Arbitrary precise orientation specification for layout of text

Author

Surazhsky, Tatiana ; Elber, Gershon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

86

Abstract

A novel method for the layout of text strings over some given free-form parametric base curves is considered. Each letter of the string is represented by a collection of cubic and linear Bezier curves. The layout of the string over the free-form parametric curve is derived as a symbolic composition of the string geometry (i.e. a sequence of Bezier curves) and a free-form parametric surface S(u, v) with the parameters u, v between zero and one, and S(u, 0) given by the base curve. This method has proven to provide great flexibility and give high quality results in layout of text

Keywords

character sets; computational geometry; text analysis; arbitrary precise orientation specification; base curve; free-form parametric base curves; free-form parametric curve; free-form parametric surface; linear Bezier curves; string geometry; symbolic composition; text layout; text strings; Animation; Application software; Design automation; Humans; Packaging; Parametric statistics; Printing; Shape; Spline; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. The Eighth Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0868-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCGA.2000.883886

Filename

883886