Method and apparatus for font compression and decompression
US6031622A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 1997 |
| Grant date | Feb 29, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K2215/0028
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A font compression method and apparatus operates by: compressing different components of a font file with separate compressors having varying compression schemes to produce a plurality of intermediate compressed data sets; separating compressed glyph table components of the font file into different ones of the intermediate compressed data sets; and further compressing the intermediate compressed data sets to produce corresponding compressed output data sets. A corresponding decompression method and apparatus is used to decompress fonts which have been compressed using the above method.
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