JP2000057130A - Method and device for automatically discriminating and printing correction place in document preparation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a method which can print a page including a place to be corrected in the edition of a document of many pages by recognizing pages which are corrected but are not printed from the previous document edition till the current document edition processing and printing only the pages that are edited. SOLUTION: A document data reading part 1 reads a document to be edited from an old document data storing part 21 and stores it in a new document data storing part 22 that stores document information after editing. An edition processing analyzing part 3 analyzes the edition operation results of the document and an edition processing storing part 4 records them in the new document data storing part 22. A print processing part 5 analyzes an unprinted page in a print page analyzing part 51 and prints only a corrected page in a print executing part 52 according to the analytical results. After the printing, the information of a new unprinted page data part 222 is updated. Then, the reprinting of a printed page is prevented from being performed and print paper and a printer are effectively utilized.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a print control method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a print control method and system suitable for a document creation apparatus, an editor running on an information processing apparatus, word processing software, and the like. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When printing a document created and edited using a word processor and an editor, a conventional print control system selects a print function (utility) and a user selects a print page from a menu on the screen. It has only the function of selecting either to specify or to print all documents (all pages).

[0003]

For this reason, the following method has been adopted when a small amount of correction, such as correction of a word mistype, occurs over a wide range of a document having a large number of pages.

[0004] 1) The user memorizes or writes down the corrected page and designates each page to be printed at the time of printing.

2) Reprint all documents.

[0006] However, these methods have the following problems.

[0007] The first problem is that printing omissions often occur due to a check error.

The reason is that, as the number of pages of a document increases, the work of confirming the corrected portion by the user becomes enormous, and the rate of occurrence of human error also increases.

A second problem is that the printing time increases as the number of pages increases.

The reason is that all printed pages are also reprinted.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to provide a method and apparatus for printing a page including a corrected portion in editing a large-page document. It is in.

As a document printing apparatus that does not require page designation at the time of printing, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-81268 discloses a document printing apparatus that requires a user to pay attention to a portion that the user wants to pay attention to, such as a correction portion or a caution portion. You can set a placemark to clearly indicate,
By using this mark, the page to be printed can be specified by a simple operation, and by printing only the page with the mark, only a specific page can be printed without having to enter a page number at the time of printing. There has been proposed a document printing apparatus in which a user does not need to memorize a page number to be printed.
However, as will be apparent from the following description, the present invention provides a completely different configuration and function from the conventional document printing apparatus.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention holds information on a change position of a document by an editing process together with document data, and examines a page on which a correction by the editing has occurred during a printing process, and corrects the page. Only the page including the portion is printed. More specifically, the present invention relates to (a)
The edited and created document is stored as an old document, and the document data and the information of the unprinted page of the document are stored. (B) When the document is modified by the editing process, the document data changed by the editing Is saved as new document data, and information on the edited page is saved. (C) Pages that have been modified but not printed from the previous document editing to the current document editing process. And prints only the edited page.

According to the present invention, there is provided means for storing an edited and created document as an old document and storing the document data and information on an unprinted page of the document. Means to save the document data changed by the above as new document data and to save the information of the edited page, and to make changes between the previous document editing process and the current document editing process, Means for analyzing pages that have not been edited, and means for printing only pages that have been edited but have not yet been printed, up to the current document editing process, based on the analysis result.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described. In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to FIG. 1, the old document data storage unit (21) of the recording device (2) is provided with the old document data unit (211) and the information of pages that have not been printed since the document was edited. Unprinted page data section (21)
2), when the document is modified or the like, the editing processing analysis unit (3) transfers the information of the part updated by the editing to the editing processing storage unit (4), and the editing processing storage unit (4). )
Saves the document data changed by editing in the new document data section (221) of the new document data storage section (22), and stores the information of the edited page in the new unprinted page data section (222). Also save.

These processes are repeated in the document creation operation.

As a result, a page that has been modified but has not been printed between the previous document editing and the current document editing process is recognized by the printed page analyzing unit (51) and used. This allows the user to print only the edited page without being aware of it.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, (a) a process of storing the edited and created document as an old document and storing the document data and information of an unprinted page of the document in an old document data storage unit; b) The old document is read from the old document data storage unit, and when the old document is corrected by the editing process, the document data changed by the editing is stored as new document data, and information on the edited page is stored. In the new document data storage unit; (c) a process of analyzing a page that has been modified but not printed between the previous document editing process and the current document editing process; d) A program executed by a computer, based on the analysis result, to perform print control of only pages that have been edited but not yet printed until the current document edit process. It may be realized. In this case, the present invention can be implemented by loading the program from a recording medium on which the program is recorded into a computer and executing the program.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in this embodiment, a document data reading unit 1 for reading a document to be edited and a storage device 2
An editing process analyzing unit 3 for analyzing the editing process in the editing process; an edited document storage unit 4 for updating a document updated by the editing process; and a print processing unit 5 for printing.
And

The storage device 2 includes an old document data storage unit 21 for storing data of a document before editing and a new document data storage unit 22 for storing data of a document after editing. 21 includes an old document data section 211 storing old document data, an old unprinted page data section 212 having information on unprinted pages related to the document data, and a new document data storage section 22 stores a new document data storing new document data. Document data part 2
21 and a new unprinted page data section 222 having information on unprinted pages related to new document data.

