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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1992
Filed:
May. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian E Cripe, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400 76 ; 395117 ;
Abstract
The invented text scale method features software which vertically repositions text to be printed on a page, thereby avoiding problems associated with unprintable regions. Graphics data to be printed is left unaltered. Repositioning is accomplished by recognizing the original vertical print position of a text character relative to the page on which it will be printed, and by then scaling such position by a predetermined percentage, thereby calculating a new vertical print position. By directly changing a text character's original vertical print position formatting features such as absolute vertical moves may still be employed.