METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE FONT GENERATION

摘要

A font database (5) includes a plurality of font files (20) each of which stores bitmaps associated with a range of characters. The plurality of font files (20) contains only a single version of a bitmap for each character. In a first embodiment, a plurality of composite font files (15) contain one of more pointers (16) pointing to selected ones of said plurality of font files (20). In a second embodiment, a rules set (70) responsive to a print request (85) retrieves a desired font file (15) to print a character (90) in accordance with the established rule set (70).