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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2017
Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sairus Patel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for performing font management on a client allowing the client to dynamically determine operating system support for new technology fonts, and upon an affirmative such determination perform installation and activation of those new technology fonts. At least one stub font and a new technology font test process facilitate activation/installation of selected fonts if the operating system supports them and graceful exception handling if the operating system does not. A stub font can be thought of as a simplified or otherwise light-weight representation of a real font (a stub font is a proxy for a real font). The stub font can be efficiently stored on a client machine, so that a new technology font test can attempt to activate the corresponding stub font in order to test whether a corresponding real font is supported by the operating system. Successful stub font activation means the selected real font is supported by the target machine and that the selected real font can therefore be provisioned to the client machine.