Bitstream Licenses Font Fusion to PubliTronic; Worldwide Provider of Multimedia Broadcasting Solutions Licenses Bitstream's Premier Font Rendering Engine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers APELDOORN, The Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003--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) and PubliTronic bv announced today that PubliTronic has signed an agreement with Bitstream to license 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. (R), Bitstream's premier font rendering engine. PubliTronic will use Bitstream technology in its high-end professional broadcast server and graphics systems. PubliTronic specializes in the development of systems for automated multimedia broadcasts. More and more overlaps between broadcast, cable, satellite, and Internet industries exist, and PubliTronic makes it possible to use the same technology among them. PubliTronic will use Bitstream's font rendering solution to generate characters on the fly for PubliTronic's electronic program guides (EPGs); to render real-time text on business, sports, and news channels; and to produce titles and related recording information for interactive music channels, to name a few examples. "For our newly released Indigo platform we did an intensive assessment to find the highest-quality font rendering engine on the market. After our initial assessment, Font Fusion and FreeType were the main candidates. We implemented both on our real-time DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive hardware and were positively surprised by the ease of porting and the quality and speed of the Font Fusion renderer. Of course FreeType is free, but the amount of development needed to get it to the same quality level (including visual quality) made it less interesting, and in the long term a less viable solution. The broadcast market has always required the highest standard in quality and reliability. The fast, well-written and systematic Font Fusion engine gives us a future roadmap for the Indigo platform." "PubliTronic joins the many worldwide leaders in the broadcast market who have licensed a font rendering solution from Bitstream," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "For live feeds and interactive broadcasts, it's imperative that clear, legible leg·i·ble adj. 1. Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting. 2. Plainly discernible; apparent: legible weaknesses in character and disposition. text is generated quickly so customers can receive up-to-date information. Our partners confirm that Font Fusion delivers the highest-quality text at any resolution and on any device. We are honored that PubliTronic has selected Font Fusion for its entire product line." About Font Fusion Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic See typography. output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is both small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz (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 The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. processor, cache turned off. 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 high-definition television (HDTV) Any system producing significantly greater picture resolution than that of the ordinary 525-line (625-line in Europe) television screen. Conventional television transmits signals in analog form. screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , continuous tone printers, PDAs, 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. and information and wireless appliances. About Bitstream Bitstream is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion(R) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. , wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk(TM), a full-featured browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first independent digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com(TM) Inc. (www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts online. Also in 1999, Bitstream established Pageflex(TM) Inc. (www.pageflexinc.com), the pioneer of a new direction in composition software: Web-top publishing. Bitstream has headquarters in Cambridge. About PubliTronic PubliTronic is a private Dutch company founded in 1997 to serve cable and satellite customers. The conceptual high level of integration and modularity of the company's platform turned out to be an international success, and the unique and innovative concept proved applicable for the broadcast market. The company started international activities with Alphatron in 1999 for broadcast, cable and satellite. Since 1998 PubliTronic is affiliated with its partner Alphatron. Visit PubliTronic on the Web at http://www.publitronic.nl. Note to Editors: Bitstream, Font Fusion, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo and ThunderHawk are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. MyFonts.com is a trademark of MyFonts.com Inc. Pageflex is a trademark of Pageflex Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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