Agfa Monotype Announces iType Font Scaling Technology.Business/Technology Editors LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Industry's fastest TrueType(R) rasterizer now available for OEMs Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc , a leading provider of fonts and font technologies, today announced the release of iType, a highly compact, extremely portable font scaling technology. Designed particularly for smart Internet devices, iType(TM) gives OEMs the industry's fastest, highest quality solution for developing products that generate 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. display. In addition to intelligent Internet devices, Agfa Monotype's latest high-performance embedded font technology is suitable for memory-constraint environments such as those in set-top boxes for home television sets, information appliances and cell phones. With iType, OEMs benefit by offering products that quickly display text that is exceptionally readable and crisp. "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. is known worldwide for delivering quality type and type technology," said Doug Shaw, senior vice president of the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business unit for Agfa Monotype. "We designed iType to be extremely fast and efficient to satisfy the requirements of intelligent Internet devices. The package also includes a diverse set of fonts to meet our customers' needs for flexibility and first-rate display quality." iType is available as an SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). (Software Developers Kit) and includes two main components: the font rasterization Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description. This often involves some anti-aliasing on screen text to make it smoother and easier to read. software and a suite of fonts. The rasterization software is a compact 60Kb (approximate size when compiled on a Pentium(R) processor) with character generation speeds of more than 5,000 characters per second (based on tests using the font, Arial, at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium II The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. processor with 256Kb of RAM, cache turned off). The rasterization software is delivered as ANSI C (language, standard) ANSI C - (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989. cgram is a grammar for ANSI C, written in Scheme. source code for use on any standard ANSI C compiler. Platform support includes, but is not limited to, Windows,(R) UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) and Linux(TM) operating systems. The fonts include a Windows-compatible core set of 12 fonts, two Japanese gothic fonts and a collection of 12 Agfa Monotype screen fonts specifically designed for low-resolution displays. iType also supports any standard TrueType(R) or TrueType collection font (for double-byte or non-Latin character support). iType provides OEMs scalable font technology to generate characters at virtually any point size. In addition, international language support allows OEMs to localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. products for individual languages. Other product features include embedded bitmap font support to enhance screen quality at smaller point sizes, character caching to improve character generation performance, concurrent disk/ROM support to dynamically store additional fonts, and output support for bitmaps, outlines and graymaps to meet requirements for a variety of display types. About Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphic 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 of Agfa Corporation, headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ. Agfa 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 and industrial radiography, and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, Agfa's annual sales are approximately $4.7 billion. Additional information about Agfa Monotype Corporation can be found on the company's web site at www.agfamonotype.com. Agfa Monotype locations Corporate office: Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Ltd. 200 Ballardvale Street Unit 2, Perrywood Business Park Wilmington, MA 01887-1069 USA Salfords, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5DZ UK Phone 978.658.5600 Phone +44 (0) 1737 765959 Fax 978.657.8268 Fax +44 (0) 1737 769243 Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa-Gevaert Japan, Ltd. 985 Busse Road 8-1, Higashiyama 3-chome Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0043 Japan Phone 847.718.0400 Phone 81-3-5704-3141 Fax 847.718.0500 Fax 81-3-5704-3089 |
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