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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2008
Eyal Arasu Ramakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jitendra Nath Pandey, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ilya Slain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eyal Arasu Ramakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jitendra Nath Pandey, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ilya Slain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of fitting text comprising characters belonging to a character set into a text area wherein the text is rendered in a font and at a font size estimates a total width of the text based on at least a representative width associated with the character set, font and font size, identifies a horizontal truncation boundary based on at least the estimated width and the width of the text area, identifies a vertical truncation boundary based on at least the estimated width, text area, horizontal truncation boundary, and a representative height associated with the character set, font and font size, wraps the text at the horizontal truncation boundary, and truncates the text at the vertical truncation boundary.