Monotype Imaging Releases WorldType Layout Engine 2.1; New Version Supports Additional South Asian Scripts for Layout and Display on a Variety of Devices.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'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. , a software library for enabling the composition, positioning and rendering of multilingual text on a variety of displays, now supports all the major written languages of India “Indian languages” redirects here. For languages of Native Americans, see Indigenous languages of the Americas. The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 74% of the population) , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. and Nepal. The additional capabilities will allow manufacturers and developers of devices such as cell phones, set-top boxes and printer control panels to increase penetration in high-growth South Asian markets. "WorldType Layout Engine now more fully addresses one of the hottest growth regions in the world - India," said John Seguin, executive vice president and general manager of Display Imaging at Monotype Imaging. "Industry analysts as well as major device manufacturers have an eye on India and other emerging markets. For example, Nokia reported at its annual general meeting this year that more than 80 percent of new cell phone customers will come from developing countries including India and China. While more than two billion people use cell phones today, by 2008 Nokia expects cell phone users worldwide to surpass the three billion mark." The new version of WorldType Layout Engine builds upon Monotype Imaging's existing South Asian capabilities, which covered the Devanagari and Perso-Arabic writing systems. Nine additional scripts are now supported, including the Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Gurmukhi and Sinhala writing systems. Other new features include the ability to position text in non-rectangular regions, enabling words to flow around objects and images or allowing such elements to flow with text. Blocks of text can now be justified, allowing lines of copy to have the same length while being vertically aligned on both the right and left sides of the text block. "Our WorldType Layout Engine plays a key role in products such as cell phones," said Seguin. "Device manufacturers are dealing with an escalating number of handset models that are targeted to an increasing number of market segments in various regions of the world. However, these customers can leave the daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task of rendering multiple languages and complex scripts to us by way of our scalable, multilingual technologies. They represent one of Monotype Imaging's most important commitments - to serve as world language experts to our customers, enabling them to reach international markets with the most advanced and most effective font solutions." Today's announcement regarding Monotype Imaging's acquisition of China Type Design, a Hong Kong-based font design and production company, also illustrates Monotype Imaging's pledge to gain traction and expand business in emerging markets such as China, while collaborating with local experts. About WorldType Layout Engine and iType font engine A modular software See modular programming. library for composing, positioning and rendering text in multiple languages, Monotype Imaging's WorldType Layout Engine includes intelligence to automatically interpret linguistic traits that are part of complex writing systems such as Arabic, Hindi, Devanagari and Thai. Capabilities include bi-directional text Some writing systems of the world, notably the Arabic (including variants such as Perso-Arabic or Nasta'liq) and Hebrew scripts, are written in a form known as right-to-left (RTL), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side. flow, contextual character substitution and positioning, ligature Two or more typeface characters that are designed as a single unit (physically touch). Fi, ffi, ae and oe are common ligatures. and accent placement and the intermixing of text and graphics. WorldType Layout Engine works with Monotype Imaging's iType(R) font engine, a scalable subsystem based on TrueType(R) and OpenType(R) industry standards. The iType rasterizer also features support for Monotype Imaging's stroke-based fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. Embedded within memory constrained devices, the iType font engine gives developers the ability to build products that can quickly generate highly legible text. Type technology from Monotype Imaging today runs in millions of consumer electronic devices worldwide. Both the iType font engine and WorldType Layout Engine technologies have been licensed by QUALCOMM for BREW(R)-enabled mobile phones. In 2006, more than 100 million mobile phones are expected to ship with Monotype Imaging technology. About Monotype Imaging Based in Woburn, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Chicago, 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 leader in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The company also provides print drivers and color imaging technologies to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Monotype Imaging is home to the Monotype(R) and ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → (R) typeface libraries, collections that include widely used designs such as the Arial(R), Times New Roman(R), Gill Sans Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill in 1927-30. Gill was a well established sculptor, graphic artist and type designer, and the Gill Sans typeface takes inspiration from Edward Johnston’s Johnston (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) typeface families. Linotype Library GmbH, home to timeless designs such as the Helvetica(R), Frutiger(R) and Palatino(R) typeface families, is a Monotype Imaging company. Monotype Imaging offers fonts and industry-standard solutions for most of the world's written languages. Information about Monotype Imaging and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.monotypeimaging.com, www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.monotypefonts.com, www.customfonts.com, www.fontwise.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk. Monotype and iType are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Arial, Times New Roman and Gill Sans are trademarks of The Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc 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 Corporation The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) is a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company is one of the world's first foundries to have no history in metal cast types. . Helvetica, Frutiger and Palatino are registered trademarks of Linotype GmbH in the United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. OpenType is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. BREW is a registered trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (C) 2006 Monotype Imaging Inc. All rights reserved. |
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