CHARACTER DATA GENERATION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DEVICE, CHARACTER DATA GENERATION PROGRAM, AND READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

The present invention prevents the deterioration in readability due to a conspicuous ruined character of a small dot size when vector-font data is expanded to bitmap data. Based on the character data generating program (41) and the data (42) thereof, it is possible to detect the ruining of components by comparing each of the components with its minimum shape when a character is enlarged/reduced, with the use of the minimum-shape DB (423) in which a minimum shape is defined for each of the components of a character or information for deriving the minimum shape is stored. In addition, by separately applying an enlargement/reduction ratio to each of the components by the ratio adjusting section (202) in order to at least maintain the size of the minimum shape and by overlapping the components in a predetermined order of priority by the component overlapping section (203), it is possible to generate character data while maintaining the balance of the components in size and avoiding the ruining of each of the components.