US 8,134,720 B2 · Multiple font management system and method

Abstract

A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to provide corrections to partially-corrupted font tables. A font access level stores locations of activated base, localization and patch fonts and are referenced in an access order during character retrieval so as to apply retrieval priority to patches and localizations. A font storage level maintains multiple tier character indices for referencing character shape data in order to provide faster character searching through each of the multiple activated fonts than a single-level index.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of accessing a character in a printing device in which multiple fonts are activated, the method comprising:

searching a first font being first in a font access order for said character;
and
in the event that said character is not in said first font, automatically searching a second font being second in said font access order for said character;
wherein said first font is a localization font and said second font is a base font, and wherein said base font is a complete character set, and said localization font is a partial character set, said partial character set being a subset of said complete character set, and each character within said partial character set having a corresponding character within said complete character set.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/508,759Filed 24 Jul 2009 · division

Priority

24 Sep 2004

Published

US 2009/0284778 A119 Nov 2009

Granted

13 Mar 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06K 15/02
Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printers: using printers
G06K 15/1827
Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements: accessing generic data, e.g. fonts
G06K 15/1828
Accessing generic data, e.g. fonts: characterized by the kind of storage accessed
G06K
Graphical data reading

Multiple font management system and method

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Abstract

Claims7