System for providing fonts, apparatus for providing metafont fonts, and method for controlling the apparatus

A method for controlling an apparatus connecting to a device for a font engine that does not support Metafont fonts to provide a Metafont font to the device, the method comprising:

• receiving a first font request from the device for the font engine, the first font request including at least one font style parameter and ID information of a Metafont font file;
• determining whether or not a font file having ID information identical to the ID information of the font file included in the first font request exists in a first external memory;
• determining whether or not font A is saved in a second external memory if a font file having identical ID information exists, wherein said font A is obtained by converting the font file having identical ID information using the at least one font style parameter included in the first font request;
• transmitting save information of said font A to the device for the font engine if it is determined that said font A is saved;
• and
• converting the font file having identical ID information to said font A by using the at least one font style parameter included in the first font request, if it is determined that said font A is not saved, and transmitting said converted font A to the second external memory, and transmitting save information of said converted font A to the device for the font engine.

A system for providing fonts, the system comprising:

• a first device configured as a font engine that does not support Metafont fonts;
• a second device for providing a Metafont font, the second device connected to the first device;
• a first memory device configured to save at least one font file;
• and
• a second memory device configured to save at least one font,
• wherein the first device receives a font request from a user and transmits the font request to the second device, the font request being any one of a first font request and a second font request, the first font request including at least one font style parameter and ID information of a Metafont font file, the second font request being different from the first font request,
• the second device determines whether the font request is the first font request or the second font request, determines whether or not a font file having ID information identical to the ID information of the font file included in the first font request exists in the first memory device if the font request is the first font request, determines whether or not font A is saved in the second memory device if a font file having identical ID information exists, and transmits save information of said font A to the first device if it is determined that said font A is saved, wherein said font A is obtained by converting the font file having identical ID information using the at least one font style parameter included in the first font request,
• and the first device reads said font A from the second memory device based on the save information of said font A and provides said font A to the user.