Patent Document ID: 5452380
Application ID: 08003596

Base Claim:
1. A method for imaging a text, said method comprising the steps of: designating text data including at least row area information for designating an area of each row of the text, the row area information including at least a row area width, character sequence information of words of the row and character size information for formatting, and imaging condition data including at least character size information for imaging; calculating a row area width, a character sequence width and a total blank width for the imaging of a specified text, based on the designated row area information including at least row area width, character sequence information, character size information for formatting and character size information for imaging; calculating a word interval by substantially evenly dividing the total blank width using the number of intervals of the character sequences as a divisor; positioning a starting word at a left edge of the row area and positioning other words with said word interval therebetween to determine a character sequence position for imaging; and outputting the text in accordance with the determined character sequence position for imaging.

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Claim 6:
6. A method for imaging a text according to claim 1, wherein the imaging condition data includes format designation for each row such as left and right margins adjustment, left offset, right offset or centering.