Apple and Bitstream Sign Long-Term Contract; Apple Licenses High-Quality Fonts for the Macintosh.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001 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 Apple(R) Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) has entered into a long-term agreement to license Bitstream fonts for the Macintosh(R). The Bitstream fonts were selected from Bitstream's library of over 900 fonts. Bitstream's typographers have over 20 years' experience making high-quality typographic designs for developers of applications and 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. . The fonts for Apple are based on Kingsley-ATF Type Corporation designs. Featuring the new user interface called Aqua, Mac OS X makes everything on the Mac even more intuitive for new users, while providing powerful, customizable tools for professionals. Aqua includes a number of innovative time-saving features -- including a new Finder and the Dock -- designed to help you navigate and organize your system, and give you instant access to your most frequently used applications, folders, and minimized windows. This new interface is built on three cutting-edge graphics technologies -- Quartz, OpenGL, and QuickTime -- bringing graphics capabilities to Mac OS X beyond anything ever seen in a desktop operating system The control program in a user's machine (desktop or laptop). Also called a "client operating system," Windows is the overwhelming majority while the Macintosh comes second. There are also several versions of Linux for the desktop. Contrast with network operating system. . "Our fonts are world-renowned for their typographic quality. The fonts that Apple licensed have a simple, elegant look and feel, so they are well suited for the Macintosh," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Because of our experience working with application and OS developers who need great looking text on screen, we could offer Apple high-quality fonts from our extensive library. We are very pleased that Apple licensed fonts from Bitstream." "Kingsley-ATF Type Corporation, through its successor, Kingsley Holding Corporation, owns hundreds of trademarked fonts; however, we have been especially pleased with the high quality designs of those fonts as produced by Bitstream," said Mark Lester, Vice President and Corporate Counsel of Kingsley Holding Corporation. "We believe the Apple-Bitstream contract is but one in a series of future ventures with Bitstream which will bring typographic excellence back to the general public, and we couldn't be prouder to be reassociated with the innovative leaders at Apple Computer. This is a win-win-win operation." About Bitstream 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 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) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , 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 This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. About Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings. About Kingsley-ATF Type Corporation Founded in 1892, ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites owns the rights to one of the world's greatest libraries of original typefaces, largely directed and created by Morris Fuller Benton Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 –June 30, 1948) was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937. . By the 1920's ATF was the dominant player in the world's printing equipment market. Kingsley, a manufacturer of imprinting imprinting, acquisition of behavior in many animal species, in which, at a critical period early in life, the animals form strong and lasting attachments. Imprinting is important for normal social development. and marking equipment, acquired ATF in 1986, and the type division became Kingsley/ATF Type Corporation, the font library and intellectual properties rights of which were acquired by Kingsley Holding Corporation in 1994. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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