QNX Software Systems Licenses Font Fusion From Bitstream.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000 -Font Fusion Will be Part of the Photon MicroGUI(r), QNX's Award-Winning, Windowing System windowing system - window system for Embedded Devices- 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) and QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. Software Systems Ltd. announced today that QNX has licensed Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (tm), Bitstream's next generation font rasterizing rasterizing - rasterising engine. Font Fusion is the convergence of Bitstream's T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest) T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) (R) and TrueDoc(R) technology in an advanced, object-oriented architecture. QNX will implement Font Fusion as part of Photon microGUI, a high-performance, full-featured windowing system for memory-constrained environments. Based on the robust architecture of the QNX realtime OS, Photon allows developers to create media-rich applications for even the smallest products, such as Internet appliances, consumer electronics, and hand-held medical instruments. Font Fusion will enable Photon-powered devices to display high-quality text without impacting Photon's performance in a memory-constrained environment. Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. In addition, Font Fusion performs well in memory-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same font occupies less than 0.5MB. Font Fusion is designed for 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. , software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television high-definition television (HDTV) Any system producing significantly greater picture resolution than that of the ordinary 525-line (625-line in Europe) television screen. Conventional television transmits signals in analog form. screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and Internet appliances. "Font Fusion complements Photon well with its speed, ease-of-use, and high performance under memory constraints," said Linda Campbell, vice president of strategic alliances at QNX. "We can now offer an optimized solution for high-quality text that is critical to our embedded market. Moreover, we can take advantage of Font Fusion's stroke-based handling of Asian characters, as our own customers prepare for growth in the Pacific Rim. " "The innovation and flexibility of Font Fusion demonstrates why Bitstream has long-standing technology partners like QNX," said Anna Chagnon, executive vice president of Bitstream. "The recent addition of new stroke-based Chinese fonts to Font Fusion will in turn open even more opportunities with developers of a wide range of information appliances." About Bitstream, the Internet Font Company Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry. 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. About QNX Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems is the industry leader in realtime, microkernel (1) The part of an operating system that is specialized for the hardware it is running in. The other components of the OS interact with the microkernel in a message-based relationship and do not have to be rewritten when the OS is ported to a new platform. OS technology. The company has established a strong customer base in a variety of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, medical instrumentation, process control, transportation, point-of-sale, and telephony. QNX products are distributed in over 100 countries worldwide. Bitstream is a registered trademark, and Font Fusion and Web Fonts are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream Company. Photon microGUI is a registered trademark of QNX Software Systems. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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