JP6327969B2 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program.

  In recent years, an increasing number of companies replace information on paper media with document data for the purpose of improving business efficiency and saving resources by making paperless. For example, business forms that are operated in-house are often the target, especially because the forms output by the core system output a large number of pages and the operation cost becomes enormous. Is being actively promoted. Electronic digitized forms are mainly operated for browsing on a personal computer.

  At present, mobile terminals having functions equivalent to those of personal computers (PCs) such as tablet terminals and smartphones are widespread, and companies introducing these mobile terminals into business are increasing. Therefore, it is expected that portable terminals such as tablet terminals and smartphones will be used in document data handled by companies in the future, for example, when viewing forms.

  Tablet devices and smartphones are equipped with a touch panel that has two functions, display and input, and you can operate the screen by touching it directly with your finger without using external hardware such as a mouse. It can be performed.

  There is also a unique basic operation method called swipe operation that moves a finger to sweep the screen. This is an operation for scrolling, turning pages, etc. when browsing general document data such as document data (including images and PDF files). When browsing a document such as an electronic form on a tablet terminal or a smartphone, it is performed based on this basic operation. As a technique for optimizing the display on the terminal and improving the operability, there is the following Patent Document 1 that improves the freedom of browsing in a portable terminal or the like having a narrow display area.

JP 2013-77231 A

When displaying document data on the display of a portable terminal or PC (data processing device), the page of the document data is switched by a method such as turning the page by a specific operation of the fingertip or mouse (such as a swipe operation or a button press operation). There are many cases. When pages are switched using the page turning method, the previous and next pages cannot be displayed on the display at the same time, so if you want to browse the contents of the previous and next pages, the viewer needs to switch pages frequently. Yes, it is very inconvenient for the viewer.
For example, if the contents of a table are interrupted at the page change and the contents of the table are continuously displayed from the top of the next page, the contents before and after the table interrupted at the page change are displayed. There are many cases that you want to browse at the same time. In that case, the page switching method of the page scroll method that can simultaneously display the previous and subsequent pages of the document data on the display is more convenient than the page turning method.

  On the other hand, if there is little relevance between the previous and next pages of the document data, switching pages with the page scroll method makes it difficult to specify the page start position, and a page turning method that allows you to transition to the start position of the previous or next page with one operation In comparison, the operability is low.

  Therefore, if the page switching method is fixed depending on the contents of the previous and next pages of the document data, the viewability and the operability may be deteriorated. Although the prior art is a proposal for improving the viewability of a form, the point of improving the viewability due to the relation between pages before and after the form has not been considered.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems. The purpose of the present invention is to dynamically change the method of accepting display operations in accordance with the attributes of the electronic document displayed on the data processing device, thereby improving both the browsing property of the electronic document and the operability performed by the user. It is to provide a mechanism that can generate a program.

The information processing apparatus of the present invention that achieves the above object has the following configuration.
With respect to each page of the electronic document, a determination unit that determines whether or not to display a page connected to an adjacent page in the vertical direction; The page is controlled to be displayed in response to the operation of the page, and the page determined to be not connected and displayed in the vertical direction by the determination unit is displayed in response to the user's horizontal operation. Control means for controlling.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the browsing which can improve both the browsing property of an electronic document, and the operativity which a user performs by switching the system which accepts display operation dynamically according to the attribute of the electronic document displayed with a data processor. A program can be generated.

It is a figure which shows the example of a data processing system structure to which information processing apparatus is applied. It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration example of an electronic form browsing terminal. It is a figure which shows the structural example of a form information design system. It is a figure which shows the structural example of a form information design system. It is a figure explaining overlay printing processing. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a figure which shows a table | surface figure edit screen. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the example of UI screen by a form browsing program. It is a figure explaining the related file between pages. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the composite form setting example. It is a figure which shows UI screen displayed on information processing apparatus. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a figure explaining the related file between pages. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus. It is a figure which shows UI screen displayed on information processing apparatus. It is a flowchart explaining the data processing method of information processing apparatus.

Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
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[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a data processing system to which the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is applied. This data processing system includes a form control apparatus 101 that functions as an information processing apparatus and electronic form browsing terminals 114 and 115 that function as data processing apparatuses. Here, the data processing apparatus acquires the browsing program generated by the information processing apparatus via the network 113 and is executed on the electronic form browsing terminals 114 and 115. Note that examples of screen display of browsing programs executed on the electronic form browsing terminals 114 and 115 correspond to FIGS. 10 and 14 described later.
In FIG. 1, a form control apparatus 101 is an information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, and executes overlay printing processing and generation processing of an electronic form browsing program. That is, the form control apparatus 101 generates a print page by superimposing a field data file that is text data and a form information file including predetermined form information, and instructs the virtual printer 111 to generate the print page as an electronic document. Generate as a document file.
Then, a form browsing program capable of browsing the form is generated by using the generated form file in the electronic document file format. The form browsing program of this embodiment is a web application that runs on a web browser that can be distributed via a network. In many cases, these web applications are applications that operate using a mashup language (HTML) that represents a web page and a programming language (Java (registered trademark) Script) that operates on a web browser. In addition to a web application that runs on a web browser, an application that runs on a computer system may be used.

