btX2: Font Rendering, Fonts, and Use of TrueType Hints

A complete solution
btX2 is Bitstream's font rasterizing subsystem for Linux. With btX2, you get everything – font subsystem, worldwide fonts, and commercial use of TrueType hints – in one license agreement from one vendor.

btX2 and FreeType
btX2 is a ground-breaking font subsystem that brings sophisticated font capabilities to Linux and Unix. FreeType is an excellent font rendering system, but btX2 offers clear advantages. As a matter of fact, if you support FreeType, you support btX2.

btX2 relies on a FreeType driver that provides access to Font Fusion, our premier font rendering engine and the fastest font engine on the market. btX2 enables you to use the same calls as FreeType.

Unicode and international, industry-standard fonts
btX2 supports Unicode encoding and can render international fonts. Besides rendering industry-standard OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type 1, and PFR font formats, btX2 lets you render very compact Asian fonts in stroke-based format.

Supporting the open source community
Bitstream has a long history of supporting the open source community, including our donation of the Speedo font rasterizer and Speedo fonts to the X Consortium. Bitstream recently donated the Bitstream Vera font family to the GNOME Foundation to bring advanced font capabilities to all developers and users of free and open source software.

features and benefits • contact sales • home