Agfa Monotype Licenses Chinese Bitmap Fonts to Symbian; Nokia 9210 Communicator to be First Product with Incorporated Bitmaps.Business/Technology Editors Symbian Developer Expo LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2002 Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc has announced a worldwide font licensing agreement with Symbian, a global provider of open, advanced 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. for mobile phones. 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. will supply Chinese bitmap fonts for incorporation into the Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data. . The Nokia 9210 Communicator The Nokia 9210 Communicator is a third generation Communicator series smartphone produced by Nokia, introduced in 2000. It greatly improved on the second generation Nokia 9110 Communicator, providing colour main screen, changing to Symbian OS platform and ARM processor. , targeted for the Chinese market, will be the first product to use the bitmaps. "The challenge was to provide Symbian with exceptionally high quality bitmaps at very small sizes," said Doug Shaw, senior vice president of 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 at Agfa Monotype. "We were able to provide this technology through our team of typographers who have expertise in handling complex non-Latin fonts. The Chinese bitmaps have been hand-edited to ensure clarity and legibility of characters when displayed on small screens." "It's clear that because of its size and increasingly rapid mobile phone adoption, the Chinese mobile phone market will be important to Symbian. Incorporating the Chinese bitmap fonts has enabled Symbian to provide fit-for-purpose solutions for licensees wishing to bring out mobile phones for this market," said Gad Chadha, partner manager at Symbian. The Chinese bitmaps are Unicode(R)-encoded to the GB18030 character set and provide Symbian with Simplified Chinese language support as used in the Peoples Republic of China and Singapore. The character set complies with the current GB18030 standard and consists of approximately 20,000 characters. Symbian has selected several font sizes from Agfa Monotype, starting at 13 x 13 pixels, all of which have CITS CITS China International Travel Service CITS Center for International Trade and Security CITS Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) CITS Combat Information Transport , or Chinese government, approval. 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, 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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