New Multilingual Font Offerings from Agfa Monotype.Business Editors WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001 Agfa 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. , a leading provider of fonts and font technologies, announced today that they have added a number of Indic typeface designs to their WorldType multilingual typeface library. Both of the major computing platforms, Macintosh and Windows, continue to increase their multilingual capabilities, including the ability to support an expanding range of Indic languages Indic languages, group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian. as part of their 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. . To keep pace with this growth, a total of (60) new typeface designs have been added across the nine major Indic scripts (Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujerati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam and Oriya) to Agfa Monotype's WorldType library. Part of Agfa Monotype's long history involves the years that Monotype 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. was a British company. Subsequently, the British presence in India during the first half of the 20th century contributed to the excellent coverage of all major Indic scripts in Monotype Typography's multilingual font library. Though the library satisfied the breadth of Indic scripts, it lacked a sufficient variety of typeface styles. "In order to support the growing demand for Indian typefaces on computer systems, we have felt the need to further extend the stylistic variety of our collection," said Kamal Mansour, Manager of Non-Latin Fonts at Agfa Monotype. "To achieve this goal, we have licensed a large number of typefaces from ITR See Internet Talk Radio. in Pune, India, for inclusion in our WorldType Unicode font library. Known for its high quality and its broad range of native designs, the ITR Type Library was a natural fit." Unicode has made it possible to represent text from all major Indian languages in a standard code. Agfa Monotype's WorldType font library is a proven, flexible approach to creating multilingual, Unicode conformant fonts for hardware and software developers. WorldType's modular solutions have made it possible to support a range of languages within the developer's products. Either single font modules that contain all the required language support, or multiple font modules each containing specific scripts, can be "plugged-in" to a product to provide globalized support. Agfa Monotype has supplied WorldType fonts to organizations such as Alis, Apple, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Sybase, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Department of Defense, among others. The new ITR fonts in Agfa Monotype's WorldType font library can be seen online in the WorldType Solutions Catalog at http://www.agfamonotype.com/non-latin/index.html. Questions regarding the licensing of any Agfa Monotype font can be directed to 1-800-803-6964, ext. 122. About Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphics professionals. The company is a recognized leader in fonts and font technologies and an innovator in color and screening technologies. Agfa Monotype is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Agfa Corporation and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa Corporation, headquartered in Ridgefield Park Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods. , NJ, is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies, headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems, primarily for the graphics, medical imaging, non-destructive testing and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, Agfa's annual sales are approximately $4.7 billion. Additional information about Agfa Monotype Corporation can be found on the company's web site at www.agfamonotype.com. Corporate office: Agfa Monotype Corporation 200 Ballardvale Street Wilmington, MA 01887-1069 USA Phone 978.658.5600 Fax 978.657.8268 |
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