The print processing section 5 includes a print page analysis section 51 for checking pages to be printed in the print processing section, and a print processing execution section 52 for printing a document.

The document data reading section 1 reads a document to be edited from the old document data storage section 21 and stores it in the new document data storage section 22 for storing information of the edited document.

The result of the document editing operation is analyzed by the editing process analyzing unit 3, and is recorded in the new document data storing unit 22 by the editing process storing unit 4.

In the print processing section 5, the print page analysis section 51 analyzes the unprinted pages, and prints only the corrected pages in the print execution section 52 based on the analysis result.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the processing flow of this embodiment. Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

The document data reading unit 1 reads the old document data storage unit 211 and the old unprinted page data unit 212 from the old data storage unit 21 (step A1), and outputs them to the new document data storage unit 22 (step A2). ).

When the editing processing has been performed (Yes in step A3), the editing processing analysis unit 3
The contents are checked (step A4), and the result is output to the new document data section 221 of the new document data storage section 22 by the editing processing storage section 4 and output to the new unprinted page data section 222 (step A5). , A6).

When the printing process has been performed (Yes in step A7), the print page analyzing unit 51 of the print processing unit 5
The new document data storage unit 22 analyzes the unprinted pages after the update (step A8), and the print processing execution unit 52 prints the unprinted pages (step 9).
The information of the new unprinted page data section 222 is updated (step A10).

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When a document with a large number of pages is updated, there is no need to manually check and set the print range, which has been required conventionally, thereby improving operability and work efficiency.
Further, it is not necessary to reprint a printed page, and the printing paper and the printing apparatus can be effectively used.

The reason for this is that, in the present invention, information on the change position is held together with the document data, the page where the correction has occurred is automatically checked, and only the page with the correction is printed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 document data reading unit 2 storage device 3 edit processing analysis unit 4 edited document storage unit 5 print processing unit 21 old document data storage unit 22 new document data storage unit 211 old document data unit 212 old unprinted page data unit 221 new document data Section 222 new unprinted page data section 51 printed page analysis section 52 print processing execution section

Claims (4)

[Claims] (A) An edited and created document is stored as an old document, and its document data and information on an unprinted page of the document are stored. (B) When the document is modified by an editing process, ,
The document data changed by the editing is saved as new document data, and the information of the edited page is saved. (C) Although a change was made from the previous document editing to the current document editing process, Recognizing an unprinted page and printing only the edited page. 2. A means for storing document data of an edited and created document as an old document and information of unprinted pages of the document, and when the old document is modified by an editing process, the document is changed by editing. Means to save the edited document data as new document data and to save the information of the edited page, and between the previous document editing process and the current document editing process,
Means for analyzing pages that have been modified but not printed, and based on the analysis results, print only pages that have been edited but have not yet been printed until the current document editing process. Processing means; and a document printing apparatus. 3. An old document data storage section comprising an old document data storage section for storing data of a document before editing, and an old unprinted page data section for storing information on unprinted pages relating to the document data. A storage unit including an old document data storage unit that stores data of a subsequent document, and a new document data storage unit that includes a new unprinted page data unit that stores information of unprinted pages related to the document data; Means for reading a document to be edited from the old document data storage unit, means for analyzing information of a portion updated by editing when a document is modified, etc., Means for storing the edited page information in the new document data section of the data storage section and also for storing the edited page information in the new unprinted page data section; means for analyzing the unprinted pages; Print Document printing apparatus characterized by comprising: a print execution unit. 4. A process for saving an edited document as an old document and storing the document data and information on an unprinted page of the document in an old document data storage unit. When the old document is read from the data storage unit and modified by the editing process,
A process of storing document data changed by editing as new document data and storing information of the edited page in a new document data storage unit; (c) a process from the previous document editing process to the current document editing process (D) a process of analyzing a page that has been modified but not printed; and (d) based on the analysis result, an editing process has been added but is still being printed until the current document editing process. A recording medium on which a program for executing each process of printing control of only non-existent pages by a computer is recorded.