Many companies developing high-end publishing solutions, including BroadVision and CCS GmbH, as well as CCI Europe, are now using Bitstream font technology in their publishing systems.

"CCI Europe joins many industry leaders in the high-end publishing market who have licensed a font rendering solution from Bitstream," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "In the world of newspaper publishing, fast and high-quality text rendering is a must. Our partners confirm that Font Fusion delivers the highest-quality text at any resolution and on any device. We are honored to be partnering with CCI Europe, a world-renowned publishing company with a 200-year history of producing exemplary publishing products."

"We have had good business relations with Bitstream for years, and we are pleased to extend these with the use of Font Fusion in our solutions. Font Fusion will vastly improve font display in a range of CCI applications, and we look forward to making this new rendering technology available to users of CCI editorial and advertising solutions," said Per Kejlstrup, Vice President of Product Management at CCI Europe.

CCI NewsDesk is a complete editorial solution, designed to streamline the editorial process from story creation to final publication regardless of the distribution platform. The solution is flexible and highly customizable, allowing the newspaper to tailor the system to its individual needs.

CCI AdDesk is a complete advertising solution, designed to manage the advertising process from the initial sale to the final publication, providing a range of inbuilt features and integrations that serve to maximize advertising revenue.

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.

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 breakthrough technology 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.

CCI Europe
From its inception, CCI Europe has endeavored to make the world's leading publishing solutions better. An environment of constant innovation has seen its CCI NewsDesk, CCI MediaStore, and CCI AdDesk Solutions mature into one of the world's premier publishing solutions, which have been chosen by many of the world's most renowned newspapers. CCI solutions are aimed to juxtapose flexible and highly customizable solutions with the individual needs of the newspaper. CCI Europe is committed to the future of the news industry. Visit CCI Europe on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.com.

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.

Torben Juul
VP of Marketing
CCI Europe
+45 87 33 54 00