Monotype Imaging Enhances its iType and WorldType Layout Engine Products.Multilingual Font Rendering Enhancements Target Mobile Phones to Rival PC Text Display Quality WOBURN, Mass. -- Monotype monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. monotype or monoprint In art printmaking, a technique prized because of its unique textural qualities. Imaging Inc., a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has announced version 3.1 of its iType([R]) font engine and version 2.2 of the company's WorldType([R]) Layout Engine A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. . Building on scalable font A font that is created in the required point size when needed for display or printing. The dot patterns (bitmaps) are generated from a set of outline fonts, or base fonts, which contain a mathematical representation of the typeface. rendering and multilingual text layout functions, the latest releases allow developers of memory-constrained devices such as mobile phones to exploit new capabilities that deliver high-quality text display for international, regional or local markets. "Our most recent enhancements reflect a key focus at Monotype Imaging - to provide handset manufacturers, operators and developers a comprehensive solution that enables the highest quality display of multilingual text on mobile phones," said John Seguin, executive vice president of Monotype Imaging. "Mobile phones present a host of challenges, including limitations in memory or storage, small screen size and low-resolution displays - all of which can affect text quality, stylistic font choice and language coverage. Through our technology innovations, customers are able to develop products for international markets that offer exceptional PC-like text display quality, while still respecting the myriad constraints of the mobile development environment." Demonstrations of the new enhancements will take place at the 3GSM World Congress exhibition in Barcelona, Feb. 12 - 15, at Monotype Imaging's meeting room, HS33 Hall 4 Level 7. Fonts in a Box technology Version 3.1 of the iType font engine introduces Monotype Imaging's Fonts in a Box[TM] technology, which enables the full display of characters with extended attributes including accent marks and descenders, such as the lowercase y. "Fonts in a Box opens new creative opportunities for our customers, allowing them to integrate stylistic, scalable fonts with the assurance that all characters will display properly," said Satoshi Asari, product manager at Monotype Imaging. "Fonts in a Box solves a difficult challenge for mobile phones. On cell phone screens, characters are subject to height restrictions, whereas in desktop environments, character components extending above or below the bounding 'box' will display in full. Mobile phones, however, require that each character fit predictably into a limited amount of space to be fully viewable. Through our new Fonts in a Box innovation, characters that normally extend beyond the boundary are intelligently reshaped to appear properly proportioned and positioned next to adjacent characters." Font linking capability The latest iType release supports linked fonts, which allows for a grouping of fonts to be treated as a single font, without having to merge multiple font files. "Font linking enables developers to more flexibly manage the font memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold of a device, as well as remove data redundancy Writing data to two or more locations for backup and data recovery. For example, data can be stored on two or more disks or disk and tape or disk and the Internet. See disk redundancy and data recovery. ," said Asari. "For example, to provide Chinese mobile phone users access to bold and non-bold Latin-based characters, developers now need to duplicate both the Latin and Chinese character sets, the latter of which contains thousands of characters. Through font linking, just one implementation of the Chinese character set is required, linking to both the non-bold and bold Latin fonts. In addition, when rendering Chinese characters that are linked to the bold Latin characters, pseudo-emboldening will be applied automatically to generate high-quality Chinese bold characters." Other features of font linking include the ability to append To add to the end of an existing structure. additional characters or symbols to the linked font, such as colored icons or emoticons - without altering the original component fonts. Bitmap generator utility Monotype Imaging is introducing a new utility for generating bitmaps from scalable type, allowing for the creation of bitmap characters from scalable equivalents processed through the iType rasterizer. "The bitmap utility will enable OEMs and developers currently unable to switch from bitmaps to still be able to take advantage of expanded typeface The design of a set of printed characters, such as Courier, Helvetica and Times Roman. The terms "typeface" and "font" are used interchangeably, but the typeface is the primary design, while the font is the particular implementation and variation of the typeface, such as bold or italics design choice and technologies that optimize display quality, such as our Fonts in a Box and SmartHint[TM] character fine-tuning methods," said Asari. "As these customers move forward in their transition to scalable type, they now have the opportunity to create bitmaps that have the same quality and appearance as scalable fonts rendered through the iType engine. Customers may also opt for bitmaps in low-end phones while using scalable type in higher end Coordinates: For other places with the same name, see Billinge. Higher End or Billinge Higher End is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. models - thereby enabling consistency in font style A typeface variation (normal, bold, italic, bold italic). throughout a product range." Automatic display of symbols or emoticons New to the WorldType Layout Engine is support for character substitution dictionaries, allowing users to define character sequences that will redisplay automatically as symbols, picture icons, or emoticons, such as smiley See emoticon. smiley - emoticon faces. Text flow around objects Also new to the WorldType Layout Engine is the ability to flow text around objects or images. Text flows around single or multiple objects anchored within defined containers for either simple or complex text layout Complex text layout (abbreviated CTL) or complex text rendering refers to the typesetting of writing systems which require complex transformations between text input and text display for proper rendering on the screen or the printed page (also known as scenarios - all while maintaining base capabilities, such as bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. text flow, proper line breaking and contextual character substitution within complex scripts. About the iType font engine and WorldType Layout Engine Monotype Imaging's compact, scalable iType font engine provides OEMs, operators, developers and content creators the ability to build products efficiently that can quickly generate highly legible leg·i·ble adj. 1. Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting. 2. Plainly discernible; apparent: legible weaknesses in character and disposition. text. Based on TrueType([R]) and OpenType([R]) industry-standard font formats, the iType font engine also supports custom typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
The newest releases follow September's introduction of features aimed at Asian markets, including added support in the WorldType Layout Engine for South Asian scripts, and support within the iType font engine for SmartHint technology, a patent-pending method for enabling the clear display of intricately shaped East Asian letterforms, scaled to small sizes. SmartHint-enabled fonts are part of Monotype Imaging's ESQ Noun 1. Esq - a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name Esquire Britain, Great Britain, U.K. ([R]) (Enhanced Screen Quality) Mobile typeface collection for mobile phones. About Monotype Imaging Based in Woburn, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Germany (Linotype), Mt. Prospect, Ill., Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif., Boulder, Colo., Japan and China, Monotype Imaging is a global provider of text imaging solutions for manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices including laser printers, copiers, mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, digital cameras and software 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. . The company also provides printer drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging technologies are combined with access to more than 9,000 typefaces from the Monotype([R]), Linotype([R]) and ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ([R]) typeface libraries - home to some of the world's most widely used designs, including the Times New Roman([R]), Helvetica([R]) and ITC Franklin Gothic Franklin Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948) in 1902. The typeface is one of over 200 typefaces designed by Benton. There is an assumption that the name of this typeface was named after Benjamin Franklin. [TM] typefaces. Fonts are licensed to creative and business professionals through custom font designs, direct sales or e-commerce portals. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions that support all of the world's major languages. Information about the company and its products can be found at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.itcfonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com and www.faces.co.uk. Monotype, iType, WorldType and ESQ are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Fonts in a Box, SmartHint and Fonts.com are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. Times New Roman is a trademark of The Monotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. ITC is a registered trademark and ITC Franklin Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corp. Linotype and Helvetica are registered trademarks of Linotype GmbH in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. OpenType is a either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the U. S. and/or other countries. TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [c] 2007 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved. |
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