Drawing processing with flexible accomodation of character strings
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshinori Hirano, Osamu Yoshizaki
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Abstract
A drawing processing apparatus holds blocks and character strings as drawing objects and introduces three concepts, that is, a writable region for characters, a writable region for additional characters and a character frame within a block. The apparatus has the functions of automatic line feed within a character frame, layout of a character frame in a writable region for additional characters, addition of a character string at an arbitrary position and size adjustment between a character frame and a block.
Claims31
A drawing processing apparatus comprising:
- first setting means for setting a character acceptable region for characters where characters can be written within a block;
- second setting means for setting a character frame region for characters;
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- third setting means for setting a writing region for additional characters within a remaining unwritten portion after arrangement of the character frame region set within said character acceptable region by said second setting means.
A drawing processing method comprising the steps of:
- setting a character acceptable region for characters where characters can be written within a block;
- setting a character frame region for characters;
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- setting a writing region for additional characters within a remaining unwritten portion after arrangement of the character frame region set within the character acceptable region.
A drawing processing apparatus comprising:
- specifying means for specifying an acceptable region for characters in a block;
- setting means for setting a character frame region for characters within said character acceptable region;
- storage means for storing information related to respective attributes of the block and the characters;
- discriminating means for discriminating a positional relation between said character acceptable region and said character frame region in accordance with their respective attributive information stored in said storage means;
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- informing means for informing an operator that said character frame region is discriminated to be out of said character acceptable region by said discriminating means.
A drawing processing method comprising the steps of:
- specifying an acceptable region for characters in a block;
- setting a character frame region for characters within said character acceptable region;
- storing information related to respective attributes of the block and the characters;
- discriminating a positional relation between said character acceptable region and said character frame region in accordance with their respective attributive information stored in said storing step;
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- informing an operator that said character frame region is discriminated to be out of said character acceptable region in said discriminating step.
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