Sakkal Design and Bitstream Partner To Bring Arabic Fonts to Developers; World-Renowned Typeface Design Firm Establishes Long-Term Relationship with Bitstream.BOTHELL, Wash. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- 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 Sakkal Design today announced an agreement to bring a wide variety of classic and contemporary Arabic fonts to developers licensing Bitstream 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. (R), Bitstream's premier font rendering technology, and Bitstream Panorama(TM), a global text composition engine. These Arabic fonts are all OpenType typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
According to The Encyclopedia of Malaysia, vol. , old Hausa, Kurdish, Berber, and other less common scripts. Arabic fonts available include: --Hasan Alquds, a contemporary simple typeface The design of a set of printed characters, such as Courier, Helvetica and Times Roman. The terms "typeface" and "font" are used interchangeably, but the typeface is the primary design, while the font is the particular implementation and variation of the typeface, such as bold or italics based on a Kufi style --Sakkal Baseet Bold, a contemporary geometrical and extremely simplified typeface based on a Square Kufi style --Sakkal Majalla Family, a text typeface designed for maximum legibility in small sizes while maintaining a traditional look, based on a cursive Naskh style. Current releases include Sakkal Majalla Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Extra Bold. --Sakkal Seta Pro, a contemporary headlines typeface based on an Eastern Kufi style "New technologies are making it possible to produce fonts that meet the demands of today's users for high quality display and printing of text, especially for complex scripts like Arabic," stated Mamoun Sakkal, Principal of Sakkal Design. "This makes it especially exciting for us to partner with Bitstream, a leader in making fonts look their best when displayed on a variety of devices, to provide our customers with excellent Arabic fonts no matter where they may be used." A well-respected typographer, Mamoun Sakkal of Sakkal Design is a calligrapher cal·lig·ra·phy n. 1. a. The art of fine handwriting. b. Works in fine handwriting considered as a group. 2. Handwriting. and typeface designer who has received international awards in both calligraphy calligraphy (kəlĭg`rəfē) [Gr.,=beautiful writing], skilled penmanship practiced as a fine art. See also inscription; paleography. European Calligraphy In Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. and typeface design. He recently won an international competition by Type Directors Club of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for his Arabic script font "Sakkal Seta" which will be available through this program. "We're very pleased to work with Sakkal Design to provide a complete solution for developers needing to support Arabic," stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. "It's necessary for our partners to support complex scripting languages, and it's significant that a world-renowned typographer and calligrapher such as Mamoun Sakkal is working with us. We look forward to making this new partnership a success." About Font Fusion Font Fusion is Bitstream's premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small 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. . Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 36 KB on up, depending on options. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium II The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. processor, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em. Font Fusion is designed for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems. About Bitstream Panorama Bitstream Panorama is an easy-to-integrate product for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, set-top boxes, and embedded systems. A small, portable, global text composition engine, Bitstream Panorama enables developers to draw strings of characters and lay out complex lines of text. The product supports all international languages, including Arabic and Indian language scripts. About Sakkal Design Mamoun Sakkal, a native of Aleppo, Syria, who immigrated to 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. in 1978, is founder and principal of Sakkal Design in Bothell, WA. Providing graphic design solutions to major US corporations, his firm has focused on Arabic calligraphy and 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. since the 1990's. Sakkal Design's expertise combines a deep respect and knowledge of traditional calligraphy with the latest in computer technology. For more information, please visit http://www.sakkal.com/type. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company that makes communications compelling. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. For more information, please visit Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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