Method and apparatus for selecting a preferential font
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYOKO WATANABE
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Abstract
An outputting apparatus such as a laser beam printer comprises a memory to store designation information to designate a selection-impossible font from a plurality of fonts and a selector to select a font which is most adaptive from the fonts other than the selection instructed font in accordance with an input of selection instruction information to instruct so as to select the selection-impossible font that is designated by the designation information stored in the memory. The plurality of fonts include internal fonts provided in the apparatus and fonts which are supplied from the outside.
Claims10
An outputting apparatus comprising:
- memory means for storing designation information to designate a selection-impossible font from a plurality of fonts;
- and
- selecting means for selecting the font which is most adaptive from the fonts other than said selection-instructed font in accordance with an input of selection instruction information to instruct so as to select the selection-impossible font which is designated by said designation information stored in said memory means.
An outputting method comprising the steps of:
- storing designating information to designate a selection-possible font from a plurality of fonts;
- and
- selecting a font which is most adaptive from the fonts other than said selection-instructed font in accordance with an input of selection instruction information to instruct so as to select the selection-impossible font which is designated by said designation information stored.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.