WebEx provides real-time, interactive multimedia communications services to corporations. These services let users conduct meetings and share software applications, documents, presentations, streaming video and other rich media through a standard Web browser. WebEx's services are delivered using its globally distributed network and scalable platform, ensuring predictability, reliability and security. WebEx's powerful features make it possible to instantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a wide range of activities including sales, marketing, training, and support.

"In this day and age, collaboration is very important. People often have to work on a project together, but from remote locations. WebEx has been very successful in this regard," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "By integrating our Font Fusion and TrueDoc products, WebEx enables everyone participating in WebEx meetings to dynamically display the correct text live, in real time, during interactive Web meetings. Because our font rendering engines are fast, customers can immediately see the correct text rendered in the correct font in their WebEx session. It's very gratifying to know that a well-known communications company like WebEx continues to use our technology in its services."

"Bitstream continues to be a leader and innovator in font technologies," said K.V. Rao, Director of Technology at WebEx Communications. "The ability to deliver fast and accurate text rendering across a range of devices is one of the powerful communications capabilities of the WebEx Interactive Network."

About

Font Fusion
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. Font Fusion is small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz Pentium II processor, cache turned off.

Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-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 characters occupy less than 0.5MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs.

Font Fusion is designed for operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and information and wireless appliances.

TrueDoc
Bitstream's TrueDoc technology was the precursor to Font Fusion. It solves font fidelity problems for many digital communications markets, delivering a quick and compact font solution while maintaining the highest standards in typographic quality. TrueDoc is completely independent of platform, operating system, application, resolution, and device.

The Bitstream PFR (portable font resource) was the product of TrueDoc development. Many independent, international organizations have adopted the PFR font format as their de facto, standard font format, including the following:

• DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council), which sets multimedia standards for international broadcasting
• DVB ( Digital Video Broadcasting), a Swiss-based industry organization representing one standard for digital TV, which has been adopted extensively in Europe
• DTG (Digital TV Group), which coordinates standards for Digital TV broadcasting in the United Kingdom
• MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), which many European set-top box and digital TV manufacturers are using as their standard development platform
• ISO/IEC 16500-6:1999 International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission), which together form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. After DAVIC completed their work, DAVIC was disbanded. The DAVIC specification was then adopted as a standard by ISO. The ISO document includes an appendix on coding of outline fonts in PFR format for digital audio-visual systems.
• OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform), which supports the DVB-MHP standard, including support for PFRs. The OpenCable initiative is managed by the Advanced Platforms and Services group at CableLabs.

Bitstream Inc.
Bitstream Inc. ( Nasdaq:BITS ) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc and Font Fusion technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk, a full-featured browser for the wireless Web.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact

Bob Thomas
Director of Product Management
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8376