System and method of compressing data in font files

1. A method comprising:

receiving a compressed font file comprising compressed data;

decompressing the compressed data to generate decompressed data;

attempting to validate the decompressed data;

detecting within the decompressed data a predetermined pattern of invalid data;

determining a location of the predetermined pattern of invalid data;

determining an element of a font file based on the predetermined pattern of invalid data and the location of the predetermined pattern of invalid data, wherein the determined element comprises at least one of a bounding box associated with a glyph in the font file and a loca table that includes an indication of a start position of an entry within the loca table; and

reconstructing the font file by replacing at least some of the invalid data with the determined element.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loca table is derived by scanning through a glyph table.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting within the decompressed data, valid data.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein reconstructing the font file further comprises:

reconstructing the font file to include the valid data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined pattern of invalid data comprises a predetermined number of zeroes.

6. A method comprising:

identifying redundant and non-redundant data in a table within a font file wherein the redundant data comprises at least one of a bounding box associate with a glyph in at least one of a plurality of tables in the font file and a loca table that includes an indication of a start position of an entry within the loca table;

applying a zeroing out procedure to replace the identified redundant data, wherein the identified redundant data is replaced with data arranged in a predetermined pattern based on a location of the redundant data in the table;

compressing the font file to generate a compressed font file; and

transmitting the compressed font file.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the loca table is derived by scanning through a glyph table.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the predetermined pattern comprises a predetermined number of zeroes.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions, which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a compressed font file comprising compressed data;

decompressing the compressed data to generate decompressed data;

attempting to validate the decompressed data;

detecting within the decompressed data a predetermined pattern of invalid data;

determining a location of the predetermined pattern of invalid data;

determining an element of a font file based on the predetermined pattern of invalid data and the location of the predetermined pattern of invalid data, wherein the determined element comprises at least one of a bounding box associated with a glyph in the font the and a loca table that includes an indication of a start position of an entry within the loca table; and

reconstructing the font file by replacing at least some of the invalid data with the determined element.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the loca table is derived by scanning through a glyph table.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , further comprising instructions defining the step of:

detecting within the decompressed data, valid data.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein reconstructing the font file further comprises:

reconstructing the font file to include the valid data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the predetermined pattern of invalid data comprises a predetermined number of zeroes.