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US 7,197,706 B1Granted
Method and system for ensuring accurate font matching in documents
AssigneeCelartem, Inc.
InventorsBrian Berson, Trent Brown, Drew Wilson
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Abstract
Method and system aspects are described for ensuring accurate font matching in exchanged documents. The aspects include forming a database of font specifications. The aspects further include accessing the database when saving and opening documents to ensure usage of proper fonts.
Claims20
A method for ensuring accurate font matching in exchanged documents, the method comprising:
- forming a database of font specifications, each of the font specifications including at least two attributes of a font and a unique identifier, the unique identifier including a set of values corresponding to the font attributes for a particular font, the font specifications are embedded in the documents during the saving of the documents;
- and
- accessing the database by a viewer when saving and opening documents to ensure usage of proper fonts, the viewer using the appropriate unique identifier and the font specification to look up in the database for accurate font matching.
A system for ensuring accurate font matching in exchanged documents, the system comprising:
- a database storage means;
- and
- a computer processing means operating in conjunction with the database storage means, the computer processing means for forming a database of font specifications in the database storage means, each of the font specifications including at least two attributes of a font and a unique identifier, the unique identifier including a set of values corresponding to the font attributes for a particular font, font specifications are embedded in the documents during the saving of the documents, and for accessing the database by a viewer when saving and opening documents to ensure usage of proper fonts, the viewer using the appropriate unique identifier and the font specification to look up in the database for accurate font matching.
A computer readable medium containing program instructions for ensuring accurate font matching in a document, the program instructions comprising:
- forming a database of font specifications, each of the font specifications including at least two attributes of a font, and a unique identifier, the unique identifier including a set of values corresponding to the font attributes for a particular font, the font specifications are embedded in the documents during the saving of the documents;
- and
- accessing the database by a viewer when saving and opening documents to ensure usage of proper fonts, the viewer using the appropriate unique identifier and the font specification to look up in the database for accurate font matching.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.