.
Even if the line feed control including the saddle stitching amount (G) is performed, the line feed is performed only at the normal line feed pitch (W), and the line feed control is performed by the uniform line pitch over all the lines of one page. Becomes possible.

Thus, it is possible to sufficiently cope with printing using report paper or the like on which horizontal rules are preprinted without setting a control information area different from that of the original paper.

In the above-described embodiment, the number of print lines is one per page.
/ 2 When the number of lines is reached, a line feed is performed at the line pitch obtained by adding the saddle stitching amount (G) to the paper pitch (W).
Alternatively, when the saddle stitching amount (G) is set to “0”, it has been described that it is possible to correspond to a report sheet or the like. If the value is set as a value, it is possible to obtain a blank portion in the central portion of the document sheet without performing the addition process when the number of lines reaches １ ／ of one page. In this case, if the saddle stitch set value is made equal to one line pitch, it is possible to cope with a report sheet or the like on which a horizontal rule is preprinted.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, depending on how the center line pitch is set on the print format setting screen,
Since document paper or report paper can also be used, it is possible to provide a document creation device that can perform print control corresponding to various format papers without having to increase the amount of memory for print format setting for each type of paper.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of a document creation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a line pitch and a saddle stitch amount of a document sheet in print format setting of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing print format setting items in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a printing operation in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... CPU, 11 ... RAM, 12 ... ROM, 13 ... Program area, 14 ... Character pattern area, 16 ... Keyboard, 18 ... Display device, 23 ... Printer, 24 ... Printer controller, 24a ... Line feed control section, 24b ... Printing Control unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A format setting screen for setting items of at least a line pitch, a center line pitch based on saddle stitching, and a number of lines per page in response to an instruction to format a document. Display control means for displaying, storage control means for storing the contents set and input for each setting item of the format setting screen in a storage device, storage in the storage device in response to an instruction to perform a printing operation When the printing device prints the document based on the contents of each set item, the set line pitch is set as a line feed amount in a normal line, and the line number is set to の of the line number of one page. Print control means for outputting, to the printing apparatus, control information to the effect that the set line pitch and the center line pitch based on the saddle stitch are considered as a line feed amount. Creation device.