Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 3.0, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems; Major release provides new support for font compression of all font formats.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- 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(R) 3.0, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Font Fusion now includes built-in support for font compression, allowing Bitstream's premier font engine to read and render industry-standard fonts, bitmap fonts, and outline fonts in compressed format. Bitstream can achieve over 2-to-1 compression from the original to compressed size of a font, depending on the font format, the complexity of the typeface design, the number of characters in the font, and the compression level chosen. For example: --37,000-character font under 1 MB: Bitstream's unified stroke-based 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. font, which 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, is under 1 MB with optimum compression --340-character font under 35 KB: the Tiresias Screenfont achieves over 2-to-1 compression. In TrueType format, it can be compressed down to 34 KB. In 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 ) format, it can be compressed down to 14 KB. Developers can choose the font compression level for optimal trade-offs between RAM/ROM savings and performance. "With the strides we have made in font compression, random access decompression, and LCD output, our customers will be able to use high-quality fonts in small devices and embedded systems. Note that this is 'lossless' compression, which means there is no degradation in quality of the character output. The integrity of the characters is maintained, and every character is rendered 100% accurately," stated Sampo Kaasila, Vice-President of Research and Development for Bitstream. "Developers can choose the compression level based on their device characteristics. This will enable our partners to integrate fonts into small devices, bringing a high-quality font solution to their customers." The following features were added for the Font Fusion 3.0 release: --Support for lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. font compression of any format Font Fusion is capable of rendering --Random access decompression of any compressed font --Improved LCD display output --Improved support for multi-bit per pixel bitmaps --Integration upgrades and improvements for the Bitstream Panorama(TM) global text composition engine "We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 3.0. This release provides new support for font compression, critical for developers building small embedded systems such as consumer electronics devices and mobile phones," 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. With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for embedded systems." About Font Fusion Font Fusion is Bitstream's premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small embedded systems. Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 36 KB on up, depending on options. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz (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, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em. Font Fusion is designed for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems. 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), 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 makes communications compelling. 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. For more information, please visit Bitstream at www.bitstream.com. 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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