Bitstream Improves the Speed of Its Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems.Font Fusion 3.3 Dramatically Improves Its Font Rendering Speed for Compressed Fonts CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- 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 the release of Font Fusion[R] 3.3. This release offers a significant increase in rendering speed for compressed fonts and reasserts Font Fusion's dominant position as the fastest font engine available today. The increased speed is due to the implementation of improved compression and decompression algorithms for compressed fonts. Earlier releases added many features to support memory-constrained devices such as support for compressed fonts and improvements to the cache management system. Developers can control the level of font compression depending on the device they need to support. The cache management system lets developers dynamically control the cache size and lets them store compressed characters, which also results in some increase in output speed. This latest release, however, focuses on speed increases by leveraging improvements in the compression technology of Font Fusion when working with compressed fonts. "This release of Font Fusion builds on the momentum of the releases over the past year and raises our own standard for speed from a font rendering solution. We are committed to maintaining Font Fusion as the choice for worldwide developers who need a fast font rendering engine that can produce very high quality results," stated Anna Chagnon, 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. About Font Fusion Font Fusion is Bitstream's premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small embedded systems, including consumer electronics devices, mobile handsets, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems. 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), Font Fusion renders a wide variety of industry-standard and compact font formats: OpenType, TrueType, Type 1, CFF/Type2, T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) [R] Latin, T2K Asian, TrueDoc[R] PFR (portable font resource A Portable Font Resource (PFR) is an outline font standard developed by Bitstream that compactly encodes font for use in web pages through their TrueDoc system. TrueDoc was natively supported in Netscape Navigator 4, but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6 and Mozilla ), Bitstream Speedo An earlier scalable font technology from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com). Speedo fonts used the .SPD extension. See FaceLift. [R], Font Fusion stroke (FFS (Flash File System) Software from Microsoft that made flash memory look like a disk drive. It was superseded by the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) from PCMCIA and M-Systems. See flash memory. ), BDF BDF Beiersdorf (German pharmaceutic enterprise) BDF Bitmap Distribution Format (font format) BDF Banque de France BDF Backward Differentiation Formula BDF Business Development Fund (bitmap distribution format) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license different suites of worldwide fonts, including a certified Chinese (PRC) font, delta-hinted screen fonts, stroke-based Asian fonts, the Tiresias Screenfont, the CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television Font Set, and the TV Font Pack. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company that makes communications compelling. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. For more information, please visit Bitstream at www.bitstream.com. Bitstream, Font Fusion, Speedo, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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