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JetForm Licenses Core Set of Fonts From Bitstream; JetForm to Use High-Quality Bitstream Fonts in Their Leading E-Forms Products.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: BITS) announced today that JetForm(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: FORM, TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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) has entered into a long-term agreement to license a core set of Bitstream fonts for the JetForm e-forms product line. The Bitstream fonts match those found in Hewlett-Packard compatible printers, giving JetForm a complete solution for viewing and editing electronic forms that customers can output to one of the most popular printer lines in the marketplace.

Bitstream's engineering staff has over 15 years' experience working with printer developers, including those manufacturers building HP-compatible printers. Bitstream's typographers also have over 15 years' experience making sure that printer and screen fonts have the same metrics, meaning that line and page breaks match. This ensures WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. , what you see is what you get (jargon) What You See Is What You Get - (WYSIWYG) /wiz'ee-wig/ Describes a user interface for a document preparation system under which changes are represented by displaying a more-or-less accurate image of the way the document will finally appear, e.g. when printed. .

JetForm's industry-leading process automation solutions use the Web to efficiently, effectively, and securely automate business processes to serve customers, partners, and employees. JetForm's e-forms, e-process and e-document presentment solutions help organizations streamline business processes and provide a pragmatic and proven method for increasing productivity, lowering operating costs operating costs nplgastos mpl operacionales , and reducing cycle times.

JetForm e-forms solutions eliminate manual and paper-based processes by capturing, routing and tracking information electronically. Intelligent e-forms from JetForm help customers save money, improve service and increase productivity by reducing printing costs, storage costs and time spent processing data -- all of which increase time-to-market.

"Our fonts are well known for their high typographic quality," said Anna Chagnon, president of Bitstream. "And because of our experience with the worldwide printer market, we could provide JetForm with an HP-compatible printer solution that made sure that what their customers saw on screen was what they printed out. There is an exact science needed when replicating forms, and you must have the printer experience to do so. Fortunately, Bitstream has such experience. We are very pleased that JetForm chose Bitstream for their core set of fonts in e-forms, a great end-to-end, electronic forms solution."

"Professional looking and high fidelity high fidelity
n.
The electronic reproduction of sound, especially from broadcast or recorded sources, with minimal distortion.



high
 printed documents are important requirements for our customers," said Dave Welch Dave Welch is an English poker player based in St. Albans, who made several appearances on the Late Night Poker television series, including the season 1 grand final and the season 6 semi-final. , vice president and general manager of JetForm's e-forms group. "Bitstream's experience and expertise in font technology will bring added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:

Added Value = Sales - Purchases - Labour Costs - Capital Costs
 and professionalism to our e-form customers output documents."

About Bitstream, the Internet Font Technology Company

Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R), WebFont(TM), 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 Internet appliances, wireless 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.
, printers, and personal digital assistants.

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.

About JetForm

JetForm(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: FORM, TSE: JFM) makes Web-based software solutions that automate business processes and transform them into "e-processes." JetForm helps companies and government to operate efficiently and effectively, to grow revenues, lower operating costs and reduce cycle times. The company's strength is in intelligent XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 forms, process automation, and customer-focused document output. With operations in 11 countries and a global network of partners, JetForm is uniquely positioned to address the needs of international business. For more information, go to www.jetform.com.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. JetForm is a registered trademark of JetForm Corporation. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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