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.
Claims21
A character processing apparatus comprising:
- a setting unit, arranged to set a replacement font, selected by a user, by which a designated font is to be replaced;
- a discriminating unit, arranged to discriminate, in response to inputting of a font selection command, whether the replacement font has been set by said setting unit;
- and
- a processor, arranged to replace the designated font by the replacement font set by said setting unit and process a character print with the replacement font if said discriminating unit discriminates that the replacement font has been set, and to process the character print with the designated font if said discriminating unit discriminates that the replacement font has not been set.
A character processing method comprising the steps of:
- setting a replacement font, selected by a user, by which a designated font is to be replaced;
- discriminating, in response to inputting of a font selection command, whether the replacement font has been set in said setting step;
- and
- replacing the designated font by the replacement font set in the setting step and processing a character print with the replacement font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has been set, and processing the character print with the designated font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has not been set.
A computer readable storage medium that stores program code for executing a character processing method comprising the steps of:
- setting a replacement font, selected by a user, by which a designated font is to be replaced;
- discriminating, in response to inputting of a font selection command, whether the replacement font has been set in said setting step;
- and
- replacing the designated font by the replacement font set in the setting step and processing a character print with the replacement font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has been set, and processing the character print with the designated font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has not been set.
A computer program providing code for executing the steps of:
- setting a replacement font, selected by a user, by which a designated font is to be replaced;
- discriminating, in response to inputting of a font selection command, whether the replacement font has been set in said setting step;
- and
- replacing the designated font by the replacement font set in the setting step and processing a character print with the replacement font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has been set, and processing the character print with the designated font if it is discriminated that the replacement font has not been set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.