Bitstream Announces the Industry's Fastest Double-Byte Asian Character Generation via Unique Direct Rasterization Techniques.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 1998--Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) today announced TrueDoc(R) direct rasterization for double-byte Asian character generation. Combined with TrueDoc's patented font compression technology, Bitstream's solution is 80 percent faster than other Asian character rendering solutions available today. Bitstream's industry leading Asian font rendering technology is suitable for all print and 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. character generation applications, producing high-quality, scaleable outlines for increased legibility and accuracy. TrueDoc is supported by an extensive Bitstream library of monospaced and proportional Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. , Chinese and Korean typefaces. "Bitstream's Asian character rendering with TrueDoc is the most efficient solution available today," said Glen Rippel, Director of Product Management for Bitstream's Type and Type Technology Division. "TrueDoc's ability to directly rasterize To prepare a page for display or printing. Rasterization is performed by a raster image processor (RIP), which turns text and images into the matrix of pixels (bitmap) that will be displayed on screen or printed on the page. Various conversions may take place. compressed Asian characters is a significant advantage over other solutions and requires significantly less ROM and RAM." TrueDoc supports all languages written vertically, or left to right. Memory requirements are significantly reduced in both ROM and RAM compared to other Asian character generation solutions. TrueDoc Asian character support is well suited for embedded environments, including printer based products, Internet publishing, Interactive Television and hand-held, wireless communication products. TrueDoc is an extremely compact and efficient font rendering technology designed to deliver high-quality text across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . Compatible with all industry standard font formats (TrueType and Type 1), TrueDoc places limited memory requirements on embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. environment resources. TrueDoc delivers scaleable outlines, producing well-formed characters regardless of output size. A number of special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. are available from TrueDoc which enhance text quality on all low-resolution displays. Special effects include antialising and color blending to produce the best possible output for text and background color combinations. TrueDoc can be integrated into a server/client configuration, conserving bandwidth and memory resources on the receiving platform. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc., 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. , develops, markets and supports software technologies and applications for the graphics communications industry. Through its Type and Type Technology Division, Bitstream licenses leading text imaging and page layout technologies, such as TrueDoc(R), NuDoc(tm) and Bitstream Jet(tm), to hundreds of independent developers. Through its Archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. Applications Division, Bitstream develops publishing applications, such as its MediaBank(tm) digital asset manager and the InterSep(tm) OPI (Open Prepress Interface) An extension to PostScript that provides color separations. It was developed by Aldus Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe. server. Thousands of corporations, publishers, ad agencies, and prepress houses use these applications. Complementing these products, Bitstream markets and supports an extensive multi-lingual library of over 1,400 typefaces. For more information on Bitstream and its products, please visit the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.bitsream.com -0- Bitstream and the Bitstream logo are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. TrueDoc is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.
CONTACT: Bitstream Inc.
Dan McDermott, (617) 520-8564
dmcdermott@bitstream.com
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