Patent ID: 8694882
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A control device that can be connected to and controls a recording device that records on a recording medium and stores a plurality of font groups each storing font data for a plurality of characters used to record text on the recording medium, the control device comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium having code executable by the processor, the control device comprising: a table processing unit that creates or updates a character code conversion table that correlates each of a plurality of universal character codes that are rendered in a single font group and are specified from the control device side to information identifying a font group on the recording device side containing font data corresponding to the universal character code and information denoting the storage address of the font data in the font group; and a conversion processing unit that, when a recording job instructing the recording device to record a character is asserted, converts a universal character code contained in the recording job to a font data address based on the character code conversion table created or updated by the table processing unit.