公开(公告)号：CA1226083A

公开(公告)日：1987-08-25

申请号：CA453483

申请日：1984-05-03

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BARNES JOHNNY G ,  CHEN JAMES N ,  HAYES GERALD E

IPC: G06F3/12 ,  B41J2/00 ,  B41J3/00 ,  B41J5/30 ,  G06F3/13 ,  G06K15/00 ,  G06K15/22 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G09G5/40 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/387 ,  G06F3/09

Abstract: A WORD PROCESSING SYSTEM BASED ON A DATA STREAM HAVING INTEGRATED ALPHANUMERIC AND GRAPHIC DATA A word processing system is provided with an interactive display terminal for displaying by character generation a data stream representative of alphanumeric characters to be printed on a document together with means for printing the characters on the document. The processing system integrates into the data stream, data representative of graphics and converts such integrated graphic data into graphic display characters whereby the graphics may also be displayed through character generation. When printing of the graphics and alphanumeric information to produce documents is required, the data in the data stream representative of alphanumeric characters is applied to the printing means resulting in the printing of the characters and the data in the data stream representative of the graphics is applied to apparatus for producing the graphics such as a plotter to produce the graphic content of the document.