  In addition, the form control device 101 generates only an electronic form file and a file representing inter-page related information to be described later, and an application that can reproduce a page switching operation to be described later using the file on the electronic form viewing terminals 114 and 115 side. The structure which is provided may be sufficient.

  The form control device 101 includes a display device 102, a keyboard device 103, an operation console control device 104, a network connection mechanism 105, a CPU 106, a main storage device 107, and an external storage control device 108. The form control device 101 also includes an external storage device 109, an input / output control device 110, and a virtual printer 111. The CPU 106, console control device 104, main storage device 107, external storage control device 108, and input / output control device 110 are connected to each other via a system bus 112.

The CPU 106 controls the operation of the entire form control device according to a control program stored in the main storage device 107. The main storage device 107 has a memory area in which application programs loaded from the external storage device 109 via the external storage control device 108 are stored.
The form control apparatus 101 includes a form information design system 301 realized by a program stored in the memory area of the main storage device 107.

  The CPU 106 designs form information by the form information design system 301 (FIG. 3) described later and stores the form information in the external storage device 109. Further, the CPU 106 reads form information and field data from the external storage device 109 by the electronic form generation system 401 (FIG. 4). The CPU 106 generates print data by superimposing the read form information and field data. Then, the CPU 106 generates an electronic form file using the print data generated by instructing the virtual printer 111.

  Control programs and various application programs on the main storage device 107 are executed by the operator console and the network connection mechanism 105. The operator console includes a display device 102, a keyboard device 103, and a console control device 104. The display device 102 displays information to be displayed. The keyboard device 103 inputs operation input information corresponding to a user operation input.

The console control device 104 instructs the display device 102 to display information to be displayed, and transmits operation input information input by the keyboard device 103 to the CPU 106. The network connection mechanism 105 exchanges information with an external computer system connected via a network 113 such as a LAN or WAN. Here, LAN is an abbreviation for Local Area Network. WAN is an abbreviation for Wide Area Network.
Electronic form browsing terminals 114 and 115, which are external computer systems, can browse a form browsing program generated by the form control apparatus 101 via the network 113.

  The input / output control device 110 mediates communication between the virtual printer 111 and the form control device 101. The virtual printer 111 prints a table graphic as electronic data in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101. The control method of the information processing apparatus and the computer program thereof according to the present embodiment are realized by the functions of the processing units included in the form control apparatus 101 shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration example of the electronic form browsing terminal shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, the electronic form browsing terminal is a data processing apparatus including a PC, a tablet, a smartphone, or each processing apparatus of FIG.
In FIG. 2, the CPU 203 controls the operation at the time of browsing the form according to the web browser application (web browser) stored in the main storage device 204 via the system path 206. When browsing a form, the web browser stored in the main storage device 204 issues a request for acquiring a form browsing program to the network connection mechanism 205.

  The network connection mechanism 205 acquires a form browsing program that is a client web application transmitted from the form control apparatus 101 via the network 113, and responds to the web browser. The web browser displays the web application (including the browsing program) received from the network connection mechanism 205 on the display device 201. The web application detects a user operation received from the input / output control device 202, performs processing such as page switching according to the content of the operation, and reflects the processing result on the display device 201 via the web browser. The display device 201 is configured with a touch panel, and accepts an operation in which the user directly touches the screen.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the form information design system of the form control apparatus 101 by the form control apparatus 101 shown in FIG. This example corresponds to a module constituting the form information design system.
The form information design system 301 may be arranged in an information device different from the form control device 101.
3, the form information design system 301 is realized by a form information design program that exists on the main storage device 107 shown in FIG. 1 when the CPU 106 uses the form information design system. The form information design system 301 executes a form information design process in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 106.

  The form information design system 301 includes a form information buffer 302, a display control unit 303, a drawing control unit 304, a file input / output unit 305, and a user interface unit 306. The display control unit 303 receives a form information creation command via the user interface unit 306.

The form information creation command is a command for designating form information. The display control unit 303 analyzes the received form information creation command and issues a processing request as an internal command to the drawing control unit 304 and the file input / output unit 305. The display control unit 303 receives the processing results of the drawing control unit 304 and the file input / output unit 305 and displays the processing results on the display device 102.
Specifically, the display control unit 303 accepts various commands such as a user setting command and a form information creation command that are input using the keyboard device 103, a pointing device (eg, a mouse), or the like.

The display control unit 303 instructs the drawing control unit 304 to design form information. The designed form information is stored in the form information buffer 302. The display control unit 303 displays on the display device 102 a form pattern based on the currently designed form information stored in the form information buffer 302.
The drawing control unit 304 designs form information and stores it in the form information buffer 302.

In addition, the drawing control unit 304 reads form information from the form information buffer 302 and transmits the form information to the display control unit 303 and the file input / output unit 305. The file input / output unit 305 generates a form information file 307 including the form information transmitted from the drawing control unit 304 and stores it in the external storage device 109.
Further, the file input / output unit 305 reads / writes the form information file 307 based on a command input via the user interface unit 306. The user interface unit 306 inputs various commands such as a user setting command and a form information creation command, which are input using the keyboard device 103 or a mouse, to the form information design system 301.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the form information design system of the electronic form generation system 401 by the form control apparatus 101 shown in FIG. Note that the processing executed by the electronic form generation system 401 is realized by an electronic form generation program existing on the main storage device 107 shown in FIG. 1 when the CPU 106 uses the electronic form generation system 401. The electronic form generation system 401 executes a form page generation process and a form browsing program generation process in accordance with instructions from the CPU 106.

