JPH06328650A - Layout design equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a layout design device capable of easily correcting characters in a printing process after completion of composition. [Structure] Font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data for typesetting processing are input from a CTS or the like to a layout design apparatus main body 46 via a character original input means 43. The layout design apparatus main body 46 displays the character image based on these data on the display means 45. The operator sees the displayed character image and interactively input means 4
4 is used to interactively modify these data. The corrected data is output to a computer typesetting machine or the like.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a layout design device, and more particularly to a layout design device capable of interactively modifying data output from a typesetting machine or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a character set that has been manually created is a CTS (Comp
Uterized Typesetting System
em) is becoming more common. CTS
Is for electronically typesetting a character represented by text data such as a character code, format data representing a series, etc., and outputting the data having the character set to a computer typesetting machine.

Data output from the CTS to the computer typesetting machine (data for computer typesetting machine) is font data representing a character typeface, display mode data representing a display mode such as halftone dot meshing / whitening / inversion, and each character. Character allocation position data indicating the allocation position of is included. However, the computer typesetting machine data does not include text data representing a character string (text), format data, or the like. That is, the data for the computer typesetting machine is only the data representing the characters arranged according to the typesetting, and the character string (sentence) from the data for the computer typesetting machine.
Cannot be recognized. In addition, there is no means for interactively correcting each character in the computer typesetting machine data output from the CTS, and there is no choice but to directly rewrite a collection of codes that is meaningless to the operator while observing the screen. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to correct the computer typesetting machine data after typesetting.
It was necessary to correct the data before formatting before inputting into the TS and to re-format.

[0004] For example, in the case of printed materials such as leaflets and catalogs, the design etc. of the posted products are decided early,
The prices of listed products are often changed and decided immediately before the issue date. Therefore, even if the typesetting process for leaflets, catalogs, etc. has already been completed, the typesetting process has to be redone to correct only the characters such as the price, and the printing process is very complicated.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a layout design apparatus which can easily correct characters in a printing process after completion of composition.

[0006]

A layout designing apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises an input means 1 for inputting font data, display mode data, and character layout position data, which have undergone typesetting processing, and font data. Display means 2 for displaying a character image based on the display mode data and the character layout position data, an operator 3, and an editing means 4 for editing the font data, the display style data, and the character layout position data according to the operation of the operator 3. And output means 5 for outputting the edited font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data.

According to a second aspect of the layout design apparatus, the input means adds font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data to the character data output from the word processor. The layout design apparatus according to claim 1.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the layout design apparatus, the output means outputs data for computer typesetting machine based on font data, display mode data and character layout position data. 1 is a layout designing device.

[0009]

In the layout design apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, the input means 1 inputs the font data, the display mode data and the character layout position data after the typesetting processing, respectively, and the display means 2 Displays a character image based on these data. Then, the operator or the like operates the operator 3 while looking at the displayed character image.
Then, the editing unit 4 edits the font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data according to the operation of the operator 3, and the output unit 5 outputs the edited data.

Therefore, even if the font data, the display mode data, and the character layout position data are after the typesetting process, the operator or the like can easily modify these data in a so-called interactive manner while looking at the display means. it can

According to the second aspect of the layout design apparatus, the input means can add font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data to the character data output from the word processor. Is. Therefore, a character to be corrected can be input using a general-purpose word processor, so that the character can be easily corrected.

According to the third aspect of the layout design apparatus, the output means can output the computer typesetting machine data based on the font data, the display mode data, and the character layout position data. . Therefore, the corrected data can be used as the data for the computer typesetting machine, and the printing process can be simplified.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A layout design apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the layout design apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. The layout design device 41 includes an image input unit 42 such as a flatbed scanner, a character original input unit 43 connected to a data communication unit, and an interactive input unit 44 including a tablet, a digitizer, a mouse, a keyboard and the like.
A display unit 45 including a color display and a frame memory; a layout design device main body 46 including a calculation unit and a main storage unit; a storage unit 47 including an external storage device such as a hard disk or an optical disc; and a color printer. Image output means 4 comprising a hard copy device
8 and data output means 49 connected to the data communication means
It has and is constituted.

The image input means 42 is for inputting image data such as a photograph online, via a magnetic tape, a magneto-optical disk or the like. It should be noted that the image data input by the plate-making scanner device or the like is used by another device (layout scanner device).
The image data may be input from the above using a magnetic tape, a magneto-optical disk, a communication means, or the like. Further, the image input unit 42 receives the image data input by the layout scanner device.
Via the layout design device body 46,
The layout data having the layout design may be output by the data output means 49. As a result, it is possible to reduce the work load and reduce work mistakes such as input mistakes, since the photograph data input work only has to be performed once.

