Font metadata
OwnerNathan Daniel Taylor, Peter Giles Lofting +2inventors
InventorsNathan Daniel Taylor, Peter Giles Lofting, Julio Amable Gonzalez, Giulia Pereyra Pagallo
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for deriving one or more selection criteria to select one or more fonts to present character data in an electronic document are described. The selection criteria may be applied on font metadata to select the fonts. An available font may be determined in place of a selected but unavailable font based on font metadata.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
- deriving one or more selection criteria based on font metadata for an electronic document having character data;
- selecting one or more fonts according to the one or more selection criteria;
- and
- determining an available font based on the one or more fonts to display the character data.
A machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause a machine to perform a method, the method comprising:
- deriving one or more selection criteria based on font metadata for an electronic document having character data;
- selecting one or more fonts according to the one or more selection criteria;
- and
- determining an available font based on the one or more fonts to display the character data.
A data processing system comprising:
- means for deriving one or more selection criteria on font metadata for an electronic document having character data;
- means for selecting one or more fonts according to the one or more selection criteria;
- and
- means for determining an available font based on the one or more fonts to display the character data.
A machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause a machine to perform a method, the method comprising:
- determining settings for a font menu associated with fonts having font metadata;
- comparing the settings and the font metadata;
- and
- arranging the font menu according to the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.