  In FIG. 4, the user interface unit 403 acquires the form information file 406 read by the file input / output unit 402. Also, the user interface unit 403 acquires the field data file 407 read by the file input / output unit 402. Then, the user interface unit 403 causes the display device 102 to display a list of names of the acquired form information file 406 and a list of names of the acquired field data file 407.

  The user interface unit 403 receives selection instruction information such as the name of the form information file and the name of the field data file specified by the user, which is input using the keyboard device 103 or the mouse, and outputs the selection instruction information to the file input / output unit 402. .

  The file input / output unit 402 reads the form information file 406 from the external storage device 109 based on the name of the form information file output by the user interface unit 403. Further, the file input / output unit 402 reads the field data file 407 from the external storage device 109 based on the name of the field data file output from the user interface unit 403.

  The form page generation unit 404 generates print data by superimposing the form information indicated by the form information file 406 read by the file input / output unit 402 and the field data indicated by the field data file 407. Then, the form page generation unit 404 transmits the generated print data to the virtual printer 111, and generates a form page as an electronic file via the virtual printer 111.

  The form browsing program generation unit 405 receives the electronic form page generated by the form page generation unit 404, and based on the information in the form information file 406 read by the electronic form page and the file input / output unit 402, the form browsing program 408. Is generated.

Next, a process for converting data processed by the information processing apparatus into general overlay printing will be described.
Overlay printing is printing by superimposing form information for recording information such as frame lines in document paper format and data in text format (field data). A function called page registration or form registration possessed by a page printer such as a laser printer is used to register in advance as form information.
When printing with field data using this page printer, the form information and the field data can be overlaid and printed by using a function called page information call or form information call.
Such overlay printing is defined as overlay printing. It is also possible to output the result of overlay printing as an electronic file by using a virtual printer instead of paper for the result of overlay printing.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining overlay printing processing in the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which overlay printing processing is performed by inputting predetermined tabular data to a registered form.
In FIG. 5, form information can be created using a dedicated form information design system 301. The form information is generally composed of a fixed figure (form figure) that does not depend on field data and a figure (field figure) that displays received field data in accordance with a specified output format. In order to create a field graphic, it is necessary to create an item (field) for receiving field data in advance.
Fields can be created from a dedicated screen displayed in the form information design system. When a field graphic is created, it is internally associated with the field from which it was created. In the case of a table graphic 505, it is necessary to create a record field 502 because it is necessary to receive field data in record units.

  The form control apparatus 101 reads a form information file 501 in which a table graphic is defined and a corresponding field data file 506. The form control apparatus 101 executes overlay printing by superimposing the read form information file 501 and the field data file 506. 507, 508, and 509 in FIG. 5 represent overlay printing results.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. This example is a processing example for creating the form information file 307 in the form information design system 301 shown in FIG. A control program corresponding to each step corresponds to the user interface unit 306. When the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 receives setting information for defining form information items via the display control unit 303 shown in FIG. 3, each step is realized by executing the control program. The Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG.

  First, the user interface unit 306 of the form information design system 301 receives a form creation command from a user input via a mouse or the like. The form information design system 301 instructs the form creation command to the drawing control unit 304 and the file input / output unit 305 to create the form information file 501 shown in FIG. 5 (S801).

  Next, when the form information design system 301 determines that an instruction to create an item (field) for receiving field data has been received from the user, the form information design system 301 creates a field based on the form information item setting information (S802). The field created in S802 is displayed as an item in a dedicated screen displayed in the form information design system 301, such as 502 in FIG.

  Subsequently, when the form information design system 301 determines that a command to create a table graphic is issued from the user, the form information design system 301 creates and edits the table graphic based on the form information item setting information (S803). Thereby, the table graphic 505 shown in FIG. 5 reflecting the setting indicated by the form information item setting information is created.

  Next, when the user interface unit 306 of the form information design system 301 receives a next page upper limit setting command for the created table graphic input from the user input via a mouse or the like, the next page upper limit of the table graphic according to the setting command. Settings are made (S804). Here, the next page upper limit of a table graphic is the next page if the table graphic and the corresponding field data are overlaid and the overlay printing process is performed, and if the data does not fit within one page in the data repetition direction of the table graphic This is the starting position when drawing is continued. In the case of this embodiment, the table graphic 505 repeats data downward.

  As a specific setting method, as shown in FIG. 7A, a next page upper limit adjustment slider 703 for the table graphic 505 on the left side is arranged on the table graphic edit screen 702 of the form information file edit screen 701. . The user instructs the form information design system 301 to set a next page upper limit using the next page upper limit adjustment slider 703 via a mouse or the like.

  As a condition for the next page upper limit to function, the property of the table style setting information 711 of the table graphic 505 needs to be a table variable type 714 (the table style will be described later). In this embodiment, the drawing start position from the next page of the table graphic 505 is the position 704.

  Subsequently, the form information design system 301 determines whether or not the instruction command from the user sets the property of the table graphic for the table graphic 505 created in S803 (S805).

