Patent
1995-09-12
1998-07-14
Jankus, Almis R.
G06T 1100
Patent
active
057817146
ABSTRACT:
A computer system includes a requesting computer which asks a responding computer, such as an Internet server, for one or more portions of text. The responding computer reacts by sending the requested text. The requesting computer can either render the requested text without the text's font shapes, or it can ask the responding computer to send descriptions of such shapes, and then render the text using them. Preferably the font descriptions sent are grouped into sets, or portable font resources ("PFR"); each text sent identifies the one or more PFRs needed to define its font shapes; and the requesting computer asks for PFRs identified in texts it receives. The fonts and characters within fonts represented by each PFR vary as a function of its associated text. For each character to be rendered, the requesting computer finds which PFR associated with the character's text describes its shape, and uses that font description to render that shape. The responding computer can install such new font descriptions into its operating system, so character shapes can be rapidly rendered by standard operating system calls. The responding computer can translate a text's pre-defined font description into new font descriptions which depend only on character-font shapes. The responding computer can receive a changed body of text and a corresponding old set of PFRs, and derive a new set of one or more PFRs as a function of which character-font shapes occur in the changed text.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4785391 (1988-11-01), Apley et al.
patent: 5099435 (1992-03-01), Collins et al.
patent: 5167016 (1992-11-01), Bagley et al.
patent: 5309554 (1994-05-01), Ito
patent: 5355449 (1994-10-01), Lung et al.
patent: 5473709 (1995-12-01), Aoki
patent: 5473743 (1995-12-01), Watanabe
Electronic Documents: A White Paper, .COPYRGT. 1993, by No Hands Software, 1301 Shoreway Road, Suite 220 Belmont, CA 94002.
The Dawn of Easy Electronic Documents?, .COPYRGT. 1993 by Info World Publishing Company, vol. 9, Issue 14, pp. 4-8.
Fonts and Output Issues, The Seybold Report of Desktop Publishing, Apr. 8, 1991, pp. 27-30.
Tools Review on Common Ground, Adobe Acrobat Exchange and Adobe Acrobat Starter Kit,Publish magazine, Feb. 1994.
Portable Documents, InfoWorld, Jan. 17, 1994, pp. 66-67 and 71-77.
AdobeAcrobatProducts & Technology, An Overview, by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1585 Chareston Road, Mountain View, CA 94039, Nov. 1992.
Fontographer product brochure, from Altsys Corporation, 269 Renner Road, Richardson, TX 75080.
Product review of Fontographer, MacUser magazine, Oct. 1992, p. 56.
Product review of FontStudio, MacUser magazine, May 1992, starting at p. 56.
Product review of FontStudio, MacUser magazine, Sep. 1990, pp. 76 and 80.
Adobe Type I Font Format, published by Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1990.
Affidavit of John Collins concerning Fontographer and FontStudio programs, dated May 24, 1995.
Affidavit of John Collins Concerning Prior Art Programs For De-Compressing And Installing Fonts, dated Dec. 6, 1995.
Ditital Formats for Typefaces, by Peter Karow, Published by URW Verlag, Hamburg, Germany, 1987, Title page, Copyright Notice Page, Table of Contents, and pp. 116-117 and pp. 376 and 377.
Character Generation Under Grid Constraints, by Roger Hersch, Computer Graphics, vol. 21, No. 4, Jul. 1987, pp. 243-252.
Microsoft Windows Device Driver Adaptation Guide, .COPYRGT. 1987-1992 by Microsoft Corporation, front cover, title page, copyright page, and pp. 122 and 123.
Microsoft Windows Printers and Font Kit, .COPYRGT. 1987-1992 by Microsoft Corporation, front cover, title page, copyright page, table of contents, and pp. 86 and 87.
PostScript Language, by Adobe Systemes, Incorp. Seventh Printing, Aug. 1987.
TrueType Font Embedding DLL Specification, Mar. 29, 1995, Version 0.912, published by Microsoft Corporation.
Teach Yourself Web Publishing With HTML In A Week, 1995, by Sams Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 3-21, 137-152, 369-377, and 387-389.
LaserJet Unlimited, Edition II, by Nace and Gardner, published by Peachpit Press 1988, pp. 263-268 and 445.
"Adobe Acrobat In Use" by Brailsford from Desktop Publishing Commentary, Aug. 1993, UK. vol. 9, No. 4, ISSN 0957-3178, pp. 9-13.
"Elseware technology promise more efficient font portability" by Mark Moore, PC Week, vol. 10, No. 17, May 3 1993.
Collins John S.
Goldwater Mark H.
Bitstream Inc.
Jankus Almis R.
Porter Edward W.
LandOfFree
Apparatus and methods for creating and using portable fonts does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Apparatus and methods for creating and using portable fonts, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and methods for creating and using portable fonts will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1892011