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Digital Juice Licenses Font Solution From Bitstream; Digital Juice Standardizes On Bitstream Fonts for Editor's Toolkit, Video Editor Tools for Creative Professionals.


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OCALA, Fla. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002

Digital Juice Digital Juice can refer to:
  • Digital Juice, Inc., a U.S.-based company that produces stock multimedia content.
  • Digital Juice, a DVD of short animations produced by Studio 4°C.
 and 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 Digital Juice has licensed 50 Bitstream outline fonts A type of font made from basic outlines of each character. The outlines are scaled into actual characters (bitmaps) before printing. See scalable font.

(text) outline font - (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font.
 for its new video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor.  product. Bitstream's fonts will first be used in Editor's Toolkit, a new application for both Windows and Macintosh users that allows video editors and artistic professionals to tune up their video productions and create visual communications with a powerful impression.

The fonts were selected from Bitstream's library of over 900 fonts. Bitstream's typographers have over 20 years' experience making high-quality typographic See typography.  designs for developers of applications and 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. .

Editor's Toolkit is every video editor's dream. It contains nine complete DVD-ROMs (more than 55 gigabytes!) of royalty-free graphics and animations, including animated lower thirds, matching, moving animation sets, plus animated overlays with alpha channels. Editor's Toolkit is available at a special introductory price for immediate shipment. Visit www.digitaljuice.com for more information.

"Bitstream fonts are well known throughout the world for their typographic quality," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Because of our experience working with application developers who need great-looking text on screen, we could offer Digital Juice many different display and text fonts from our extensive library. We look forward to providing Digital Juice and its customers with a wide variety of Bitstream fonts."

"Fonts are an incredibly important part of a video editor's `arsenal,' and we wanted only the best for our customers of Editor's Toolkit. Bitstream has a great reputation for providing quality fonts... and with hundreds of unique font families to choose from... it was easy for us to find fonts that matched our animation sets. I think the Bitstream fonts included in the Editor's Toolkit really put the finishing touch on the product... we're really excited about getting Editor's Toolkit to our customers." (Rick Green, Creative Director)

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 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 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 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 Digital Juice

Digital Juice, Inc. is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
 founded in 1997. It specializes in creating professional, royalty-free CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 graphic libraries used by broadcasters, videographers, and presenters all over the world. Recently featured in the prestigious Florida Trend magazine as one of Florida's most significant businesses to watch in 2001, Digital Juice has posted record-breaking sales twelve quarters in a row and grew over 300% last year alone.

Digital Juice is dedicated to providing high-quality, cutting-edge graphics at an affordable price. For more information about Digital Juice, please call 1-800-525-2203 or visit http://www.digitaljuice.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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