Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.4, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Digital Television; Update Enhances Support for OpenType and Type 1 fonts.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003 Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) today announced 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. (TM) 2.4, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. "We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 2.4. This release enhances our support for OpenType, the font format of the future," said Anna Chagnon, president of Bitstream. "In addition, Font Fusion solves problems for companies developing products for digital TV markets. TVs present unique display challenges, which we have helped resolve with our TV modes. With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for digital TVs, set-top boxes, and 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. ." The following features were added for the Font Fusion 2.4 release: -- Enhanced support for Adobe OpenType fonts -- Enhanced support for Type 1 fonts, allowing access to all characters -- Plug-in filter for emboldening of bitmaps -- Simplified config.h file 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. a wide variety of different font formats: OpenType(R), 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 more than 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 Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , 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 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 has released ThunderHawk(TM), a full-featured browser for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first independent digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com(TM) Inc. (www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream has headquarters in Cambridge. Note to Editors: Bitstream, Speedo, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo, Font Fusion, MyFonts.com, 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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