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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2011
Paul Linnerud, Woodinville, WA (US);
Gregory Hitchcock, Woodinville, WA (US);
Paul Linnerud, Woodinville, WA (US);
Gregory Hitchcock, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for reducing font execution instructions for a font, and thereby a file size for the font. The font execution instructions can be scanned (e.g., by examining tables) to identify one or more common instruction sets in the font execution instructions. A function can be defined for a common instruction set, and the instances or appearances of the common instruction set in the font execution instructions can be replaced with a call to the function. Because the call is generally smaller (e.g., comprises fewer lines of code) than the common instruction set it replaces, the number of execution instructions for the font is reduced.