If it is determined in S805 that the instruction command from the user is to set the table graphic property for the table graphic 505, the form information design system 301 displays the table as shown in FIG. A graphic property setting screen 710 is displayed.
The user sets the table style setting information 711 and the column setting information 712 for a plurality of table figures from the property setting screen 710 (S806). The items set in the table style setting information 711 include a table fixed type 713 and a table variable type 714, and one of them can be set. The fixed table type 713 is a style that does not change the structure of the table graphic regardless of the number of corresponding field data when performing overlay printing.

  A data row in which the corresponding field data is not stored is a blank row. The table variable type 714 is a style in which the configuration of the entire table graphic changes depending on the number of field data when performing overlay printing. When the number of corresponding field data is smaller than the structure of the table graphic, it is possible to set whether or not to print the data line in which the field data is not stored.

  When performing overlay printing processing, which will be described later, it is determined whether the table style setting information 711, the table graphic next page upper position 704, and the table graphic upper and lower end positions 705, 706 are to be connected to each other. (S1007). In the present embodiment, the table style setting information 711 of the table graphic 505 is a table variable type 714. The table graphic property column setting information 712 is for setting the number of table graphic columns. When the column number 715 is set to a numerical value of 2 or more, the table graphic is converted into a column. Become.

  When overlay printing is performed, if the field data does not fit within one page, the subsequent drawing is performed from the next column in the same page without page breaks. In the case of this embodiment, the number of columns 715 of the table graphic 505 is 1. An explanation of the influence on the determination of whether or not to connect the preceding and following pages based on the number of columns of the table graphic will be given later in S1006.

  Next, when the form information design system 301 determines that a break header / break footer creation instruction command has been received from the user, the form information design system 301 creates / edits the break header / break footer based on the user's instruction (S807). Apart from the table graphic editing screen 702, the form information design system 301 has a break header editing screen 707. The break header editing screen 707 and the table graphic editing screen 702 may not be displayed at the same time, and may be switched by a specific operation of the user. The break header is displayed when the page is displayed for the first time.

  This is also displayed when the page is displayed again after the page break process after the break of the field data associated with the break header occurs. Usually, a break header includes graphics such as a company name and logo, a system date field, a system time field, and a page field at the top of the page. The break header is edited on the break header edit screen 707. Since the break header is linked to the field, the break header edit screen 707 cannot be displayed in a form in which no field is created.

  The opposite of the break header is a break footer that appears at the end of the page. The break footer can be edited on the break footer edit screen. Since a break footer is not used in this embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  Subsequently, the form information design system 301 determines whether or not the instruction command from the user is to set a break header for the break header created in S807 (S808). If it is determined in S808 that the instruction command from the user is to set the break header for the break header, the form information design system 301 uses the break header / footer as shown in FIG. The setting screen 720 is displayed.

The user sets a break header and break footer drawing method for the target field 721 from the setting screen 720 (S809). Items to be set on the break header / footer setting screen 720 include a setting item 722 for displaying the break header on a page different from the details and a page 723 for displaying the break footer on a page different from the details. Here, when a check box on the left side of the setting item 722 and the setting item 723 is checked, the corresponding setting item becomes valid.
When the setting item 722 for displaying the break header on a page different from the details is validated, the break header and the table graphic are drawn on different pages.
Similarly, when the setting item 723 for displaying the break footer on a page different from the details is enabled, the break footer and the table graphic are drawn on different pages. In the case of the present embodiment, the setting item 722 for displaying the break header on a page different from the details is validated. This completes all the table graphic settings related to the present embodiment.
Next, the form information design system 301 determines whether the creation / editing of the table graphic has been completed (S810).
In S810, if the form information design system 301 determines that the creation / editing of the table graphic has not ended, the process returns to S803.
In S810, when the form information design system 301 determines that the creation / editing of the table graphic has been completed, the form information design system 301 determines whether to save the form information file 307 (S811).
In S811, when the form information design system 301 determines that the form information file 307 is not stored, this process is terminated.

  If the form information design system 301 determines to save the form information file in S811, the form information file 307 is saved in the external storage device 109 (S812). Here, the processing of the program ends once.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. This example is a processing example of overlay printing by designating the form information file 406 and the field data file 407 in the electronic form generation system 401 shown in FIG. The control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG. The page data generation processing in the information processing apparatus shown in this embodiment will be described in detail below.
The electronic form generation system 401 performs overlay printing processing when a form information file name, a field data file name, and an overlay printing instruction command are input to the electronic form generation system 401 in response to a user operation input. Start.
First, the electronic form generation system 401 determines whether or not the user's operation input from the display control unit 303 is an overlay printing instruction command (S901). In step S <b> 901, if the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the user's operation input is not an overlay printing instruction command, the process ends.

In step S901, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the user's operation input is an overlay printing instruction command, the electronic form generation system 401 instructs the file input / output unit 402 to specify the designated form information. The file 406 is read (S902).
Subsequently, the electronic form generation system 401 instructs the file input / output unit 402 to read the designated field data file 407 (S903).

  Next, the electronic form generation system 401 instructs the form page generation unit 404 to analyze the field data file 407 and execute overlay printing processing (S904). As a result, a print page that is a page to be printed is generated.

  Subsequently, the electronic form generation system 401 instructs the form page generation unit 404 to generate an electronic file form form page 901 from the generated print page via the virtual printer 111 (S905).

