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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen P Lathrop, Hull, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395781 ;
Abstract
A computer-driven printing system automatically adjusts inter-character spacing to account for the different visual effects that font scaling has on different ordered character pairs. The adjustment A(S, X.sub.j, X.sub.k) for a given size s and character pair (X.sub.j, X.sub.k) is computed from the formula: