Bitstream Integrates Font Fusion with Symbian OS.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Leading font rendering solution for small embedded systems now working on leading operating system for data-enabled mobile phones 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 that it has integrated Font Fusion(R) 3.0, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today, with Symbian OS(TM). Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today's most popular smartphones. Font Fusion is engineered for small embedded systems. The source code can be compiled in as little as 36 KB. Using Font Fusion, 100 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. CPUs can render between 2,400 to 3,300 characters per second. A premier font subsystem, Bitstream's Font Fusion renders high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Font Fusion supports all international languages. In addition to bitmaps, Font Fusion can render scalable outline and stroke-based characters. "Symbian OS is the leading development platform for data-enabled mobile phones and smartphones worldwide. Now hardware manufacturers and software developers can expand their font technology solutions and provide their customers with high-quality, scalable text," said Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream Inc. "Scalable font rendering adds significant value to mobile and smart phones. Font Fusion, our premier font rendering engine, delivers outstanding scalable technology in a very small footprint. Bitstream's Font Fusion will play a key role in delivering high-quality text display on smartphones. We are pleased to be working with Symbian in this high-growth market segment." 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. Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 36 KB on up, depending on options. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium II processor, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em. Font Fusion is designed for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, 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), and 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. ) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license a number of different suites of fonts, including 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. Symbian OS is a trademark of Symbian Software Ltd. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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