  In the case of this embodiment, the results of overlay printing by designating the form information file 501 and the field data file 506 shown in FIG. 5 are pages 507, 508, and 509. Page 507 is an overlay result of the break header created in S807. The break header is set to a page different from the table graphic A by setting 722 for displaying the break header set in S809 on a page different from the details.

  Pages 508 and 509 are overlay results of the table graphic A created in S803. While the data of the table graphic A in the field data file 506 is assigned to each record field 502 of the field A, the drawing process of the table graphic A is performed. The drawing result of the table graphic A does not fit in the page 508, and the drawing is continued from the upper end position of the page 509 by the next page upper limit setting set in S804 and the table style / column number setting set in S806. To do.

The position where the table graphic A starts drawing on the page 509 is the next page upper limit position 704 of the table graphic A set in S804. Further, according to the table style of the table variable type 714 set in S806, the drawing start position of the table graphic A from the page 509 is not the vertical position 705 at the time of generating the table graphic A but the next page upper limit position 704. .
Furthermore, the drawing continuation position when the table graphic A does not fit on one page is not the next column in the page 508 but the next page 509 by setting the number of columns 715 set in S806.

  When overlay printing processing S904 is performed, a page end event occurs every time drawing of one page is completed (S906). When the occurrence of a page end event is detected, the electronic form generation system 401 performs a page end event process shown in S907 and S908. The conventional page end event process (S907) is a process performed at the end of the page in the conventional overlay process, and is therefore omitted here. The page end event process S908 is a process for generating an inter-page related information file 1101 described later with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of this invention. This example is a detailed procedure of the page end event process for the page end event corresponding to S906 that occurs when performing the overlay printing process in the electronic form generation system 401 shown in FIG. The control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG.

  In order to generate the form browsing program shown in FIG. 10, the electronic form generation system 401 needs information for determining whether or not there is a relationship between the form pages. Specifically, since the vertical relationship between the page 508 and the page 509 that is the drawing result of the table graphic A is high, the viewability is higher when the page 508 and the page 509 are connected in the vertical direction.

In the page end event processing S908 shown in FIG. 8, information (inter-page related information file 1101) for determining which form pages need to be linked is generated in the form browsing program generation process described later with reference to FIG. To do.
First, the electronic form generation system 401 acquires event information when a page end event occurs (S1001).
Next, the electronic form generation system 401 determines whether there is a next drawing page from the event information acquired in step S1001.

In step S1001, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that there is no next drawing page, that is, when it is the last page, the electronic form generation system 401 uses the inter-page related information file 1101 to store information on the currently completed page. (S1003). The format for recording is 1001. In S1003, when the information of the completed page is recorded in the inter-page relation information file 1101, if the same page information is already recorded in the inter-page relation information file 1101, it is recorded in the inter-page relation information file 1101. The process is terminated without doing so. The illustration for determining whether or not the same page information has already been recorded in the inter-page related information file 1101 is omitted.
In step S1001, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that there is a next drawing page, it determines whether the subsequent page and the next page have the attribute for drawing the same table graphic (S1004).

  In S1004, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the finished page and the next page do not draw the same table graphic, the finished page information is recorded (S1003). In the present embodiment, when the drawing end event of page 507 occurs, the drawing of the break header that has been finished and the drawing of table graphic A on the next page are not drawn with respect to the same table graphic. The contents of 1102 are recorded.

  In step S1004, if the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the finished page and the next page are drawing the same table graphic, the setting information of the table graphic is acquired from the form information file 406. (S1005).

  In step S <b> 1006, the electronic form generation system 401 acquires table graphic column setting information 712 from the acquired table graphic settings, and determines whether the set column number is one. When the number of table graphic columns is set to 1 or more, when the table graphic does not fit on one page, drawing is not continued from the next page directly, but drawing is continued from the next column. It can be judged that there is little relevance between. If the above determination is made, the electronic form generation system 401 does not continue the next determination process S1007, but performs the recording process of the page information that has been completed (S1003). In step S1006, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the number of table graphic columns is 1, the determination processing in step S1007 is performed.

  In step S <b> 1007, both end positions (up and down positions in the present embodiment) on the drawing repetition direction (downward in the present embodiment) when the electronic form generation system 401 sequentially draws the field data on the table graphic are displayed. Determine if a certain range is exceeded. For example, it is determined whether the upper end position of the table graphic is within 5 cm from the upper end of the page and the lower end position of the table graphic is within 5 cm from the lower end of the page.

  That is, it is determined whether or not both end ranges in the drawing direction of the table graphic are limited to a specific range. In the case of the present embodiment, when the lower end position 706 of the table graphic A505 is not near the lower end of the page but near the center of the page (that is, when the lower end position 706 is smaller than a certain range), the lower end position 706 of the table graphic A505 is The distance between the bottom edges of the page increases.

Therefore, even if the table graphic A is continuously drawn from the top of the next page, it can be determined that the relevance between the previous and next pages is small. For the same reason, when the next page upper limit position 704 of the table graphic A505 is not near the top of the page but near the center of the page, even if the table graphic A is drawn to the end of the bottom of the previous page, It can be judged that there is little relevance. When the above determination is made, the electronic form generation system 401 does not continue the next determination process (S1008), but performs the recording process of the currently completed page information (S1003).
On the other hand, if the electronic form generation system 401 determines in S1007 that both end positions in the drawing repetition direction of the table graphic data exceed a certain range, the determination processing in S1008 is performed.

