Bitstream Inc. Names Anna Chagnon President; Former Bitstream President Paul Trevithick will focus his efforts on Pageflex.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 Bitstream today officially announced the appointment of Anna M. Chagnon as President of Bitstream to run Bitstream's type and technology business. Ms. Chagnon succeeds Paul Trevithick This article is and to meet Wikipedia's , may require a , wikifying and categorization. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or [ replace this tag] with a . This article has been tagged since March 2007. as President of Bitstream. Mr. Trevithick will continue to serve as President of Pageflex, Inc., a subsidiary of Bitstream that focuses on on-demand marketing software and represents the Company's other principal business. "Both our Bitstream and Pageflex businesses are in a position to expand over the next year and take advantage of new and emerging markets," said Charles Ying, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Bitstream. "Since both businesses have different strategies and markets, the Board believed it was time to have one individual devoted to the success of each of our business lines so both could receive the focused attention they deserve." "I have every confidence in Anna's ability to manage Bitstream's type and technology business, because for more than a year this has been her main focus, and she's been doing a tremendous job. This announcement recognizes her accomplishment over the past year in turning the type and technology business into a profitable, growing business," said Mr. Trevithick. Ms. Chagnon joined Bitstream in July, 1997. She has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel of Bitstream since August, 1998. About Bitstream Inc. 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) technology to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of Internet appliances Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. , 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 Pageflex, Inc. Pageflex, Inc. develops, markets, and supports Web-based on-demand marketing solutions and related technology. Operating from a 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. , marketing on demand involves the dynamic creation of highly personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. and customized marketing documents such as brochures and datasheets. Innovative flexible page template technology assembles XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. text and image content into output PostScript or PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. pages based on customer profile information. Pageflex's template technology is based on the NuDoc XML composition engine. The Company was established in 1999 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bitstream. For more information on Pageflex and its products, visit the company on the Web at http://www.pageflexinc.com. (c)2000 Bitstream Inc. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Pageflex and NuDoc are trademarks of Pageflex, Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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