US 11,900,510 B2Granted

Glyph size control for digital content

AssigneeAdobe Inc.

InventorsPraveen Kumar Dhanuka, Arushi Jain, Neeraj Nandkeolyar, Shivi Pal

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Abstract

Glyph sizing control techniques are described for digital content that provide insight regrading a true size of glyphs when rendered using a respective font and also leverages this insight to control font sizing and alignment. In one example, a glyph sizing system outputs a plurality of options to specify a unit-of-measure to control an actual size of a glyph as rendered in a user interface. Examples of units of measure include a capital height, x-height, ICF-height, dynamic height, object height, width, and other spans along a dimension, e.g., based on ascent, descent, or other. These units of measure are leveraged by the glyph sizing system to surface information regarding an actual size of respective glyphs for that unit-of-measure and control glyph sizing and arrangement.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying, by the computing device having a computer-readable storage media, a user interface having a representation of a glyph and a plurality of options of a plurality of units-of-measure, respectively, as dimensions defining a respective dimension of the glyph within an em-box;
receiving, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, an input selecting an option of the plurality of options thereby specifying a unit-of-measure corresponding to the option and a dimension corresponding to the option;
determining, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, a glyph size of at least one glyph of a font using the unit-of-measure corresponding to the option;
receiving, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, an input specifying a particular size of the at least one glyph based on the unit-of-measure corresponding to the option selected by the input;
determining, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, a font-size adjustment to resize the at least one glyph based on the input, the font-size adjustment defining an adjustment that is usable to cause a span of the dimension corresponding to the option to coincide with a font size of the font of the at least one glyph, the font-size adjustment defining a correlation between font size as a dimension based on the em-box and the dimension corresponding to the option;
determining, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, a font size for the font based on the font-size adjustment, the font size sizing the at least one glyph according to the particular size;
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outputting, by the computing device having the computer-readable storage media, the determined font size in the user interface.

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Facts

Application: 17/232,706Filed 16 Apr 2021
Published: US 2022/0335667 A120 Oct 2022
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
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Classification9 codes

G06F 3/04847
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G06T 11/23
Drawing from basic elements: using straight lines or curves
G06F 3/04842
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G06F 3/04845
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…