JPH03107154A - Layout and plate making system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To avert the superposition of a design simulation (DS) system and a layout scanner system (LS) and to improve a trimming operation by using the information determined by the DS as plate making information at the time of executing plate making by the LS. CONSTITUTION:The image of an original is first inputted as rough image information by a color scanner 4 and is stored on a floppy disk 5 in the case of execution of the plate making by using the information on the control of the plate making by the DS system in the LS. Character information is inputted from a keyboard 1 and basic layout information is inputted from a digitizer 2 and is stored on the disk 5. On the other hand, the layout corresponding to the basic layout information stored on the disk 5 is displayed on a display 6 by a computer 7. The information in the disk 5 is displayed and simulated at the desired point of the displayed layout and the desired layout design is determined. The information on the rough image, position, magnification and angle determined in such a manner is stored as plate making information on the disk 5.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is applied to a layout scanner system used for plate making of manuscripts such as color photographs. The present invention relates to a planning/plate-making system that can significantly improve the efficiency of trimming work during plate-making and improve positioning accuracy by mapping image information.

[Prior Art] Currently, in the field of plate making, layout scanner systems have been developed and put into practical use when making plates of manuscripts such as color photographs. This layout scanner system has an editing function that can output one or more images in a desired layout on one film. This type of layout scanner system is sold by many manufacturers.
This is an extremely innovative plate-making system.

Its common use is in special processing such as erasing acne, wrinkles, etc. from human images, and in plate-making (block collection). In addition, printing color photographs is treated as a temporary process for boat fishing, but catalogs, pamphlets, leaflets, etc.
Perform image processing such as reduction, rotation, etc., or reuse by changing cropping.

Often reused. Such work is called a collection work, and the latter is a database-based prepress work, and is a major function of the layout scanner system.

On the other hand, in the design department, which is located in the pre-plate-making process, designers use Tresco to enlarge or reduce manuscripts such as color photographs to create trace diagrams, or use colored pencils or crayons to color them. He creates design simulation images called thumbnails and kanbu.

Recently, computers have also entered these design departments, and computer-based design simulation systems (usually Design Workstation D
(referred to as WS) is gradually being adopted.

However, at present, these systems are used independently of each other, do not have a system that allows efficient information exchange, and are standalone computer systems, so the digital data that has been created is not effective. Because it was not used, the overall benefits were not fully utilized.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, in the past, there has been a problem in that various plate-making control information determined at the time of design work cannot be efficiently linked with the layout scanner system.

The present invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and by efficiently linking a layout scanner system and a design simulation system,
The purpose is to provide an extremely innovative planning/plate-making system that can minimize the duplication of work between the design simulation system and layout scanner system and improve the efficiency of trimming work and positioning accuracy during plate-making. shall be.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes an input means for inputting basic layout information, and a first image input unit for inputting an image of a manuscript as rough image information for design. means, image information input by the first input means, first storage means for storing the information input by the input means, a first image display means, and image information stored in the first storage means. A function for displaying a layout on the first image display means according to the basic layout information displayed, and an image stored in the first storage means at a desired part of the layout displayed on the first image display means. A function that displays information, simulates the design, and determines the desired layout design, and sends the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information determined by the design simulation to the layout scanner system as plate-making control information. a design simulation system consisting of a first image processing means having a function of providing information, a second image input means for inputting an image of a manuscript, color-separating the image information and outputting the image information; and output from the second image input means. a second storage means for storing image information to be displayed; a second image display means;
Based on the function of reading the image information stored in the second storage means and displaying it on the second image display means, and the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information given from the design simulation system. A layout scanner system comprising a second image processing means having a function of displaying the rough image information on a second image display means, mapping the image information and the rough image information, and trimming the image information. It is prepared and configured.

[Operation] Therefore, in the planning/plate-making system of the present invention, when performing plate-making with the layout scanner system, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information determined by design simulation are used as plate-making control information. , it is possible to eliminate the duplication of work between the design simulation system and the layout scanner system as much as possible, thereby increasing the efficiency of trimming work during plate making and improving positioning accuracy.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a planning/prepress system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the planning/prepress system of this embodiment includes a keyboard 1, a digitizer 2, and a mouse 3, which are first interactive input means, a color scanner 4, which is a first image input means, and a first a floppy disk 5 as a storage means, a color display 6 as a first image display means, a computer 7 as a first image processing means, and an output device 8 as a first output means.
a design simulation system consisting of a color scanner 9 as a second image input means, a magnetic disk 10 as a second storage means, a digitizer 11 as a second interactive input means, and a graphic display 12. and a magnetic disk 13 which is a third storage means.
Or a floppy disk 14, a magnification angle adjusting device 15 which is a magnification angle adjusting means, and a floppy disk 1.
6, and a color display 1 which is a second image display means.
7, an optical disk 18 as a fourth storage means, a computer 19 as a second image processing means, and an output device 20 as a second output means.

