Printer driver and method for supporting worldwide single...

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2005-07-19

2005-07-19

Tran, Douglas (Department: 2624)

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Static presentation processing

Emulation or plural modes

C358S001900, C358S001150

Reexamination Certificate

active

06919966

ABSTRACT:
A computer system and method for outputting printer commands to a printer in response to a print request from an application program are presented. The printer includes a device font whose characters are addressed for printing via a single, double, or n-byte code. The text data, however, utilizes the Unicode Standard to identify its characters. The system, therefore, includes a graphics device interface, which is compatible to read the Unicode data, to invoke the printer driver functions for controlling the outputting of the text data to the printer. A printer OEM supplied minidriver contains a characterization of the printer, including information identifying the device font resident in the printer and the code used to identify the individual characters of the font. A printer driver uses this information to translate the text data to be printed from the Unicode Standard to a code capable of selecting a device font provided character.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5604843 (1997-02-01), Shaw et al.
patent: 5893134 (1999-04-01), O'Donoghue et al.
The Unicode Standard Version 2.0, The Unicode Consortium, Addison-Wesley Press, 1997.

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