This paper explains how one writes formal specifications of font encodings for LATEX and suggests a ratification procedure for such specifications.

Computer-aided font design is still a very tedious and repetitive task. New font models and new functionalities presented by digital media further require a new method for design of font families and dynamic variable fonts. Current design paradigms are either outline based, offering low level operations, or parametric but non-visual programming. Parametric feature based design helps in creating...

In this paper, we present multi-font printed Arabic text recognition using hidden Markov models (HMMs). We propose a novel approach to the sliding window technique for feature extraction. The size and position of the cells of the sliding window adapt to the writing line of Arabic text and ink-pixel distributions. We employ a two-step approach for mixed-font text recognition, in which the input ...

Growth of information technology has played a great role in connecting the world together. The to and fro of information is common in this world. Fonts play a key major role in this communication process in digital domain. Common encoding scheme for one language helps in loss-less digital communication. Indian fonts lacks in this zone, as no Indian font has standard encoding format for mapping ...

A search engine for font recognition is presented and evaluated. The intended usage is the search in very large font databases. The input to the search engine is an image of a text line, and the output is the name of the font used when rendering the text. After pre-processing and segmentation of the input image, a local approach is used, where features are calculated for individual characters. ...

Typographic characters implicitly incorporate structure elements such as stems, bars, round parts, arches and serifs, which are repeated throughout the characters of a font. Although this structure information is important when typographers design typefaces, it is however not explicitly described in today’s outline font technology. As a consequence, coherently varying the style of an outline fo...

V W enhances w by providing support for scalable fonts and thus achieving true device independence. V m turns w into a compact system (less than 10% of the size of traditional W ) , supports a printer driver definition language, supplements the T ) $ system with a number of new high-quality scalable typefaces, implements a variety of font effects (compression, shade, outline, shadow). Support o...

This thesis investigates the possibility to improve the quality of text composition. Two typographic extensions were examined: margin kerning and composing with font expansion. Margin kerning is the adjustments of the characters at the margins of a typeset text. A simplified employment of margin kerning is hanging punctuation. Margin kerning is needed for optical alignment of the margins of a t...