Adobe Inc.
Live text glyph modifications

Abstract:

Live text glyph modification is described. A content processing system receives a selection input to select a glyph via a user interface of a content editing application. Responsive to this selection, the content processing system generates an outline of the glyph's geometry and enables modification of the outline relative to left-bearing, right-bearing, and baseline positions for the glyph, which define the glyph's position relative to other glyphs of the text content. Using the modified outline, the content processing system generates a modified glyph, which may be stored in a global storage resource and added to a stylistic set for the font type of the original glyph. This enables the content processing system to generate and store modified glyph geometries that can be readily interchanged with original glyph geometries during the creation of text content--without destroying the ability to edit the text content using conventional text editing tools.