ST. PAUL, MN and CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 7, 2005 — Wishblade Inc. and Bitstream Inc. ( NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that Wishblade Inc. has licensed 6 font sets for use with the Wishblade™ Personal Media Cutter. Wishblade selected the fonts from Bitstream’s new typeface library of Breaking the Norm fonts.

“Titling is an important part of scrapbook pages. Titles help to tell the scrapbooker’s story and are a key design element on a scrapbook page. Wishblade makes titling easy by giving scrapbookers the ability to type in exactly what they want to say, choose from a number of interesting font styles, size the letters to fit their project, and cut them from a variety of materials,” said Jane Kober, CEO of Wishblade Inc. “Bitstream has been a great partner in helping us develop and customize fonts to use with Wishblade, giving our customers many design styles to choose from while also working well with Wishblade’s technology.”

“The arts and crafts market needs versatile, easy-to-use products like Wishblade, which lets imaginative scrapbookers and papercrafters tap their creativity with just the click of a mouse,” said Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. “Bitstream fonts are well known throughout the world for their typographic quality. We are happy to be working with Wishblade to bring a variety of high-quality fonts to their innovative solution for scrapbooking and papercrafting customers.”

Wishblade is a compact, portable cutter of paper and other media that connects to a personal computer running Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP. From the Wishblade Design Library, scrapbookers and papercrafters can build a personal collection of fonts and shapes to match their creative style. All font and shape sets are stored on compact flash cards, making them easy to organize and store.

Bitstream’s BTN Font Packs are exclusive, fun, and edgy designs from its Breaking the Norm typeface library. The fonts work well in software applications (particularly graphics and presentation applications), web applications, and printers — anywhere that customers use templates to create posters, greeting cards, scrapbooks, CD labels, T-shirts, coffee mugs, digital videos and photos, etc.

About

Granite Peak and Wishblade
Granite Peak was founded by Jen Aamodt and Jane Kober as a consulting firm specializing in helping companies increase their return on investment in New Product Development activities. Jen is as avid scrapbooker. One day, hanging around the proverbial water cooler, Jen and Jane came up with the idea of developing a cutting tool that connected to a computer, so you could just type in what you wanted to cut for a scrapbook, and the tool would do the work for you. This idea has now become Wishblade™ Personal Media Cutter. By leveraging existing technology in the vinyl sign-cutting industry, it took about 20 months to go from Idea to Product Launch. To learn more about Wishblade products, visit www.wishblade.com.

Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) 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, visit Bitstream at www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream is a registered trademark and the Bitstream logo is a trademark of Bitstream Inc. Wishblade is a trademark of Granite Peak Inc. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact

Anna Chagnon
President and CEO
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8619

Jane Kober
CEO
Wishblade Inc.
651.644.5144