AGFA Licenses Universal Font Scaling Technology 4.0i, Video and Asian Fonts to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. For High-Quality Text Solution.HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999-- Complete Screen Font A font used for on-screen display. For true WYSIWYG systems, screen fonts must be matched as close as possible to the printer fonts. Contrast with printer font. Collection and Font Generation Subsystem in 80KB Memory Configuration Agfa Typographic Systems today announced that it has licensed its Universal Font Scaling Technology 4.0i (UFST UFST Universal Font Scaling Technology 4.0i), Agfa's custom-designed Video Fonts and 2 select Korean fonts to Samsung, Electronics Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading developers of software and hardware systems for web appliances. UFST 4.0i provides the highest quality text for display on all low-resolution imaging systems. UFST 4.0i provides a full-complement of special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , composition capabilities, and a collection of 12 high-quality screen fonts and a text generation subsystem in 80KB of memory. "The integration of Agfa's font technology with our DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. / HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and Web leveraged solutions will increase the quality of the presentation capabilities of digital set-top boxes, hand-held devices and other web appliances," said In Ryu Ryū (竜 or りゅう or リュウ Ryū , Ph.D., Senior Vice President, at Samsung. "We selected Agfa because of Agfa's reputation for superior type technology and the highest quality customer support in the industry. Agfa's scalable font A font that is created in the required point size when needed for display or printing. The dot patterns (bitmaps) are generated from a set of outline fonts, or base fonts, which contain a mathematical representation of the typeface. solutions provide the value that our customers are demanding in their Web appliances," said Ryu. "Agfa is pleased that Samsung has selected UFST 4.0i as their text solution," said Robert Givens, Vice President of Agfa's Typographic Systems. "With the remarkable expansion of electronic communications, the importance of high-quality text is now at the forefront of system development. Agfa provides Samsung with a flexible, industry standard text solution to meet the needs of their customers worldwide." UFST 4.0i is a highly efficient and portable ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. C-based text rendering engine that supplies superior, on-the-fly, antialiased grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in text. UFST 4.0i provides high-quality, scalable text on low-resolution displays, screens and monitors to enhance readability and has been ported to the leading platforms and compilers, including 68000, Intel X86, PowerPC, MIPs, ARM and many other industry standard compilers and platforms. Special effects include back shadow, drop shadow, emboldening, oblique, outline, rotation, stenciling, strike-through, transparency, underline and variable aspect ratio for height and width. Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. with 1998 sales revenue of approximately 17 billion dollars (US) is a world leader in electronics, with operations in more than 50 countries and 60,000 employees worldwide. The company consists of three main business units : Multimedia & Home Appliances, Semiconductors and Information & Telecommunications. For more information, please visit our website, http://www.samsungelectronics.com. Agfa Corporation Agfa Typographic Systems is the recognized leader of embedded type and color technologies, multi-language and double-byte font solutions, high-quality custom type design and owner of the largest digital type library in the world. Agfa Typographic Systems is a business unit of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, a leading worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems, with annual sales of $4.5 billion. Additional information on Agfa Typographic Systems may be found on the company's home page at: http://www.agfahome.com/agfatype. All product names are property of their respective owners. |
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