Generic font specification leading to specific font selection

Details Generic font specification leading to specific font selection Generic font specification leading to specific font selection

1995-10-11

1997-11-18

Herndon, Heather R.

G06F 1700

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056897243

ABSTRACT:
A generic font request is changed to an operating system specific format font request. A font request is received from an application by a font handler. Both the application and the font handler are typically run by an operating system in a computer memory. Once the font handler determines that the font request is a generic font request, i.e. is in a format different than the operating system specific format expected by the operating system, it translates the generic font request to an operating system specific format font request.

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