Abstract

The image processing system of this invention provided with an input controller, a file server, an image setter and a work station each having respectively an independent CPU (microprocessor, microcomputer and the like) allows each unit to operate independently in overlap manner so as to carry out image processing efficiently at a high speed, while a hardcopy or a blockcopy for printing with a high quality image being fit into a frame on a layout pasteboard by means of an image output apparatus can be obtained by interactive-editing information of the layout pasteboard as well as designs and characters synthetically, to minimize the capacity of the memory. In addition, when one of the displayed patterns is to be selected, since this system is adapted to make, with regard to all the patterns to be judged, a circumscribed rectangle for each, and to form a circumscribed rectangle scaled up by the tolerance from each of them so as to adopt only the patterns which include the indicated point, as selection candidates, it is possible to perform a pattern selection effectively at a high speed.