Netscape Communicator Includes a More Robust Font Displayer from Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 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 the latest version of the Bitstream Font Displayer is now included with Netscape Communicator An earlier suite of Web browsing and groupware tools from Netscape that were packaged as a bundle starting with Navigator 4.0. Communicator refers to any Netscape Navigator product with a version number less than 6.0. for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix. The Bitstream Font Displayer improves the display of dynamic fonts Dynamic fonts is a web browser technology used when visiting any website that uses fonts which are not installed on client's machine. The web browser would not be able to display the page properly, but will select one of fonts available on client machine. - also known as portable font resources (PFRs), Web fonts, and downloadable fonts - in Netscape Communicator. Dynamic fonts are created using Bitstream's WebFont Wizard and WebFont Maker products. With these products, Web designers can include fonts in Web page designs and display them properly in industry-standard Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
The latest version of the Bitstream Font Displayer is included in Version 4.72 of Netscape Communicator. Bitstream encourages you to download the latest version of Netscape Communicator from the Netscape Web site at http://home.netscape.com/computing/download. If you have an earlier version of Netscape Communicator and you do not wish to upgrade it, you can download and install the free Font Displayer from the Bitstream Web site at http://www.bitstream.com/webfont/regnsdisplayer.html. About Bitstream, the Internet Font Technology Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), 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. , is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Bitstream licenses its WebFont(TM) and Font Fusion(TM) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading Internet, Web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes, and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents that cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for Web publishing. Bitstream also offers on-demand marketing software through its 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. , Pageflex Inc. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.bitstream.com. Bitstream is a registered trademark, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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