Transferring outline fonts to devices requiring raster fonts

Details Transferring outline fonts to devices requiring raster fonts Transferring outline fonts to devices requiring raster fonts

1997-09-02

2000-03-28

Ho, Ruay Lian

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Character generating

345468, 345471, G06F 314

Patent

active

060438266

ABSTRACT:
A computer system in accordance with the invention includes a primary desktop computer and an auxiliary portable computer. The two computers are configured to work together--documents such as word processing documents are at times downloaded from the desktop computer for viewing and editing on the portable computer. However, the desktop computer uses TrueType outline fonts, while the portable computer uses raster fonts. The desktop computer includes a conversion program that is automatically invoked when the user copies an outline font file to the portable computer. The conversion program makes calls to the graphics device interface of the desktop computer to render outline character glyphs to a bitmap. The resulting bitmap is used as the basis of a rasterized character glyph. A set of glyphs is converted in this manner and compiled into a raster font file. The raster font file is then copied to the font folder of the portable computer and is used by the portable computer when displaying and editing documents created on the desktop computer.

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