Agfa Monotype Announces Stroke-Based Fonts for iType Font Subsystem; Fonts Contain Thousands of Asian Characters in Small File Size.Business/Technology Editors CeBIT 2002 HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2002 Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc , a major developer of fonts and font technologies, today announced that its iType(TM) font rendering technology supports Asian stroke-based fonts for Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. iType is an embedded font rendering subsystem for manufacturers of memory-constrained devices such as set-up boxes, cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants). "iType now has a full complement of high-quality, extremely legible Asian fonts for customers who are manufacturing devices that are severely limited in memory, yet require the ability to display Asian characters," said Al Ristow, vice president of engineering at Agfa Monotype monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. monotype or monoprint In art printmaking, a technique prized because of its unique textural qualities. . "The technology opens up new opportunities for OEMs previously unable to deliver Asian language support because of size. For example, a standard GB2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType(R) font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font Same as vector font. equivalent is under 300 KB." Stroke-Based Fonts Agfa Monotype's fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or `graphemes' - simple shapes used repeatedly to build complex Asian characters. Graphemes offer significant storage savings, as the same graphemes are used to construct the various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another storage advantage lies in the technology's simplicity: half the number of points is needed to render characters - half than what is necessary when building characters using traditional outlines, where points are located on the edges of shapes instead of at the centers. Agfa Monotype's stroke-based fonts are both native and Unicode(R)-encoded and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. iType iType is a highly compact, extremely portable font scaling technology that allows for the generation of characters at virtually any point size. By integrating iType in memory-constrained environments, OEMs are able to build products that can quickly generate high-quality text for on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. displays. iType has two main components: a high-speed TrueType font rasterizer See font scaler. and a suite of fonts. OEMs can select from four prepackaged pre·pack·age tr.v. pre·pack·aged, pre·pack·ag·ing, pre·pack·ag·es To wrap or package (a product) before marketing. Adj. 1. font sets: Agfa Monotype's stroke-based package, a set of composite Asian fonts that allows OEMs to meet stringent code requirements while achieving dramatic storage savings; a Microsoft(R) Windows(R)-compatible core set that provides metrically met·ri·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five metrical units in a line. 2. Of or relating to measurement. equivalent designs; a collection of high-quality, delta-hinted display fonts engineered for optimal readability on television screens; and a TV font pack that meets FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. requirements (EIA-708B standard) for closed captioning on analog and digital TVs. OEMs can also work with Agfa Monotype to implement custom fonts, or select from the company's comprehensive selection of over 1,300 TrueType fonts. Additional features of iType include embedded bitmap font See bitmapped font. (text) bitmap font - A font where each character is stored as an array of pixels (a bitmap). Such fonts are not easily scalable, in contrast to vectored fonts (like those used in PostScript). support for enhanced screen quality at smaller point sizes, character caching for improved character generation performance, concurrent disk/ROM support for dynamically storing additional fonts, and television closed-captioning capabilities. About Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphics professionals. The company is a recognized leader in fonts and font technologies and an innovator in color and screening technologies. Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Agfa Corporation and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa Corporation is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies, headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems, primarily for the graphics, medical imaging, non-destructive testing and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, sales for 2000 were 5.26 billion euros. In the U.S., Agfa is headquartered in Ridgefield Park Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods. , N.J. and employs approximately 4,000 people. Additional information about Agfa Monotype and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.agfamonotype.com and www.fonts.com. |
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