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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Terence S. Dowling, San Jose, CA (US);
R. David Arnold, Mountain View, CA (US);
Terence S. Dowling, San Jose, CA (US);
R. David Arnold, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for scaling a character having stems. A character including stems and having an associated output resolution and an associated bit depth can be received. The counters defined by the stems can be grouped into one or more chains of counters. The stems of the character can be aligned based on a stem alignment policy while the chains of counters are balanced based on the output resolution. A pixel map can be created at the output resolution and the output bit depth based on the aligned stems.