JPH1086457A - Document editing and printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] It is possible to easily print one page of a created document repeatedly on a specified sheet in a good format, reduce the number of printing sheets, and print a sheet of a size set in a format. To reduce unnecessary work such as preparations for work. In a document editing and printing apparatus including an input unit, an output unit, a display unit, and a control unit, when page repetition printing is designated, one page is repeated on a designated sheet by a designated number of times. What is configured to print.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing and printing apparatus, and more particularly, to a document editing and printing apparatus capable of arranging and printing a plurality of pages to be printed in page units.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are an apparatus for printing a plurality of created one-page documents by designating a plurality of copies, and an apparatus for printing two pages on one sheet by a binding function of a plurality of pages.

[0003] Separately, the inventors of the present invention have proposed a device of this type in Japanese Patent Application No. 7-155749 (prior application). It describes a device that prints repeatedly.

[0004]

However, in the conventional apparatus, when printing a plurality of copies of a created document, a plurality of designated sheets of the size set in the document format are required, and the number of sheets used for printing is increased. It is necessary to prepare for printing on paper of the paper size set in the document format.

[0005] Further, only the combination of two pages can be printed by the binding printing function, and a plurality of pages cannot be combined into one sheet.

When a page of a created document is repeatedly printed a specified number of times, the printing position at the time of repetition is set at the upper left position.
When the paper is cut and used, there is a problem that the paper is deviated right and left and up and down or protrudes from the paper.

[0007] It is an object of the present invention to perform equal allocation processing of one page of a created document on a specified sheet and print the page repeatedly for a specified number of times. Another object of the present invention is to provide a document editing and printing apparatus which performs equal layout processing on a specified sheet and combines and prints a specified number of pages.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above objects, the present invention provides a character input means, a character editing and proofreading means, a display means for displaying a character input / edit state, a storage means for storing a created document, and a creation means. In a document editing and printing apparatus provided with a printing means for printing the created document and a print designating means for designating a printing method, the page to be printed of the created document is converted into a page size in the paper size designated by the print designating means. Means for uniformly arranging a plurality of margins and arranging and printing a plurality of margins.

[0009] Further, by designating multi-page combination printing by the print designation means, each page of the created multi-page document is set as combination print data, and a margin is set on a sheet designated so that the data does not overlap. The pages are evenly allocated, and a plurality of pages are combined and printed for a specified number of times.

According to this configuration, a one-page document is created,
By simply specifying page repetition printing, print paper size, and the number of repetitions, and specifying that there is even allocation, one page can be repeatedly printed on the specified paper size while equally allocating the margins for the number of repetitions. Therefore, the number of printing sheets can be reduced, and a printed material having a well-defined appearance after cutting can be obtained.

Further, since the printing paper can be designated, unnecessary work such as preparation for printing the paper of the size set in the format can be reduced.

Further, page combination printing and printing paper size,
Just specify the number of combinations and specify with equal allocation,
Since a plurality of pages can be combined and printed on a specified paper size while equally allocating margins for a specified number of times, a plurality of pages can be collectively printed on one sheet in a good format.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail based on an example in which the present invention is applied to a Japanese word processor.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document editing and printing apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 100 denotes a central processing unit, which controls the entire document editing and printing apparatus. Reference numeral 101 denotes a keyboard as an input device, which has keys for inputting characters and numbers, keys for performing kanji conversion, keys for controlling a screen, keys for processing instructions, and the like. A keyboard controller 102 controls a keyboard. Reference numeral 103 denotes a display as a display device, which displays character data, graphic data, processing command items, and the like. A display controller 104 controls the display. A printer 105 is a printing device, and prints print image data stored in a data area 108. A printer controller 106 controls the printer. A program area 107 holds a control program, an editing program, and the like for the document editing and printing apparatus. A data area 108 stores print image data and the like.

Next, the operation of each unit in FIG. 1 will be described based on the flowchart in FIG.

First, in FIG. 2, when a key for activating a print function of the keyboard 101 is input (step 201), a print designation screen (FIG. 3) is displayed on the display 10.
3 is displayed (step 202).

Next, at step 203, a print type designation is made to specify whether to perform normal printing, to specify multi-page printing in which pages are repeatedly printed, or to specify multiple-set printing in which pages are combined and printed. I do. At this time, the designated print type information is stored in the data area 108, and a print condition setting screen (FIG. 4) is displayed on the display 103 (step 204).

After setting the printing conditions in step 205, the set printing conditions are stored in the data area 108.

