WebEx provides real-time, interactive, multimedia communications services to corporations, allowing users to conduct meetings and share software applications, documents, presentations, streaming video, and other rich media through a standard Web browser. WebEx services are delivered through a globally distributed network and on a scalable platform, ensuring predictability, reliability, and security. Powerful WebEx features instantly increase the efficiency and productivity of a wide range of activities, including sales, marketing, training, and support.

"WebEx services recreate the spontaneity, interactivity and productivity of face-to-face meetings," said David Hsieh, Vice President of WebEx Services at WebEx Communications. "Bitstream adds compelling font rendering capabilities to our services and we are glad to be working with them."

Adds Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream, "It's very gratifying to know that WebEx, the leading provider of Web communication services, continues to choose our technology for use in its services. By integrating our Font Fusion and TrueDoc products, WebEx enables everyone participating in WebEx meetings over the Internet to dynamically display text in real time during interactive meetings. Because our font rendering engines are fast and accurate, customers can immediately see the correct text rendered in the correct font in their WebEx session."

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

• ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee), which approved the DTV Application Software Environment (DASE) standard. The DASE standard calls out the ISO standard for fonts, which is the PFR
• DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council), which set multimedia standards for international broadcasting
• DTG (Digital TV Group), which coordinates standards for Digital TV broadcasting in the United Kingdom
• DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), a Swiss-based industry organization representing one standard for digital TV, which has been adopted extensively in Europe
• 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
• OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform), which supports the DVB-MHP standard, including support for PFRs

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.

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

Anna Chagnon
President
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8619