Allowing operating system access to non-standard fonts in a network document

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium adapted for use with a first computer coupled to a network to make the non-transitory computer readable storage medium accessible such that the non-transitory computer readable storage medium is usable by a second computer that was or is coupled to the network, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium including:

• a font package comprising one or more fonts that contain formatting information for the second computer to render a plurality of display characters for display using the one or more fonts;
• a first application file that includes a plurality of display characters to be rendered using at least one of the one or more fonts in the font package;
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• an installation module comprising computer executable instructions to automatically expose the one or more fonts of the font package to an operating system of the second computer thereby enabling access by at least two separate applications that are operable by the operating system, wherein the second computer can render the plurality of display characters for display by a first of the at least two separate applications using the one or more fonts of the font package and standard font handling tools of the operating system,
• wherein the font package and first application file are separate files, and the first application file includes a reference to the font package.

An electronic document on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the electronic document comprising:

• an HTML file containing instruction code and a plurality of display characters configured to be renderable using formatting information that is not included with an operating system on a computer for which the electronic document is configured for use;
• a font package comprising at least one font file, wherein the at least one font file contains the formatting information, wherein the formatting information is configured to be usable by the operating system to render the plurality of display characters;
• and
• an installation module comprising computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions, upon execution by a computer, adapted to automatically install or temporarily expose the at least one font file of the font package to the operating system of the computer thereby enabling access to the font file by a network document browser and an application outside of the network document browser, wherein the computer can render the plurality of display characters for display by the network document browser using the at least one font file of the font package and standard font handling tools of the operating system.

A device, comprising:

• a processing unit;
• a system memory;
• a wireless link;
• an operating system stored in the system memory, wherein the operating system comprises a network document browser;
• and
• a network document that was transmitted to the device from a server using the wireless link,
• wherein the network document is stored in the system memory, and
• wherein the network document comprises:
• a font file embedded in the network document containing formatting information for the device to render a plurality of display characters for display using the formatting information, wherein the formatting information includes scalable outline formatting information;
• a first application file embedded in the network document that includes computer executable instructions identifying a plurality of display characters to be rendered using the scalable outline formatting information in the font file;
• and
• an installation module embedded in the network document that was transmitted to the device from the server, wherein the installation module comprises:
• computer executable instructions to communicate with the network document browser to expose at least a portion of the installation module to the network document browser;
• within the at least a portion of the installation module, computer executable instructions to automatically expose the font file to the operating system of the device thereby enabling access by at least one other application outside of the network document browser and to enable the network document browser to detect and render the plurality of display characters for display using the formatting information and standard font handling tools of the operating system;
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• wherein one or more items selected from the group consisting of the font file, the first application file, and the installation module are partially or fully encrypted.