Patent Document ID: 8694882
Application ID: 12948674

Base Claim:
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.

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Claim 2:
2. The control device described in claim 1 , further comprising: a storage unit that stores the character code conversion table; and a font group information storage unit that stores font group information correlating a specific universal character code to a recording device-side font group that corresponds to the universal character code; wherein the table processing unit, based on the font group information stored in the font group information storage unit, creates or updates the character code conversion table that is stored in the font group information storage unit and correlates each universal character code 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.