  In step S <b> 1008, the electronic form generation system 401 acquires table style setting information 711 from the table graphic settings acquired in step S <b> 1005, and determines whether the set table style is a table variable type 714. When the table style of the table figure is fixed table type 713, the configuration of the table figure does not change when the page is switched (that is, the next page upper limit setting of the table figure does not work), so the relationship between the previous and next pages It can be judged that there is little nature.

However, as a special case, when the upper and lower end positions 705 and 706 of the table graphic A have already finished the specific range described in S1007, it is determined that the relationship between the preceding and subsequent pages is high even if the table graphic style is a fixed type. Yes (illustration of special cases is omitted).
Here, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the table graphic style is fixed, the electronic form generation system 401 does not continue the next determination process (S1009), but performs the recording process of the currently completed page information ( S1003).
If it is determined in step S1008 that the table graphic style is variable, the determination processing in step S1009 is performed.

  In step S1009, the cause of the page end event is acquired from the page end event information acquired in step S1001, and it is determined whether the cause is a page break generated by the break key. The page break by the break key is a setting to perform a page break when the data in the field data satisfies a certain condition (break key).

For example, if a page break is set every time data corresponding to the item name of the table graphic A changes, a page end event occurs every time data corresponding to the item name of the table graphic A changes (page break). For). In such a case, since the lower end position of the drawn table graphic A becomes indefinite depending on the contents of the field data to be superimposed on the table graphic A, it can be determined that the relationship between the preceding and subsequent pages is small. When the above determination is made, the electronic form generation system 401 performs the next determination process (S1010 is not continued and the page information recording process that is currently ended is performed (S1003).
If the electronic form generation system 401 does not determine in step S1009 that the page end event has occurred due to the break key, the determination processing in step S1010 is performed.

  When it is determined that all the determinations from S1004 to S1009 are possible, the electronic form generation system 401 can determine that there is a relationship between the currently completed page and the next page. Subsequently, the electronic form generation system 401 performs processing for recording information about the previous and next pages determined to be related between the preceding and following pages in the inter-page related information file 1101 (processing from S1010).

In step S <b> 1010, the electronic form generation system 401 determines whether or not a related group having the same content already exists in the inter-page related information file 1101. In step S1010, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that there is no related group having the same content in the inter-page related information file 1101, the processing in step S1011 is performed.
In step S <b> 1011, the electronic form generation system 401 newly creates related group information that can specify the target of the related group 1103 and records it in the inter-page related information file 1101.

  At the same time, the electronic form generation system 401 records information on the current page and the next page that are the targets of the related group in the inter-page related information file 1101 using the format 1001. In the case of the present embodiment, when the drawing end event of the page 508 occurs, it corresponds to the above determination, and the contents of 1103, 1104, 1105 are recorded in the inter-page related information file 1101.

On the other hand, if the electronic form generation system 401 determines that there is a related group having the same content in the inter-page related information file 1101 in S1010, the information of the page that has been completed in the related group is displayed in the format 1001. Use and record (S1012). When performing the recording process, as in the recording process of S1003, if the same page information has already been recorded in the inter-page relation information file 1101, the process ends without being recorded in the inter-page relation information file 1101 ( (The illustration is omitted).
Thus, the inter-form page relevance information file 1101 necessary for generating the form browsing program is created.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining the data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. In this example, in the electronic form generation system 401, a form browsing program is generated using the electronic form form page 901 generated by the process of FIG. 9 and the inter-page related information file 1101 generated by the process of FIG. It is a processing example. The control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG.
In step S1201, the electronic form generation system 401 reads the electronic form form page 901 generated by the process of FIG. In step S1202, the electronic form generation system 401 reads the inter-page related information file 1101 generated by the process of FIG. In step S1203, the electronic form generation system 401 performs a related group search process from the inter-page related information file 1101 read in step S1202.

  In step S1204, the electronic form generation system 401 determines whether a related group has been found by the search processing in step S1203. In S1204, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the related group has been found, the process of connecting the target pages recorded in the relevant group in the inter-page related information file 1101 in a specific order by the page scroll method. Is performed (S1205).

Here, the page scrolling method is a page switching method in which when a page switching operation occurs, the page position is continuously changed by a page scrolling operation in which the user designates a scroll bar. This is a page switching method that can be interrupted in a state.
In the present embodiment, the page 508 and the page 509, which are the drawing result pages of the table graphic A505, are determined to be related to each other in the processing of FIG. 10, and the related information is stored in the inter-page related information file 1101. It is recorded in the related group 1103.
In the linked display processing for deleting the blank between pages (S1205), the pages 508 and 509 in the related group 1103 are linked in the order of the drawing repetition direction (downward) of the table graphic A505. The result of the concatenation process S1205 is shown on page 508 and page 509 in FIG.

  In step S1204, when the electronic form generation system 401 determines that the related group cannot be found by the search processing in step S1203, all the form pages are connected by the page turning method (S1206). In the concatenation process shown in S1206, the electronic form generation system 401 treats pages in the same related group concatenated by the page scroll method in S1205 as one page, and performs a page turning type concatenation process.

