Bitstream Releases Version 6.3 of Its TrueDoc Imaging System and TrueDoc Manufacturing System.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 First Major Release in Over Two Years Provides Complete Font Solution for Printer Manufacturers 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 that it is releasing version 6.3 of the TrueDoc(R) Imaging System (TDIS TDIS Time Distance TDIS Travel Document Issuance System (US Department of State) TDIS Thoroughbred Direct Intermodal Services, Inc (Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania transportation company) ) and TrueDoc Manufacturing System (TDMS (Technical Document Management System) A software suite from IBM designed to support the engineering requirements for technical documents. Aimed at the airline and aerospace industries, TDMS integrates a number of off-the-shelf applications to interface with a ). The Bitstream TrueDoc Imaging System is the best solution available for developers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a total font rendering solution. It reliably handles the processing of fonts in all the popular industry standard font formats and delivers industry leading performance and code size compression. The TrueDoc Imaging System has been widely implemented in servers, 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. , applications, printers, printer controllers, and other environments where a complete font solution is needed to provide scalable resident fonts and support for downloaded industry standard fonts. It boasts a long list of satisfied customers. In their implementations of TDIS, customers may choose from the following industry standard font processors: TrueType(R), PostScript(R) Type 1, HP(R) PCLeo, Bitstream Speedo An earlier scalable font technology from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com). Speedo fonts used the .SPD extension. See FaceLift. (TM), and the Bitstream TrueDoc Character Shape Player (or CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ). Output modules include BlackWriter, WhiteWriter, QuickWriter, GrayWriter, 2D Writer, and the OutlineWriter. If needed, developers can also choose from a series of Resident Font Sets that emulate industry standard font suites in operating systems and popular PostScript and HP PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. devices. Resident Font Sets are supplied as highly compacted TrueDoc 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 (PFR) files. The TrueDoc Manufacturing System is a utility that lets developers create custom, compact TrueDoc PFR (portable font resource) resident font sets from standard TrueType(R) and Bitstream Speedo(TM) outline fonts. As an add-on enhancement to Bitstream's TrueDoc Imaging System, the TrueDoc Manufacturing System lets developers quickly and easily create their own resident font sets for their products. This unique system provides developers with a fast and cost-effective way to localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. or customize products for specific markets. Enhancements to TDIS --Support for the Euro --We added the Euro currency symbol (*) to the PFRs for standard printers, as well as in the PCL symbol sets --Automatic rotation of CJK characters CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which constitute the main East Asian languages. The term is used in the field of software and communications internationalization. --TDIS now includes a compile-time option that automatically rotates 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. (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters 90 degrees so that the characters print in the correct position. --XL2.0 character header processing --TDIS now returns TrueType character metrics, which specify the spacing of a character, for the character in the character's data header. This process saves time in processing character information. --Microsoft(R)/Macintosh(R)component placement --TDIS now has a compile-time option that allows developers to stop TrueType from scaling the offset values of a character's components. Developers can specify whether they want Microsoft or Macintosh component placement. Enhancements to TDMS --Bitmap recording --TDMS now has the ability to record bitmap data from the outlines of a source font and to render bitmaps. --Kern data recording --TDMS now has the ability to find and record all kerning pairs that contain characters recorded from the outlines of a source font. TDMS now uses the 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. index of recorded characters rather than the character code. This greatly speeds up the process of recording kern pairs. --Performance Improvement: faster rendering of TrueType fonts --TrueType fonts are now rendered quicker. TDMS now uses the glyph index of recorded characters rather than the character code. This greatly speeds up the process of rendering TrueType fonts. "Bitstream understands the importance of performance and quality in the printer environment," said Shawn Flynn, Senior Engineer at Bitstream and engineer of the TrueDoc Imaging System. "TDIS was designed from the beginning to be a high-performance font engine, and significant effort has been spent on tuning its performance." To obtain licensing information for the Bitstream TrueDoc Imaging System, contact Bitstream OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Sales at (617) 497-6222. About Bitstream, the Internet Font Technology Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R), WebFont(TM), and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of Internet appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers, and personal digital assistants. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion, Speedo, and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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