CLIPPING OF FIXED CHARACTER STRINGS IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM

A method for clipping fixed characters against one or more clipping boundaries for display in a graphics display system, includes the steps of: storing fixed characters to be displayed; defining a window in a first coordinate space against which said characters shall be clipped along one or more boundaries thereof; clipping an inverse character box for each fixed character to be displayed against said defined clipping window; and transforming said clipped character box defined in a first coordinate space to a character box defined in a second coordinate space for display on a graphics display system.