Document processing apparatus, method and program

• US 20050289462A1
• Filed: 06/07/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kuroshima, Masashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,761,433 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/255
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries

Abstract

In order to import a document file in which security information is set into a document file to be edited with the security information being included in the document file, a document processing apparatus which imports a specified first document file in which security information is set into a second document file includes an import controller that causes the first document file to be held in the second document file with security information being contained in the first document file to generate a third document file, if the security information is added to the first document file.

Claims

1. A document processing apparatus for importing a specified first document file into a second document file to be edited, comprising:

an import controller that causes the first document file to be held in the second document file with security information being contained in the first document file to generate a third document file, if the security information is added to the first document file.

2. A document processing method for importing a first specified document file into a second document file to be edited, comprising:

an import control step of causing the first document file to be held in the second document file with security information being contained in the first document file to generate a third document file, if security information is added to the first document file.

3. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising a change control step of permitting editing of the third document file while restraining editing of the first document file.

4. The document processing method according to claim 3, wherein the change control step relocates pages of the third document while without changing the location of pages in the first document file.

5. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising:

a permitting step of permitting the first document file to be edited as a unit in the third document file; and

a prohibiting step of prohibiting page-by-page editing of the first document file.

6. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising an warning control step of issuing a warning, depending on a change made in the change control step.

7. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising:

an adding step of adding additional information to a page based on the first document file; and

a control step of causing printing based on the additional information added by the adding step.

8. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising a export control step of exporting the first document file including the security information from the third document file, wherein the export control step exports the first document file excluding the additional information.

9. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising a restriction message displaying step of displaying a message for restricting an operation on the third document file generated as a result of importing of the first document file to which security information is added.

10. The document processing method according to claim 9, wherein the restriction message displaying step displays a message indicating restriction of an operation on the third document file in accordance with the type of security information added to the first document file.

11. The document processing method according to claim 3, further comprising a discriminating step of discriminating whether or not security information is added to the first document file, wherein if a document file which is not added the security information by the discrimination of the discriminating step is imported into the second document file, the change control step changes the order of any of the pages in the third document file.

12. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising a generating step of generating a management table for identifying the second document file and the first document file.

13. The document processing method according to claim 12, wherein the import control step causes the first document file to which the security information is added to be held in the third document file as a separate file including the security information, in accordance with the management table.

14. The document processing method according to claim 12, wherein the generating step generates the management table as data for identifying the association between the chapters and pages of the first document file in the third document file.

15. The document processing method according to claim 12, further comprising a display output control step for highlighting the first document file to indicate that security information is added to the first document file, on the basis of the management table.

16. The document processing method according to claim 12, wherein the import control step changes data stored in the management table in accordance with an inputted instruction to perform editing of the first document file held in the third document file while keeping the security information being contained in the first document file.

17. The document processing method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of generating header information which enables security information set in the first document file to affect the entire third document file.

18. A document processing program which causes a computer to perform a document processing method for importing a specified first document file into a second document file to be edited, comprising:

a program code for an import control step of causing the first document file to be held in the second document file with security information being contained in the first document file to generate a third document file, if security information is added to the first document file.

19. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising program code for a change control step of permitting editing of the third document file while restraining editing of the first document file.

20. The document processing program according to claim 19, wherein the program code for the change control step relocates pages of the third document while without changing the location of pages in the first document file.

21. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising:

a program code for a permitting step of permitting the first document file to be edited as a unit in the third document file; and

a program code for a prohibiting step of prohibiting page-by-page editing of the first document file.

22. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising a program code for an warning control step of issuing a warning depending on a change made by the program code for the change control step.

23. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising:

a program code for an adding step of adding additional information to a page based on the first document file; and

a program code for a control step of causing printing based on the additional information added by the program code for the adding step and the first document file.

24. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising a program code for a export control step of exporting the first document file including the security information from the third document file, wherein the export control step exports the first document file excluding the additional information.

25. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising a program code for a restriction message displaying step of displaying a message for restricting an operation on the third document file generated as a result of importing of the first document file to which security information is added.

26. The document processing program according to claim 25, wherein program code for the restriction message displaying step displays a message indicating restriction of an operation on the third document file in accordance with the type of security information added to the first document file.

27. The document processing program according to claim 19, further comprising a program code for a determining step of determining whether or not security information is added to the first document file, wherein if a document file which is determined by the program code for the determining step to have security information added thereto is imported into the second document file, the program code for the change control step changes the order of any of the pages in the third document file.

28. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising a program code for a generating step of generating a management table for identifying the second document file and the first document file.

29. The document processing program according to claim 28 wherein the program code for the import control step causes the first document file to which the security information is added to be held in the third document file as a separate file including the security information, in accordance with the management table.

30. The document processing program according to claim 28, wherein the program code for the generating step generates the management table as data for identifying the association between the chapters and pages of the first document file in the third document file.

31. The document processing program according to claim 28, further comprising a program code for a display output control step for highlighting the first document file to indicate that security information is added to the first document file, on the basis of the management table.

32. The document processing program according to claim 28, wherein the program code of the import control step changes data stored in the management table in accordance with an inputted instruction to perform editing of the first document file held in the third document file while keeping the security information being contained in the first document file.

33. The document processing program according to claim 18, further comprising a program code for a step of generating header information which enables security information set in the first document file to affect the entire third document file.

34. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon the document processing program according to claim 18.