Bitstream Licenses TrueDoc to Philips Electronics NV for High-Quality Font Rendering in Consumer Products Line.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1998-- TrueDoc Will Provide Industry-Standard Text Rendering Solution for Philips' Digital Television Set-Top Boxes Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) announced today that Philips Electronics NV Philips Electronics NV in full Royal Philips Electronics NV Dutch Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV Major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, household appliances, lightbulbs, and imaging equipment. has licensed TrueDoc for high-quality font rendering in digital set-top boxes and other consumer electronics products. TrueDoc, the standard font format specification of the Digital Video Audio Council (DAVIC DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council DAVIC Digital Audio Video Council ) and the U.K. Digital Terrestrial Group provides full multilingual language support while reducing memory requirement costs for a wide range of consumer and business communication products. TrueDoc is compatible with all industry-standard font formats and offers a wide selection of features designed to enhance text quality on low resolution displays, including antialising, gamma correction An adjustment to the light intensity (brightness) of a scanner, monitor or printer in order to match the output more closely to the original image. A gamma correction imposes the complement of the "tone curve" in order to flatten the line and bring the gamma closer to the ideal 1. and color blending. "Bitstream is pleased that Philips has selected TrueDoc as its solution for high-quality text rendering," said Glen Rippel, Director of Product Development for Bitstream's Type and Type Technology division. "Bitstream has a long history of providing high-quality, consumer tested text rendering technology which will meet the stringent reliability requirements for Philips' consumer and business product lines." "As a leading consumer and business electronics vendor, our products must meet very high-quality and reliability standards," said Willem de Zoete of Philips Business Electronics Division. "Philips selected Bitstream's TrueDoc technology after extensive testing and evaluation of existing font rendering solutions. TrueDoc's position as the Digital Audio Visual Council's (DAVIC) font standard enhanced its appeal to Philips, ensuring that we are working with the industry standard character rendering technology of the digital television marketplace." TrueDoc is an extremely compact and efficient font rendering technology designed to deliver high-quality text across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . Compatible with all industry standard font formats, TrueDoc's low memory requirements and low processor overhead is ideal for embedded environments. TrueDoc produces high-quality, well-formed characters regardless of output size. A number of special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. are available from TrueDoc which enhance text quality on all low-resolution displays. Special effects include antialising, gamma correction and color blending to produce the best possible output for text and background color combinations. TrueDoc can be integrated into a server / client configuration, conserving bandwidth and memory resources on the client platform. Multiple language support is provided by TrueDoc, which has the ability to store double-byte data for Japanese, Chinese and Korean typeface designs. About Philips Electronics Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronic companies, with sales of over USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 39 billion in 1997. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, home telephony products, electric shavers and recorded music recorded music n → música grabada (PolyGram). Its 264,700 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of semiconductors and components, consumer products, professional products and systems, lighting, and software and services. Philips is quoted on the NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange , London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. News from Philips is located at www.news.philips.com. Philips Digital Video Systems is a leading manufacturer of digital equipment and systems for the professional television and video production communities and is a world leader in MPEG-2 compression and transmission systems. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc., 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. , develops, markets and supports software technologies and applications for the graphics communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Through its Type and Type Technology Division, Bitstream licenses leading text imaging and page layout technologies, such as TrueDoc(R), NuDoc(tm) and Bitstream Jet(tm), to hundreds of independent developers. Through its Archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. Applications Division, Bitstream develops publishing applications, such as its MediaBank(tm) digital asset manager and the InterSep(tm) OPI (Open Prepress Interface) An extension to PostScript that provides color separations. It was developed by Aldus Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe. server. Thousands of corporations, publishers, ad agencies, and prepress houses use these applications. Complementing these products, Bitstream markets and supports an extensive multi-lingual library of over 1,400 typefaces. For more information on Bitstream and its products, please visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and the Bitstream logo are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. TrueDoc is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc. Philips is a trademark of Philips Electronics, Inc.
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Bitstream Inc.
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