IN-PROCESS FONT ACTIVATION
First Claim
1. One or more computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method, comprising:
- storing a document for printing, said document identifying one or more fonts used in the document;
storing a job jacket comprising an identification of the document for printing, and further comprising an identification of each of one or more font files corresponding to the one or more fonts used in the document.
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Abstract
Methods, systems and techniques for in-process font activation are described herein. According to various illustrative aspects, fonts for a job in process may be activated by a plug-in or other adaptive or extensible font module. The font module may be configured to conform to an application programming interface (API) of the document creation system in question (e.g., Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, InCopy; Quark XPress, CopyDesk, etc.). A job jacket is maintained that identifies a document for output along with all fonts necessary to create the desired output. During the print process, all identified fonts are activated in-process (i.e., during the print process). When a font is activated, either globally or in the local process space, the font module overwrites the previously activated font in memory in the local process space.
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23 Claims
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1. One or more computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method, comprising:
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storing a document for printing, said document identifying one or more fonts used in the document; storing a job jacket comprising an identification of the document for printing, and further comprising an identification of each of one or more font files corresponding to the one or more fonts used in the document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. One or more computer readable media storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, perform a method, comprising:
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receiving a print job comprising a document for printing and a job jacket, wherein said job jacket includes an identification of the document for printing, and further includes an identification of a font corresponding to each of one or more fonts used in the document; identifying a font file for each font corresponding to the one or more fonts used in the document; activating each identified font file if not already activated; and printing the document based on the one or more identified font files. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. One or more computer readable media storing a data structure thereon, said data structure usable to ensure that a document is printed with correctly identified font files, wherein said data structure comprises:
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a first data field identifying a document to be printed; and one or more second data fields, each second data field uniquely identifying a font used in the document. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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