Hewlett-packard Company

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Brian E Cripe

Michael J Jones

Pieter J Van Zee

Thomas C McFarland

Gabe Beged-Dov

Derek Roller

Gary K Cutler

Kathy Shelby

Mark J DiVittorio

David C Wilkes

Thomas Mcfarland

Multimedia content is stored onto a relatively permanent, portable storage medium in accordance with at least two standards that allow the content to be recovered on a playback device with the highest possible resolution and fidelity. Linking between the various types of content stored according to the at least two standards allows the presentation of content at the highest quality possible.

Archiving and sharing of multimedia content

The invented merged text and graphics printing method includes software which effects the printing of merged text and graphics by looking ahead and recognizing the position of text, effecting the printing of any graphics up to such text, then effecting the printing of the text. By looking ahead and recognizing the position of text, the method can determine when such text should be printed in relation to the graphics.

Merged text and graphics printing method

The invented text scale method features software which vertically repositions text to be printed on a page, thereby avoiding problems associated with unprintable regions. Graphics data to be printed is left unaltered. Repositioning is accomplished by recognizing the original vertical print position of a text character relative to the page on which it will be printed, and by then scaling such position by a predetermined percentage, thereby calculating a new vertical print position. By directly changing a text character's original vertical print position formatting features such as absolute vertical moves may still be employed.

Text scale method

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Brian E Cripe