Bitstream Releases Major Upgrade to Its Leading Text Composition Engine for Small Embedded Systems; Release of Bitstream Panorama 3.0 includes full support for Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Thai complex language scripts.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 version 3.0 of Bitstream Panorama(TM), a worldwide text composition engine that enables developers to compose and render text in any international language, including such complex scripts as Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, and Thai. "Our customers are interested in one solution that enables them to compose and display high-quality text in all the world's languages. They also need the flexibility to create modular products that can support any language in any region of the world in which they market, license, and sell their devices and applications," 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. "Overall, we have upgraded Panorama to support all the world's foremost complex scripting languages A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an . This release includes a new Thai shaping engine, which means we now support complex text composition for Arabic, Indic, Hebrew and Thai - in addition to all other worldwide languages." She continued: "We are seeing increasing demand for consumer solutions in Asia, particularly China and India. Together with 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), Bitstream Panorama offers a global font solution for developers building consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. , and small 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. . This is a complete product that our customers can implement quickly and upgrade at any time in order to provide consumers with complete international support." Bitstream Panorama enables developers to draw strings of characters and lay out complex lines of text, including the composing, positioning and rendering of text. The product applies bi-directional algorithms for writing direction, interprets language rules and glyph A displayed or printed image. In typography, a glyph may be a single letter, an accent mark or a ligature. See grapheme. (character) glyph - An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs. information, applies contextual shaping to position and connect characters, combines characters and diacritical marks Noun 1. diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation diacritic mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark" , and renders the composed text. Bitstream Panorama supports all international languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, and Thai scripts. "Most languages are straightforward and can be composed and rendered without having to consider writing direction, language rules, character substitution and positioning, and other traditionally application-level text composition," said Bob Thomas For the Irish footballer, see . Bob Thomas (born March 1, 1965 in Appalachia, Virginia) is a radio personality, actor, and writer. He was one of the top radio announcers in Knoxville, Tennessee for 25 years. , Director of Product Management for Bitstream. "But some languages rely on character designs whose context can change depending on their position in a word or block of text. These languages require special functionality to interpret language rules and compose characters before they can be rendered. This is where the intelligence of a text composition engine like Bitstream Panorama is absolutely necessary." Commented Sampo Kaasila, Vice-President of Research and Development for Bitstream: "As we always do with our products, we have improved overall text composition performance, specifically the speed at which we parse and shape text. Support for all the world's languages, support for multiple fonts in any block of text, support for cursor rendering and positioning, improved performance and implementation - these all make Bitstream Panorama the best complete solution for worldwide text composition and rendering." 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 A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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