Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Terry S Luebbe

Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee

David Earl Stone

Jeffery A Engelman

John Thomas Varga

Jeri L Sampson

Melanie S Phares

A method and system for providing a printer for printing an encoded data stream. The stream includes a section of complex text data. The code is preferably Unicode, and the complex text data is preferably Unicode complex text. The printer includes a font, a text parser, and a layout engine. The font includes a plurality of glyphs. The text parser parses the data stream to determine the section of complex text data in the data stream. The layout engine is coupled to the text parser and with the font. The layout engine receives the section of complex text data from the text parser and determines at least one of the plurality of glyphs and glyph positions corresponding to the section of complex text data.

Method and system for rendering Unicode complex text data in a printer

A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the 'resource access table' that contains an entry for each base font resource. Each entry may include the following information on a base font resource: a native name, a file name, a unique identification, attributes, and possibly a link list used to identify any font resources that are linked to the base font resource. Since changes to the resource file such as updating a version of a font resource, changing the attributes of the font resource or changing the font resource's linked fonts, simply require an update to the resource access table, the data stream and the application program generating that data stream does not have to be changed.

Printing system that manages font resources using system independent resource references

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Mantorville, MN, United States of America

Terry S Luebbe