Patent ID: 6552728
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: G06F,G06K,G09G

Abstract:
A method in a computer system for providing a substitute font that visually approximates a requested font that is unavailable in the computer system, the requested font and the substitute font having respective sets of characters, each character having an overall width, the overall widths of the characters of the substitute font having a leading width, an extent width, and a trailing width, the method comprising:decreasing the overall widths of the characters of the substitute font to match the overall widths of corresponding characters of the requested font by decreasing at least one of the leading and the trailing widths without adjusting the extent width so that the visual appearance of each character of the substitute font is not changed; and outputting characters, which were requested to be output in the requested font, using the substitute font so that the characters are displayed with overall widths that match the overall widths as if the characters had been displayed using the requested font.