Bitstream Demonstrates Font-Rich Publishing on the Internet; TrueDoc Technology Expands Font Capabilities in Prototype Web Browser.PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 1995--Bitstream demonstrated today the ability to add presentation to content on the Internet, letting users experience the Web-page author's intended look and feel. By integrating Bitstream TrueDoc technology into Spyglass' enhanced Mosaic Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , Bitstream gives Web users complete typographic See typography. freedom in creating documents and enables viewers to see those documents exactly how they were meant to -- even if the original fonts are not installed on the viewer's system. While this TrueDoc-enhanced browser is intended for demonstration purposes only at this time, developers of publishing and viewing tools can license and incorporate TrueDoc technology immediately. "Enabling technologies like TrueDoc help turn the World Wide Web into a powerful publishing and advertising venue," said Andy Parker Andrew Maynard 'Andy' Parker was born 21 March 1952 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. Parker began drumming when he was only 7 years old. 10 years later he started his first rock band with high school friends Phil Mogg and Pete Way called UFO. , Director of Marketing & Business Development at Spyglass. "We're happy to help Bitstream spearhead this development effort." Look & feel issues like type selection and readability in Web documents will gain importance as more people spend time online for commerce and pleasure. Special, decorative and foreign typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
"Publishing on the Internet is growing quickly. But without universal and international font support, Internet publishers cannot match today's hard-copy standard," said Ray Boelig, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bitstream. "TrueDoc can open those doors for Web publishers." HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. Publishing Today Currently, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". ) editors (publishing programs that create Web pages) provide only limited font and layout/design capabilities. This leads to a situation where documents on the web are limited to the use of only standard system fonts or risk not being viewed as it was intended by the author. While some enhanced browsers have provided users the ability to set preferences whereby they can use other fonts beyond the system fonts to view documents, there has still been no progress made towards providing both authors and readers with a system that provides the ability to format text in a way that adds presentation value to the overall document. Authors can create font-rich web pages if they store the formatted components as graphic files -- this allows every Web user to view the document exactly as it was created. Graphics files are, however, large and slow (and expensive) to download and image, they cannot be edited (nor cut & pasted from/to), and they cannot contain the hypertext links that are such a key feature of World Wide Web pages. Integrating TrueDoc into both HTML editors The following is a list of HTML editors with articles in Wikipedia. Text editors
Plain text editors may be used to produce webpages. and the accompanying browsers would let authors create HTML pages with a multitude of fonts, symbols and foreign characters with the guarantee that the documents would retain their exact look and feel on all viewing computers -- even if the original fonts are unavailable. And, all the text on the page would be text (as opposed to graphics) and would retain all the performance, linking and editing characteristics of text that users have come to expect. In addition, TrueDoc's ability to handle non-latin character shapes (such as 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. or Arabic) would open new doors for international document exchange on the Net. Currently, latin-based (western) machines revert to meaningless latin characters when they encounter foreign (2-byte encoded) typefaces. TrueDoc's ability to read, record and play back foreign characters allows any machine worldwide to view, manipulate and hyperlink multi-lingual documents on the World Wide Web. About Bitstream Inc. Bitstream Inc. is a leading developer of graphical and imaging communications solutions. An established industry leader in typographic technology, Bitstream Inc. licenses font technology and type to over 500 hardware and software developers worldwide. Bitstream products and technologies are licensed directly or through distributors in the U.S., Europe and 13 nations around the world. For more information, call Bitstream 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 Sales at 617/497-6222. CONTACT: Bitstream Inc. Stefan Wennik, 617/497-6222 x.621 or Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Melissa Walia, 415/615-7911 |
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