Bitstream Releases WebFont Maker; New Web Publishing Tool for Displaying Fonts Across Industry-Standard Web Browsers.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), reinforcing its position as the Internet Font Company, announced the release of WebFont Maker(tm), a new Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. tool that allows Web page designers to embed their typefaces in Web pages designs. These embedded typefaces will display properly using either Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. (tm) or Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. (tm) Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
"WebFont Maker is a major step forward for Web page designers and other content providers," said Paul Trevithick, president of Bitstream. "Before WebFont Maker, Web page designers were forced to use a Web browser's limited set of default fonts, or designers had to build their custom fonts inside graphics files, such as GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. or JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. files. These graphics files tend to be large, which increases the download time for Web pages. Also, users cannot perform text searches for text strings that are inside these graphics files." Trevithick continued, "WebFont Maker solves these problems by allowing Web page designers to use the fonts they wish, while keeping overall file size to a minimum. And since designers are using standard text strings, search engines can continue to query the text. WebFont Maker is the only product that makes fonts truly portable across the Internet." About WebFont Maker Bitstream's WebFont Maker includes: --Over 200 high-quality TrueType fonts, including a collection of WGL WGL - Waveform Generation Language 4 fonts with expanded Pan European characters and the "euro" currency symbol. --Bitstream's award winning Font Navigator(tm) for typeface management. --The newly developed WebFont Wizard(tm). The WebFont Wizard allows designers to create portable, dynamic fonts from the TrueType fonts on the CD, or from any TrueType or PostScript Type 1 fonts installed on the designer's computer running Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0. These dynamic fonts can then be embedded in any Web page for display using Netscape Navigator (for Windows or Macintosh) or Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows only). The price for WebFont Maker is $198.95. For more information about WebFont Maker or dynamic font technology, visit Bitstream's website at http://www.bitstream.com/products/world/webfont/index.html. About Bitstream Inc., The Internet Font Company Bitstream Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry. Bitstream licenses its WebFont(tm), TrueDoc(R), and T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) (tm) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading Internet, Web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes, and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents that cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for Web publishing. Bitstream also offers on-demand publishing software through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , PageFlex Inc. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.bitstream.com Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks of Bitstream Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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