Further, in step 206, if normal printing is designated from the print type information stored in the data area 108, print image data is created as before and stored in the data area 108 (step 20).
7).

In step 206, data area 1
If multi-print printing or multi-set printing is specified from the print type information stored in the storage area 08, the data area
The coordinates of each printing base point and each printing size (FIG. 5) are calculated from the number of printing repetitions, printing paper size, and evenly allocated data of the printing condition setting information stored in 108, and stored in the data area 108 (step 208). . At this time, if even allocation is specified in the even allocation data,
The print base point is determined by equally allocating margins.

In step 209, data area 1
The reduction / enlargement ratio at the time of printing is calculated from the print size stored in the storage area 08 and the format of the print document, and stored in the data area 108.

In step 210, data area 1
Based on the printing base point coordinate information and the reduction / enlargement ratio information stored in step 08, print image data of the first page to be printed is created and stored in the data area 108.

In step 211, data area 1
If a plurality of sets of printing are designated from the print type information stored in the storage unit 08, the number of developed pages is updated (step
212).

In step 213, data area 1
If the development has not been completed for the number of print repetitions or the number of print combinations of the print condition setting information stored in step 08, the process returns to step 210. If the development has been completed, the process proceeds to step 214.

In step 214, the print image data stored in the data area is output to the printer 105.

FIG. 5 shows a printing base point and a printing size in the case of designating twice vertically, twice horizontally, and no uniform layout in the horizontally long format. FIG. 6 shows a print base point and a print size in the case of designating twice vertically, twice horizontally, and with uniform layout in the landscape format.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a document which has been subjected to multiple printing and a printing result. FIG. 8 shows an example of a document subjected to printing in a plurality of sets and a printing result. 9 and 10 show examples of business card printing and sticker printing as applications of the present invention.

[0029]

As described above, the present invention provides character input means, character editing and proofreading means, display means for displaying the state of character input / editing, storage means for storing created documents,
In a document editing and printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing a created document and a print designation unit for designating a printing method, a page to be printed of the created document is set to a sheet size designated by the print designation unit. Since the printing is performed by arranging a plurality of blank spaces as a unit and arranging a plurality of blanks, it is easy to print one page of the created document repeatedly on a specified sheet in a good format. This reduces unnecessary work such as preparation for printing paper of the size set in step (1).

Also, there is an effect that it is possible to easily collectively print a plurality of created multi-page documents on a designated sheet by combining a plurality of documents.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a document editing printing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a print designation screen.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a print condition setting screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a printing base point and a printing size when two times vertically, two times horizontally, and no even allocation are designated in a horizontally long format.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a printing base point and a printing size when two times vertically, two times horizontally, and with uniform allocation are designated in a horizontally long format.

FIG. 7 is an example of a printing result during multiple printing.

FIG. 8 is an example of a printing result when printing a plurality of sets.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a screen of an application example of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen of an application example of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

100: Central processing unit, 101: Keyboard, 102:
Keyboard controller, 103 ... Display, 10
4 display controller, 105 printer, 1
06: Printer controller, 107: Program area, 108: Data area.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Tamura, etc. 1-1-1, Higashitaga-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Pref.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. Character input means, character editing and proofing means, display means for displaying the input / edit status of characters, storage means for storing created documents, printing means for printing created documents, and designation of a printing method In the document editing and printing apparatus provided with a print designation unit, the print target pages of the created document are printed by arranging a plurality of blank spaces in units of pages on the paper size designated by the print designation unit. Document editing and printing apparatus comprising means. 2. The document editing and printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when page repetition printing is designated by said print designation means, the page to be printed of the created document is designated as one page and designated by said print designation means. A document editing and printing apparatus for allocating and arranging a plurality of blank spaces evenly by the printing means for the number of prints. 3. The document editing and printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of page combination printing is designated by said print designation means.
A document editing and printing apparatus in which a plurality of pages to be printed of a created document are set to be equal to the number designated by the print designation unit and the margins are evenly allocated and arranged by the printing unit for printing. 4. A character input means, a character editing and correcting means, a display means for displaying a character input / editing state and a printing condition setting screen, a storage means for storing a created document, and a printing means for printing the created document. Means, a document editing and printing apparatus provided with a print designating means for designating a printing method, wherein a screen for designating the number of times of repetitive printing in the horizontal and vertical directions is displayed on the printing condition setting screen, and when repetitive printing is designated, A document editing and printing apparatus for printing a page to be printed of a created document on a paper size designated by a print designation unit, allocating and arranging a plurality of margins evenly in page units.