Here, the keyboard 1 is used to input character information. Further, the digitizer 2 is used to input basic layout information. Furthermore, the mouse 3 is used to input position information. Furthermore, the color scanner 4 inputs the image of the document as rough image information for design.

On the other hand, the floppy disk 5 stores rough image information input by the color scanner 4 and the keyboard 1.
It stores each piece of information input by the digitizer 2. The computer 7 also has a function of displaying a layout on the color display 6 according to the basic layout information stored on the floppy disk 5, and a function of displaying a floppy disk in a desired part of the layout displayed on the color display 6. A function for simulating a design by displaying rough image information and character information stored on the disk 5 and determining a desired layout design, and rough image information, position information, and magnification information determined by this design simulation.・It has a function of providing tilt angle information to the layout scanner system side as plate-making control information. Further, the output device 8 outputs the information processed by the computer 7 as, for example, No.1-Docobee.

On the other hand, the color scanner 9 inputs an image of a color photograph as a document, separates this image information into colors, and outputs it. The magnetic disk 10 also stores image information output from the color scanner 9. On the other hand, the digitizer 11 reads positional information such as the plate making size and mask information shown on the layout designation paper or the block copy as necessary, and displays this information on the graphic display 12.
This is shown above. Further, the magnetic disk 13 or the floppy disk 14 is used to store device information constituted by the digitizer 11. Further, the magnification angle determining device 15 measures the magnification and tilt angle of the finished document as required, and stores the measured values on the floppy disk 16.

On the other hand, the optical disk 18 stores image information output from the color scanner 9 as a database. The computer 19 also reads image information stored on the optical disk 18 and displays the color display 1.
7 and the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information provided from the design simulation system, the rough image information is displayed on the color display 17, and the rough image information is displayed on the color display 17, and the rough image information is displayed on the color display 17, It has a function of mapping image information and rough image information and trimming the image information. Further, the output device 20 outputs information processed by the computer 19 as a plate-making film.

Next, the operation of the planning/prepress system configured as described above will be explained using the flow diagram shown in FIG.

First, a case will be described in which the layout scanner system performs plate making independently without using plate making control information from the design simulation system.

The image information of the color photograph color-separated by the color scanner 9 is once stored on the magnetic disk 10. Further, positional information such as the plate making size and mask information shown on the layout designation paper or the master plate is read by an appropriate means such as the digitizer 11, and is stored on the magnetic disk 13 or floppy disk 14, and is also stored on the graphic disk. displayed on the screen 12. Furthermore, the magnification and tilt angle of the original in the finished state are determined by the magnification angle adjusting device 1.
5 and stored on the floppy disk 16. Furthermore, the image information output from the color scanner 9 is stored on the optical disc 18 as a database.

On the other hand, the computer 19 performs a trimming process on the image information stored on the optical disc 18 and to be subjected to image processing. That is, the image information and position information stored on the optical disk 18 and the magnetic disk 13 are respectively read out, and this information is displayed on the color display 17 based on the magnification and tilt angle information stored on the floppy disk 16. Ru. In this case, the computer 19 displays the color display 1.
By adjusting the relative position between the line indicating the mask displayed in 7 and the color-separated image information, the color-separated image information is automatically placed at the predetermined position, and the image information and position information are are synthesized. By performing such image processing on each color-separated image, the positions of all images to be output on -sheets of film are determined, and the output device 20 outputs the images as a plate-making film. Further, if necessary, a color hard copy machine (not shown) may be used to output a color heart copy.

Next, a case will be described in which plate making is performed in the layout scanner system using plate making control information from the design simulation system.

First, a design simulation is performed in the design simulation system.

That is, the image of the document is input as rough image information by the color scanner 4, and the image is inputted to the Flo Novy disk 5.
is memorized. In addition, character information is input from the keyboard 1, and basic layout information is input from the digitizer 2, and these pieces of information are also stored on the floppy disk 5.

On the other hand, the layout according to the basic layout information stored on the floppy disk 5 is displayed on the color display 6 by the converter. Then, a design is simulated by displaying the rough image information and text information stored in the floppy disk 5 at a desired part of the layout displayed on the color display 6, and a desired layout design is determined. Ru.

Further, the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information determined by this design simulation are stored as plate-making control information on the floppy disk 5 or the magnetic disk 13 of the layout scanner system. Note that by newly inputting image information that is not stored in the database on the optical disc 18 from the color scanner 9, design simulation can be performed in the same way.

Next, plate making is performed in the layout scanner system. That is, the image information stored on the optical disk 18 is read by the computer 19 and displayed on the color display 17. Then, based on the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information stored in the floppy disk 5 or the magnetic disk 13, the rough image information is displayed on the color display 17 and read out from the optical disk 18. By mapping the image information and the rough image information, the image information read from the optical disc 18 is trimmed.

As a result, the positions of all the images to be output on the -sheet of film are determined, and the output device 20 outputs the images as a plate-making film.

