METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING, SPECIFYING, AND GENERATING PARAMETRIC FONTS

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING, SPECIFYING, AND GENERATING PARAMETRIC FONTS

A method and system for parametrically generating characters and fonts. A font generation system (10) allows a user to create a Terafont binary file (34). The user can create a new font, or replicate an existing font. The parametric data are distributed as files or embedded in documents. One or more...

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Hauptverfasser: BAUERMEISTER, BENJAMIN P, LIPKIE, DANIEL E, MCQUEEN, CLYDE D., III, DELAURENTIS, MICHAEL S, HIGINBOTHAM, PAUL M
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng ; fre
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CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:A method and system for parametrically generating characters and fonts. A font generation system (10) allows a user to create a Terafont binary file (34). The user can create a new font, or replicate an existing font. The parametric data are distributed as files or embedded in documents. One or more characters of a font are generated using a font engine (30) that executes the Terafont binary file on a computer using the parametric data specifying that font as an input. The parametric data provided to the font engine at least include a minimal set of font measurement data, such as a PANOSE TM number, which are used to compute global variables representing typographic characteristics common to many-if not all-of the glyphs in the font. Additional global and local variables needed to capture nuances of individual characters are computed or assigned default values by the font engine (30).