Here, the page turning method is a page switching method that changes the position of the page by one page when a page switching operation occurs, and is a page switching method that cannot be interrupted in the middle of page switching.
In the case of the present embodiment, the cover page 507 is not related to the drawing result pages 508 and 509 of the table graphic A 505 according to the inter-page related information file 1101, and therefore between the page 507 and the pages 508 and 509 treated as one page. Connect by page turning method. The result of the connection process is shown in FIG.
In step S <b> 1207, the electronic form generation system 401 performs a form browsing program generation process based on the results of the connection processes S <b> 1205 and S <b> 1206. The generated form browsing program is transmitted to the portable electronic form browsing terminal 115 or the like via the network 113.
The screen display of the form browsing program 601 generated by the process of FIG. 12 is shown in FIG.

  When the form browsing program 601 shown in FIG. 10 is started, a cover page 507 that is a break header is displayed on the display device 201 of the portable electronic form browsing terminal 115. When the user performs a left swipe operation 602 via the input / output control device 202 of the portable electronic form viewing terminal 115, the form viewing program 601 switches pages using the page turning method, and a page that is a detailed portion of the table graphic A. 508 is displayed on the display device 201.

  At the same time, the form browsing program 601 displays a scroll bar 604 on the right side of the screen via the display device 201. When the user performs an operation of scrolling the scroll bar 604 or scrolling on the screen via the input / output control device 202, the form browsing program 601 switches pages using the page scroll method. A table data page 508 and a table data page 509, which are detailed portions of the table graphic A, are continuously displayed on the display device 201 in a continuous manner. When a right swipe process (not shown) is performed in a state where the pages 508 and 509 are displayed, the form browsing program 601 switches pages using the page turning method and displays the page 507 on the display device 201.

[Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment, a table viewing program is generated by concatenating a plurality of pages, which are drawing results of a table graphic, with a scroll method for a table graphic that satisfies a specific setting in the form information file. Met. That is, there is a premise that the target of the connection process is a table graphic drawing result page and the application condition of the connection process is a table graphic setting.

  In the present embodiment, not only the above-mentioned premise but also a page other than the table graphic drawing result page can be connected by the scroll method according to application conditions other than the table graphic setting. Further, this is an example in which connection processing can be performed when a plurality of pages having different relationships exist between a plurality of pages having a certain relationship (that is, in a state where related groups are nested).

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a composite form setting example in the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. Hereinafter, the form information and the result of the overlay printing process in this embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, a composite form setting file will be described as an example. Here, the composite form setting file is a file in which composite form settings configured from a plurality of form information files are saved. Using complex form settings, you can:
A form information file to be used for each page on which overlay printing is performed can be set, and printing can be performed by changing the form information file for each page. This page is not an individual print result page, but a set of form information files in a composite form setting file.

  In FIG. 13, reference numeral 1301 denotes information on the composite form setting 1302. The composite form setting 1302 includes two pages, page A 1303 and page B 1305. Page A1303 is composed of a form information file A1304, and page B1305 is composed of a form information file B1306. When overlay printing processing is performed using the composite form setting file and the fold data file, overlay printing processing is performed in the order of pages set in the composite form setting. When overlay printing processing is performed on pages in the composite form setting, overlay printing processing is performed in the order of the form information file set in the page.

  Only the fixed text “whole cover” is set 1307 in the form information file A1304. When the overlay printing process of the first embodiment is performed on the form information file A, a drawing result page 1310 is obtained.

  The form information file B 1306 has the same setting as that of the form information file 501 of the first embodiment, and when the overlay print processing is performed using the field data file 506 of the first embodiment, the same print result as that of the first embodiment is obtained. The print result is pages 1311, 1312, and 1313.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a UI screen displayed on the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. This example corresponds to a screen example of the form browsing program generated in the present embodiment.
Here, by using the method of the first embodiment, it is possible to generate a form browsing program as shown in FIG. In some cases, it is desirable to connect drawing result pages of the form information file B as shown in FIG.
In that case, the sense of unity as a drawing result of the form information file B can be improved, and the viewability can be improved by the contents of the form.

  FIG. 15 is a flowchart for explaining a data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. This example is a page end event process example for enabling generation of both the form browsing programs as shown in FIGS. In the overlay printing process shown in the present embodiment, description of steps that are the same as those in the overlay printing process flow of FIG. 9 shown in the first embodiment is omitted. S1501 is processing corresponding to the processing from S1005 to S1012 shown in FIG. The control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG.

  If the electronic form generation system 401 determines in S1502 that the finished page and the next page do not draw the same table graphic, the finished page information recording process S1003 is not performed, and the determination process of S1503 is performed. Do. If the electronic form generation system 401 determines in S1503 that the completed page and the next page are not the rendering result page of the same page in the composite form setting file, the same page information recording process as in FIG. 9 (S1003) I do.

If it is determined in S1503 that the finished page and the next page are the drawing result pages of the same page in the composite form setting file, the page setting information is acquired from the composite form setting file (S1504).
In step S <b> 1504, the acquired page information of the composite form setting file is used when the target composite form setting file page is specified in each process performed thereafter.

As a result of the processing shown in FIG. 15, an inter-page related information file 1601 as shown in FIG. 16 can be created.
In FIG. 16, a line 1602 is a line for recording information on the drawing result page 1310. The drawing result page 1310 does not belong to any related group because it has little relation to other drawing result pages.