The character manuscript input means 43 is for inputting the data for computer typesetting machine after the typesetting process outputted from the CTS or the like via a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, a magneto-optical disk, online or the like. The data for the computer typesetting machine output from the CTS includes font data representing a character typeface, display mode data representing a display mode such as shading, whiteout, and inversion, and character allocation position data indicating an allocation position of each character. Is included, but text data representing a character string (sentence), format data, etc. are not included. The text original input means 43 is a DTP (Desk Top Pu).
It is also possible to input the character data typeset by a blushing), word processor, or other typesetting device.

The interactive input means 44 (operator) comprises a keyboard, a mouse, a digitizer, etc., and is operated by an operator. By operating the interactive input means 44 while looking at the display means 45, the operator can easily correct the characters in the computer typesetting machine data after the typesetting processing. Note that it is also possible to use this to input business information, to instruct layout of images, and the like.

The display means 45 is composed of a CRT display or the like and displays a character image based on the inputted computer typesetting machine data. The storage unit 47 including a memory or an external storage device can store layout data representing a layout of a document image or the like, business information, management information, and the like. The data output means 49 outputs desired data, such as layout data or character data, from the created layout data. The image output means 48 is an output device such as a hard copy.

FIG. 3 shows the layout design apparatus body 46.
It is a functional block diagram of. The layout design apparatus main body 46 is composed of a CPU, a memory and the like, and performs a predetermined process according to a predetermined program.

The computer typesetting machine data consisting of font data, character allocation position data, and display mode data input to the layout design apparatus body 46 is stored in the character information storage unit 1.
It is configured to be stored in 2. Then, the data stored in the character information storage unit 12 is rewritten by the character allocation position data updating unit 15, the font data updating unit 17, the display mode data updating unit 19, the character information deleting unit 21, and the working character information copying unit 26. Is what is done.
The operator allocates the character allocation position correction determining means 14, the font data correction determining means 16, the display mode data correction determining means 18, the character deletion determining means 20 and the like to the interactive input means 44 by the operator.
The contents of modification of each data are determined by operating.

The operation of the layout designing apparatus thus constructed will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the operation of the layout design apparatus according to this embodiment. First, computer typesetting machine data consisting of font data, character allocation position data, and display mode data is input to the layout design apparatus main body 46 via the character original input means 43 (step S1). These input data are stored in the character information storage unit 12 (step S2). The data for computer typesetting machine stored in the character information storage unit 12 is displayed by the display means 45.
And the character image based on the computer typesetting machine data is displayed on the display means 45. (Step S3). An example of the display contents is shown in FIG.

When the operator determines that the displayed character needs to be corrected (YES in step S4), the work of step S5 is performed. In step S5, the operator operates the interactive input means 44 while looking at the display means 45 to perform a desired correction work in a so-called interactive manner. That is, layout position, typeface, size, italic transformation, rotation, font data,
In addition to changing the typography such as solid black, shaded, white, and reverse (steps S510 and S511), addition of characters (steps S520 and S521) and deletion of characters (step S53)
0, S531) and the like can be performed as necessary. The contents of each process will be described below.

When changing the typography, the processes of steps S510 and S511 are executed. As an example of changing the typography, when changing the character allocation position, first, an arbitrary character of the character data displayed on the character display unit 13 or a character allocation position of a plurality of characters is displayed by a mouse or the like. The layout design apparatus main body 46 is instructed using the mold input means 44.

That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the character 6b displayed at the allocation position P0 (x0, y0) on the screen 6a of the display device is displayed by the interactive input means 44 which is a pointing device such as a mouse. Specified by using the specified character and a new allocation position P1 (x1, y1)
Move to. Then, the character allocation position correction determining means 14
Determines a new allocation position P1 (x1, y1). Here, the coordinate system of the screen 6a of the display device corresponds to the coordinate system of the actual printed matter. Then, the character allocation position data updating means 15 updates the character allocation position data stored in the character information storage unit 12 according to the newly determined allocation position (step S511).

Also, when changing the font data, the operator inputs one character or a plurality of characters displayed on the display means 45 by the interactive input means 4.
4 is used to instruct the layout design apparatus main body 46. For example, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the display unit 4
The character 7b displayed on the screen 7a of No. 5 is designated, and the correction content of the font data is instructed using the menu 8a displayed on the screen of the display means 45. In the menu 8a, commands for tilting, rotating, and size of characters are prepared. The font data correction determining means 16 determines the correction content according to the operator's instruction, and the font data updating means 17 determines the character information storage unit 1.
The font data stored in 2 is rewritten. After this, when step S3 is executed, the display means 4
A screen 7c is displayed on the screen 5.