In this case, the image information for printing stored on the optical disk 18 has a resolution of -12 lines/111 or higher and 8-bit depth information for one color per pixel. However, when performing a design simulation, this amount of information is not required, so when reading image information from the optical disk 18, the amount of image information can be reduced by reducing the resolution to 5 to 6 lines/mm5a degree information to 4 to 6 bits. can be compressed to about 1710 to 1/30, and the processing speed of the computer 19 can be improved. In addition, the information determined during design simulation can be transferred to the block drafting machine or converted to CTS as necessary.
Data is transferred to (computer typesetting machine).

As mentioned above, in the planning and prepress system of this embodiment,
A design simulation system performs design simulation using rough (low resolution) image information, and the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information determined by this design simulation are used as plate-making control information for layout. Based on the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information from the layout design system, the layout scanner system converts the image information read from the optical disk 18 and the rough image information. The image information read from the optical disc 18 is mapped and trimmed.

Therefore, various plate-making control information determined at the time of design work can be efficiently linked with the layout scanner system, which eliminates duplication of work between the design simulation system and layout scanner system as much as possible, and greatly reduces trimming work during plate-making. This makes it possible to improve efficiency and positioning accuracy. Furthermore, since the high-definition image information stored on the optical disk 18 is used as the image information for mapping with the rough image information, it is possible to further improve the efficiency of the trimming operation during plate making.

In the above embodiment, a layout scanner system and a layout design system each having a database function are provided, and high-definition image information and rough image information stored on the optical disk 18 are mapped and trimmed. However, it is not limited to this, but it is equipped with a layout scanner system and a layout design system that do not have a database function, and a magnetic disk 1
The trimming process may be performed by mapping the image information stored in 0 and the rough image information.

Further, in the above embodiment, by interpolating the rough image information for design, it is possible to increase the amount of information and further improve accuracy, and then perform trimming processing.

On the other hand, in the above embodiment, by compressing the gradations of rough image information for design into half-tones, it is possible to more easily map high-definition image information and rough image information. becomes.

Further, in the above embodiment, by displaying the rough image information for design in a single color, it becomes possible to more easily map high-definition image information and rough image information.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, by displaying rough design image information in different colors, it becomes possible to more easily map high-definition image information and rough image information.

Furthermore, in the above embodiments, the case where the original is a color photograph has been described, but it goes without saying that other types may be used.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a design simulation system performs a design simulation using rough (low resolution) image information, and the rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt information determined thereby. The angle information is given to the layout scanner system as plate-making control information, and the layout scanner system receives rough image information from the layout design system.
Based on position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information, high-definition image information and rough image information are mapped, and high-definition image information is trimmed, so design simulation system and layout scanner system It is possible to provide an extremely innovative planning/plate-making system that can improve the efficiency of trimming operations and positioning accuracy during plate-making by eliminating the ff11 work as much as possible.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the planning/prepress system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flow diagram for explaining the present invention in detail. 1... Keyboard, 2... Digitizer 3...
Mouse, 4... Color scanner 5... Floppy disk, 6... Color display, 7... Computer, 8... Output device, 9... Color scanner 10... Magnetic disk, 11 ...Digitizer 1
2... Graphic display, 13... Magnetic disk, 14... Floppy disk, 15... Magnification angle setting device, Floppy disk 17... Color display, 8... Optical disk, 19. ...Computer, 0...Output device.

Claims (6)

[Claims] (1) an input means for inputting basic layout information; a first image input means for inputting an image of a manuscript as rough image information for design; image information input by the first input means; a first storage means for storing information inputted by an input means; a first image display means; and a first image display device that displays a layout according to the basic layout information stored in the first storage means. displaying the image information stored in the first storage means in a desired part of the layout displayed on the first image display means to simulate the design; a first image processing means having a function of determining a layout design, and a function of providing rough image information, position information, magnification information, and tilt angle information determined by the design simulation to the layout scanner system side as plate-making control information; A design simulation system comprising: a second image input means for inputting an image of a manuscript, color-separating the image information and outputting the image information; and a second image input means for storing image information output from the second image input means. storage means, and a second
image display means, a function of reading image information stored in the second storage means and displaying it on the second image display means, and rough image information, position information, and information provided from the design simulation system. A second image display device having a function of displaying the rough image information on the second image display means based on magnification information and tilt angle information, mapping the image information and the rough image information, and trimming the image information. 2. A planning/plate-making system characterized by comprising: a layout scanner system comprising image processing means according to item 2; (2) The layout scanner system includes a third storage means for storing the image information output from the second image input means as a database, and the image information stored in the third storage means and the rough 2. The planning/plate-making system according to claim 1, wherein the planning/plate-making system performs the trimming process by mapping the image information. (3) The planning/prepress system according to claim (1), wherein the rough image information for design is subjected to interpolation processing. (4) Claim (1) characterized in that the gradation of the rough design image information is compressed into half gradations.
Planning and prepress system described in section. (5) The planning/plate-making system according to claim (1), wherein the rough image information for design is displayed in a single color. (6) The planning/plate making system according to claim (1), wherein the rough design image information is displayed in different colors.