Bitstream Offers Typeface-Sensitive 'Euro' Currency Symbols.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1999--Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), continuing its tradition as a leader and innovator in the font industry, today announced that it has developed euro currency symbols for many of the company's existing PC TrueType and PostScript fonts A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language and are widely used, but Type 3 are not. . The euro is the new, single, unified currency recently adopted by the 11 member nations of the European Community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. . Bitstream's world-class font designers created these new euro currency symbols to match the design characteristics of the particular typeface family A group of typefaces that includes the normal, bold, italic and bold-italic variations of the same design. for many of the fonts in Bitstream's font library. Bitstream is currently offering the custom design of the euro currency symbol as a premium product for sale to end users, resellers, ISV's and OEMs worldwide. The new euro currency symbols are available now for IBM-compatible PC's, with support for the Macintosh expected in April 1999. In addition, Bitstream also offers a symbol font called Bitstream Currency Pi the Currency Pi font, the euro currency symbol matches the design that the European Economic Community European Economic Community (EEC), organization established (1958) by a treaty signed in 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany (now Germany); it was known informally as the Common Market. specified. The new Currency Pi font includes the euro, the currency symbols of the world's major monetary units, and a wide variety of other useful symbols for accounting, finance, and international trade. "Bitstream is offering a wide variety of typeface support for the new euro currency symbol," said 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. , President of Bitstream. "In addition to offering ready-made euro currency symbol fonts, Bitstream also offers custom typeface design services. Our world-class font designers can design any euro symbol to match the design characteristics of the typeface in a customer's library. Bitstream has been a leading designer of typefaces for almost 20 years. We are pleased to continue this tradition by including broad typeface support for the new euro currency symbol, which will have obvious importance for the entire international financial community." "By updating the Bitstream Typeface Library with the euro currency symbol, Bitstream continues its tradition in the font industry as a manufacturer who is both innovative and customer friendly. The euro currency symbol is essential to the majority of our customer's businesses. It is important to know that practically any Bitstream font our use will include the euro currency symbol and will match the design characteristics of the font," said Christian Kohler Christian Kohler (ca 1859 – ) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Haldimand in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1911 to 1914. , production manager at FontShop GmbH Berlin. 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. , is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services 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. . Bitstream licenses its WebFont(TM), TrueDoc(R), and T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) (TM) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading internet, web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents to cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. . Bitstream also offers PageFlex, and on-demand publishing solution. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream, the Bitstream logo and TrueDoc are registered trademarks of Bitstream Inc. WebFont and T2K are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are for identification purposes only and are the property of their respective holders. |
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