MyFonts.com Expands to Offer Multiuser Licenses; Seventeen Font Foundries Agree to Sell Multiuser Font Licenses.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001 MyFonts.com, Inc., a subsidiary of 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 it is now offering multiuser licenses A software license that allows more than one person to use the software. See concurrent use license, per seat license and EULA. . Seventeen font foundries, including seven major font foundries, have already agreed to offer the multiuser licenses. Together, these represent over 90% of the fonts on sale at MyFonts.com. Font users who need multiple copies of the same font can now easily purchase a license for them online at competitive prices. "MyFonts.com's charter from its inception is to eliminate hurdles to users of fonts," said Charles Ying, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MyFonts.com. "The ability to purchase multiuser licenses online addresses a very time-consuming process for most organizations who need to purchase fonts for an entire workgroup." The major font foundries offering multiuser licenses are: -- Bitstream Inc., which since 1981 has provided quality products and innovative tools for the graphics communication industry. As a leading developer of font technology and digital typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
-- Elsner+Flake, founded in March 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Gunther Flake with the aim of creating a continuously growing library of digital fonts. The Elsner+Flake Digital Library contains more than 2,500 fonts, available to a worldwide audience in Macintosh(R) PostScript(R), PC PostScript(R) and PC TrueType(R) formats. -- Linotype Library GmbH - the Source of the Originals. A member of the Heidelberg Group. Supplies cutting-edge font technology and can boast one of the world's largest libraries of original fonts, providing both innovation and tradition. Its portfolio currently includes more than 5,200 PostScript and TrueType fonts for the Macintosh and PC, sold in single font packs, in bulk, on CDs or online. -- P22 Type Foundry P22 type foundry is a digital type foundry from Buffalo, New York, that develops and markets typefaces for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The name P22 has no specific significance and was used prior to the type foundry as a label for various art projects including an , developing typefaces which are not available anywhere else. Their fonts represent a cross section of art, natural science and history in a context that is relevant to the modern computer user. Each font set is packaged with background information on its source and inspiration. -- PageStudioGraphics, developers and publishers of special-purpose pictorial symbol fonts, in PostScript and TrueType formats, for the Macintosh and PC, under the trademark PIXymbols, since 1986. -- Storm Type Foundry a place for the manufacture of type. See also: Type , founded in Prague in 1993 with the aim of restoring the values of classical typography typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing from movable type. The term typographer is today virtually synonymous with a master printer skilled in the techniques of type and paper stock selection, ornamentation, and composition. for the benefit of digital technologies. -- URW URW You Are Welcome URW Un-Remarried Widow (United States) ++, the successor of the company URW (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber - from the founders' names), in Hamburg Hamburg, city, Germany Hamburg (häm`b  rkh), officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), city (1994 pop. , Germany. Under the technical direction of Peter Karow, this company led the world in developing digital font technology. The large collection of URW fonts is sold in single font packs or in bulk on CDs as well as online at MyFonts.com. The company has an excellent reputation in Europe for quality and their attention to the Central European market. Information about other participating font foundries is available at http://www.myfonts.com About MyFonts.com MyFonts.com, Inc., a venture funded by Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and established as a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. in 1999, is a showcase of the world's fonts available from one easy-to-use Internet portal. It provides the largest collection of fonts ever assembled for on-line delivery, and offers easy ways to find and purchase fonts on-line. It also offers unique typographic See typography. resources, and a forum for interacting with font experts. For more information, visit http://www.myfonts.com, the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. MyFonts.com is a trademark of MyFonts.com, Inc., a Bitstream company. Bitstream is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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