Abstract: A method and apparatus for establishing an ultra-large character library and a method and apparatus for displaying a character are disclosed. The displaying method comprises: intercepting by a font engine middleware a font invoking message sent from a system font engine, the font invoking message comprising a character code and a font name corresponding to a character to be displayed by an application; acquiring outline data corresponding to the character from an ultra-large character library in a non-standard format based on the character code and font name; transmitting the outline data of the character to the system font engine to enable the system font engine to display the character according to the character outline data. With this invention, the capacity of the character library may be increased and characters in the non-standard-format ultra-large character library may be recognized conveniently, thus efficiency of character retrieval and display is improved.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of building an intermediate character library are provided. The method comprises: acquiring an original character library which stores contour information of characters therein; dividing the characters in the original character library into character components, so as to acquire contour information of character components after division; and storing the contour information of the character components into the original character library so as to build an intermediate character library on the original character library. With the intermediate character library constructed by the method of the present invention, the font creation person can perform selecting and processing simultaneously on multiple single-contour components of a single character during creating of fonts, so that the operation process is simplified and the operation efficiency is improved.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of building an intermediate character library are provided. The method comprises: acquiring an original character library which stores contour information of characters therein; dividing the characters in the original character library into character components, so as to acquire contour information of character components after division; and storing the contour information of the character components into the original character library so as to build an intermediate character library on the original character library. With the intermediate character library constructed by the method of the present invention, the font creation person can perform selecting and processing simultaneously on multiple single-contour components of a single character during creating of fonts, so that the operation process is simplified and the operation efficiency is improved.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for establishing an ultra-large character library and a method and apparatus for displaying a character are disclosed. The displaying method comprises: intercepting by a font engine middleware a font invoking message sent from a system font engine, the font invoking message comprising a character code and a font name corresponding to a character to be displayed by an application; acquiring outline data corresponding to the character from an ultra-large character library in a non-standard format based on the character code and font name; transmitting the outline data of the character to the system font engine to enable the system font engine to display the character according to the character outline data. With this invention, the capacity of the character library may be increased and characters in the non-standard-format ultra-large character library may be recognized conveniently, thus efficiency of character retrieval and display is improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of computer character input, and provides a method and system for generating instructions according to the change of a font outline. The method includes: reading original data of a font outline; modifying the font outline; generating instructions according to the change of the font outline data; and importing the instructions into a character library.