Global Patent Index - EP 0979488 A1

EP 0979488 A1 20000216 - RASTERIZED PROXY OF A VECTOR IMAGE

Title (en)

RASTERIZED PROXY OF A VECTOR IMAGE

Title (de)

ERSATZRASTERBILD FÜR EIN VEKTORBILD

Title (fr)

IMAGE DE SUBSTITUTION TRAMEE D'UNE IMAGE VECTORIELLE

Publication

EP 0979488 A1 20000216 (EN)

Application

EP 97925499 A 19970506

Priority

  • US 9707882 W 19970506
  • US 1698396 P 19960506
  • US 1702996 P 19960507

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9742594A1] An integrated graphics manipulation program that employs a technique of rasterizing (102) EPS files during import and using this rasterized version as a "proxy image" for display of an on-screen image. When a document containing an EPS data is printed to a PS printer, the actual EPS data is sent (108) to the printer. If the document is printed to a non-PS printer, the rasterized proxy representation of the EPS data is used (110). The effect that this has is that the on-screen representation of the EPS data (the rasterized proxy image) is a high quality representation of the EPS data. The original EPS data may be re-rasterized at a new scale to generate a new proxy image whenever a user resizes the proxy image on the display. This results in an on-screen representation that more closely resembles the printed output to a PS printer.

IPC 1-7

G06K 15/00

IPC 8 full level

B41J 2/485 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06F 3/12 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9742594 A1 19971113; EP 0979488 A1 20000216; EP 0979488 A4 20000524; JP 2001506547 A 20010522

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9707882 W 19970506; EP 97925499 A 19970506; JP 54023497 A 19970506