Method to automatically vary displayed object size with variations in window size

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method to maintain all information originally displayed in a window on a display screen as the size of the window is varied. By selecting from a plurality of different character sets that are stored in the system, a character set is obtained which has the appropriate width and height attributes that allow the original text characters to be substituted for the corresponding text characters originally displayed. Since the selected character set contains proportionally smaller characters no information is lost when the size of the window is decreased. The different character sets that are stored may be hardware implemented or software generated character sets which are also based on …