WO1994029782A3 - Method and system for creating, specifying, and generating parametric fonts - Google Patents

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WO1994029782A3
WO1994029782A3 PCT/US1994/006571 US9406571W WO9429782A3 WO 1994029782 A3 WO1994029782 A3 WO 1994029782A3 US 9406571 W US9406571 W US 9406571W WO 9429782 A3 WO9429782 A3 WO 9429782A3
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Benjamin P Bauermeister
Clyde D Mcqueen Iii
Michael S Delaurentis
Paul M Higinbotham
Daniel E Lipkie
Donald J Munsil
Raymond G Beausoleil
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Elseware Corp
Benjamin P Bauermeister
Clyde D Mcqueen Iii
Michael S Delaurentis
Paul M Higinbotham
Daniel E Lipkie
Donald J Munsil
Raymond G Beausoleil
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    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/10—Text processing
    • G06F40/103—Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents
    • G06F40/109—Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
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    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
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A method and system for parametrically generating characters and fonts. A font generation system is run on a computer and allows a user to create a Terafont binary file, which includes a set of universal font generation rules that are applied to generating fonts consistent with a common type of alphabet, and parametric data files, each of which specify a particular font. 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 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. Thus, a wide variety of fonts can be generated, each font using a set of parametric data relatively small in size, without extrapolating from a single master outline or interpolating between two or more outlines. Since the generated character outlines are defined in terms of conventional mathematical constructs, they are easily reformatted into other digital font formats by the font engine, if necessary.
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DE69428265T DE69428265T2 (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION, SPECIFICATION AND GENERATION OF PARAMETRIC FONTS
CA002151939A CA2151939C (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 Method and system for creating, specifying, and generating parametric fonts
AU71048/94A AU7104894A (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 Method and system for creating, specifying, and generating parametric fonts
EP94920151A EP0671037B1 (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 Method and system for creating, specifying, and generating parametric fonts
AT94920151T ATE205617T1 (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATION, SPECIFICATION AND GENERATION OF PARAMETRIC FONTS
DK94920151T DK0671037T3 (en) 1993-06-10 1994-06-10 Method and system for generating, specifying and developing parametric fonts
HK98113778A HK1012738A1 (en) 1993-06-10 1998-12-16 Method and system for creating, specifying, and generating parametric fonts

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