MANAGING FONT METRICS FOR A RENDERING DEVICE

摘要

A system for printing a document that includes one or more target fonts that are emulated with at least one substitute font in a manner that preserves the original pagination and line breaks of the document. A table is provided that lists strategies/logic for enabling the printing device to emulate each of a plurality of predetermined target fonts with a substitute font. These emulation strategies may include but are not limited to, identifying at least one of a resident font for the printing device, stretchable font, local font, downloadable font, font data provided by a 3rd party, or font data that is embedded in a received document. Target font metrics may be employed as “hints” to refine emulation information for the target font data.

主权项

1. A method for enabling a mobile hardware device to print a document at a hardware printing device, comprising:
receiving the document at the mobile hardware device, wherein the document includes text and identifies one or more target font references for each character of the text; employing one or more metrics of the one or more target font references to improve an accuracy of emulation information for the one or more target font references; and providing the document and the improved emulation information to the hardware printing device, wherein the printing device employs the provided emulation information to print each character of text included in the document.