Patent ID: 6167410
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A document processing apparatus for storing original document data which includes partial document data of a plurality of document structural elements, comprising:a design information storage device which stores design information, corresponding to respective document structural elements, to change a designing subject document into a document designed in response to one of a plurality of design types, said design information of each of said respective document structural elements containing both first design information for synthesizing a preselected background image with partial document data of a first document structural element, and second design information for changing an entire table into one of a colored table and a three-dimensional table with respect to partial document data of a second document structural element;a selector which arbitrarily selects a desirable design type from among said plurality of design types;a changer which reads the design information in accordance with the respective document structural elements which correspond to the desirable design type selected by said selector, and while partial document data of the plurality of document structural elements which constitute said original document data are set as a subject, the changer changing the respective partial document data into one of said partial document data synthesized with said background image and said partial document data in which a table is changed into one of the colored table and the three-dimensional table with respect to the partial document data of the table; andan output device which outputs as designed document data, the document data combined with the partial document data which are changed by said changer,wherein when said preselected background image is added to the partial document data, depending upon said structural elements, said changer chances an output size of said preselected background image in response to an entire output size of partial document data to be added by said preselected background image.