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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Keizen Kanazawa, Concord, CA (US);
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a controller circuit configured to execute an information processing program to operate as a rendering module, the rendering module being configured to determine, with reference to the character code table, whether or not a specified character code is supported by a specified font, the specified character code being the character code in the printable data, the specified font being a font specified by the font specifying information, if determining that the specified character code is an unsupported character code, the unsupported character code being a character code unsupported by the specified font, determine, with reference to the character code table, whether or not there is an alternative font, the alternative font being a font that supports the unsupported character code, and if determining that there is the alternative font, render a character specified by the unsupported character code by using the alternative font.