Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.3, the Fastest Font Engine On the Market Providing the Highest-Quality Text.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 Bitstream is also releasing the CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television Font Set to meet the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. requirements for closed captioning 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(TM) 2.3, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Simultaneously, Bitstream is releasing the CCTV Font Set(TM), which supports the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC) requirements for closed captioning display on digital and analog TVs. Bitstream carefully selected the fonts to be very readable on the TV screen and implemented all the FCC-required styles. "We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 2.3 and the CCTV Font Set," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for digital TVs, set-top boxes, wireless and handheld devices, and other embedded systems. TVs present unique display challenges, which we have helped resolve with our TV modes. Font Fusion produces high-quality text output. And we have the fastest font engine on the market, including the fastest TrueType rasterizer available." The following features were added for the Font Fusion 2.3 release: - Support for Adobe OpenType fonts - Support for FCC standards for closed captioning - New CCTV font set Support for Adobe OpenType Fonts Font Fusion supports both OpenType standards on the market today. Along with Microsoft OpenType fonts, Font Fusion now supports Adobe OpenType fonts. Font Fusion can read and render CFF See Compensatory Financing Facility. (Compact Font Format) font data embedded inside a TrueType or OpenType font. Support for FCC Standards for Closed Captioning Font Fusion 2.3 supports font requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as specified by the Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA (Electronic Industries Alliance, Arlington, VA, www.eia.org) A membership organization founded in 1924 as the Radio Manufacturing Association. It sets standards for consumer products and electronic components. ). Bitstream can now provide developers with a complete solution for closed captioning display on both analog and digital television systems, including fonts, font styles, and font attributes. Closed captioning involves displaying the "audio" portion of a TV broadcast as text, which is superimposed su·per·im·pose tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es 1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else. 2. over the video portion. Most importantly, it allows viewers who are hearing impaired to access TV broadcasts. To display closed-captioned text, the viewers must have a set-top box decoder or a TV receiver that includes this decoding capability. The FCC has updated its closed captioning requirements for digital TVs. By July 1, 2002, manufacturers must include FCC-mandated decoder circuitry for closed captioning in their digital TV devices. Character Edge Effects Font Fusion includes the ability to display text using the following six character edge effects: - Embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin. 2. ("raised") - Engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. ("depressed") - Outline ("uniform") - Drop shadow left - Drop shadow right - None Pen Styles, Character Offsetting, & Pen Sizes Bitstream's fonts conform to these FCC-required specifications: - Pen styles: normal, italic, & underline - Character offsetting: normal, subscript, & superscript - Pen sizes: standard, large, & small New CCTV Font Set In addition, Bitstream has created a CCTV Font Set that supports these FCC requirements for font styles: - Monospaced with serifs - Proportionally spaced with serifs - Monospaced without serifs - Proportionally spaced without serifs - Casual font type - Cursive font type - Small capitals The CCTV Font Set is a separate product offered with Font Fusion 2.3. 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(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. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, 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 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. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream, Speedo, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and CCTV Font Set, Font Fusion, and ThunderHawk 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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