Bitstream Licenses Font Management Tool to Corel Corporation; DiamondSoft's Font Reserve, the First Font Manager for Mac OS X, Included in CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh.Business Editors/High Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2001 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 Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. has licensed DiamondSoft's Font Reserve Font Reserve was a Mac OS and Windows compatible font manager sold by Diamondsoft, and later Extensis. Some of the core features were incorporated into a new product, Suitcase Fusion in January 2006. , the highly acclaimed font manager See font scaler. for the Macintosh(R) and the first Mac(R) OS X font manager. The Corel Edition of Font Reserve is included in the recently released CorelDRAW(R) 10 for Macintosh and Corel(R) GRAPHICS SUITE 10 for Macintosh. Font Reserve is created by DiamondSoft, in which Bitstream holds a minority interest. "Both Corel and Bitstream are recognized for their significant 'firsts' on Mac OS X. This deal further demonstrates our commitment to provide exceptional offerings for Macintosh customers," said Ian LeGrow, Executive Vice-President of Creative Products, Corel Corporation. "Font management is an integral part of a designer's workflow. We are pleased to provide our Macintosh customers with another powerful tool that enhances their productivity." The Corel Edition of Font Reserve is a natural complement to CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh and its comprehensive collection of tools for page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. , vector illustration, and graphic design. CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh features the unique Aqua interface, support for ColorSync(R) and QuickTime(R), intuitive user interface (UI) controls, and extensive customization options that streamline the creative process and allow users to add powerful functionality to their existing tool sets. The award-winning Font Reserve is the most feature-rich and powerful tool available for managing and using fonts on the Macintosh. You can quickly activate, preview, sort, and copy the correct fonts without guesswork or hassles. Now, with version 2.6, you can even download the fonts you need directly from the Internet through the MyFonts.com Web site. The Corel Edition of Font Reserve allows the user to support up to 2000 fonts in the Font Reserve database. The MyFonts.com site (www.myfonts.com) offers access to the largest collection of fonts, font-related information, and utilities available. Users can search for typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
"CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh offers a powerful and versatile suite of graphics applications for creative professionals," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "One important aspect of design is typography typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing from movable type. The term typographer is today virtually synonymous with a master printer skilled in the techniques of type and paper stock selection, ornamentation, and composition. . Designers need to use a wide variety of fonts, and DiamondSoft's Font Reserve fulfills Corel's critical need for a high-quality font manager. We are very pleased to have worked with both Corel and DiamondSoft in bringing Font Reserve to Corel's extensive customer base." "As the developer of the first font manager available for Mac OS X, we're pleased to offer users of CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh a solution for this new Macintosh publishing environment," said Brian Berson, President of DiamondSoft. "The link to MyFonts.com, introduced in version 2.6, fills the gap between helping users manage fonts and ensuring that users have the fonts they need. We've bundled our software with CorelDRAW in the past, and we're pleased to introduce the next generation of Corel users to Font Reserve." About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) 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) 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 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. , 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 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 is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. 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 DiamondSoft, Inc. DiamondSoft, Inc., based in Mill Valley, California, was founded in 1995 to solve the font management problems of the publishing industry. Its mission is to provide software tools that enable professionals to focus on the creative aspects of their jobs, letting the computer handle the mundane and laborious aspects. For more information about DiamondSoft, e-mail info@diamondsoft.com or visit us at www.fontreserve.com . Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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