System and Method for Providing Digital Content

Abstract

A method of electronically displaying glyphs. The method includes receiving a glyph spacing, moving a first glyph toward a second glyph along an axis, identifying an intersection of a first axis coordinate of the first glyph with a second axis coordinate of the second glyph, and moving at least one of the glyphs along the axis to separate the first and second axis coordinates of the respective first and second glyphs by the glyph spacing.

1 . A method of electronically displaying glyphs, the method comprising:
 receiving a glyph spacing;   moving a first glyph toward a second glyph along an axis;   identifying an intersection of a first axis coordinate of the first glyph with a second axis coordinate of the second glyph; and   moving at least one of the glyphs along the axis to separate the first and second axis coordinates of the respective first and second glyphs by the glyph spacing.   
     
     
         2 . A method of electronically displaying glyphs, the method comprising:
 receiving first and second glyphs;   determining a collision space between the first glyph and the second glyph by:
 providing a bounding box around each glyph; and 
 identifying any intersections of the two bounding boxes; 
 wherein the collision space is defined at least in part by any intersecting space of the two bounding boxes; and 
   separating the first and second glyphs by a separation distance between the respective bounding boxes along at least one axis when the collision space defines a size greater than zero.   
     
     
         3 . A method of electronically displaying a cutting mat for an electronic cutting machine, the method comprising displaying a ruler along at least one axis of the cutting mat and resizing the ruler with respect to a zoom level of the mat, wherein the ruler remains visible to a user irrespective of the zoom level. 
     
     
         4 . A method of preparing digital content of use on an electronic cutting machine, the method comprising:
 electronically displaying a glyph with cut paths;   allowing the user to select and disable at least one cut path; and   cutting non-disabled cut paths of the glyph on the electronic cutting machine.   
     
     
         5 - 10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . A digital file for execution on an electronic cutting machine, the digital file comprising:
 a descriptor file; and   at least one vector path file having cut path coordinate information executable on the electronic cutting machine.   
     
     
         12 . The digital file of  claim 11 , wherein the descriptor file comprises extensible markup language. 
     
     
         13 . The digital file of  claim 11 , wherein the descriptor file comprises information for at least one of fonts, keyboard mappings, cutting instructions, and glyph groupings. 
     
     
         14 . The digital file of  claim 11 , wherein the descriptor file comprises a font definition, a glyph definition, and a fill definition. 
     
     
         15 . The digital file of  claim 14 , wherein the font definition comprises a collection of glyphs. 
     
     
         16 . The digital file of  claim 14 , wherein the descriptor file further comprises child glyph definitions.