BroadVision Licenses Font Rendering Technology and Fonts from Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002 BroadVision standardizes on Bitstream's high-quality character generation and printing solution for its Enterprise Business Portal software 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 BroadVision, Inc. has licensed Bitstream's font rendering technology and complementary fonts to enhance its Enterprise Business Portal products. BroadVision selected Bitstream's solution for its ability to accelerate the engineering design process and time to market, as well as to generate and print high-quality characters. BroadVision is using Bitstream technology in BroadVision(R) QuickSilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. (TM), a full-featured software package for creating and publishing long, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , Postscript and ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. ) across different platforms and networks. QuickSilver delivers publishing, word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , and 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. for long, complex, multi-language documents in one easy-to-use package. It also includes an extensive array of tools to help users migrate their complex document applications to the open XML See Office Open XML. standard. "BroadVision is an international leader in Enterprise Business Portals," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "An important part of the publishing function within Portals is enabling users to create and print multi-lingual documents using high-quality, international fonts. We are very pleased that BroadVision selected Bitstream's fast, system-independent, font rendering technology for its sophisticated publishing software." "BroadVision's QuickSilver publishing system is enriched by Bitstream's high quality fonts and rendering engine," said Bill Zujewski, Vice President of Product Marketing. 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, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, 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 full-featured browser 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. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.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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