Automatic font management within an operating system environment

Details Automatic font management within an operating system environment Automatic font management within an operating system environment

1996-12-12

1999-11-23

Powell, Mark R.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Character generating

707542, G06K 1500

Patent

active

059909072

ABSTRACT:
A system and methods automatically provide access and management of installed and noninstalled fonts in a computer system. Installed fonts are resident in computer memory, whereas the noninstalled fonts are preferably described in a compact database including the computer-accessible location of the physical font. Broadly, the invention provides user applications with the capability of automatic selection of both installed and noninstalled fonts without modifications to the application itself.

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