Bitstream Inc. Adds Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Fonts to Font Fusion; New Release Augments Ultra-compact, Stroke-based Font Technology for Internet and Wireless Devices.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) today announced the availability of new stroke-based fonts for Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. as well as mainland China in version 1.1 of 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. , the company's most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine. These stroke-based Chinese fonts expand Font Fusion's capabilities in Asian markets, which in turn open opportunities for developers of a wide range of information appliances. The ability to display and output high-quality characters for Hong Kong and mainland Chinese languages Chinese languages or Sinitic languages Family of languages comprising one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan. They are spoken by about 95% of the inhabitants of China and by many communities of Chinese immigrants elsewhere. means that developers of Internet appliances, wireless devices, and other 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. can address new business opportunities for their products without the barrier imposed by the large size of conventional Asian fonts. Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. In addition, Font Fusion performs well in memory-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same font occupies less than 0.5MB. Font Fusion is designed for 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. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and Internet appliances. "The Hong Kong and mainland Chinese fonts are part of our ongoing CJK (character) CJK - In internationalisation, a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The characters of these languages are all partly based on Han characters (i.e., "hanzi" or "kanji"), which require 16-bit character encodings. (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) font development," said Bob Thomas, Director of Product Management for Bitstream. "Support for multiple language characters is critical to our 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 customers, as their market opportunities continue to expand rapidly. Font Fusion 1.1 provides the support they need in the Asian market." Other new features in Font Fusion 1.1 include: -- Improved font technology for low-resolution monochrome devices, such as wireless devices, PDAs, and other embedded systems and Internet appliances -- Support for proportional-width characters, opening the door for enhanced Unicode 3.0 support -- Improved support for printer technologies, including PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. and PCLetto font support -- Support for large character set and unencoded CFF/Type 2 fonts; that is, compact font formats in the Type 2 renderer For additional information or to inquire about licensing Font Fusion, please contact Bitstream at info@bitstream.com, or visit our company Web site at www.bitstream.com. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry. Bitstream licenses its WebFont(TM) and Font Fusion(TM) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading Internet, Web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes, and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents that cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for Web publishing. Bitstream also offers on-demand marketing software through its 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. , Pageflex Inc. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.bitstream.com. Bitstream is a registered trademark, 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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