Character output device

Details Character output device Character output device

1996-07-18

1998-10-20

Evans, Arthur G.

395114, G06K 1500

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058259872

ABSTRACT:
A font substitution printer serving as a character output device includes a substitute font generation section, a storage section and other sections. The storage section includes a font attribute data base consisting of the font names, typeface names, encoding names and metrics names of loaded fonts and usable fonts, a typeface attribute base, and a substitute encoding data base storing therein information as to a relationship between encodings and other encodings which substitute for the former encodings. The substitute font generation section extracts a typeface name, an encoding name and a metrics name from an output requested font name, selects a substitute typeface most similar in the typeface attribute to the extracted typeface name, and, out of substitute fonts consisting of one or more loaded fonts which satisfy not only the substitute encoding that is obtained in accordance with the extracted encoding name but also the selected substitute typeface, creates a substitute font with the weight or metrics thereof adjusted.

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