DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHARACTER DATA BASE GENERATION AND CHARACTER DATA BASE

摘要

PURPOSE:To obtain the data base which has high processability by further compressing the character data capacity of one font even if character size becomes large, to divert character data when another or similar font is generated, and to generate the new font with high efficiency and obtain character data of high quality. CONSTITUTION:The character data base stored with change point coordinates of the contours of characters as vector data consists of a component image file 4 containing image data on component figures of the characters as common constituent units constituting minimum units extracted by decomposing constituent figures constituting the respective characters hierarchically and a character data file 5 which contains the component image number of the component image file of hierarchic component figures constituting the respective characters and the arrangement positions of the components corresponding to the character codes of the respective characters.