Bitstream to Resell DiamondSoft's Font Reserve; Bitstream to Offer DiamondSoft's Font Reserve on the Bitstream Online Store.Business Editors & Hi-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2001 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) and DiamondSoft, Inc., announced today that Bitstream will resell DiamondSoft's Font Reserve Font Reserve was a Mac OS and Windows compatible font manager sold by Diamondsoft, and later Extensis. Some of the core features were incorporated into a new product, Suitcase Fusion in January 2006. , the highly acclaimed font manager See font scaler. for the Macintosh and for Windows. Font Reserve is created by DiamondSoft, in which Bitstream holds a minority interest. Bitstream will offer Font Reserve on its online store, store.bitstream.com, as well as through its network of worldwide resellers. Bitstream is replacing Font Navigator, its font manager for Windows, with Font Reserve for Windows. Bitstream is discontinuing Font Navigator, but will offer upgrades for Font Reserve for Windows to current users who have Font Navigator version 3.01. Besides the Windows version, Bitstream will also offer Font Reserve for the Macintosh. The award-winning Font Reserve is a feature-rich and powerful tool for managing and using fonts. You can quickly activate, preview, sort, and copy the correct fonts without guesswork or hassles. Now, with version 2.6, you can even download the fonts you need directly from the Internet through the MyFonts.com Web site (www.myfonts.com). When accessed through Font Reserve, MyFonts.com provides one-stop shopping and allows users to download fonts directly into their Font Reserve databases. "DiamondSoft's Font Reserve for the Macintosh has consistently won all the awards for the best font manager on the market," said Charles Ying, 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. "Now DiamondSoft has brought all that expertise to Font Reserve for Windows. Representing a new wave in font management, Font Reserve makes it easy for designers and publishers to deal with large numbers or fonts. We are very pleased to have worked with DiamondSoft in bringing Font Reserve to Bitstream's customers." "As the developer of the most technologically advanced font manager, it's natural that we would partner with a font manufacturer as innovative as Bitstream," says Brian Berson, President and Founder of DiamondSoft. "Our link to MyFonts.com and the advent of reselling Font Reserve through Bitstream's online store extends our existing partnership and provides added benefits to all of our customers." About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and 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. (TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. , wireless and handheld devices, 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. , 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. , and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. 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 This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. About DiamondSoft, Inc. DiamondSoft, Inc., based in Mill Valley, California, was founded in 1995 to solve the font management problems of the publishing industry. Its mission is to provide software tools that enable professionals to focus on the creative aspects of their jobs, letting the computer handle the mundane and laborious la·bo·ri·ous adj. 1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project. 2. Hard-working; industrious. aspects. For more information about DiamondSoft, e-mail info@diamondsoft.com or visit us at www.fontreserve.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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