Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Howard L Cooperstein

Zeke Koch

Crystal L Hoyer

Keri D Vandeberghe

Steven Adam Breinberg

Ronald Stephen Giesen

Kenneth Patrick Coleman

Clifton W Owen

Aaron Weiss

Guem R Kim

John R Schilling

Juraj Gottweis

Michael J Antonio

Nicholas Allen Robarge

Marc Rene Keller

Thiti Wang-Aryattanwanich

Mark Keller

Lesley Forbush

Vlada Knowlton

Tseng Hui Ni

Ziad Moh'd Ali Khalidi

Lizanne Risa Maeda Infauku

A canvas in an inking application is created and manipulated based on ink strokes. An ink stroke outside a presented canvas, even outside a user interface of the inking application, is recorded and the presented canvas enlarged to cover the recorded ink stroke. If the ink stroke begins on a command area such as a canvas size control icon, the command associated with the area is executed. If the ink stroke begins in a typed text area, lines are frozen and separated responsive to the first stroke. A new canvas is presented between the separated lines. A size of the new canvas is adjusted based on ink entry or a size of the first ink stroke.

Creation and manipulation of canvases based on ink strokes

A method and system for rendering electronic document objects is provided in which a style matrix holds potential attribute values, and attribute references are used to address values in the style matrix. A mix of attribute references and actual attribute values may be used to make some attributes theme- and application-specific, and others theme- and application-independent. Further, a method for rendering a gallery of potential styles is provided. Additionally, a method for associating a style matrix with an electronic document application is provided. Finally, a computer-readable medium for storing a computer-interpretable data structure that identifies a matrix of style attribute types and style attribute values is provided.

Electronic document style matrix

Automatic switching of fonts on multilingual text runs in one action is provided. After an indication that a new font scheme is to be applied to a multilingual text selection, a client application passes a language identification for each of the multilingual text runs, a major/minor font designation for each text run, a script identification for each text run, if available, and the selected new font scheme to a font scheme application programming interface (API). The font scheme API converts the received language identification to a script identification for each multilingual text run and maps the resulting script identifications to appropriate fonts associated with the selected font scheme for each of the multilingual text runs. Fonts retrieved for each language text run are returned to the client application for rendering the multilingual text runs according to the respective fonts applicable to the selected font scheme.

Automatic switching fonts on multilingual text runs

A computing system for providing a user interface control to modify properties of items within a main application window. The computing system has a main application window, a gallery control window, a control object selection processing module, and a control object focus processing module. The main application window contains one or more application items, each application item having one or more control properties affecting a behavior of the application item. The gallery control window contains a list of one or more control objects for modifying control properties of the application items located within the main application window. Each of the control objects in the list of control objects includes a graphical icon having a selection portion and a properties portion and one or more control properties that affect one or more items within the main application window.

Gallery user interface controls

Methods, systems, and computer program products generate lighter or darker color options from one or more base colors to apply to a document. A method involves enabling a color picker user interface (UI) according to developer specifications, receiving a user request to view the color picker UI, and determining a current color scheme for the document. The method further involves deriving lighter color options and/or darker color options from one or more base colors associated with the current color scheme and rendering the color picker UI including the lighter color options and/or the darker color options derived from the base colors associated with the current color scheme. The current color scheme includes color options that definitively or aesthetically compliment one another.

Dynamically generating darker and lighter color options from a base color in a color picker user interface

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Howard L Cooperstein