Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.1, the Fastest Font Engine On the Market.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001 Release also includes an optional 1.23 MB, unified stroke-based font with over 37,000 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, a new addition to ultra-compact, stroke-based font technology 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 the release of 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. 2.1(TM), the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine and the fastest font engine on the market today. This release also includes a new unified, stroke-based font, available for developers to license. Many developers deploying products in Asia are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. such a unified font: one font that has all the characters in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK (character) CJK - In internationalisation, a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The characters of these languages are all partly based on Han characters (i.e., "hanzi" or "kanji"), which require 16-bit character encodings. ) languages. With a unified font, developers can use a single font in all their products. The Bitstream unified, stroke-based font is 1.23 MB and uses standard Unicode encoding. It includes over 37,000 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese (Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. ), and Korean characters. The ability to display and output high-quality characters for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages means that developers of set-top boxes, information appliances, wireless devices, and other embedded systems can address new business opportunities for their products without the barrier imposed by the large size of conventional Asian fonts. Developers can tailor the unified, stroke-based font for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean applications and environments. In a standard Unicode CJK font, there are frequently Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in the same Unicode position, and these characters may have subtle or pronounced design differences. For these situations, Bitstream created a unified, stroke-based font that enables the developer to choose the correct characters in the font to use based on the language. Using Bitstream's unified font, developers can thus customize their solutions without making compromises. "We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 2.1, which incorporates many new features, including our new, unified stroke-based font, which one developer has already licensed," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for information appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, and other embedded systems. Font Fusion produces high-quality output and supports 8 different font rasterizers. And we have the fastest font engine on the market, including the fastest TrueType rasterizer available." What Our Partners Have to Say "We've been continually impressed with Bitstream's ability to lead the industry in font technology and in their responsive attitude toward customers and partners," said Simon Woodward, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of ANT Limited. "We chose Bitstream's Font Fusion because it was by far the fastest font rasterizing engine we evaluated, producing the highest quality output." "We chose Font Fusion because of its speed, small footprint, and ease of use," said Steve Sakoman, Be's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "Font Fusion is clearly the best font subsystem on the market today." "With Bitstream's Font Fusion and LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic's reference design platform, overall set-top box design is simplified," said Nicholas Dunn, LSI Logic's set-top box marketing manager. "We are able to offer set-top box manufacturers the ability to easily customize their product solutions supporting different world-wide languages without compromising system memory requirements." "We selected Bitstream's Font Fusion font engine to provide an elegant and efficient font rendering solution through Motorola's Streamaster multimedia systems," said Art Lancaster, Director of Strategy and Business Development for Motorola's Multimedia Systems Division. "Font Fusion complements the QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. Photon microGUI with its speed, ease-of-use, and high performance under memory constraints," said Linda Campbell, vice president of strategic alliances at QNX Software Systems. "With Font Fusion, QNX customers building Internet appliances, in-car telematics systems, and other embedded devices can deliver fast, highly readable displays, and, ultimately, a better user experience." "Bitstream is the recognized leader in font technology," said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Jolicoeur, Vice President, Product Marketing, for WebEx. "Incorporating Bitstream's Font Fusion into our interactive communications platform will enable WebEx to offer our customers and partners fast, accurate text rendering during their WebEx meetings." About Font Fusion Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. 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 is able to rasterize To prepare a page for display or printing. Rasterization is performed by a raster image processor (RIP), which turns text and images into the matrix of pixels (bitmap) that will be displayed on screen or printed on the page. Various conversions may take place. 8 different font formats: TrueType(R), 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 and the TV Font Pack. Font Fusion is 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(R) 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(R) II processor, cache turned off. Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8 MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5 MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs. Font Fusion is designed for operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and information and wireless appliances. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R), WebFont(TM), and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers, and personal digital assistants. 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. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream, Speedo, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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