Agfa Monotype Licenses iType Font Scaling Technology to PowerTV.Business/Technology Editors WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2001 Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc today announced that PowerTV, Inc., a leading developer of software for the digital interactive set-top environment, has licensed iType(tm), Agfa Monotype's newest font scaling technology. The agreement allows for the integration of iType into the PowerTV Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. (r). "iType is a natural fit for PowerTV," said Doug Shaw, senior vice president of Agfa Monotype's 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. "The idea behind iType is simple--to provide a superior font scaling solution that's both small and fast. Speed and size, along with high quality font display and support for the standard TrueType(r) font format, were the most important factors we considered when developing iType. It also happens to include the fastest TrueType rasterizer available." "Now deployed in over seven million homes, the market for interactive applications that build on the PowerTV Operating System is quite strong. Working with 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. to integrate its font scaling solution is another way the PowerTV software platform is helping application developers create high quality, high performance user interfaces and printed output," said Bob Gager gag·er n. Variant of gauger. , senior product manager for the PowerTV Operating System. 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 within memory-constraint environments such as those in set-top boxes, cell phones, PDAs and Internet appliances, 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. display. 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), iType has two main components: a TrueType font rasterizer See font scaler. and a suite of fonts. The rasterization software is compact--between 35-60Kb (based on platform and configuration) 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(r) II processor with 256Kb of RAM, cache turned off). The rasterizer 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 with any standard ANSI C compiler. The font suite features a Windows(r)-compatible core set of 12 fonts, a Japanese gothic font and a collection of screen fonts designed for low-resolution displays. iType supports any TrueType font, including those from Agfa Monotype's comprehensive selection of over 1,000 TrueType fonts. The technology also supports any TrueType collection font (for double-byte or non-Latin character support). iType also features embedded bitmap font 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 output support for bitmaps, outlines and graymaps. About PowerTV PowerTV, Inc. (www.powertv.com), Cupertino, Calif., is a leading developer of systems software solutions, applications and services for digital interactive cable television with deployments on over seven million set-top boxes. 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, headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ, 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, 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 200 Ballardvale Street Wilmington, MA 01887-1069 USA Phone 978.658.5600 Fax 978.657.8268 Agfa Monotype Ltd. Unit 2, Perrywood Business Park Salfords, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5DZ UK Phone +44 (0) 1737 765959 Fax +44 (0) 1737 769243 Agfa Monotype Corporation 985 Busse Road Elk Grove Village Elk Grove Village, village (1990 pop. 33,429), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956. With a population of c.100 at the time of its establishment on open farmland, the village has grown dramatically and steadily, largely because of its , IL 60007 USA Phone 847.718.0400 Fax 847.718.0500 Agfa-Gevaert Japan, Ltd. 8-1, Higashiyama 3-chome Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0043 Japan Phone 81-3-5704-3141 Fax 81-3-5704-3089 |
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