Even when changing the display mode data, the operator selects an arbitrary character to be changed among the characters displayed on the display means 45 by the interactive input means 4.
4 is used to instruct the layout design apparatus main body 46. For example, the character 9b on the screen 9a shown in FIG. 9 is designated, and the desired correction is performed using the menu 10a displayed on the display means 45. As a result, it is possible to make corrections such as whitening, inversion, shading, and hue change. The display mode data correction determining means 18 determines the display mode data based on these correction contents, and the display mode data updating means 19 rewrites the display mode data stored in the character information storage section 12. After this, when step S3 is executed, the screen 9c showing the inverted character is displayed on the display means 45.

When adding characters, step S5 is performed.
20, the process of S521 is executed. Since a new character is added by using the layout design device, either or both of the following two methods can be adopted.
The first method is a method in which the character data currently displayed on the screen of the display means 45 is duplicated and additional allocation is performed at an arbitrary allocation position on the screen of the display device.
The method is a method of additionally allocating characters input by the word processor to arbitrary allocation positions on the screen of the display device.

First, the first method will be described. For example, as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, the operator can display the characters 11b displayed on the screen 11a of the display means 45.
Is designated using the interactive input means 11, and the display means 45
"Duplicate" 1 of the menu 12a displayed on the screen of
Select command 2b. The character duplication determination means 23
Of the font data and display mode data stored in the character information storage unit 12, those relating to the character to be copied are copied from the character information storage unit 12 to the working character information storage unit 22 by using the character information copying means 24. To do.

It is also assumed that the operator selects the "paste" 12c command of the menu 12a and specifies the character allocation position on the screen 11a using the interactive input means 44. Then, the character allocation position data adding means 25
Is to add character allocation position data to the characters consisting of font data and display mode data stored in the work character information storage unit 22.

In step S521, the work character information copying means 26 stores the character allocation position data of the character added by the character allocation position data adding means 25 in the work character information storage section 12. The font data and the display mode data relating to the character to be assigned are copied to the character information storage unit 12. After this, when step S3 is executed, the screen 11c is displayed on the display means 45.

Next, the second method will be described. First, a character is input using the word processor 27, and the character information addition means 28 adds font data and display mode data to the input character. For example, the font data and display mode data to be added are set using the menus 8a and 10a shown in FIGS. 8 and 10, and the font data and display mode data are added to the input character. After these data are written in the work information section 22, the first
It is processed in the same way as the case of. Therefore, according to the layout designing apparatus in the present embodiment, it is possible to easily input the correction character using the word processor.

When deleting characters, step S53
0, the process of S531 is performed. First, the operator uses the interactive input means 44 to indicate the character 13b to be deleted on the screen 13a displayed on the display means 45 (FIG. 13), and the "delete" 12d on the menu 12a.
Command. Then, the character deletion determination means 20
Determines which one of the font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data stored in the character information storage unit 12 is related to the character to be deleted. It is deleted from the information storage unit 12. Then, the screen 13c in which the designated character is deleted is displayed on the display means 45.

In this way, the above-mentioned steps S3 ...
When the desired correction is completed by repeatedly executing S5 (YES in step S4), the character information storage unit 12
New computer typesetting machine data is generated based on the corrected font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data stored in (step S6). Then, the computer typesetting machine data is output to the computer typesetting machine via the data output means 49 (step S7).

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to easily correct the font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data after the typesetting process outputted from the CTS, in an interactive manner. .

[0036]

Therefore, as described above, according to the present invention, even if the font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data are typeset,
It becomes possible to easily make these modifications interactively. Further, since the character to be corrected can be performed by using a general-purpose word processor or the like, the character correction work can be easily performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a layout design apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a layout design device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a layout design apparatus main body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of the layout design apparatus according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of a character image of a layout design device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a character allocation position change in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining font data change in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining font data change in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining display mode data change in the layout design apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining display mode data change in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining a duplicate arrangement of character data in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining copying of character data, additional arrangement of character data, and deletion of character data in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining deletion of character data in the layout design device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 43 Character Original Input Means (Input Means) 44 Interactive Input Means (Operators) 45 Display Means 46 Layout Design Device Main Body (Editing Means) 49 Data Output Means (Output Means)

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Yoshiki Tanaka, 1-5-1 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hidetada Yamaura 1-1-5, Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo Toppan printing stock In the company

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting font data, display mode data, and character layout position data, which have been respectively formatted, and a display unit for displaying a character image based on the font data, display mode data, and character layout position data. , An operator, and an editing means for editing the font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data according to the operation of the operator, and an output means for outputting the edited font data, the display mode data, and the character allocation position data, A layout design device characterized by having. 2. The layout design apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input means adds font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data to the character data output from the word processor. 3. The layout design apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means outputs data for a computer typesetting machine based on font data, display mode data, and character allocation position data.