公开(公告)号：US3626824A

公开(公告)日：1971-12-14

申请号：US3626824D

申请日：1970-02-20

Applicant: HARRIS INTERTYPE CORP

Inventor： KOLB EDWIN R ,  MORRISON NORMAN

IPC: B41B19/01 ,  B41B23/00 ,  B41B25/00 ,  B41B27/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  H04N1/387 ,  B41B27/18

CPC classification number: B41B19/01 ,  B41B23/00 ,  B41B25/00 ,  B41B27/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  H04N1/3871 ,  H04N1/3873

Abstract: Composing method and apparatus for publications such as newspapers in which copy from various sources is entered into a computer in coded form for use in controlling a phototypesetter to prepare a page copy. Certain copy including artwork which may be halftone or continuous tone is scanned to provide the numerical data necessary for controlling the phototypesetter while text material is first edited on an editing terminal and then stored with or without phototypesetting instructions in the computer. Each item to be included in the publication is identified by a heading and a layout department instructs the computer as to where the items are to appear. For this purpose the layout department has a layout terminal for displaying page areas with previously assigned sections outlined and identified and for entering coordinates of newly assigned sections into the computer. The terminal can display magnified portions of the page area. In reproducing continuous-tone copy, dot characters are stored in a character memory and used to provide different halftone screen sizes.