Pitney Bowes Inc.

Bunker Ramo Corporation

John J Serra

Patrick Rolling

Ronald T Prodan

A system and corresponding method for use when an application prints a document and a corresponding envelope is printed by an independent process, unknown to the application, using soft fonts (dynamic fonts). The system allows creation of a mail piece, which generally consists of document pages and an envelope; the pages to be printed according to data and layout specified in a pages file and using a pages font as indicated in the pages file; and the envelope to be printed with address information extracted from the pages file according to instructions specified in an envelope template file. The instructions of the envelope template file include a layout and a dynamic envelope font, such as a true type font. The system includes a printer driver, responsive to a call to prepare to start printing the pages of the mail piece and in turn for obtaining from the envelope template file the envelope font. The printer driver is further responsive to a call to realize the pages font, for realizing the pages font and for realizing the envelope font. The printer driver is further responsive to a first page of pages data, for providing the first page of pages data to an I/O port interface, and for downloading the envelope font and providing the envelope data including the envelope font to the I/O port interface. The printer driver is further responsive to the remaining pages data, and for providing the remaining pages data to the I/O port interface.

System for adding soft fonts to a printer data stream

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the address mode of each instruction in a microprogrammed processor, and for utilizing the address mode determination to locate the effective operand of the instruction. A microprogram memory is included which contains microprogram micro-orders for controlling the obtaining of the effective operand for an instruction in each of the address modes. The address being accessed in the microprogram memory at any given time is stored in a microprogram register. There is a decoder which is operative in response to the address mode tag of an instruction for generating the address of the entry point in the microprogram memory for the microprogram micro-orders to be utilized to control the obtaining of the effective operand for the mode indicated by the tag. The address mode tag of each instruction is applied to the decoder and the microprogram entry point address read out from the decoder in response to the tag is stored in the microprogram register. The storing of the entry point address in the microprogram register initiates the execution of the microprogram micro-orders for the indicated mode, the micro-orders controlling the obtaining of the desired effective operand. The decoder means may also be utilized to obtain a starting address for the operation code microprograms, the operation code being applied to the decoder after the address tag and the resulting starting address being stored in a temporary register until execution of the required micro-orders of the address mode microprogram has been completed.

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Monroe, CT, United States of America

John J Serra