Patent ID: 7362898

Claim:
A system for creating font format data from source font data, comprising: a glyph analysis software module stored in a computer readable medium and comprising computer executable instructions that are operable to cause a computing device to analyze the source font data and obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs from the source font data; a glyph dissection software module stored in a computer readable medium and comprising computer executable instructions that are operable to cause a computing device to dissect the glyph data for each glyph into stroke data; a midline extraction software module stored in a computer readable medium and comprising computer executable instructions that are operable to cause a computing device to extract midline data from the stroke data; and an element analysis software module stored in a computer readable medium and comprising computer executable instructions that are operable to cause a computing device to classify the midline data as unique element data and common element data and associate the unique element data and the common element data to each glyph of the plurality of glyphs.