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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1996
John Palmer Cordell, Bellevue, WA (US);
Thomas R Reardon, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A section of text in an electronic document is marked with a tag that designates a list of font faces for use in drawing the text at a computer which is remotely browsing the electronic document from a computer network. A browser at the computer chooses a font face for drawing the text from the font faces installed on the computer according to the tag-designated list, such as by matching font face name or set of font face characteristics. The browser also can include an alternative font table which stores data identifying alternative font faces for many common font faces. The browser searches the installed font faces for the alternative font faces to those in the tag-designated list when a direct match to the tag-designated font faces is not found.