Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.5, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Digital Television.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Update Enhances Support for Text Composition with Simultaneous Release of Bitstream Panorama Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq: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. (R) 2.5, 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 2.5. This release enhances our support for Bitstream Panorama, a new text composition engine for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, and embedded systems," said Anna Chagnon, president and 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. of Bitstream. "Font Fusion is a small, fast and portable font rendering engine. It works well in environments where memory and performance are issues. In addition, Font Fusion solves problems for companies developing products for digital TV and set-top box markets. 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." The following features were added for the Font Fusion 2.5 release: --Integration support for the Bitstream Panorama global text composition engine --New demo for calculating the size of an implementation on the fly, depending on features enabled --Easier control of configurable compile-time options --New functionality for modifying color tables --Improved stroke-based font output About Font Fusion Font Fusion(R) is a small, fast, portable, memory-efficient font rendering engine for consumer electronics devices, PDAs, mobile phones, set-top boxes, graphics applications and embedded systems. Together with Bitstream Panorama(TM), it provides a complete font rendering and text composition solution. Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on features enabled. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em on a 450 MHz (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 II processor. 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 renders a wide variety of industry-standard and compact font formats: OpenType, TrueType, 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, stroke-based Asian fonts, the Tiresias Screenfont, the CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television Font Set, and the TV Font Pack. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is a software development company that focuses on the presentation of data. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology and publishing technology. Visit Bitstream on the Web at http://www.bitstream.com. Note to Editors: Bitstream, Font Fusion, Speedo and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama 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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