CCI Europe Licenses Font Fusion from Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and AARHUS, DENMARK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 CCI CCI Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (France) CCI CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Citation Index CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Western Australia) standardizes on Bitstream's highest-quality font rendering technology for its world-renowned newspaper publishing 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) and CCI Europe CCI Europe is a software company based in Denmark that publishes newspaper production suites such as CCI Newsdesk, CCI NewsGate, CCI AdDesk Sales and CCI AdDesk Production. Its products are used around the world. A/S announced today that CCI Europe has licensed 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), Bitstream's premier font rendering engine, for CCI Europe's acclaimed publishing software, including CCI NewsDesk and CCI AdDesk. Many companies developing high-end publishing solutions, including BroadVision and CCS (1) (Common Channel Signaling) A communications system in which one channel is used for signaling and different channels are used for voice/data transmission. Signaling System 7 (SS7) is a CCS system, also known as CCS7. See SS7. GmbH, as well as CCI Europe, are now using Bitstream font technology in their publishing systems. "CCI Europe joins many industry leaders in the high-end publishing market who have licensed a font rendering solution from Bitstream," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "In the world of newspaper publishing, fast and high-quality text rendering is a must. Our partners confirm that Font Fusion delivers the highest-quality text at any resolution and on any device. We are honored to be partnering with CCI Europe, a world-renowned publishing company with a 200-year history of producing exemplary publishing products." "We have had good business relations with Bitstream for years, and we are pleased to extend these with the use of Font Fusion in our solutions. Font Fusion will vastly improve font display in a range of CCI applications, and we look forward to making this new rendering technology available to users of CCI editorial and advertising solutions," said Per Kejlstrup, Vice President of Product Management at CCI Europe. CCI NewsDesk is a complete editorial solution, designed to streamline the editorial process from story creation to final publication regardless of the distribution platform. The solution is flexible and highly customizable, allowing the newspaper to tailor the system to its individual needs. CCI AdDesk is a complete advertising solution, designed to manage the advertising process from the initial sale to the final publication, providing a range of inbuilt in·built adj. Built-in; inherent. inbuilt Adjective (of a quality or feeling) present from the beginning: an inbuilt prejudice Adj. 1. features and integrations that serve to maximize advertising revenue. About Font Fusion Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic See typography. output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium(R) II processor, cache turned off. Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs. Font Fusion is designed for 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. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television high-definition television (HDTV) Any system producing significantly greater picture resolution than that of the ordinary 525-line (625-line in Europe) television screen. Conventional television transmits signals in analog form. screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other 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 information and wireless appliances. 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(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 has released 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 CCI Europe From its inception, CCI Europe has endeavored to make the world's leading publishing solutions better. An environment of constant innovation has seen its CCI NewsDesk, CCI MediaStore, and CCI AdDesk Solutions mature into one of the world's premier publishing solutions, which have been chosen by many of the world's most renowned newspapers. CCI solutions are aimed to juxtapose jux·ta·pose tr.v. jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing, jux·ta·pos·es To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. flexible and highly customizable solutions with the individual needs of the newspaper. CCI Europe is committed to the future of the news industry. Visit CCI Europe on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.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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