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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2005
Andrei Burago, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sergey Genkin, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sergey Z. Malkin, Redmond, WA (US);
Victor E. Kozyrev, Issaquah, WA (US);
Andrei Burago, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sergey Genkin, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sergey Z. Malkin, Redmond, WA (US);
Victor E. Kozyrev, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A character within a font is enlarged to a desired size by first determining whether the font contains existing or predefined variants of the character having the desired size. If no appropriately sized variant exists, the enlarged character is assembled from a plurality of component glyphs that are stored with the font, wherein the component glyphs include an extender that may be duplicated within the assembled character in order to achieve the desired size. In one embodiment, the font includes tables containing records of the enlarged variants for a particular character, as well as part records for the component glyphs used to assemble the enlarged character.