  The related group 1603 is a related group related to the page B 1305 in the composite form setting file 1301. It is described in the related group 1603 that the target of the related group 1603 is page B1305. The drawing result pages belonging to the related group 1603 are pages 1311, 1312, and 1313, and the configuration thereof is the same as that of the inter-page related information file 1101 in FIG.

  A plurality of related groups are recorded in the related information file 1601 between pages. When the form browsing program is generated, the pages in which related groups are linked by the scroll method will be described in the form browsing program generation process of FIG.

  FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. In this example, the electronic form generation system 401 generates a form browsing program using the inter-page relation information file 1601 shown in FIG. Note that steps similar to those shown in FIG. 12 are denoted by the same step numbers and description thereof is omitted. Further, the control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG.

In S <b> 1701, when generating a form browsing program, the electronic form generation system 401 performs processing for specifying a related group to be linked. As the specifying means, the electronic form generation system 401 may make a determination based on a user operation input from the display control unit 303, or the information for specifying may be stored in any file. Further, the related group may be specified from the type (type) of the related group, or may be specified from the target (target) of the related group. Alternatively, the related group may be specified from the combination of the above type and target.
In step S <b> 1702, the electronic form generation system 401 sequentially specifies the related groups specified in the specifying process in step S <b> 1701. The subsequent processing is the same as the processing after S1203 in the first embodiment.

  According to the present embodiment, the target to be connected by the scroll method when browsing the votes is not limited to the drawing result page of the table graphic, and it is possible that there are a plurality of application determination conditions for the connection process. That is, since it becomes possible to select a target page to be linked when browsing a form, an effect of improving the degree of freedom when browsing the form can be obtained.

[Third Embodiment]
The present embodiment is an example in which the viewability of the form browsing program generated in the first and second embodiments can be further improved.
FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of a UI screen displayed on the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. This example is an example of a generated form browsing program screen. The form information file and field data file used for overlay printing are the same as in the first embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 18, since the blank space is connected between the page 1801 and the page 1802 without leaving a space, the viewability can be improved.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for explaining a data processing method of the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. This example is a processing example for generating a form browsing program as shown in FIG. 18 in the electronic form generation system 401. The control program corresponding to each step is realized by the CPU 106 of the form control apparatus 101 executing the control program shown in FIG. Hereinafter, the processing will be described mainly with the module shown in FIG. Also, the same steps as the steps shown in FIG.
In step S1901, the electronic form generation system 401 deletes the margins in the connecting direction of the connected pages after the pages in the related group are connected using the scroll method (in the example of FIG. 18, the vertical direction). (S1901). The other processing is the same as the processing in FIG.

  According to this embodiment, the effect which further improves the browsing property of a form browsing program is acquired. In addition, in the area determination process in the drawing repetition direction of the table graphic in S1007 described in FIG. 9 in the first embodiment, it is possible to relax the determination criteria, thereby improving the adaptability to different forms. Can also be obtained.

  Each process of the present invention can also be realized by executing software (program) acquired via a network or various storage media by a processing device (CPU, processor) such as a personal computer (computer).

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications (including organic combinations of the embodiments) are possible based on the spirit of the present invention, and these are excluded from the scope of the present invention. is not.

101 Form control device 114, 115 Electronic form browsing terminal

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A determination means for determining whether or not each page of the electronic document is displayed in a vertically connected manner with an adjacent page;
With respect to the page determined to be connected and displayed in the vertical direction by the determination means, it is controlled so that the page is displayed according to the operation in the vertical direction by the user, and is not connected and displayed in the vertical direction by the determination means. With respect to the determined page, control means for controlling to display the page according to the left and right operation by the user;
An information processing apparatus comprising:   The control unit controls the page that is determined to be displayed by being connected in the vertical direction by the determination unit so that the page is scroll-displayed according to the scroll operation in the vertical direction by the user. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1.   The control unit controls the page that is determined not to be displayed by being connected in the vertical direction by the determination unit so that the page is turned over in response to a swipe operation in the horizontal direction by the user. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2.   The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not to display each page of the electronic document by being connected to the adjacent page in the vertical direction based on the relationship with the adjacent page. The information processing apparatus according to any one of 1 to 3.   5. The information according to claim 4, wherein the determination unit determines that a page having a high vertical relevance with tabular data included in the adjacent page is displayed by being connected in the vertical direction. Processing equipment.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the determination unit determines that pages generated based on the same form information file in the adjacent pages are displayed in a vertically connected manner.   The control means controls the page determined to be connected in the vertical direction by the determination means so as to delete the blank between the pages in accordance with the vertical operation by the user. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6.   The control unit controls the page determined to be displayed in the vertical direction by the determination unit so that the page is displayed in response to an operation in the vertical direction by the user. 2. The information according to claim 1, wherein for a page determined not to be connected and displayed, a browsing program for controlling to display the page is generated according to a left-right operation by the user. Processing equipment.   The program for functioning a computer as each means of the information processing apparatus of any one of Claims 1 thru | or 8. For each page of the electronic document, a determination step for determining whether to display an adjacent page connected in the vertical direction;
For pages that are determined to be connected in the vertical direction in the determination step, the page is controlled to be displayed in response to an operation in the vertical direction by the user. With respect to the determined page, a control process for controlling to display the page in accordance with a left-right operation by the user;
An information processing method comprising:

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