ANT Licenses Font Fusion from Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 Continuing its partnership with Bitstream, ANT to integrate Font Fusion in its Fresco(R) browser Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) announced today that ANT Limited has entered into a long-term agreement to license Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (TM), Bitstream's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine. Font Fusion is the convergence of Bitstream's T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) (R) and TrueDoc(R) technology in an advanced, object-oriented architecture. ANT will incorporate Font Fusion in Fresco(R), a world-class Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. that is specifically designed to meet the needs of Internet appliances and other networked products, enabling Web communication and flexible, customized user interfaces for a wide variety of hardware devices. To date, ANT has licensed Bitstream's TrueDoc(R) Character Shape Player and a core set of resident fonts in TrueDoc PFR (portable font resource A Portable Font Resource (PFR) is an outline font standard developed by Bitstream that compactly encodes font for use in web pages through their TrueDoc system. TrueDoc was natively supported in Netscape Navigator 4, but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6 and Mozilla ) format, which allows the Fresco(R) browser to display characters from dynamic fonts Dynamic fonts is a web browser technology used when visiting any website that uses fonts which are not installed on client's machine. The web browser would not be able to display the page properly, but will select one of fonts available on client machine. . Many companies have integrated the Fresco(R) browser, including Pace Micro Technology whose customer, Alba PLC, recently launched the Bush Internet TV (1) Watching TV programs on or from the Internet. There are countless video clips available on Web sites for streaming as well as subscription services that offer TV programs and movies for downloading. onto the UK market. Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. In addition, Font Fusion performs well in memory-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,500 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5MB. "ANT's long-term license of Font Fusion is an exciting development for us," said Anna Chagnon, president of Bitstream. "ANT has an excellent reputation for creating small, fast software that is easy to port to any system. We are very excited that the Fresco(R) browser, which will bring Web communication to anyone, anywhere, through any Internet appliance or embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. , will use our leading font rendering technology to display high-quality text. This is an excellent use of our technology and one which we hope to see more of in the near future." "We've been continually impressed with Bitstream's ability to lead the industry in font technology and in their responsive attitude toward customers and partners" said Simon Woodward, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of ANT Limited. "By teaming up with Bitstream and including Font Fusion as an integral part of our products, ANT will be able to extend the capabilities of both the Fresco(R) Browser, and SimplEmail mail client, to provide our customers with the very latest and fastest global font support. ANT's Fresco Browser and SimplEmail technology are designed specifically for the latest generation of consumer and Internet products with have limited memory resources, such as digital set-top boxes, Internet television Internet television (or Internet TV) is television distributed via the Internet. Overview In the past, television was only distributed by cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. , mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), games consoles, household appliances and in-vehicle information systems. Both Fresco and SimplEmail have a fully customizable user interface, giving product designers and manufacturers complete control over the look and feel of their own brand. Font Fusion is designed for operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, PDAs, and other embedded systems and Internet and wireless appliances. About ANT Limited ANT Limited (www.ant.co.uk) develops and markets embedded communication appliance software for use in consumer electronics, Internet appliances and eCommerce products. Core technology includes the ANT Fresco(R) Browser and the ANT SimplEmail email client, which are both written in ANSI C for platform independence and high performance, and designed to meet the needs of Internet appliances and other networked products. The Fresco(R) Browser gives original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of Internet devices, and the technology partners that supply them, three significant advantages: far greater speed to market, reduced engineering costs, and freedom to leverage corporate identity. The company's current customers and partners include: Analog Devices, Pace MicroTechnology Microtechnology is technology with features near one micrometre (one millionth of a metre, or 10-6 metre, or 1μm). In the 1960s, scientists learned that by arraying large numbers of microscopic transistors on a single chip, microelectronic circuits could be , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Microelectronics, Symbian and Wind River Systems. ANT Limited is based in Cambridge, England. For more information, contact: ANT Limited, 20 Cambridge Place, Cambridge UK, CB2 1NS. In the United States, call: 949.363.5662. About Bitstream, the Internet Font Technology Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R), WebFont(TM), and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of Internet appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers, and personal digital assistants. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Fresco(R) is a registered trademark of ANT Limited. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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