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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Leonard B. Hodder, Toronto, CA;
Leonard B. Hodder, Toronto, CA;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by double-byte words and at least a second font file storing glyph data corresponding to a second set of characters, characters of the second set being represented by single-byte words, a method of managing the printing of characters comprises upon receipt of a double-byte word, determining whether the received double-byte word represents a character that is also in the second set of characters. If not, the double-byte word is used to extract glyph data from the first font file. If so, data of the double-byte word is used to extract glyph data from the second font file.