Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 3.1, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems; New Release Optimizes Caching for Memory-Constrained Consumer Devices and Mobile Phones.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) 3.1, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Font Fusion now includes an upgraded cache management system. The cache can be dynamically increased or decreased at run time, and characters in the cache can be compressed, saving memory. In addition, the new release includes support for 64-bit pointers, support for use of multiple filters simultaneously (such as underline and strikethrough), support for transformations (such as rotating and obliquing) of bitmap-only fonts, and support for multi-color fonts (including emoticons and multi-color icons). "This release builds upon our last major release of Font Fusion. We have extended our font compression to the cache manager, but more importantly have optimized the cache management system. This will benefit applications running on devices with memory and performance constraints," 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 has been built for small embedded systems such as consumer electronics devices and mobile phones. It remains the font rendering engine of choice for international developers who need a small, fast font engine capable of displaying high-quality text." 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 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), 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. ), BDF BDF Beiersdorf (German pharmaceutic enterprise) BDF Bitmap Distribution Format (font format) BDF Banque de France BDF Backward Differentiation Formula BDF Business Development Fund (bitmap distribution format) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license a number of different suites of fonts, including a certified Chinese (PRC) font, 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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